More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business s
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Startups in the Midwest are optimistic despite the fact that a fair number of comp
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Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a brief jumpstart for your week.A few housekeeping notes. First, the main, long-from Equity episodes still drop every Friday, so if you are
By APD writer Imdad Hussain South Asia, according to the World Bank is in for the worst economic situation in 40 years, with decades of progress in
Iran's Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki on Tuesday touted that the spread of COVID-19 is under control in most parts of the country, though the rise in new infections continue
China is seeing a total of 8.74 million students who are set to graduate from college in coming two months. /VCGIn the coming two months, 8.74 million students in China
First responders wheel a man on a stretcher in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on May 8, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua) The United States, though being the world's
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC, May 5, 2020. /AP Editor's note:Lionel Vairon is the president of CEC Consultin
Photo taken on May 1, 2020 shows a lion statue with a mask in front of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, the United States. (Photo by Joel Lerner/Xinhua) In addition to Michigan, oth
Concerns over reelection and "the natural tendency to think foreign problems are not American problems" are among the factors behind the U.S. government's early delay in handling the COVID-19 pa
02:32 Despite a dismal rate of testing, Brazil has the most COVID-19 infections in Latin America and, experts fear, the country may be on the brink of exploding.Especially in the dense
Health workers collects samples for coronavirus testing outside a shack, during the screening and testing campaign aimed to combat the spread of COVID-19 at Lenasia South, south Johannesburg, Sou
The fact that so many people are stuck at home makes for strange opportunities. Italy’s confined populace has taken to singing from the balconies — and now researchers are asking them to use tho
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest rose in March, government data showed on Friday, indicating that illegal loggers and land speculators have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset
On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, the leading U.S. authority on the COVID-19 pandemic made some grim predictions about the course of the novel coronavirus as it rages through communities withi
Starlink, the satellite branch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, has come under fire in recent months from astronomers over concerns about the negative impact that its planned satellite clusters have rep