The World Health Organization (WHO), along with some private sector partners and other global health groups, launched an initiative on Friday to speed up the developme
Xiaogang Ye, a well-known Chinese composer with the Central Conservatory of Music in China, has become one of the newest members of the American Academy of Arts Scienc
The following are the latest updates on the COVID-19 global confirmed cases in hardest-hit countries by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins
The novel coronavirus raging across the world has triggered global efforts in vaccine development. The actual way to halt the spread of COVID-19 is with a vaccine, while non-pharmaceutical interve
Global leaders joined the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday to launch an initiative to accelerate work on drugs, tests and vaccines against COVID-19 and to shar
03:14 Japanese game developers are confident about the Chinese market's potential and even plan for more expansions, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese Ministry of Commerce ear
A woman shows her ration book to buy goods in a subsidized state store amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Havana, April 22, 2020. /Reuters Cuba's decades-old rationing system
The day of Jan. 23 was Matteo Giovannini's last normal working day at his office here. It was the same day that the central Chinese city of Wuhan was sealed off in response to the outbreak of a
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday announced the launch of a joint initiative to speed up development of drugs, tests and vaccines to prevent, diagnose an
01:34 As global COVID-19 cases continue to surge, scientists worldwide have been busy working on potential treatments and effective vaccines. How close are we to developing a specific
Editor's note: This is the 46th article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is the previous one. The COVID-19 pandemic is posing an unprecedented health challenge to the public, and the fo
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would announce a "landmark collaboration" later today to speed up development of safe, effective drugs, tests and vaccines to prevent, diagnose and trea
China is likely looking at a U-shaped recovery, where a prolonged period of stagnation after the downturn is followed by an eventual return to growth as global demand resumes, while some service-orie
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID-19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organization, warning that Washington may never restore WHO f
Iranian officials on Thursday downplayed recent U.S. threats and vowed to respond if the security of Iranian territory is at stake. The U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has ord
It’s not exactly a secret that the travel industry is in free fall right now as the pandemic has brought the industry to a screeching halt. With nobody moving, travel site Expedia announced that
A healthcare worker conducts test for the coronavirus in Prague, Czechia. /AP /Petr David Josek Volunteers in a trial at the University of Oxford are set to be given the first doses of a poten
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