With new cases confirmed in Brazil (marking the first in Latin America), Algeria, and hundreds more across South Korea and Europe, at least 23 new cases in Australia and others in the Middle East, the virus has now reached every continent except Antarctica. The deadly virus, which was first identified in Wuhan city of the Hubei province of China, has infected at least 81,109 people globally, around 78,191 of whom are in China, with at least 2,718 deaths reported in the country, according to a February 26 report by the World Health Organization (WHO)....

But no money from lobbyists or the oil and gas industry, please. The donation page that launched this week has a disclaimer saying that the inauguration committee “does not accept contributions from fossil fuel companies (i.e., companies whose primary business is the extraction, processing, distribution or sale of oil, gas or coal), their executives, or from PACs organized by them.” The committee also bars contributions from “lobbyists registered under the Lobbying Disclosure Act” or from “foreign agents registered under the Foreign Agent Registration Act....

Almost two-thirds of employees have reportedly reduced their short and long-term savings contributions since the start of the year, with a third having reduced their 401(k) contributions, blaming financial instability in the U.S. A study by Morgan Stanley at Work showed that over a quarter of workers have cut down on their debt repayments to afford the cost of living rises, while almost one in six employees cut back on their college savings funds....

After lunch, he’ll strap on his Robin Hood leathers and scarves to resume shooting the Morgan Creek/Warner Bros. movie in a damp forest outside London. But for the moment, he’s still in jeans and two-tone cowboy boots, sipping a glass of milk and reveling in the strangeness of life. “People were really poised to kill me on this movie,” says Costner of his directorial debut. But while nobody has elevated him to the status of living hero, his engrossing epic has proven him to be a serious–and seriously entertaining–filmmaker....

Taz James said Tuesday that Durant should have asked him for permission before getting the tattoo. “Durant, I appreciate you showing my pops love and everything, but we’re going to have to talk about that,” James told TMZ. “Because I’m the new Rick James — so you’ve got to get permission, big boy.” In addition to being the son of a musical legend, James is also friends with Lil B, the same rapper who “cursed” Durant while he was a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder....

Experts worry that detailed and sometimes grisly media and Internet reports of celebrity suicides can inspire at-risk people to copy the likes of Cobain. They say the way we talk about suicide can make a big difference in the way that those who are vulnerable, especially young people, respond to a highly publicized incident. To find out what both the press and families can do to prevent this phenomenon, NEWSWEEK’s Karen Springen talks to Portland, Maine, suicide researcher Loren L....

Abramson’s alleged ethical breach was exposed almost by accident. It came two weeks ago during the penalty phase of the trial, when the jury determines the punishment. While cross-examining Dr. William Vicary, Erik’s psychiatrist, prosecutor David Conn realized for the first time that his notes of Erik’s jailtime psychiatric sessions were different from Vicary’s. When asked about the discrepancies, Vicary told the court that he had deleted passages under pressure by the defense....

“Can someone get that f****** idiot off the stage,” Prine’s wife tweeted Tuesday during the first presidential debate. “My husband died on his watch.” Prine, known for such songs as “Sam Stone,” “Hello in There” and “Angel From Montgomery,” was first hospitalized with the virus in March and was in intensive care at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He died about a month later in April, from COVID-19 complications, at age 73, his family told Rolling Stone....

In a viral Reddit post published on r/AmITheA******, Redditor u/thatemobemo (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) said she and her husband strictly prohibit surprise visits by family members and detailed the heated aftermath of their decision not to budge when her in-laws showed up unannounced. Titled, “[Am I the a******] for making my in laws leave?” the post has received over 7,000 upvotes and more than 1,500 comments since November 1....

Michael and Teresa Lye did try to tame the Virginia creeper when they first moved into their home in southeast London, nearly four decades ago. But over the years, they have simply stopped trying and are now content to let it grow, asking a relative over infrequently to prune the leaves covering the windows. The plant, also known as five-leaved ivy, is somewhat of a local attraction—with people regularly stopping to take photos....

