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Continent has limited confirmed virus fatalities but experts warn it is too early to draw conclusions

Secret burials, overflowing hospitals and dead MPs, as president takes refuge in home village

Data give snapshot of shifting battlegrounds ahead of November’s presidential election

In Stoke-on-Trent, Matthew Engel finds a party struggling to answer the simplest questions

Owner of some of UK’s biggest shopping malls still faces uphill struggle

Iron ore giant in second disaster in 3 years after mud and waste surges through valley

Filing opens door to potential sale of half of Virgin Group’s holding in space venture

Sell-off dents investment holdings despite uptick in operating profit

UK airport reports slump in passenger demand as calls resurface for expansion to be axed

Willie Walsh points out that expansion plans face bigger challenges due to coronavirus impact

Some families of medics who die in service will receive higher payouts than others under current rules

Sportswear maker warns sales could drop as much as 40% in second quarter

Companies running defined benefit pension schemes ask regulator to extend payment holidays

As numbers and statistics come to the fore, can we boost national numeracy?

Italy to lay out strategy this week on its plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions. Global stocks under pressure as oil tumbles again. England and Wales record 75 per cent more weekly overall deaths than normal.

Number of global cases of Covid-19 nears 2.5m, international oil prices tumble to lowest levels since the 1990s, Heineken hit as pandemic cuts into beer drinking globally.

British fatalities rise by 813 with almost 150,000 infected; Spain prepares to ease restrictions slightly as daily deaths remain below 400

The worldwide Covid-19 death toll rose by 6,365 on Tuesday, pushing the total through 200,000

Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine

Spain allows outside exercise for the first time in weeks while Russia’s daily case count rises by a fifth

The FT's live blog on the Covid-19 pandemic

Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933

BT halts dividend for first time since dot com bubble two decades ago, BA parent IAG warns of further cuts as recovery set to take three years and shoemaker Puma warns worse to come as profits halve in first quarter

Mike Mackenzie’s daily analysis of what’s moving global markets

One third of over-55s don’t even have a will — but they can get one for free in October

In the face of rising U.S. income inequality and concerns about job loss to automation, some of Silicon Valley’s best-known names including Y Combinator’s Sam Altman have spoken up in favor of a universal basic income that would give people a baseline standard of living in an economy that may not be able to produce […]

Conflicting pressures between health and preventing economic ruin divide country as it emerges from lockdown

Google’s data centers run 24/7 and suck up a ton of energy — so it’s in both the company’s and the planet’s interest to make them do so as efficiently as possible. One new method has the facilities keeping an eye on the weather so they know when the best times are to switch to […]

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In remarks delivered to a virtual meeting on 7 May hosted by the Foreign Trade Authority of Saudi Arabia, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff said governments must step up international cooperation to respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the multilateral trading system, this includes addressing measures to deal with the global health emergency, cooperation to support the needed economic recovery, and assuring the system is more resilient and effective in underwriting future global economic growth. DDG Wolff’s remarks are below

PwC has today been announced as the first employer partner for a new Pathways in Technology (P-TECH) style pilot at McCarthy Catholic College, Emu Plains.

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. As the economy has worsened, the market for many goods and services has slowed. Some SaaS products have found themselves immune, or even boosted by recently changes in consumer and business consumption patterns and travel […]

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: I can reveal that Lord Bathurst has not been left a penny by his late American stepmother, Gloria, Dowager Countess Bathurst.

Joanne Froggatt promoted series two of Liar alongside co-star Katherine Kelly in London on Thursday, in her first public appearance since announcing her split from husband James Cannon.

The much-talked about feud between Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes and This Morning co-star Phillip Schofield came to a head on Tuesday night as they all attended the NTAs.

During an interview at Tuesday's NTAs on Tuesday, the screen star, 41, insisted singing the rendition of The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl's tune  'felt appropriate'.

Ian Hickton, from Stoke, was staying as a guest at an Airbnb last weekend when he found a list of very specific bathroom rules and shared them on Twitter. One stated men should 'sit down' for a wee.

Neymar has paid tribute to Kobe Bryant after one of basketball's greatest ever players died in a helicopter crash. The news broke shortly before PSG's Ligue 1 victory over Lille.

Neymar has posted pictures of him and five friends sunbathing on a foot volley court in Brazil despite the WHO advising people to self isolate and keep a one-metre distance from other people.

The former glamour model, 41, appeared to be relaxed as she held onto a glass of champagne and posed nude in the bathroom on Saturday.

Coleen Rooney, 33, took to Instagram to post an adorable photo of her four boys splashing about during bath time as the doting mum watched on.

The This Morning co-host took to Instagram from the bath to share a snap of her beloved cat Bluebell peering over the side of the tub in her luxury bathroom as she hints at a homeware collaboration.

She split from girlfriend Miley Cyrus in September following a whirlwind one-month romance. And three months after they went their separate ways, Kaitlynn Carter was spotted in Miami.

Miley Cyrus founded the Happy Hippie Foundation back in 2014.

The singer, 27, wore just a gold necklace with bubbles strategically covering her modesty. Miley flashed one bare leg that was raised up out of the water and had one arm across her breasts.

She has worked with Marc Jacobs for years. And Miley Cyrus was glimpsed swinging by his Manhattan offices Tuesday, the night before his New York Fashion week extravaganza.

Miley Cyrus put on a show of her own on Wednesday, when the 27-year-old stepped out in Manhattan wearing a head-turning pair of red leather pants.