Oil slides 6% as producer cuts fail to banish demand fears
Oil prices fell around 6% on Tuesday as investors doubted that record OPEC+ supply cuts would soon balance markets as demand plunges due to the...
France becomes fourth country to pass the 15,000 coronavirus death toll
France officially registered more than 15,000 deaths from coronavirus infections on Tuesday, becoming the fourth country to go beyond that threshold after Italy, Spain and...
Apple launches site to show how coronavirus lockdowns affect movement
Apple Inc on Tuesday said it would release data that could help inform public health authorities on whether people are driving less during lockdown orders...
Trump rips Cuomo for questioning ‘total authority’ over plan to reopen US – New York Post
Trump rips Cuomo for questioning ‘total authority’ over plan to reopen US New York Post Gov. Andrew Cuomo: We have a constitution, not a king CNN Cuomo:...
‘I don’t feel like a hero. This is my job.’: NY nurses on the frontlines
The pandemic has not only taken over hospitals in New York City and claimed thousands of lives, it has also affected the hearts and minds...
NMC Health board replaced by administrators
The administrators of troubled hospital operator NMC Health said on Tuesday they had replaced the company’s board and asked its main lender, Abu Dhabi Commercial...
Apple launches tool to track people movement to curb virus spread
Apple Inc said on Tuesday it has released a tool based on Apple Maps that will help governments fight the spread of coronavirus by showing...
Explainer: How smartphone apps can help ‘contact trace’ the new coronavirus
A global race is on to develop smartphone apps and other types of mobile phone surveillance systems to track and contain the spread of the...
Care home residents using festival cabins to meet relatives
A Dutch company that normally supplies portal cabins to festivals for music enthusiasts to sleep is, is supplying them to nursing homes so that residents...
Africa locust invasion complicated by pandemic: U.N.
The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization says efforts to contain the desert locust upsurge in East Africa continue, despite restrictions on movement of personnel and...