Coronavirus: There is a price to pay for pledging too much as the world anxiously awaits even a marginally effective therapeutic for the disease known as COVID-19.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has surpassed that of 9/11, even the Vietnam War. Here's a look at COVID-19's place in history.

Gradual easing of coronavirus restrictions brings hopes, fears

Texas reopens restaurants, Utah reopens salons. As several states lift coronavirus restrictions, many warn of a second wave if social distancing ends too soon.

A week after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp plunged Georgia into the middle of a national social experiment — rolling back restrictions on businesses in an effort to restart the economy after a monthlong shutdown to halt the spread of COVID-19 — some restaurants, salons and tattoo parlors remain shuttered. Most that are opening are proceeding cautiously.

The Philippines is promising better pay for its nurses to lure them to the front lines against COVID-19, but a legacy of exploitation and poor working conditions in the nation's hospitals has dampened the enthusiasm to answer the call.

The search for existing drugs that may help treat coronavirus infections now has researchers testing the heartburn drug Pepcid, among others.

Governors across the U.S. are encouraging people to continue practicing social distancing amid summer weather

Toss-up contests from Arizona to Florida hold the key for President Trump and Joe Biden.

Coronavirus could kill 100,000, Trump says, weeks after predicting lower toll

Washington state has a billion pounds of potatoes -- with no destination

When Texas' energy-dependent economy stalled, mass layoffs hit skilled middle-class workers.

The aggressive nationalism of China's diplomats matches the swagger of Xi Jinping's China, which is determined to deflect blame for the coronavirus.

As more states reopen their economies, officials say fighting the coronavirus outbreak means wearing a face covering. But some are balking at restrictions.

U.S. deportation flights to Guatemala resume -- with promises of testing for coronavirus

A mutation in the novel coronavirus has led to a new strain viewed as more contagious than the virus that emerged from China, according to a new study.

Italy Easing Lockdown

Rick Bright, pushed out of a job heading a federal research agency, files a complaint saying he was retaliated against for resisting Trump's plans.

De Blasio says he needs Trump to lift New York City from the ashes of COVID-19. But the president says no 'bailout' is coming for his old hometown.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Tuesday with an infection caused by a gallstone, the Supreme Court said.

As many as 20% to 25% of healthcare workers in hard-hit areas, experts say, are likely to develop disorders such as anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress.

The coronavirus is pitching the U.S. and China into a new Cold War -- a confrontation over ideology as well as trade and security. It's happening partly because President Trump needs an issue to run on -- and it's dangerous

As states lift coronavirus restrictions, none has met federal benchmarks, a health expert warns. The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. surpasses 73,000.

For decades, Jaime Montejo fought to bring dignity to sex workers in Mexico City, protecting them from police, pimps and eventually the coronavirus. Then he got sick.

Federal indictments were down 75 percent in April and 25 percent in march as prosecutors and investigators were forced to curtail operations in response to coronavirus.

Risk guides much of our medical care system. COVID-19 is showing us, unless we have developed immunity, we are all at risk.

More than two months after an unarmed black man was shot in south Georgia, protesters across America are asking why it took so long for police to investigate.

Washington state fruit growers say that a ban on bunk beds in farmworker housing would cut their seasonal work force in half, likely leading to food shortages and price hikes.

We are on the precipice of spread COVID-19 from dialysis centers to nursing homes. But there is a safer way to administer this lifesaving care.

Syria's Bashar Assad faces dissent from his rich cousin Rami Makhlouf

Mother's Day weekend will be summery in California and wintery with snow in parts of the East

For many Americans, Arbery's killing harks back to the old Jim Crow days when white mobs hunted black men down and killed them with impunity. In Brunswick, the shooting has sparked an uneasy conversation about race and power.

Shops and restaurants are selling less, but goods are still arriving at warehouses around the UK.

Artificial intelligence technology is being rapidly deployed worldwide to help tackle Covid-19.

Monica Miller explains the alphabet soup of possible recession shapes for the coronavirus-hit global economy.

With imports slowing, many African nations are learning the importance of local manufacturing.

A look at the different ways nations are trying to cushion the blow from the virus shutdowns.

A tie-up is agreed that will create one of the UK's largest mobile, broadband and media firms.

The retail chain will expand its online beauty concept to shopping centres when the lockdown ends.

Data shows roughly one-fifth of the US workforce has filed for unemployment benefits since mid-March.

The airport has been granted permission to appeal a block on its expansion plans

The owner of Stansted and Manchester airports says passengers must cover their faces and wear gloves.

Train operators and the government are planning to increase rail services from mid-May onwards.

US unemployment rises to its highest level since the 1930s as coronavirus devastates the economy.

A report by the John Lewis group gives a snapshot of what consumers are buying during the pandemic.

How bars and restaurants could look when coronavirus restrictions are eased.

Waterstones CEO: How I keep selling books while my bookshops are shut down.

David Downes is one of a number of artists in the East of England using the pandemic as inspiration.

Titans from the stage and screen perform the composer's greatest musical hits online.

Danny Boyle credits Irrfan Khan with propelling Slumdog Millionaire to Oscar glory.