The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday expressed support to the decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Internationa
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) voiced support on Tuesday for the decision made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Tokyo 2020 organizin
The world is now in a battle against COVID-19, a disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus that has spread to over 180 countries and regions. The following are the updates on the contagious
The coronavirus continued to sweep across Europe, with the combined number of confirmed cases on the continent exceeding 200,000 as of Tuesday evening, accounting for half of known cases worldwid
The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide topped 400,000 as of 1:52 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Tuesday (1752 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineeri
Snapchat’s location sharing app acquisition Zenly has gamified shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 outbreak. Today the app launched its Stay At Home challenge that shows a leaderboard of which
Market observers have pointed to silver linings in Asia even as markets worldwide fluctuated in the past weeks from a virus pandemic as well as plunging oil prices.Asian economies with closer trad
A new Sydney-based nonprofit volunteer organization called RapidWard launched this week, with a focus on getting critical medical supplies from producers in China to healthcare professionals, doctors,
03:53 Editor's note: So far, COVID-19 has infected more than 200,000 people and caused nearly 10,000 deaths worldwide. With the number rising daily, governments around the world are sc
China will take further steps to boost the country's international air freight capacity to stabilize supply chains, the State Council's executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided on Tues
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced here on Tuesday that Japan and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have agreed to postpone the Tokyo Olympic and Par
French design houses Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga will shift their attention from high fashion to producing surgical face masks to aid the global coronavirus assau
G7 leaders attend a work session during their summit at Casino in Biarritz, southwestern France, August 26, 2019. /VCG Editor's note: Jonathan Arnott is a former member of the European Parliam
The devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic on economies demand the type of a coordinated global response that has so far not been forthcoming.Monday's virtual meeting of G20 finance minis
BRUSSELS/GENEVA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 300,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 189 countries and regions, said World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebrey
Logo of UEFA Euro 2020 at a countdown clock showing 450 days to the tournament in St Petersburg, Russia, March 18, 2020. Clocks were changed from 87 to 450 days as UEFA announced that the tournam
BRUSSELS/GENEVA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 300,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 189 countries and regions, said World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebrey