2020-04-04
This was supposed to be the one. The two biggest sides in the country battling it out for one last time this season. The spoils just about settled but the bragging rights still up for grabs. It would have received the full bells and whistles treatment. The week-long build-up as per every match of this […]
2020-03-30
A customer carries take-out food from the TK Burger restaurant, as authorities encourage social distancing to prevent the Covid-19 in Huntington Beach, California March 29, 2020. — Reuters pic NEW YORK, March 30 — Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Shelter from the financial storm The numbers have been staggering: […]
2020-03-23
Amazon will assist its hometown city of Seattle with at-home COVID-19 testing, according to a report from CNBC on Monday. The test kits are provided by the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN, a research effort based on the prior Seattle Flu Study initiative that is now dedicated to better understanding the spread of the novel […]
2020-03-20
Lots of people are offering up their own versions of the video that popped up this week in which Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot enlisted a bunch of celebrities to sing John Lennon’s Imagine. It’s being mocked on all corners of the Internet, and with a bunch of ESPN personalities from shows like Around the Horn and Highly […]
2020-03-16
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO: President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had taken a coronavirus test but that his temperature was “totally normal,” as he extended a travel ban to Britain and Ireland to try to slow the spread of Covid-19. After White House officials took the unprecedented step of checking the temperatures of journalists entering the briefing […]
2020-03-12
Colosseum seen with an empty street, virtually deserted after a decree orders for the whole of Italy to be on lockdown, in Rome March 10, 2020. — Reuters pic ROME, March 11 — Locked-down Italy yesterday recorded its deadliest day of the novel coronavirus outbreak, with its toll jumping by 168, as airlines halted flights […]
2020-03-06
Pakistani volunteers, security personnel and residents search for the victims in the rubble of a collapsed a five-storey residential building in Karachi on March 5, 2020. — AFP pic KARACHI, March 5 — At least 11 people were killed and 22 others wounded when a five-storey residential complex collapsed in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi […]
2020-03-06
Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2020, 12:00―12:30 PM EDT In recognition of World Bipolar Day, NIMH is hosting a Facebook Live event on bipolar disorder in adolescents and young adults on Wednesday, March 26, 2020, from 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. ET. Bipolar disorder is not the same as the typical ups and downs every kid goes […]
2020-03-02
A medical worker in a protective suit shows a patient an exercise for rehabilitation at a ward of Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 24, 2020. — China Daily pic via Reuters GENEVA, March 2 — The World Health Organisation yesterday urged all countries to prepare for caring for patients severely […]