Tuesday Trends

Rodrigo’s comments to Spanish television channel TVE come after the top health official in the Valencia region said Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini “lacked responsibility” for traveling to Spain with symptoms of the coronavirus.

The NBA has agreed a plan for its return to action, with games played at Walt Disney World Resort subject to an agreement being reached.

Coco Gauff, the 16-year-old US tennis rising star, delivered a powerful speech in Delray Beach, Florida, demanding social justice.

Germany’s eRockit puts its pedal-controlled electric motorcycle to the test on the famed highway with Sebastian “Satu” Kopke.

Unless you’re happy to upgrade your lounge room as often as you upgrade your smartphone, you need to make peace with home theatre ‘fear of missing out’.

The state of Ohio, the city of Cleveland, San Bernardino County in California, and other jurisdictions in the country are all at some stage of formally declaring racism a public health issue in their regions. The motion may not pass everywhere, but it is a sign of a change in how we view racism that may lead to positive change.

Rev. George Hargreaves, an Oxford-educated minister in Great Britain, was being repeatedly shunned at work for his biblical beliefs on sexuality. Now an appeals tribunal has taken his side.

Today is the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This year, the Chinese government is repressing the annual vigil in Hong Kong.

A school security guard injured at least 39 people in a knife attack at a kindergarten in southern China on Thursday morning, state media reported. The motive remains unknown. 

The British medical journal The Lancet announced Thursday it has retracted a study that claimed that COVID-19 patients who took hydroxychloroquine had a higher mortality rate and increased heart problems compared with those who did not take it, stating that the authors were “unable to complete an independent audit of the data underpinning their analysis.”

Over the weekend, a top medical official in Italy said the novel coronavirus — the illness that locked down much of the U.S. for three months — is losing its potency and is no longer nearly as lethal as it once was.

President Donald Trump called upon the nations of the world to end religious persecution on Tuesday.  

The significant rise in daily count was a result of Maharashtra, India’s worst-affected state, again reporting a high number of cases after a 3-day ease. The state has seen 77,793 total cases so far, along with 2,710 deaths. India’s daily case count yesterday was the third highest in the world, more than that reported by Russia.

The medical journal retracted the study after the paper’s authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying data.

A Chinese group known as Hurricane Panda targeted Trump campaign staffers while an Iranian outfit known as Charming Kitten had attempted to breach accounts of Biden campaign workers. Such phishing attempts typically involve forged emails with links designed to harvest passwords or infect devices with malware, Google said.

While China reaps advantages from US markets, the Chinese government has consistently prevented Chinese companies and companies with significant operations in China from abiding by the investor protections that apply to all companies listing on US stock exchanges, Trump alleged.

​​The data has been released after a strongly-worded directive from Central Information Commission (CIC) following a complaint by Right to Information (RTI) activist Venkatesh Nayak. ​​The chief labour commissioner had initiated this enumeration exercise during Lockdown 1.0 with lakhs of labourers trying to get back to their native villages.

“The government is trying to justify the privatisation of PSUs as it needs money to run the government machinery,” the BMS said. “It has no moral right or authority to sell national assets created by its predecessors,” the trade union added.