Coronavirus: Brazil passes 100,000 deaths as outbreak shows no sign of easing
Brazil has recorded more 100,000 deaths linked to Covid-19, the world's second-highest figure, as the outbreak in the country shows no sign of easing.
The virus killed 50,000 people in three months, but that number doubled in just 50 days. There have been more than three million confirmed cases so far.
The pandemic is yet to peak but shops and restaurants have already reopened.
President Jair Bolsonaro has downplayed the impact of the virus and opposed measures that could hit the economy.
Belarus presidential challenger goes into hiding on eve of election
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is trying to unseat Alexander Lukashenko, fled her home after police detained staffers
Andrew Roth in Moscow and Yan Auseyushkin in Minsk
Published onSun 9 Aug 2020 11.23 BST
Belarus’s opposition candidate for president was forced to go into hiding the night before challenging the country’s longtime leader, Alexander Lukashenko, on Sunday in the country’s most dynamic election in a generation.
Candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya left her apartment after police detained two senior staffers and seven other campaign members in what they called an attempt to scare the opposition before the crucial vote. She was expected to re-emerge to vote on Sunday with an entourage of campaign staffers and journalists.
The "'Sputnik Moment"Cutting Corners in the Race for a Vaccine
Russia, China and India are racing to find a coronavirus vaccine. But international standards are not always being respected. Some researchers have even tested their remedies on themselves.
By Alexander Chernyshev, Wu Dandan, Georg Fahrion, Christina Hebel, Laura Höflinger und Bernhard Zand
When Alexander Ginzburg injected himself with the vaccine he developed, he hadn't even begun testing the substance on monkeys. That was four months ago, and Ginzburg, a microbiologist and director of the state-owned Gamaleya Institute in Moscow, says he is still feeling just fine. One hundred institute employees also agreed to be vaccinated. And all are still healthy.
Ginzburg is working on what is called a vector vaccine, which involves introducing genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus into a harmless carrier virus in order to trigger the human immune system to produce antibodies.
Europe stripped Africa of its artefacts
Sending the art home
President Macron promised that African artefacts, many seized by colonists, would be returned to their countries of origin. European museums and art dealers opposed that, so nothing has been sent back, and African art is still being stolen to order.
by Philippe Baqué
Thomas Bouli, spokesman for the Afrique Loire association, was allowed to address bidders before an auction of 300 African weapons and ritual objects in Nantes in March 2019. He told them, ‘You’ll get a receipt for your purchase, but all the people who made those objects got was death. France has just endorsed the principle of returning stolen or illicitly obtained African cultural artefacts. The objects presented here are part of that.’ The auctioneer then announced that 28 items from Benin were being withdrawn from sale, at the behest of France’s culture ministry of culture. Benin was the only African state to demand ‘restitution’ of objects from the auction after Nantes activists alerted it.
There's a gender gap in sports concussion research. Here's how Abby Wambach and other USWNT icons are trying to fix it
Abby Wambach had only one diagnosed concussion in her long and laureled career. It came in April 2013, two months before she broke Mia Hamm’s world record for national team goals for either gender.
Playing against the Washington Spirit with her Western New York Flash, Wambach took a vicious blow to the head when her own defender cleared the ball and clobbered her teammate from close range. Wambach crumpled to the ground and balled up, clutching her head. The referee waved off the Flash trainer, refusing the medical attention for a player who was obviously struggling. Wambach got up, and the game went on. When it ended, Wambach sank to her knees and mumbled incoherently before stumbling off the field.
Japan's coronavirus fatigue is fueling defiance in Tokyo, even as the case count rises
Updated 0349 GMT (1149 HKT) August 8, 2020
Ayumi Sato is trying to be careful. But she's had enough. Lockdown fatigue is setting in for Sato, a 34-year-old stock trader who lives in Tokyo, and she's not alone.
There's a tinge of defiance throughout the Japanese capital, where many feel their leaders have only done the bare minimum to stop the novel coronavirus pandemic.
"Yes, we should listen to the government," Sato said. "But we all have our own situations, we cannot always swallow whatever the government says. We cannot survive without working, we cannot stop going out altogether."
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