‘There may be no more tennis this year’, says Wimbledon chief Lewis
Tennis may not return until 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic caused the cancellation of the entire grasscourt season and most of the claycourt campaign, All...
Google to allow some advertisers to run coronavirus-related ads
Alphabet Inc’s Google will begin to allow some advertisers to run ads relating to the coronavirus on its platforms, in a change to its rules...
Global coronavirus deaths top 50,000 – Johns Hopkins tally
Global coronavirus deaths topped 50,200 on Thursday as the pandemic ravages the United States and Europe, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University....
Dutch returning from U.S. should self-quarantine: prime minister
Dutch citizens returning from the United States by plane should self-quarantine for a period of 14 days, the Netherlands’ prime minister said on Thursday, as...
Democrats delay presidential convention until August, citing coronavirus
The U.S. Democratic Party on Thursday postponed its presidential nominating convention by a month until August, citing the coronavirus health crisis which has upended life...
Wisconsin proceeds with U.S. presidential primary despite coronavirus fears
Wisconsin officials plowed ahead on Thursday with plans for a U.S. presidential primary next week despite a shortage of poll workers and a flurry of...
Britain to target 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by month-end
Britain is aiming for 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by the end of April, health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday, an increase of around tenfold...
Germans snitch on neighbours flouting virus rules, in echo of the Stasi past
Law-abiding Germans are zealously helping police crack down on people flouting new social distancing rules aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus by reporting...
Elderly to be evacuated en masse from ultra-Orthodox Israeli town hit by coronavirus
The Israeli military will evacuate elderly residents en masse from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town with a disproportionately large outbreak of coronavirus, the government said on...
Mistrustful of state, Brazil slum hires own doctors to fight virus
Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo’s largest slum, Paraisopolis, and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the center...
