Florida, Texas post daily COVID-19 records as ‘positivity’ rates climb higher
(Reuters) – Florida and Texas, two states that have emerged as the latest hot spots of the U.S.
(Reuters) – Florida and Texas, two states that have emerged as the latest hot spots of the U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – People relished their first pub drinks in more than three months, went to restaurants and finally got haircuts yesterday as England took its biggest steps yet towards resumption of normal life after the coronavirus lockdown.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality.
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A former England boxer who was trafficked from Nigeria as a child and forced into domestic servitude has won the right to remain in Britain after a 16-year legal battle.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, (Reuters) – Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets.
CARACAS (Reuters) – With Venezuela now three months into a coronavirus quarantine that has kept children locked indoors, music and art teachers and storytellers are for the first time moving their classes online.
(Reuters) – Damage done by the coronavirus to the membranes of red blood cells that carry oxygen may explain why many COVID-19 patients have alarmingly low oxygen levels, according to new research.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers diving into dark submerged caves on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula have found evidence of an ambitious mining operation starting 12,000 years ago and lasting two millennia for red ochre, an earth mineral pigment prized by prehistoric peoples.
TOKYO (Reuters) – As face coverings become the norm amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese startup Donut Robotics has developed an internet-connected “smart mask” that can transmit messages and translate from Japanese into eight other languages.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two of the biggest Harry Potter fan sites on Thursday distanced themselves from author J.K.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Five years after taking Broadway by storm with its multi-racial, hip-hop take on America’s founding fathers, “Hamilton” arrives in millions of homes around the world on Friday as a film.
GENEVA (Reuters) – There is ‘very little risk’ that pets can infect their owners with COVID-19, the chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – For Amer al Dahn, the idea of eating meat is now a dream.
SEOUL (Reuters) – An augmented reality (AR) mirror at the new Seoul flagship boutique of cosmetics powerhouse Amorepacific makes easy work of seeing if that scarlet shade of lipstick or long-lash mascara suits you – even if you’re wearing a face mask.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism – as a second wave of locusts threatens to devour East Africa’s crops, scientists in a Nairobi lab are experimenting with novel ways to kill them.
ROME (Reuters) – Andrea Crisanti says his one regret is that he didn’t yell loudly enough at the beginning, when the dead had yet to pile up.
LONDON, (Reuters) – People relished their first pub drinks in more than three months, went to restaurants and finally got haircuts today as England took its biggest steps yet towards resumption of normal life after the coronavirus lockdown.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A federal court ordered the Brazilian government yesterday to expel an estimated 20,000 illegal gold miners from the Yanomami indigenous reservation to protect one of the most isolated major Amazon tribes from the spread of coronavirus.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil registered 42,223 additional coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said yesterday, bringing the total tally to 1,539,081, the second-worst outbreak in the world behind the United States.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – A Saudi consulate worker in Istanbul told a Turkish court yesterday he had been asked to light a tandoor oven less than an hour after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the building where he was killed.
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