Documents filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court and obtained by Omnisport deny any wrongdoing on Rose’s part and ask that the civil lawsuit filed by the woman in August be dismissed. MORE: Derrick Rose confident he’ll be cleared of allegations The initial complaint alleges that Rose and childhood friends Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen drugged the plaintiff — who had been in a relationship with Rose — at the player’s Beverly Hills home in an attempt to get her to have sex with more than one of them after she had resisted Rose’s requests “to involve others in their sex life....

The court denied Marina Litvinenko’s request that she receive “punitive” damages for the death of her husband, Alexander Litvinenko, but it directed Russia to provide her the euro equivalent of $117,000 in damages and $26,400 in costs, for a total of $143,400. Alexander Litvinenko had served as an agent for the KGB, the Soviet Union’s top security agency, and its successor, the FSB. He defected in 2000 from Russia and traveled to London, where he worked on revealing corruption and connections to organized crime in Russia’s intelligence service, the AP said....

Jackson County Judge John McBain was reprimanded by the Michigan Court of Appeals’ ruling on the case of Dawn Marie Dixon-Bey, a 49-year-old woman convicted of fatally stabbing her boyfriend on Valentine’s Day in 2015. Dixon-Bey said she acted in self-defense. “If a trial judge is unable to follow the law as determined by a higher appellate court, the trial judge is in the wrong line of work,” the appeals court said in its opinion, which followed a previous reprimand for how McBain handled the case by overturning the Court of Appeals ruling....

After the city detected its first case of the highly transmissible variant on Saturday, The Beijing News said at least 27 anal tests had been administered in the apartment complex where the infected woman lives. Health workers also conducted extensive environmental swabs to trace the source of the transmission, the newspaper reported. China has deployed anal swabs in major cities including Beijing and Shanghai since 2020. In the capital, the method was used in combination with antibody tests as well as throat and nasal swabs to screen millions last winter....

For years, China has insisted that the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity are sacrosanct. It’s an argument it applies to independence-minded regions under its control, like Tibet, and extends to territories it wants to control, like Taiwan. It’s perhaps why Beijing, despite its close ties to Moscow, hasn’t recognized Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and isn’t likely to make an exception for the self-declared breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, even if they eventually vote to join the Russian Federation....

Data released Monday by China’s General Administration of Customs showed Chinese exports witnessed their biggest boom in nearly three years last month, growing 21.1% as compared to November of last year. The result was valued at some $268 billion, the largest export sales ever recorded by China in a single month, raising the country’s trade surplus to $75.42 billion – more than double the figure from this same time last year....

China’s Wuhan Institute of Biological Products and the Beijing Institute of Biological Products announced they are entering Phase II of clinical trials, in which 2,000 volunteers received vaccinations last week. A May 29 post on the Chinese social media platform WeChat highlighted the country’s researchers having five coronavirus vaccines currently in human testing trials. As Reuters reported Saturday, the Chinese labs are working under the direction of the Communist Party of China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)....

Former NFL quarterback Ron Jaworski and coach Dick Vermeil are part of a group that is launching the China Arena Football League (CAFL) in October. The new league has the approval of the Chinese government. MORE: NFL backup QB rankings “This will be China’s first ever professional league of American-style football, played by the best players in the world,” said David Niu, president of AFL Global, the founding corporation headquartered in Conshohocken, Pa....

In a post on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo, the model, under the username of Cai Niangniang, decried the personal backlash she received for her involvement and said that she felt “really helpless.” “Just because my eyes are small, I’m not good enough to be a Chinese person? I don’t know what to say to these comments,” she wrote. Critics had accused the model of spreading the Western “slanted eyes” stereotype in the Three Squirrels ad for noodle products on its Weibo account....

Vicious Zlatan could cost Man Utd dear Former Chelsea midfielder Oscar continues to impress in the fledgling stages of his Shanghai career, playing a key role in three goals as Andre Villas-Boas’ first CSL game at the helm ended in an emphatic win. Fabio Cannavaro’s debut in the Tianjin Quanjian dugout did not prove as fruitful, though, his side losing 2-0 to Guangzhou R&F. In Saturday’s other fixture, Shandong Luneng left it late to secure a 2-0 victory over Tianjin Teda....