Новости за 24.03.2020

Officials in a North Carolina town said the Navy was called in to eject an unusual beach visitor -- a 1,000-pound ball of concrete believed to be a submarine training target.

Coronavirus cases in New York are doubling every three days, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged the federal government Tuesday to address a shortage of medical equipment to meet the surge.

Liver cancer is on the rise globally, despite advances aimed at preventing the disease, a new study has found.

An Italian priest's live streamed mass on Facebook went viral after the religious leader accidentally left the platform's AR filters active, causing him to appear in various cartoon disguises.

Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally died Tuesday of complications from coronavirus at age 81.

Six inmates were loose Tuesday after 14 inmates escaped a county jail in Washington state overnight.

In a newly published 1,089-page monograph, entomologists have detailed all of the known wasp species in the Microgastrinae subfamily, the most significant group of parasitoids targeting larvae of moths and butterflies.

Spanish soldiers have found multiple elderly people abandoned both alive and dead in nursing homes amid the coronavirus pandemic, the country's defense minister said Tuesday.

A French athlete whose racing plans were foiled by the coronavirus pandemic held his own marathon on his 23-foot-long balcony.

Residents at a nursing home in Wales passed the time during lockdown by adapting the board game Hungry Hungry Hippos into a life-sized competition with residents in wheelchairs playing the "hippos."

"The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show," a new sketch comedy series starring Iliza Shlesinger, will premiere April 1 on Netflix.

Former Wanna One member Kang Daniel released a video for "2U," a new single from his solo EP "Cyan."

Bright Eyes released on Tuesday their first new single in nine years titled "Persona Non Grata."

Bangladesh's government plans to temporarily release former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia from prison amid the coronavirus pandemic, the country's law minister said Tuesday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is to release radioactive wastewater off the coast of Japan "slowly for 30 years," according to a Japanese press report.

President Donald Trump has extended an October deadline for Americans to obtain driver's licenses or state identification cards that comply with the new Real ID credential for domestic flights because of the coronavirus.

Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian get in physical fights in a preview of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" Season 18.

Southwest Valley Constructors was awarded a $524 million contract modification this week for design and build of a section of wall along the U.S. Mexico border, the Department of Defense announced.

As schools worldwide have shifted to remote learning systems, new research Tuesday showed that past online graduates speak as positively about their experience than do those who attended physical classes.

An Internet service-finding website is offering someone $1,000 to spend their coronavirus quarantine time binging through the first two seasons of Netflix original series "Ozark."

Lady Gaga postponed her album "Chromatica" and shared how she had a secret Coachella set lined up prior to the coronavirus outbreak.

Manu Dibango, a jazz great who is best known for his 1972 hit song "Soul Makossa," has died at the age of 86 from COVID-19.

The Group of 7 finance ministers and central bank governors said after a meeting Tuesday they will continue to expand fiscal and monetary actions for as long as it takes to overcome the economic impact of the coronavirus

A Philadelphia store constructed a pulley machine outside of the building to keep shopping carts sanitized amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A restaurant in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang is under fire for what appears to have been a celebration of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, where more than 500 people have died.