Job losses and a dramatic economic slowdown will be side-effects of the coronavirus outbreak if it continues into the summer, ministers have been warned.
Europe was yesterday struggling to contain coronavirus as Italy's death toll more than doubled in two days, and the outbreak spread to more countries, including Ukraine and Gibraltar.
Human trials of a vaccine against coronavirus are due to start in April, with dozens of laboratories around the world competing to be the first to develop a drug.
A drop in inflation in the eurozone last month thanks to lower energy prices marked the first measurable impact on the bloc's economies from the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
Even the most mundane of our daily interactions have become infected with fears about coronavirus. Simple things like sitting on the bus beside someone coughing and spluttering with no tissue has taken on a whole new set of connotations since the outbreak of covid-19. And the outbreak is already changing how we live our lives...
Donald Trump has accused Democratic moderates of trying to rig the presidential nomination race against Bernie Sanders after a string of last-minute endorsements for his rival Joe Biden.
I was doing a lot of driving around the country last week and there were more and more stretches of road with wind farms lining the fields. I quite like them in their majestic glory; turning relentlessly and steadily, giant white stately arms rotating in the air. Quite majestic really.
