Syria's government allowed mosques to open on Friday for worshipers willing to perform prayers. The mosque had remained closed as part of the measures taken to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Countries must return to "basic principles" of public health surveillance if they are to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control, the World Health Organization's (WHO) top emergency health expert Mike Ryan said on Friday (May 8).

Britain's Queen Elizabeth honored those who died in World War Two on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, and used the occasion to say she was proud of how people had responded to the coronavirus pandemic.

Thousands of cyclists took over streets in the center of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Friday evening to protest against the government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa and the restrictions it has imposed to fight the coronavirus.

Russia marked 75 years since the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Saturday, but the coronavirus outbreak forced it to scale back celebrations. Olivia Chan reports.

Beaches nationwide have been shut for weeks as the government put itself on lockdown in mid-March to curb the spread of the virus, which has to date killed nearly 26,000 nationwide.

The stress and anxiety bred by weeks of restrictions on public life have made uncertainty, separation, and fear part of daily life for many, WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge said.

A mother who was given a 50 percent survival chance and her newborn baby were discharged from hospital on Monday (May 4) after both fighting COVID-19.

With its season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, one of Austria's most popular glacial ski resorts covered its glacier in protective fabric earlier than usual this year to help preserve it for a still uncertain reopening.

Countries must return to "basic principles" of public health surveillance if they are to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control, the World Health Organization's (WHO) top emergency health expert Mike Ryan said on Friday (May 8).

Britain's Queen Elizabeth honored those who died in World War Two on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, and used the occasion to say she was proud of how people had responded to the coronavirus pandemic.

Thousands of cyclists took over streets in the center of the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Friday evening to protest against the government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa and the restrictions it has imposed to fight the coronavirus.

Russell Howard, Nish Kumar, Jon Richardson and others help 'landlady' Kiri Pritchard-Mclean host 'The Big Comedy Quiz at The Covid Arms' and break a Guinness World Record.

When the nightclub in which she touted for business in southern Chile was shut down by the authorities as the new coronavirus spread, sex worker Camila Hormazabal was left without access to her sole source of income.

A Dutch restaurant has come up with an idea on how to offer classy outdoor dining in the age of coronavirus: small glass cabins built for two or three people, creating intimate cocoons on a public patio.

Andrew Wong knew from an early age that running a restaurant required improvisation, having watched his parents steer their London Chinese restaurant through nearly 30 years of good times and bad.

Japan's time-honoured ritual of exchanging business cards face-to-face is under pressure as the government promotes a "new lifestyle" to combat the coronavirus.

Vicente Piratapuia, 69, of the Piratapuia tribe had a high fever and could hardly breathe, but he refused to leave his home on the outskirts of the Amazon rainforest's biggest city.

After standing empty for two months, Greece's ancient sites, including the Acropolis hill towering over Athens, will reopen to visitors on May 18, authorities said on Thursday.

As Thailand's capital cautiously reopens many restaurants shuttered over coronavirus fears, the feline "employees" of the Caturday Cafe are back at work.

It may not be the biggest in the world, but the Faroe Islands' Betri League will for once be in the spotlight when its season kicks off on Saturday.

Nigerian comedian Maryam Apaokagi has a sure-fire way of getting people to listen to her coronavirus health advice - she delivers it with a hard slap in the face.

Samantha Salinas never planned to give birth during a global pandemic, but Mother's Day 2020 may be when her baby finally arrives.

A train killed 16 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track on Friday while they were heading back to their home village after losing their jobs in a coronavirus lockdown, police said.

Inflows into India's equity mutual funds nearly halved in April, industry data showed, as many investors rattled by stock market volatility due to the new coronavirus and the impact of a lockdown on the economy chose to stay away.

When gas began leaking from a nearby chemical factory and drifting towards his house in southern India, there were no warnings and no alarms, welder Elamanchili Venkatesh said.

Before she was laid off from her bartending job in Charleston, South Carolina, Shana Swain used to spend her nights serving food and mixing Manhattans and Cosmopolitans.

The magical atmosphere will be missing if the cricket season currently stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic resumes in empty stadiums, India captain Virat Kohli has said.

Kuwait will enact a "total curfew" from 4pm (1300 GMT) on Sunday through to May 30 to help to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, its cabinet said in a statement on Friday.

A 5-year old boy has died in New York from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, highlighting a potential new risk for children in the pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday.

The U.S. government reported more catastrophic economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis on Friday as the pandemic pierced the very walls of the White House and California gave the green light for its factories to restart after a seven-week lockdown.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, the wife of one of President Donald Trump's senior advisers, has tested positive for the coronavirus, raising alarm about the virus' potential spread within the White House's inner most circle.

More than 1,000 people queued up on Saturday to get free food parcels in Geneva, underscoring the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the working poor and undocumented immigrants even in wealthy Switzerland.

