The number of deaths in Italy is still rising. The whole country is on lockdown but does not yet see the effects since it may take a couple of weeks for infected people to get sick. And so more than 1,400 people died in Italy from coronavirus over th...
The European Union is closing its borders to non-EU residents. The travel ban will last for 30 days, and it's aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Movement within the EU will still be allowed, with individual nations free to use t...
President Trump's administration is proposing an $850 billion stimulus package to help businesses and individuals cope with the abrupt slowdown in the U.S. economy from the coronavirus and the related shutdowns. Eight-hundred-fifty billion dollars th...
Will Israel's long-serving prime minister be replaced? Benjamin Netanyahu says during the coronavirus epidemic, it is not time to change leaders. But retired Army Gen. Benny Gantz was given the chance to form a new government. From Jerusalem, NPR's D...
Players from England's professional football leagues have told a campaign group that racism and homophobiaare common in the game. Over 200 professionals playing in the Premier League, and the three divisions below it, took part in a survey conducted...
An extremely rare antique, decorative egg designed by the legendary Russian jeweller Peter Carl Faberg has been unearthed at a second-hand goods market in the USA. A scrap dealer bought the golden egg at a bric-a-brac stall for $13,000. The unnamed t...
The government in Kenya has agreed on a new law on marriage. It has made many female politicians very angry. The Marriage Bill allows men to have as many wives as they want. Men will soon be able to marry other women without even telling their wife....
Researchers at the Harvard Business School claim that people who do not follow normal fashion get more respect from others. Doctoral student Silvia Bellezza and two of her colleagues examined how we view the social status and competence of people who...
A new survey from an internet-based market research company shows the things British people are most afraid of. Top of the list is heights. Over half of the people who took the survey said they had acrophobia the medical name for the fear of heights....
One of the largest circus companies in the USA will soon no longer have performing elephants as part of its shows. The Ringling Brothers and Barnum amp; Bailey Circus said it would stop using elephants by 2018. All the 43 animals it currently uses wi...