Lucas talks about his name, being born in France, living in LA for five years, making Ticket to Paradise with George Clooney and Julia Roberts, being quarantined in Australia, doing a kissing scene with Julia Roberts, and pranking George Clooney on set.

BANGKOK (AP) — A hoped-for boom in Chinese tourism in Asia over next week’s Lunar New Year holidays looks set to be more of a blip as most travelers opt to stay inside China if they go anywhere. From the beaches of Bali to Hokkaido’s powdery ski slopes,...

Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that have scaled back their pandemic-era expansions.

BAZHOU, China (AP) — Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all hosp...

No new fatalities reported this week, despite numerous reports of overloaded hospitals and crematoriums

Cases were exploding in China well before the government's decision to abandon its strict "zero-COVID" policy, the director said, quashing suggestions that the sudden reversal caused a spike.

STROMBOLI volcano erupted on Sunday (October 9) morning, unleashing a dramatic plume of smoke and a lava flow that reached the sea. No casualties or damage were reported. The Stromboli volcano, located in southern Italy off the Sicilian coast, is one of t...

ME/CFS, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a severe neuroimmunological disease. Not much is known about the disease, and there is virtually no treatment. Howeve...

Many people may never be able to put the pandemic behind them. They have long Covid, a catch-all term for illness that lingers long after a Covid-19 infectio...

China's central bank ealier today trimming lending rates for the second time this year, taking its key rate down ten points to 2.75 percent. That as latest economic data showed there was need for more stimulus to support the economy. Retail sales and indu...

US president Joe Biden made the latest in a long line of gaffes when he got stuck in his jacket and was forced to ask Jill for help. The First Lady had to step in and help her husband get hold of the jacket’s sleeve which was blowing away in the wind caus...

The pandemic has radically changed the world as we know it, and the actions we take today, as we work to recover, will define our generation. It’s why the World Economic Forum is calling for a new form of capitalism, one that puts people and planet first,...

Coming just three months after an outbreak was acknowledged, the boast is widely disputed

Around 80,000 tourists have been left stranded in a resort city popularly known as China's Hawaii after a Covid-19 flare-up led authorities to impose strict travel restrictions. Tourism hotspot Sanya is a city of more than a million people on the southern...

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