सोशल मीडिया डेस्क.जवाहरलाल नेहरू यूनिवर्सिटी (जेएनयू) में रविवार को हुई हिंसा के बाद से ही ट्विटर पर जेएनयू ट्रेंड में है। ट्विटर के टॉप-10 ट्रेंड्स में से 7 हैशटैग जेएनयू से जुड़े ट्रेंड कर रहे हैं। खबर लिखे जाने तक सबसे ज्यादा ट्वीटस #JNUViolence (3 लाख 71 हजार) पर आए। जानिए ट्वीटर पर जेएनयू को लेकर क्या चल रहा है।

ये 7 हैशटैग ट्विटर पर ट्रेंड कर रहे

#JNUattack
3 लाख 20+ ट्वीट्स

#LeftAttacksJNU
1 लाख 73 हजार+ ट्वीट्स

#JNUViolence
3 लाख 71 हजार + ट्वीट्स

#ResignAmitShah
28 हजार + ट्वीट्स

#JNUUnderAttack
58 हजार + ट्वीट्स

#ShutDownJNU
44 हजार + ट्वीट्स

#LeftKillingJNU
6968 ट्वीट्स

(आंकड़े खबर लिखे जाने (6 जनवरी, दोपहर 12.30 बजे) तक के)

जेएनयू से जुड़े ये वीडियो भी ट्रेंड कर रहे....

• पत्रकार बरखा दत्त ने रविवार कोट्वीट किया गया 1 लाख 32 हजार से ज्यादा बार देखा जा चुका है।

• इस वीडियो को 3 लाख से ज्यादा बार देखा जा चुका है।

• अभिनेत्री स्वरा भास्कर ने रविवार को ट्वीट किया था। 6 लाख से ज्यादा बार देखा जा चुका है।

• धर्मेंद्र छोनकर नाम के एक यूजर ने 6 जनवरी को 11.51 पर शेयर किया। इसे महज 37 मिनट में98 हजार से ज्यादा बार देखा गया।

• इस वीडियो को 80 हजार से ज्यादा बार देखा जा चुका है।

सारी दुनिया जहां कोरोना संकट से जूझ रही है वहीं हैकर्स इस मौके का फायदा उठाने से भी बाज नहीं आ रहे। शुक्रवार को गूगल ने बताया कि उन्होंने पिछले हफ्ते लगभग 1.8 करोड़ मालवेयर और फिशिंग ईमेल को ढूंढा, जो कोविड19 के नाम पर यूजर्स को भेजे गए थे। इसके अतिरिक्त 24 करोड़ कोरोना से जुड़े स्पैम मैसेजेज की भी पहचान की गई है। इससे अंदाजा लगाया जा सकता है कि हैकर्स कितनी बड़ी तदाद में घर से काम कर रहे हैं लोगों और लॉकडाउन की वजह से घरों पर समय व्यतीत कर रहे लोगों को महामारी के नाम पर निशाना बना रहे हैं।

मशीन लर्निंग मॉडल से99%मालवेयर ब्लॉक कर रहा गूगल

गूगल ने कहा कि इसमें से 99 फीसदी स्पैम, फिशिंग और मालवेयर्स को कंपनी की मशीन लर्निंग मॉडल (जो इनकी पहचान कर इन्हें फिलटर करने में सक्षम है) द्वारा यूजर तक पहुंचने से रोक दिया गया है यानी ब्लॉक कर दिया गया है। इन्हें जवाब देने से यूजर्स को आर्थिक नुकसान भी उठाना पड़ सकता है। कई बार यह भी देखा गया है कि हैकर्स खुद को सरकारी संगठन जैसे वर्ल्ड हेल्थ ऑर्गनाइजेशन बताकर फ्रॉड करने के उद्देश्य से फेक और संवेदनशील ईमेल्स भेजते हैं। गूगल ने बताया कि इन पर क्लिक करने पर या इनका जवाब देने पर इंफेक्टेड डाउनलोडेबल फाइल यूजर के सिस्टम के बैकएंड में डाउनलोड हो जाती है, जो आपकी निजी जानकारियों में सेंध लगा सकती है।

जीमेल सिक्योरिटी के प्रोडक्ट मैनेजर नील कुमारन ने बताया कि इन ईमेल को ब्लॉक करने के अलावा हम डब्ल्यूएचओ के साथ मिलकर डोमेन बेस्ड मैसेज ऑथेंटिकेशन, रिपोर्टिंग और कंफोर्मेंशन (DMARC) पर काम कर रहें है और लोगों को सुरक्षित रहने के लिए सही ईमेल की पहचान करने की जानकारी भी दे रहे हैं। उन्होंने बताया कि DMARC हैकरों के लिए who.int डोमेन का इस्तेमाल करना मुश्किल कर देता है और उन्हें यूजर के इनबॉक्स में जाने से रोकता है।

