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LONDON - Share prices around the world, particularly in Japan, took a hit Tuesday amid mounting fears about the economic impact of the new coronavirus outbreak. An anticipated solid opening on Wall St...
Feb 26, 2020
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's government confirmed on Wednesday that a 61-year-old Brazilian man who travelled to Italy this month has Latin America's first confirmed case of the contagious new coronaviru...
Feb 26, 2020
WARSAW, Poland - The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new Amazon TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played there, insisting that no s...
Feb 26, 2020
JERUSALEM - Hollywood power couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are set to return to Israel as co-hosts of this year's Genesis Prize ceremony. The Genesis Prize Foundation announced on Wed...
Feb 26, 2020
LOS ANGELES - The original artwork for the "Flash Gordon" comic strip is headed for a new realm - the auction block. The auction house Profiles in History said Wednesday that it will sell the drawing ...
Feb 26, 2020
LONDON - A lawyer for Johnny Depp told a British judge on Wednesday that the star's ex-wife Amber Heard lied when she accused him of domestic abuse. Depp denies the abuse allegations, and attended the...
Feb 26, 2020
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said he'll discuss the coronavirus threat at a White House news conference Wednesday, a day after he sought to minimize fears of the virus spreading widely across t...
Feb 26, 2020
NEW YORK - Barbara "B." Smith, one of the nation's top black models who went on to open restaurants, launch a successful home products line and write cookbooks, has died at her Long Island home at age...
Feb 26, 2020
BEIJING - China announced Monday it has postponed its most important political meetings of the year because of the outbreak of the new virus, a significant step for an authoritarian government that ha...
Feb 26, 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran's government said Monday that 12 people had died nationwide from the new coronavirus, rejecting claims of a much higher death toll by a lawmaker from the city of Qom...
Feb 26, 2020