![]() Russian figure skating star Elizaveta Tuktamysheva didn’t waste any time during the coronavirus lockdown, creating a program in close cooperation with fans which was finally approved by her famed coach Alexei Mishin. | ![]() Brent crude broke the $41 per barrel threshold for the first time since early March, while US crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was up almost two percent on Friday ahead of a meeting of leading oil producers. | ![]() The Iranian foreign minister said that people on Trump’s team have been steering the US towards more conflict with Tehran, including scrapping the nuclear deal and undermining peaceful gestures, like the recent prisoner swap. | ![]() Spain plans to further ease the coronavirus lockdown in its two biggest cities from Monday, but will not start reopening its borders to foreign tourists before July 1, according to the government. | ![]() A fire ripped through an Amazon warehouse in Redlands, California, with work trucks also set ablaze, briefly closing a nearby highway.Video from the scene shows smoke billowing out of the fulfillment center, and fire engulfing multiple Amazon trailers and trucks outside the building. | ![]() Project Veritas has released new “undercover footage” from its investigation into the controversial Antifa (anti-fascist) movement which shows organizers schooling newbies on violent tactics to deploy during riots. | ![]() Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Each episode will be recorded in Alan Partridges shed, which he calls is Oasthouse.Steve Coogan will again take on the role of the Norwich-based DJ for an 18-part series titled From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast. | ![]() Investment firms are sitting on “a staggering amount of dry powder” as they wait for big property discounts brought on by the pandemic. | ![]() Coursera, based in Mountain View, Calif., is one of the big online learning networks, known as MOOCs, started nearly a decade ago as university experiments. | ![]() Finding work for a generation has become a major priority for the country’s leaders, who have promised a better life in exchange for a lack of political freedom.Applicants reading recruitment information last month at a job fair in Wuhan, China, the city where the coronavirus outbreak originated. | ![]() The almost empty Khaosan Road, which is usually crowded with tourists, in Bangkok, Thailand.Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday extended an emergency decree to fight the coronavirus until June 30. | ![]() NATO has ignored Moscow’s proposal to jointly put military exercises on hold while the world is dealing with the deadly Covid-19 pandemic. Russia said it can’t afford “unilateral concessions” to the Western bloc. | ![]() Top policymakers warn that the economy is likely to weaken before a turnaround begins. The unemployment rate will hit 15 percent, the Congressional Budget Office predicts. Mnuchin and Powell Address the Future of the U.S. | ![]() If only SoulCycle had been able to get its highly anticipated exercise bike to market in time to meet the demand of its enthusiastic (bordering on obsessive) riders, who because of the coronavirus pandemic have been unable to go to any of the company’s 99 studios, closed since March. | ![]() British aerospace giant Rolls-Royce has announced it will cut at least 9,000 jobs from its workforce in the face of the major impending contraction in the aviation market in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. | ![]() It’s time for Russia to move away from oil and reduce its dependency on oil prices. That’s according to Anatoly Chubais, the CEO of technology company Rusnano and former deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin. | ![]() The coronavirus pandemic has dragged the world kicking and screaming into anunprecedented era of social distancing, with videoconferencing only thingconnecting us. But it too has entered some pretty macabre territory of late. | |
