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Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images(LONDON) — Dozens more people aboard a cruise ship quarantined at sea in Japan have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officials said. By Wednesday, at least 174 people among the 3,711 guests […]

mrtom-UK/iStock(BARCELONA, Spain) — The coronavirus, declared a global health emergency, is posing a threat to one of the most-attended yearly global tech conferences, Mobile World Congress. MWC, held each year in Barcelona, Spain, drew 109,674 […]

jarun011/iStock(GENEVA) — Top health officials have finally named the novel coronavirus that has sickened tens of thousands of people around the world. The coronavirus is now called COVID-19, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general at the […]

Pgiam/iStock(LONDON) — Global carbon dioxide emissions stopped growing last year, despite the global economy experiencing a marked increase in size, according to data published today. Following two years of increasing emissions, CO2 emissions flattened to […]

jarun011/iStock(HONG KONG) — A hundred people have been quarantined in Hong Kong after being evacuated from an apartment building where two residents living on different floors were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, authorities said. During […]

Carl Court/Getty Images(LONDON) —  A 13th American was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus on Monday as the death toll in China topped 1,000 with health officials struggling to contain the epidemic. The American tested positive […]

iStock/omersukrugoksu(DUBLIN) — The left-wing nationalist party Sinn Féin surged to a historic result in the Irish general election over the weekend, upending the country’s two-party system as the wave of anti-establishment populism that has shaken […]

Filkina Natalia/iStock(LONDON) — Four endangered mountain gorillas have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in one of Uganda’s national parks, conservation groups say. Three adult females, one of whom was pregnant, and a newborn […]

Carl Court/Getty Images(LONDON) — U.S. citizen Rebecca Frasure has been in the isolation ward of a Tokyo hospital since Friday. Frasure and her husband were supposed to be enjoying themselves on a cruise around Asia, […]

iStock/Andreas Haas(LONDON) — A New York-to-London flight landed in the history books Sunday as the fastest subsonic flight across the Atlantic Ocean. British Airways Flight 112 made the trip in 4 hours and 56 minutes […]