India in total lockdown from midnight Tuesday: Modi
India’s 1.3 billion people will go under ‘total lockdown’ for 21 days to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, prime minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday...
People in the West are ignoring advice to stay home. That's because it's too confusing, one expert says
In these times of extraordinary global turmoil, the weekend came as a welcome break for many. But anyone looking at the cyclists and runners crowding New York's parks,..
Hong Kong appeared to have the coronavirus under control, then it let its guard down
Only a week ago, Hong Kong seemed like a model for how to contain the novel coronavirus, with a relatively small number of cases despite months ..
Dollars vs. deaths is the sickening choice created by coronavirus
How many lives is the world economy worth? That's not a trite oversimplification. It is an open question being raised by President Donald Trump.
Japan asked the international media to change how we write their names. No one listened
In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the "familiar map of China."
Coronavirus is bringing a plague of dangerous doomsday predictions
In the summer of 2008, an elderly psychic who claimed she started receiving premonitions at age 5 published a book that contained an ominous prediction...
12-year-old girl with coronavirus is on a ventilator and fighting for her life
Emma, a 12-year-old girl, is "fighting for her life" in an Atlanta hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to her cousin...
West Bengal announces lockdown
The West Bengal government, on Saturday, ordered shutting down of all restaurants, pubs, bars, clubs, nightclubs, hookah bars, massage..
Washington Post: US intelligence warned Trump in January and February as he dismissed coronavirus threat
President Donald Trump ignored reports from US intelligence agencies starting in January that warned of the scale and intensity of the coronavirus outbreak in China..
Why does Russia, population 146 million, have fewer coronavirus cases than Luxembourg?
Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week his country managed to stop the mass spread of coronavirus -- and that the situation was "under control,"
