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Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 4:39 AM CDT
|By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
The World Health Organization reported late Sunday the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 5:47 PM CDT
|By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press
Workers are preparing the Eiffel Tower for reopening next week, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the iconic Paris landmark’s longest closure since World War II.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 2:40 AM CDT
An award-winning journalist critical of the Philippine president was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail Monday in a decision called a major blow to press freedom in an Asian bastion of democracy.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2020 at 1:39 AM CDT
Multiple witnesses described the dog as a pit bull, but police could not confirm the breed.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2020 at 1:19 AM CDT
|By NICK PERRY Associated Press
Experts say a number of factors have helped New Zealand wipe out the disease, including its isolated location in the South Pacific that gave it vital time to see the devastating spread of the virus in other countries.
Updated: May. 28, 2020 at 10:14 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, announced that Hong Kong no longer remains separate from China. This could create significant barriers between U.S. and Hong Kong trading says a University of Kansas professor.
Updated: May. 26, 2020 at 6:17 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
The global mobile game industry saw remarkable growth while much of the world was under stay at home orders, and China seems to be at the top of the market.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2020 at 11:51 AM CDT
Britain’s Treasury chief says Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s condition is improving in the intensive care unit of a London hospital.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2020 at 1:41 PM CDT
Production of Corona beer is being suspended in Mexico because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2020 at 10:41 AM CDT
They, at least, are enjoying lockdown.
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Updated: Mar. 27, 2020 at 2:41 PM CDT
Dyson may be known for vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, but the coronavirus has forced the company to shift its focus to ventilators.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2020 at 2:12 PM CDT
|By Danielle Garrand
Museums have started sending images of paintings, photographs and other artwork depicting flowers to fellow institutions on Twitter to brighten one another's days amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2020 at 1:58 PM CDT
South Africa’s police minister says dog-walking is banned during the country’s three-week lockdown that begins Friday to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2020 at 12:38 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Italy has added 683 more dead and 5,210 infections to its coronavirus toll, but its initial steep rise in cases has continued to level off two weeks into a nationwide lockdown.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2020 at 11:06 AM CDT
Roger Federer and his wife, Mirka, say they have donated 1 million Swiss francs ($1.02 million) “for the most vulnerable families” in Switzerland.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2020 at 12:03 PM CDT
|By Frank Bajak and Nicole Winfield
The Czech Republic has become the first European government to embrace a potentially intrusive human-tracking tool to pinpoint carriers of the new coronavirus and determine who they might be infecting.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2020 at 11:53 AM CDT
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for an immediate cease-fire in conflicts around the world to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2020 at 11:33 AM CDT
|By Stephen Wade and Mari Yamaguchi
The Tokyo Olympics are probably going to happen but almost surely in 2021 rather than in four months as planned.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2020 at 11:59 AM CDT
A jet carrying 359 people including hundreds of American and Canadian cruise ship passengers from France has landed at Atlanta's airport and they're being screened for COVID-19, federal officials said.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2020 at 11:52 AM CDT
|By Ken Sweet
In a world suffering a pandemic, cash is no longer king.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2020 at 11:27 AM CDT
|By Rob Gillies
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and the United States have reached a reciprocal agreement under which they will now be sending back migrants who attempt to cross illegally anywhere at the border.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2020 at 2:29 PM CDT
|By Nicole Winfield and Tim Sullivan
The death toll in Italy has overtaken China's, a stark illustration of how the coronavirus pandemic has pivoted toward Europe and the United States.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2020 at 1:20 PM CDT
|By Christopher Rugaber
The U.S. and global economies have come to a shuddering stop, unleashing a wave of layoffs that is much larger and moving much faster than job losses in previous downturns.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2020 at 10:03 AM CDT
|By Peter Morrison and Jill Lawless
St. Patrick's Day celebrations around the world have fallen victim to the new coronavirus.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2020 at 10:39 AM CDT
