Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Thursday that he has tested positive for the new coronavirus, becoming the highest-ranking Russian official known to have gotten infected.

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Sureshbabu Muthupandi, a green card holder who has lived in the United States for more than 24 years, refuses to let his family in south India perform his mother's final rites without him.

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A growing number of families are struggling to put food on the table during the coronavirus lockdown.

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EUR/USD may continue to retrace the decline from the April high (1.1039) as the exchange rate breaks out of a narrow range following the ECB meeting.

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The Dow Jones may fall which could support the US Dollar after President Donald Trump warned of possible tariff retaliation against China for their handling of the coronavirus.

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Boris Johnson has briefed the press on the fight against coronavirus, following his own battle with the disease.

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President launches latest attack against China as US economy sustains more hits with 30 million jobless.

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Campaigners are angry that while they are unable to protest because of the coronavirus lockdown, logging can continue.

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Mikhail Mishustin will temporarily stand down as prime minister, to be replaced by economist Andrei Belousov.

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Farmers globally are grappling with excess supplies of their products as their harvests cannot get to their intended customers due to disruptions from lockdowns.

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Major markets across the region — including China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India and Singapore — are closed on Friday for holidays.

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Boeing on Thursday said it raised a whopping $25 billion in a bond offering and it won't seek federal aid as the aerospace giant faces the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

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Apple executives gave quite a bit of color on a call with analysts about what they've seen in the macro environment in the time of Covid-19 and how Apple has fared so far

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The WHO has come under criticism by some in Canada for Dr. Bruce Aylward's report on China's ability to curb the spread of the viral disease, which has since become a worldwide pandemic.

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The Australian government will meet on Friday to discuss how sport can restart as the number of new coronavirus cases dwindles and states begin to relax restrictions on social gatherings, two sources familiar with the details told Reuters.

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Nearly 90% of U.S. House of Representatives members have signed a letter urging the Trump administration to increase its diplomatic action at the United Nations to renew an arms embargo on Iran, congressional sources said on Thursday.

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As White House economic reopening guidance expired on Thursday after two weeks in place, half of all U.S. states forged ahead with easing restrictions on restaurants, retail and other businesses in hopes of reviving coronavirus-stricken commerce.

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Covid-19 is not going away, a new report on the coronavirus pandemic says. The report from CIDRAP predicts 18 months to two more years of Covid-19 cases and deaths.

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David Andelman writes that Donald Trump has bet whatever global order he has fantasized on a diplomacy based on mano-a-mano relationships with strongmen and dictators, but from Pyongyang to Moscow to Beijing, Riyadh and Brasilia, the pillars of Trump's world view are all finding their backs -- in one fashion or another -- to the wall.

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Supermodel Gigi Hadid confirmed Thursday that she's pregnant.

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They were the college football team no one had high hopes for, but when Northwestern suddenly started giving the champions a run for their money, Brekke Fletcher was sucked into the itinerant lifestyle of a die-hard fanatic.

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After a pained and somewhat public debate over discontinuing the daily White House coronavirus briefings, President Donald Trump this week has attempted to bridge the gap between the wishes of his advisers and his own inclinations by moving the event elsewhere.

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Hours after issuing stern warnings broadly to "the Jewish community" in the wake of a large Hasidic funeral gathering in Brooklyn Tuesday night that resulted in a dozen summonses, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio apologized for his language, but said he had "no regrets about calling out this danger."

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