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Organising body, La Liga said the players would remain at their homes where they would continue individual training before being tested again “in the next few days” to determine whether they can return to their club’s training ground. Five players in Spain’s top two divisions have tested positive for Covid-19 …

A preliminary study by French researchers had claimed, smokers might be 80 percent less likely to infect COVID-19 than non-smokers of the same age and sex. The conclusion has arrived at a study done on 482 patients in a Paris hospital from 28 February 28 to 9 April, where it …

Researchers say DNA from the five fossils from Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro cave demonstrated they belonged to anatomically modern Homo sapiens. The research pushes back by thousands of years the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe. Fragmentary bone fossils and a molar found in Bulgaria dated to roughly 45,000 years ago …

Vitamin D appears to help reduce serious complications among coronavirus patients, according to a study. Researchers from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Liverpool, and the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) examined the association between vitamin D levels and Covid-19 mortality rates. Dr. Eamon Laird and Professor Rose Anne …

Oil prices fell on Monday as investors worried about the second wave of coronavirus infections, but new output cuts from Saudi Arabia tempered worries about oversupply and limited price losses. Brent crude futures lost 96 cents, or 3.1%, to $30.01 a barrel by 11:25 a.m. EDT (1525 GMT). West Texas …

The biggest domestic football league in the world, the English Premier League, has been given the green light to return by the UK government with matches played behind closed doors. The Premier League has been in lengthy discussions and debates with its member clubs over “Project Restart” which will form …

Demand for labour contracted at the fastest pace in the 22-year history of the monthly Report on Jobs published by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation trade body and accountants KPMG. The figures chimed with other signs that Britain is in the midst of a historic collapse in economic output after …

The popular Japanese cartoon Sazae-san, recognised as the longest-running animated TV series by Guinness World Records, has been hampered by the outbreak of the virus, with animation dubbing halted to keep staff safe, its broadcaster said. Production of the world’s longest-running cartoon and a mainstay of the Japanese weekend has …

The US Treasury secretary says the unemployment rate reported by the government is likely to get worse amid lockdown measures put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic. Steven Mnuchin made the comments on Sunday after the US Labor Department announced last week that the unemployment rate had surged to …

Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson is looking to produce a billion coronavirus vaccines for next year, according to Dr. Paul Stoffels, the company’s chief scientific officer. “We start clinical trials in September and hopefully have data by the end of the year,” Stoffels said Sunday on ABC, adding that the …

As the worldwide death toll surged past 279,000 with over four million infections, France and Spain look set to reopen the countries after seeing a consistent decrease in both the daily number of new cases and deaths from Covid-19. People in France and Spain, two of Europe’s countries hardest hit …

A mysterious illness that’s affecting children and could be linked to the coronavirus has left officials alarmed and searching for answers as infections increase. Doctors are referring to the condition that has hospitalized dozens of children as “pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome,” and health officials believe it could be linked to …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday approved emergency use authorization (EUA) to Quidel Corp for the first COVID-19 antigen test. The emergency use authorization was issued late Friday to Quidel for the Sofia 2 SARS Antigen FIA, the agency said. The FDA said the authorization is for …

Stone by stone, digital artists, and game developers from Mosul are rebuilding Nineveh’s heritage sites in the digital world.

Google has said most of its employees will work from home until next 2021 – the latest major technology firm to stick with social distancing measures until next year. Reports said Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive officer, told employees on Thursday to prepare to work from home until October and …

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would create its first datacentre region in Italy under a $1.5 billion investment plan as the U.S. company expands its cloud computing services to more locations across the world. Microsoft’s rival Amazon Web Services last week opened a datacentre region in Milan, while in …

The new coronavirus can persist in men’s semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said. A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, …

The US unemployment rate has risen to 14.7%, with 20.5 million jobs lost in April, as the coronavirus pandemic devastated the economy. The rise means the jobless rate is now worse than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Since the pandemic began, the US has suffered …

Shares in the world’s largest generic drugmaker jumped nearly 20% in late Tel Aviv trade as the company also reaffirmed its 2020 outlook, despite disruption to the global economy from the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Executive Kare Schultz said all facilities remained open and no jobs had been cut due to …

Qatar Airways is in talks with banks for loans worth billions of dollars, three sources familiar with the matter said, as the state-owned airline readies to begin rebuilding its network that has been crushed by the coronavirus pandemic. The talks with banks are happening on a bilateral basis, the sources …