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The senior minister was cagey about reports the government shipped 279,000 items of PPE to China, failing to heed warnings about the scale of the Coronavirus crisis

An 18-year-old, arrested in Melbourne's west for repeated breaches, told police he had COVID-19 and threatened to cough on them.

SUNDAY, April 19, 2020 -- Despite increased demand for inhalers in some parts of the United States, Americans with asthma shouldn't ration their medications during the coronavirus pandemic, the American Lung Association says. Rescue inhalers are in...

In 1956, a group of scientists led by John McCarthy, a young assistant-professor of mathematics, gathered at the Dartmouth College, NH, for an ambitious six-week project: Creating computers that could “use language, form abstractions, and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.” The project kickstarted the field that has become known as artificial intelligence (AI). At the time, the scientists thought that a “2-month, 10-man study of artificial intelligence”... Читать дальше...

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made news earlier this year as they stepped down from their roles as ‘senior’ members of the royal family, hoping to become financially independent. It was then announced by Buckingham Palace that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be losing their HRH titles following a new deal, and repaying […]

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Emmanuel Macron is right that without solidarity the single currency could fail

Many school cafeterias are now operating more like community soup kitchens, even though the federal school meals program won’t reimburse districts for meals served to struggling adults.

Lakshmipathy Balaji was one of India's star performers during India's tour of Pakistan in 2003-04.

The urge among some residents to leave because of the coronavirus may be temporary. But it follows a deeper, more powerful demographic trend.

Havana is a ghost town. The American convertibles swooned over by tourists are back in the garage, while most restaurants and cafes are closed. Cuba's private sector has been suffering since the island nation closed its borders over the coronavirus pandemic. In the charming old building where the 1993 comedy "Strawberry and Chocolate" was filmed, a spiral staircase leads to the deserted La Guarida, the most famous privately-owned restaurant, or "paladar", in Cuba. "We decided to close the restaurant... Читать дальше...

With few medical resources to fight the virus, residents of the island havens east of New York City have fiercely protected their secluded hometowns.

On the anniversary of the attack that killed 168 people, there is concern that the national memory is fading even as the violent ideology that inspired Timothy McVeigh spreads.

A chic loft in the meatpacking district has reinvented itself as a factory for personal protective equipment.

ESPN’s new 10-part documentary doesn’t ask Big Questions. But it does go big on a team whose personalities and feats warrant just this sort of excess.

Brands and influencers want to sell products to homebound customers, but doing so requires being sensitive to the reality of the pandemic.

What started out as a simple and fun marketing idea during the coronavirus outbreak got one shop in Iran in serious trouble with the authorities. In Bandar Abbas, a city in southern Iran, the local supermarket chain Tara launched a challenge: anyone able to do the splits could have a box of face masks for free.