Britons stood in silence and Queen Elizabeth addressed the nation on Friday's 75th anniversary of "Victory in Europe" Day, though the coronavirus dampened commemorations for the end of World War Two on the continent. Lauren Anthony reports.

Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management utilizes robots to give its students a virtual graduation ceremony. Freddie Joyner has more.

Stocks on Wall Street jumped Friday despite historic job losses suffered by the economy. Fred Katayama reports.

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.

A campaign in Mexico City to get residents to wear face masks is now reinforced with a new secret weapon: clowns. They're telling metro riders, 'Wear a face mask -- don't be a clown!' as they spray riders' hands with disinfectant. Gavino Garay has more.

Pizzerias were finally able to open their doors again this week after almost two months in lockdown - and Italians were savouring every bite.

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.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday said it was 'dangerous' for the Trump administration to pressure states and businesses to 'reopen without a plan for a dramatic increase in testing'.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday described a valet of his reportedly testing positive for the coronavirus as "one of those things" and said that he and Vice President Mike Pence have since been tested and they are both negative.

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.

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are having a baby, according to entertainment website TMZ on Tuesday. Emer McCarthy reports.

London's High Court on Friday threw out part of a claim brought by Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, against a tabloid newspaper for breaching her privacy, ruling that it had not acted dishonestly. Lauren Anthony reports.

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.

Oscar-winning "Jojo Rabbit" screenwriter Taika Waititi will direct and co-write a new Star Wars feature film for theaters, the Walt Disney Company said on Monday.

Oscar-winning "Jojo Rabbit" screenwriter Taika Waititi will direct and co-write a new Star Wars feature film for theaters, the Walt Disney Company said on Monday. Emer McCarthy reports.

Kate, Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, launched a project on Thursday to encourage Britons to submit pictures of their daily lives during lockdown. Edward Baran reports.

Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, the son of Britain's Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan, celebrated his first birthday on Wednesday, with his parents marking the occasion with a video of his mother reading him a story.

A young boy chooses a nurse as the superhero he wants to play with over Batman and Spiderman in a new artwork by Banksy that encapsulates the gratitude Britons have felt toward the country's National Health Service during the coronavirus crisis.

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.

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.

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.

Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins will stream a concert from an empty Royal Albert Hall on Friday evening, as locked-down Britain marks the 75th anniversary of "Victory in Europe" Day.

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.

Doctors in hazmat suits ran temperature checks on passengers at Delhi airport and bags were disinfected as the first group of Indians returned home on special flights from Singapore and the Gulf on Friday since a sweeping lockdown was imposed in March.

Some residents frustrated over a strict coronavirus lockdown in Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat, hurled stones and were met with teargas in clashes with paramilitary forces on Friday.

Amid mounds of rubble and the ruins of buildings destroyed during nearly a decade of war, a Ramadan iftar meal has reunited a community in northwestern Syria.

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.

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.

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.

कोरोना से लड़ने के लिए स्वास्थ्य कर्मियों के अलावा साइंस और टेक्नोलॉजी से जुड़े देश के उच्च संस्थान भी एकजुट होकर काम कर रहे हैं। एक तरफ भारत सरकार ने आरोग्य सेतु जैसे कोरोना ट्रैकिंग ऐप लॉन्च किया वहीं दूसरी ओर इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ साइंस (आईआईएससी) और इंडियन इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ टेक्नोलॉजी (आईआईटी) जैसे संस्थानों ने मिलकर 'गो कोरोना गो' और 'संपर्क-ओ-मीटर' जैसे ऐप्सतैयार किएहैं, जो कोरोना से बचने और सतर्क रहनेमें लोगों की मदद कर रहेहैं।

गो कोरोना गो ऐप

गो कोरोना गो ऐप को आईआईएससी ने डेवलप किया है, जो पता लगाता है कि कहीं यूजर ने कोरोना संक्रमितों या संदिग्धों के साथ यात्रा या रास्ता पार तो नहीं किया। ऐप इस काम के लिए स्मार्टफोन के जीपीएस और ब्लूटूथ के अलावा नेमपिछली कन्वर्सेशन को इस्तेमाल करता है। आईआईएससी के फैकल्टी मेंबर तारुण रंभा ने बताया कि ऐप दूर के संपर्कों के लिए संक्रमित होने की संभावना को समझने के लिए बैकएंड में टेम्परेरी नेटवर्क एनालिटिक्स का इस्तेमाल करता है। इससे यह बीमारी फैलने और सबसे ज्यादा जोखिम वाले लोगों की पहचान करता है। उन्होंने आगे बताया कि ऐप आईसोलेशन और प्रॉक्जिमिटी स्कोर अलर्ट देता है साथ ही सोशल डिस्टेंसिंग बढ़ने में भी मदद करता है। इसमें जियो-फेसिंग फीचर भी है जो खासतौर से उन लोगों के लिए जो खुद को क्वारैंटाइन किए हुए हैं। इसके अलावा ये उन लक्षणों के बारे में भी बताता है जिससे संक्रमित होने की संभावना हो सकती है।

