The effects on musical culture in the United States ended up being relatively mild: merely a few weeks of delayed and cancelled concerts.

The disease is like “a zombie walking the Earth,” wanting to kill humans, says the Canadian actor. “I think the best thing to do is stay in and let’s keep doing what we’re doing.”

The Seattle rock icons filed a countersuit Wednesday accusing Vicky Cornell of withholding money raised through a star-studded benefit concert held last year in the late singer’s honour, instead using it for personal purposes — an accusation Cornell denies.

Nearly $327 million will be handed out by the heritage department in the initial stages, while the remainder will be “assessed based on needs.”

A new report estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic will likely last 18 to 24 months.

Canada's trade deficit widened to more than $1.4 billion in March, as the COVID-19 pandemic dragged down both imports and exports to their lowest levels in years.

The world's third-largest cruise ship operator cast doubt on its ability to stay afloat as a company for much longer, even as one of its biggest rivals said it is taking its first tentative steps toward reopening after COVID-19.

With more businesses reopening, some employees are anxious about going back to work, worried their health could be at risk and wondering if they have any rights not to return. Here's what you need to know about your employment obligations if you are called back to work and any recourse you may have.

Bombardier Inc. said it has started the gradual resumption of manufacturing operations at both its aircraft and rail operations that had been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as it reported a loss of $200 million US in its first quarter.

Greyhound Canada will halt all of its bus routes in Canada starting May 13 because of the coronavirus.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says construction of multi-unit housing projects remained strong in some provinces last month despite the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

A First Nations financial organization in the Atlantic region is voicing concern over the exclusion of band-owned, non-taxable businesses in federal financial relief programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 29, 2020
FN America and Colt's Manufacturing received a $383.3 million, five-year contract to manufacture M16A4 rifles for Afghanistan, Grenada, Iraq, Lebanon and Nepal through the Pentagon's foreign military sales program. The M16A4 is the fourth generation of the M16 series of military rifles. The Marine Corps began phasing out the M16 in favor of the M4 carbine in 2015. In 2008 the Sta

Visakhapatnam, India (AFP) May 7, 2020
Eleven people were killed and hundreds hospitalised after a pre-dawn gas leak at a chemical plant in eastern India on Thursday that left unconscious victims lying in the streets, authorities said. Fears that the death toll from the incident on the outskirts of the Visakhapatnam, an industrial port city in Andhra Pradesh state, were not borne out however. The gas escaped out of tanks at a

Officials offer answers to numerous important questions about the coronavirus.

As a medical oncologist in Connecticut, Dr. Justin Persico was all too aware of the people he treats, who would be at greater risk for exposure to the virus.

Certain vitamins, minerals and other supplements can support your immune system as a whole, even though they haven’t been researched for their impact on COVID-19 specifically.

From “Animal Flow” to “Move Like an Avenger” and kids Muay Thai, the city’s many shuttered fitness clubs and studios are offering creative online options to keep you moving.

Exactly 75 years after her father King George VI's historic broadcast marking the end...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced what will be first to reopen under the national cabinet's three-step plan to lift coronavirus restrictions.Morrison announced the plan agreed upon by state leaders in today's...

The US government on Friday is poised to report the worst set of jobs numbers since record-keeping began in 1948, a snapshot of the devastating damage the coronavirus outbreak has inflicted on the economy.The unemployment rate for...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing "a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scaremongering" and appealed for "an all-out effort to end hate speech globally".The UN chief...

The coronavirus crisis has sent the US unemployment rate surging to 14.7 per cent, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assuring Americans the only thing to...

US Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House said today, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week.President Donald Trump,...

Sweden's former top virus expert says lockdowns are just a way of delaying the inevitable and warns that New Zealand could face years of quarantining foreigners entering the country, even after wiping out Covid-19.Johan Giesecke...

The World Health Organisation said yesterday that although a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan selling live animals likely played a significant role in the emergence of the new coronavirus, it does not recommend that such markets...

Almost every day a new study is published that shines light on the way in which the new coronavirus is spread. It will be years before the precise dynamics of transmission are nailed down, but the broad outline of how the disease...

South African Breweries, one of the world's largest brewers, says it may have to destroy 400 million bottles of beer as a result of the country's ban on alcohol sales that is part of its lockdown measures to combat the spread of the...

The United States has suffered the largest coronavirus outbreak in the world by far, with five times as many reported cases as any other country and more than twice as many deaths.The numbers are astonishing. America has 1.3 million...

It's one of the great mysteries of Australia's Covid-19 experiment: despite fears supermarkets and hairdressers could prove high risk for the spread of the virus, there have been no major outbreaks detected.When pubs, clubs, and...

A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them.ABC Displays has created a cardboard bed with metal railings that designers...

The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation's top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House, according to internal government emails...

Le combattant Ronaldo Souza, qui devait affronter Uriah Hall dimanche lors du gala UFC 249, a reçu un diagnostic positif à la COVID-19, vendredi.

La solution infonuagique de la santé publique doit être fonctionnelle mercredi avec trois semaines de retard.