Japanese celebrity redesigns signature song as hand washing melody
Japanese social media celebrity Pikotaro returned as a leading twitter trend in Japan with a coronavirus hand washing song that repurposes his signature Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP)...
Take Five: Life in the time of corona
The world’s biggest economy won’t be open for business by Easter, as U.S. President Donald Trump had hoped, but the second biggest economy may come...
Jabeur mulls swapping rackets for dancing shoes in lockdown
Tunisian trailblazer Ons Jabeur is holed up in New York due to the coronavirus pandemic and says she is contemplating taking up dancing to remain...
Stocks jump on virus slowdown hopes, but oil slips on oversupply
Stocks jumped on Monday as investors were encouraged by a slowdown in coronavirus-related deaths and new cases, while oil prices skidded after Saudi-Russian negotiations to...
Rockets hit near site of foreign oil firms, state-run companies in Iraq’s Basra: sources
Rockets landed near a site connected with foreign oil firms and state-run companies in Iraq’s southern city of Basra early on Monday, without causing damage...
Trump Says U.S. Has Stockpiled 29M Hydroxychloroquine Pills Amid Pandemic – Newsweek
Trump Says U.S. Has Stockpiled 29M Hydroxychloroquine Pills Amid Pandemic Newsweek Heated disagreement breaks out in Situation Room over hydroxychloroquine CNN America’s low-key social distancers: Trump’s family POLITICO...
Russia’s coronavirus cases jump by almost 1,000 in 24 hours
Russia’s coronavirus case tally has risen to 6,343 in the past 24 hours, a record daily increase of 954, the country’s crisis response centre said...
Hungry times at Thailand’s elephant sanctuaries as coronavirus hits tourism
The mahouts at an elephant sanctuary in western Thailand have resorted to swimming in a nearby lake to gather weeds for fodder, as a nationwide...
On this day: Died April 7, 1968: Jim Clark, British racing driver
Jackie Stewart starts a chapter of his autobiography with a simple sentence: “Jim Clark was the finest racing driver of my era.”...
BMW sales plunge in first quarter as coronavirus takes toll
BMW said on Monday that group sales dropped by 20.6% to 477,111 vehicles in the first quarter as the outbreak of coronavirus took its toll...