In an analysis released on Thursday, UNICEF and Save the Children said the number of children affected by household poverty could surge by 15 percent, bringing the number of children living below the national poverty line in low- and middle-income countries up to 672 million by the year’s end. The organizations’ analysis is based on economic projections by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, as well as historical evidence on past income distribution changes from the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU WIDER) and demographic data from Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and DHS....

The virus has spread to 42 states as well as Washington, D.C., according to the latest report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The virus, which was first reported in Wuhan city of the Hubei province of China, has spread to over 137,000 people, with over 5,000 deaths and 69,000 recoveries, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University on Friday. Fears over the outbreak continue, with restrictions in place across the country in a bid to curb the spread....

There are at least 565 cases reported in the country, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University, with New York surpassing Washington as the state with the most infected people. There are at least 142 cases in New York according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Rick Cotton, the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (which also overseas airports in New York) has also tested positive for the virus, Cuomo said....

With one key difference. Shanghai’s disgraced party secretary Chen Liangyu, who was purged from the Politburo last week, and the hundreds of other cadres caught up in anti-corruption probes across the country have not been officially charged with crimes in the Western sense. Instead, they’re being confined and interrogated by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Discipline and Inspection Commission. In a press conference last week, commission head Gan Yisheng responded to questions about Chen by vowing that “any party member who violates party discipline, no matter how high or low in rank, will be thoroughly investigated and seriously dealt with....

“This is a bill that would have had millions of dollars for police departments … millions of dollars more, additional dollars, because we want to help officers with mental health issues. We want to collect more data so we should give more resources,” the New Jersey Democrat said on CNN’s State of the Union. Scott, the only Black GOP senator, framed Democrats’ demands as efforts to defund the police in an interview on CBS News’ Face the Nation Sunday....

Your health insurer requires you to pay part of the cost of your healthcare expenses in order to prevent over-utilization of healthcare services, and in order to keep health insurance premiums in check. Plans with lower cost-sharing (ie, lower deductibles, copayments, and total out-of-pocket costs when you need medical care) tend to have higher premiums, whereas plans with higher cost-sharing tend to have lower premiums. Cost-sharing reduces premiums (because it saves your health insurance company money) in two ways....

Former four division world champion Miguel Cotto (41-5, 33 KOs) steps inside the squared circle for the final time in his Hall of Fame career as he defends the WBO junior middleweight title against 2008 Olympian Sadam Ali (25-1, 14 KOs) from Madison Square Garden in New York City. Cotto won the title in his last fight in August after a 21-month layoff when he defeated Yoshihiro Kamegai by unanimous decision....

In the three and half years plus since “Black Friday,” only three states have specifically legalized online poker: Delaware, Nevada in New Jersey. Revenues from Internet poker have failed to meet expectations of the governments that authorized it, in large part because the player pools have been limited to only those present within the individual states. This has resulted in smaller prize pools for tournaments and fewer choices of cash games....

Julie Bushart and Zack Williams met at a Subway restaurant on Five Mile Road in Livonia, Michigan, on December 8, 2017. Bushart had been shopping with her mom for her birthday when they decided to visit Subway for lunch and spotted Williams in line ahead of them, she wrote on the couple’s wedding website. It was Bushart’s mother who played matchmaker, chasing Williams down in the parking lot to pass along her daughter’s number as he was leaving....

This month a court in Madrid, Spain gave out a “pioneering ruling” and granted joint custody of a dog, Panda, to the dog’s two owners after they parted ways. Lola García, from the Law & Animals law firm, who brought this case to court said one of the reasons the case was noteworthy was the court’s recognition of her client as “co-responsible” and as a “co-carer” rather than a “co-owner” of the pup, according to the BBC....

After years in the wilderness, Israel’s oft-neglected Arabs now find themselves with suitors on all sides. Arabs represent 11 percent of all Israeli voters, a crucial bloc in a fractured electorate. But the surprising thing is that the politicians courting the Arab vote are coming from both sides of the political spectrum. Ayida Shibli plans to vote for Azmi Bishara, the first Arab to run for prime minister of Israel....

WATCH: Falcao’s free-kick stunner Courtois suffered an ankle injury in training and Chelsea are hoping that he will be fit to face Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final next Saturday. The Belgian’s injury isn’t thought to be serious and he has also been having treatment on a hip injury in recent weeks since returning from international duty early. Begovic will now make his first Premier League start this season at United, with the Premier League title at stake after Tottenham closed the gap to four points on Saturday with a 4-0 win over Bournemouth....

The first in-person gathering of Quad leaders last Friday was described as a “historic occasion” in a joint statement released by Biden and prime ministers Narendra Modi, Yoshihide Suga and Scott Morrison. The leaders called their vision for the partnership “ambitious and far-reaching,” while China’s Foreign Ministry accused the group on Monday of “forming closed and exclusive cliques.” The post-summit communique didn’t mention the People’s Republic of China or include a direct rebuke of Beijing....

Yang Guang, a spokesperson for the Chinese State Council’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, expressed “deep indignation and strong condemnation” Monday at recent petrol bomb attacks that struck several police stations across Hong Kong, which has been hit by months of demonstrations against the city’s Beijing-backed government. He praised the performance of police, some of whom were reportedly injured in the attacks, and escalated the official rhetoric against the protests....

Insikt Group, a team of threat researchers under cybersecurity company Recorded Future, said it identified over 400 servers in the region that had communicated with custom malware families like Chinoxy and FunnyDream over the past nine months. Affected countries include Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. The malware compromised everything from militaries to central government offices. Insikt told the Associated Press it believes the targeting is state-sponsored because it “aligns with the political and economic goals of the Chinese government....

The privately run Hangzhou Safari Park concealed the escape for nearly three weeks to prevent negative publicity that could have affected its visitor numbers during last week’s May Day holiday, according to an announcement from the Fuyang District government. The park staff had initially denied reports any leopards had escaped, according to The Paper, a state-run online newspaper. It was not until a week after the animals were reportedly first spotted by local residents, and police began a subsequent investigation, that the park notified the public....

China remains one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest international allies amid the invasion, which drew large international rebuke when Putin launched his “special military operation” on the Eastern European country on February 24. More than seven months later, Putin’s military has struggled to achieve any substantial goals in the invasion, with Ukraine claiming to have retaken thousands of square miles of Russian-occupied territory. China Daily, a news website owned by the Chinese Communist Party, published an editorial on Sunday condemning the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for plans to conduct a nuclear “determent” exercise in late October amid rising nuclear tensions....

Li-Meng Yan, a former post-doctoral fellow at Hong Kong University who has spread theories about the origins of the virus via two non-peer reviewed papers, hit out at the social media giant Wednesday after it placed a fact-checking warning over a link to an interview she conducted with India-based news outlet WION in September. “Since when could Facebook judge the validity of scientific evidence?” Yan wrote after the news publication complained that its content had been censored....

MORE: Eagles best shot is Foles | Week 6 images WATCH: Nick Foles highlights Most onlookers suspected why, and Kelly confirmed it Monday. “Well, obviously, Tampa Bay is known for trying to attack and disrupt the snap, so it’s just something we worked on and talked about, tried to take him out of that element where they are not going to disrupt the center-quarterback exchange,’’ the Eagles head coach told reporters at practice....