संपर्क-ओ-मीटर ऐप
रंभा ने बताया आईआईटी रोपड़ के ए.बी. टेक स्टूडेंट्स ने संपर्क-ओ-मीटर बनाई है। ऐप मैप के जरिए उन जगहों की जानकारी मुहैया कराता है, जहां कोरोना से संक्रमित होने की सबसे ज्यादा संभावना है। यह ऐप कई सारे मापदंड़ों के आधार पर रिस्क स्कोर जारी कर यूजर को एहतियाती उपाय करने के लिए अलर्ट करता है जिसमें सेल्फ आइसोलेट और डॉक्टर से परामर्श लेने शामिल है।

कोरोनटाइन (CORONTINE) ऐप
आईआईटी मुंबई के स्टूडेंट्स ने मिलकर भी कोरोनटाइन ऐप डिजाइन की है। ऐप क्वारैंटाइन जोन छोड़ने पर संदिग्ध व्यक्ति को ट्रैक करने में मदद करेगा, जो कई लोगों को संक्रमित कर सकता है। इसे ऐप को ऑथोराइज्ड एजेंसी द्वारा संदिग्ध व्यक्ति के फोन में इंस्टॉल किया जाएगा। ऐप समय समय पर यूजर की जीपीएस लोकेशन की जानकारी सुपरविजन कर रही एजेंसी के सर्वर पर पहुंचाती रहेगी। जैसे ही संदिग्ध जियो फेसिंग किए गए क्वारैंटाइन जोन को छोड़ेगा, यह तुरंत उसे ऑटो डिटेक्ट कर लेगा।

आईआईटी दिल्ली के छात्रों ने भी ऐसी ऐप तैयार की है, जो ऐसे लोगों को ट्रैक करने में मदद करेगी जो कोविड-19 पॉजीटिव कें संपर्क में आए हैं। यह ब्लूटूथ की मदद से काम करता है। ऐप उन यूजर्स को अलर्ट करेगी जो बीते दिनों में संक्रमितों के नजदीक गए हों।

आईआईटी रुड़की ने भी ऐसी ऐप तैयार किया है। इससे संदिग्धों की निगरानी की जा सकती है साथ ही उनके आसपास जियो-फेसिंग तैयार की जा सकती है। जिसे ही क्वारैंटाइन पर्सन इस जियो फेसिंग को तोड़गा, ऐप तुरंत सिस्टम को अलर्ट कर देगा। जीपीएस के काम न करने की स्थिति में यह एसएमएस के जरिए अलर्ट करता है।

Sony Corp said on Friday it will manufacture and donate medical face shields to hospitals in Japan, amid worries about the availability of protective equipment for healthcare workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

Russia's GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel's constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany's parliament, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources.

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.

Far from barking its orders, a robot dog enlisted by Singapore authorities to help curb coronavirus infections in the city-state politely asks joggers and cyclists to stay apart.

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.

Apple Inc said Friday it will reopen a handful of stores in four U.S. states starting next week, in the first resumption of physical retail operations since the iPhone maker shuttered all U.S. stores in mid-March.

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.

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.

Doctors in hazmat suits ran temperature checks on passengers at Delhi airport and bags were disinfected as the first group of Indians returned home on special flights from Singapore and the Gulf on Friday since a sweeping lockdown was imposed in March.

Some residents frustrated over a strict coronavirus lockdown in Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat, hurled stones and were met with teargas in clashes with paramilitary forces on Friday.

Amid mounds of rubble and the ruins of buildings destroyed during nearly a decade of war, a Ramadan iftar meal has reunited a community in northwestern Syria.

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.

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.

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.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn is in self-quarantine for a couple of weeks after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, an FDA spokesman told Reuters late on Friday.

The number of deaths from the coronavirus in Mexico's best-known border city, Tijuana, has soared and the COVID-19 mortality rate is twice the national average, the health ministry says, after medical staff quickly fell ill as the outbreak rampaged through hospital wards.

The 2020 K-League season started on Friday with a match between Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Suwon Samsung Bluewings played without spectators after a delay of more than two months caused by the coronavirus outbreak.