सरकारी राहत कोष के नाम पर फंसा सकते हैं

गूगल ने बताया कि कई बार हैकर्स सरकारी राहत कोष और सरकारी संस्थानों की नकल करते हैं और छोटे व्यवसायियों को लुभाकर उन्हें नुकसान पहुंचाने की कोशिश करते हैं। कंपनी ने बताया कि कोरोना से जुड़े मालवेयर और फिशिंग को लोगों तक पहुंचने से रोकने के लिए विशेष तौर से इनकी निगरानी की जा रही है।

गूगल ने बताया कैसे बचें
इन सबसे बचने के लिए गूगल ने बताया कि यूजर को ऐसी फाइल को डाउनलोड करने से बचना चाहिए जिनके बारे में उन्हें जानकारी न हो। इसमें अटैच डॉक्यूमेंट देखने के लिए यूजर गूगल के बिल्ट-इन डॉक्यूमेंट प्रिव्यू का इस्तेमाल कर सकते हैं।

उन्होंने यह भी बताया कि किसी भी यूआरएल पर क्लिक करने से पहले या उस पर अपना लॉगइन और पासवर्ड डालने से पहले उसकी सत्यता की पुष्टि जरूर कर लेना चाहिए, क्योंकि फेक यूआरएल हूबहू असली यूआरएल जैसे ही दिखते हैं इनमें या तो अतिरिक्त शब्द या शब्दों का हेरफेर होता है।

U.S. tech giants such as Facebook and Amazon could face tougher rules as European Union regulators seek evidence to curb their role as gatekeepers to the internet and access to people, information and services, according to an EU tender seen by Reuters.

The European Union should strengthen a voluntary pledge, to which Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google and Twitter Inc signed up to combat fake news, with sanctions to make it a more effective tool, a study done for the European Commission said on Friday.

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it has asked employees to take a day off on May 22, to address work-from-home-related burnout during the coronavirus pandemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an app this month to enable people in under-resourced countries to assess whether they may have the novel coronavirus, and is considering a Bluetooth-based contact tracing feature too, an official told Reuters on Friday.

Bitcoin is about to undergo a scheduled technical adjustment as the number of new coins awarded to the computer wizards who "mine" the cryptocurrency will be cut in half, but forecasting which way its price will move afterward is more complicated now.

Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity researchers, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus.

Paris and the Netherlands are lending their respective parts of Air France-KLM up to 11 bln euros. The tricky bailout exposes the frailty of the 2004 merger. Ed Cropley reveals how other operators, including Germany’s Lufthansa and Britain’s IAG, could fly into similar problems.

The coronavirus has helped make Big Tech too big to fail. Before the pandemic, political pressure in D.C. and Brussels was mounting on Silicon Valley giants like Facebook. Gina Chon explains how their size has been an asset in a crisis, which will mute arguments to break them up.

North Korea’s portly dictator has dropped out of sight. Concern is rampant: Is he sick with coronavirus? In a coma? Dead? Whatever his condition, Pete Sweeney discusses the country’s succession problem and its implications for the region.

Goldman Sachs shareholders gave lukewarm approval for CEO David Solomon’s $27.5 mln package. It’s similar to what his peers get, and most of it doesn’t come for at least a year. Still, in a time of economic crisis, eight-digit rewards attract extra scrutiny, John Foley suggests.

Shares in Europe’s top banks have plunged as investors fret about a surge in bad debts. Yet most lenders’ capital buffers can absorb a spike three times as bad as the 2009 average. As Liam Proud explains, that makes taxpayer bailouts and widespread equity hikes unlikely.

U.S. billionaire John Malone may merge his Virgin Media broadband outfit with mobile operator O2. A joint venture could see Spain’s Telefonica, O2’s indebted parent, pocketing over 4 billion pounds. Ed Cropley explains how this might mean a lonelier future for rival Vodafone.

Could President Trump refuse to pay back the $1.1 trln the U.S. owes to China? While markets would hate the idea, it’s theoretically possible thanks to broad powers designed for times of emergency. John Foley explains how this dangerous weapon could be used if push came to shove.

Kingsoft Cloud will debut on Nasdaq, testing appetite for Chinese shares a month after the Luckin Coffee scandal. Data demand is booming in China amid Covid-19, and Kingsoft is a strong rival to market leader Alibaba. Robyn Mak explains why New York might like this listing.

U.S. cable firms are in for pain even after the pandemic starts to fade. Sports rights to air football games and other matchups are expected to soar and so will monthly bills. Jennifer Saba explains why non-sports lovers will choose Netflix and Disney+ and ditch their cable.