BUSINESS
Stocks open higher on Wall Street a day after a late slide
The S&P 500 was up 1.4 percent in the first few minutes of trading, more than it lost a day earlier.
BUSINESS
China says boy picked by Dalai Lama now a college graduate
Very little information has been given about Gedhun Choekyi Nyima or his family since he went missing at age 6 shortly after being named the 11th Panchen Lama.
WORLD
Pandemic turns Egyptian soccer player into a street vendor
At this time of the year, Mahmoud would be on the field playing as a defender for Beni Suef, a club in Egypt’s second division.
WORLD
Tech-assisted COVID-19 tracking is having some issues
Privacy advocates warn that the danger of creating new government surveillance powers for the pandemic could lead to much bigger problems in the future.
BUSINESS
Stocks open higher on Wall Street, extending global gains
Investors were encouraged to see that European countries were taking more steps to lift lockdowns put in place to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
WORLD
China warns US of ‘all necessary measures’ over Huawei rules
An unidentified spokesperson quoted Sunday in a statement on the ministry’s website said the regulations also threatened the security of the “global industrial and supply chain.”
WORLD
US, European leaders weigh reopening risks without a vaccine
In separate stark warnings, two major European leaders bluntly told their citizens that the world needs to adapt to living with the coronavirus and cannot wait to be saved by a vaccine.
BUSINESS
Chinese survey team plans to summit deserted Everest
Bad weather forced the team charged with measuring the mountain’s current height to return to base camp, but they have since taken up their former position, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
WORLD
Malaysia drops charge against ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ producer
The anti-graft agency said in a statement that the government will recover $107.3 million of overseas assets involved in the case — about 43 percent of the $248 million Aziz was accused of having laundered from the 1MDB state investment fund — and Riza is also required to pay an unspecified fine.
WORLD
Coronavirus masks a boon for crooks who hide their faces
It underscores a troubling new reality for law enforcement: Masks that have made criminals stand apart long before bandanna-wearing robbers knocked over stagecoaches in the Old West and ski-masked bandits held up banks now allow them to blend in like concerned accountants, nurses and store clerks trying to avoid a deadly virus
BUSINESS
Pizzas (and haircuts) back on the menu, but with warnings
Public health experts are urging caution as governments ease restrictions on eateries, shops and parks in many countries and roll out measures to restart dormant factories.
BUSINESS
China uses trade as weapon to silence coronavirus criticism
Beijing has suspended beef imports from four Australian slaughterhouses, however, and is threatening huge tariffs on barley in moves it says are simply about regulations.
WORLD
A cautious New York begins creaking back to economic life
The smaller cities and rural regions of upstate New York have been spared the brunt of the coronavirus outbreak. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is allowing many of those areas to gradually reopen first, industry by industry.
BUSINESS
Companies begin to navigate a world that is vastly changed
TESTING THE WATERS: With countries and U.S. states beginning to relax shelter-in-place restrictions despite caution from the medical community, companies must navigate a work environment that is vastly different. Automakers will be among the first major manufacturing sectors to reopen factory floors.
BUSINESS
Dining with dummies? Three-star restaurant in US adds mannequins to help with social distancing
Mannequins dressed in fine 1940’s-style attire were already theatrically staged Thursday at The Inn at Little Washington, tucked in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains about 90 minutes west of Washington, D.C.
WORLD
Coronavirus Diary: Lockdown, loneliness and a difficult goodbye
In India, where holidays and festivals are marked by an excess of color and light and sound, more is always better. So it was a fitting last home for a pet that lived in nine cities, in five countries on three continents.
WORLD
Social distancing is no reason to stop service learning – just do it online
Service learning is not meant only to help community organizations, governmental agencies and businesses. It’s also meant to advance the student’s individual academic goals.
BUSINESS
Stocks open lower on Wall Street as job picture dims further
Investors were also braced for more jobless claims data out of the U.S., which are expected to show another 2 to 3 million people applied for benefits in the last week, further straining the labor market in the world's largest economy.
BUSINESS
36 million have sought US unemployment aid since coronavirus hit
Jobless workers in some states are still reporting difficulty applying for or receiving benefits. These include freelance, gig and self-employed workers, who became newly eligible for jobless aid this year.
WORLD
‘This virus may never go away’: WHO warns as new clusters emerge
Without a vaccine, it could take years for the global population to build up sufficient levels of immunity, A top World Health Organization official said.
WORLD
Angela Merkel: Evidence of Russian role in German parliament hack
Prosecutors haven't confirmed those reports, but Merkel was asked about the theft of data from her office in a question-and-answer session with lawmakers in parliament Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Built for a global economy, Dubai now threatened by coronavirus
Dubai's dedication to global trade is memorialized in the first sentence of the first article of its 50-Year Charter, something created last year by its ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who has overseen much of the city's growth.
BUSINESS
Restart or re-stop? Economies reopen but chaos abounds
Social distancing was the order of the day but just how to do that on public transit and in schools was the big question.
BUSINESS
A tale of two outbreaks: Singapore tackles a costly setback
Infections in Singapore, an affluent Southeast Asian city-state of fewer than 6 million people, have jumped more than a hundredfold in two months — from 226 in mid-March to more than 23,000, the most in Asia after China, India and Pakistan. Only 20 of the infections have resulted in deaths.