The Peace Corps is telling its volunteers around the world that it is suspending all operations globally and evacuating all volunteers in light of the spread of the new coronavirus.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2020 at 4:01 PM CDT
The World Health Organization's chief has launched a global fund on Friday to raise money to help the world's nations respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2020 at 1:38 PM CDT
Thunderstorms and flooding around Egypt entered a second day, interrupting daily life in much of the country, including the capital, Cairo.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2020 at 10:12 AM CDT
The Greek Olympic committee has suspended the rest of its torch relay because of the "unexpectedly large crowd" that gathered to watch despite repeated requests for the public to stay away from the spread of the coronavirus.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2020 at 8:31 AM CDT
|By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Iraq's military says five security force members and a civilian have been killed in a barrage of U.S. airstrikes.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2020 at 12:12 PM CDT
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's communications director tested positive for the new coronavirus, just days after traveling with Bolsonaro to a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2020 at 12:08 PM CDT
The Kremlin says U.S. President Donald Trump will not be coming to Moscow for Victory Day celebrations on May 9.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2020 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Rahim Faiez and Tameem Akhgar
Afghanistan's incumbent president and his main political challenger have both sworn themselves in as president.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2020 at 4:53 PM CDT
The dog of a person who contracted the novel coronavirus has also tested positive for the sickness, a Hong Kong official with the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2020 at 5:49 PM CST
News reports say a hotel in southeastern China being used for medical observation of people who had contact with coronavirus patients has collapsed, trapping some 70 people.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2020 at 4:15 PM CST
|By Edith M. Lederer
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling himself "a proud feminist" and lashing out at men who abuse power ahead of Sunday's observances for International Women's Day.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2020 at 3:59 PM CST
|By Claudia Torrens
United States prosecutors say that Honduras' president met with a drug trafficker around 2013 and took $25,000 in exchange for protecting the trafficker from law enforcement.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2020 at 12:57 PM CST
|By Peter Orsi, Gonzalo Solano and Elliot Spagat
Many countries in North and South America are blocking the path for Africans who are struggling to seek asylum in the United States.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2020 at 1:19 PM CST
Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted a slew of proposed amendments to the country's constitution that include a mention of God and describe marriage as a heterosexual union.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2020 at 12:03 PM CST
Environmental authorities say a cargo ship grounded off the coast of Brazil has produced a sheen of oil on the sea.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2020 at 11:58 AM CST
|By John Carucci
Intense heat, poisonous gasses, molten lava make the conditions for Nik Wallenda's latest tightrope walk downright hellish, and that's just the way he wants it.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2020 at 11:52 AM CST
|By Frank Jordans
Scientists say half of the world's sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century due to climate change.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2020 at 11:14 AM CST
|By John Leicester
The spreading coronavirus epidemic has shut down the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Updated: Feb. 29, 2020 at 5:52 PM CST
2020 is a leap year, which means we get to enjoy a whole extra day of February, and people born on February 29 finally get some presents. But why do we even have leap years?
Updated: Feb. 29, 2020 at 2:43 PM CST
The patter of tiny feet is coming to Downing Street.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2020 at 9:40 PM CST
|By From CBS News
New Delhi Television also reports at least 150 protestors were injured in the violence, just days after President Trump's visit there.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2020 at 9:33 PM CST
|By From CBS News
Prince Harry is back in the United Kingdom for his final series of engagements as a senior royal. He's asking fans not to call him a "Prince."
Updated: Feb. 26, 2020 at 12:50 PM CST
|By Sheikh Saaliq and Emily Schmall
Authorities say at least 24 people have been killed and 189 injured in three days of clashes in New Delhi that coincided with President Donald Trump's first state visit to India.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2020 at 5:16 PM CST
|By From CBS News
Mubarak was imprisoned after a quick tumble from power in the Arab world's pro-democracy upheaval.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2020 at 2:47 PM CST
|By Josh Funk
The first clinical trial in the U.S. of a possible coronavirus treatment is underway in Nebraska and is eventually expected to include 400 patients at 50 locations around the world.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2020 at 12:24 PM CST
|By Peter Orsi
Rescuers in Mexico have partially freed a humpback whale that became entangled in an illegal fishing net inside a refuge for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in the Gulf of California.