FILE PHOTO: A general view during the final of the men's 2000m steeplechase on day five of the IAAF U18 World Championships at The Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya. (
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on the world to come together amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, and be guided by solidarity and not
Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan on Saturday required local hospitals to increase efficiency in treating patients amid the novel coronavirus outbreak during her inspect
China's central bank has allocated 4 billion yuan in new banknotes to central China's Wuhan, said Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), on Saturday. The move aims to increa
The first case of the novel coronavirus has been confirmed in Egypt, the health ministry announced on Friday. "A foreign person has tested positive for the coronavirus ... The case is stable and did
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia would not legalize gay marriage as long as he was in the Kremlin.He made clear he would not allow the traditional notio
A Syrian Army helicopter was destroyed by a missile during an operation against anti-government forces near Aleppo, and its crew was killed, Syrian state-run media repo
SpaceX has moved its Crew Dragon commercial astronaut spacecraft to Florida, the site from which it’ll launch in likely just two to three months’ time if all goes to plan. The Crew Dragon
Too often, people are asked to give away their insights and time for free. Jen Horonjeff, founder and CEO of healthcare startup Savvy, knows this first hand and is trying to change that by applying a
Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries.Last November, we surveyed 13 of
Justin Berman has one of the most important jobs at Dropbox.As head of security, he oversees the company’s cybersecurity strategy, its defenses and works daily to keep its more than 600 million
Virgin Galactic is one crucial step closer to actually flying paying customers to space: The space tourism company just relocated its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the VSS Unity, from its Mojave, California
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Last month, Tradeshift, a platform for supply chain payments that has achieved unicorn status in recent years, had some good news and some bad news. It announced a Series F funding round of $240 mill
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The Higher People's Court of Beijing Municipality on Friday upheld the death sentence for Sun Wenbin, who was convicted of killing a doctor in a Beijing hospital where
One person was pronounced dead after a shooting near the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday afternoon in Northwest, Washington, D.C., Police Department Chief Peter N