Mega-companies like Facebook and Google will now have to share advertising revenues with media companies in Australia. Australia would now have a compulsory code of conduct for such digital companies.

As COVID-19 truncates media profits, Australia orders digital platforms to split revenue

As coronavirus appears to have peaked in major countries of the world, the global health infrastructure now faces a new challenge: reinfections! In South Korea alone, over 163 people who had recovered from the virus have now contracted it again, as per data released by Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).

As coronavirus reinfections surface across countries, what threats do such lapses pose?

Turns out, farts are capable of spreading the novel coronavirus, which continues to kill thousands globally everyday. The virus was discovered in the faeces of more than 50 per cent patients who tested positive for coronavirus.

Could farts transmit COVID-19?

The relationship between North Korea and the United States continues to sour, with both sides issuing constant threats and statements against each other, especially with Donald Trump in power.

North Korea denies sending a 'nice note' to Donald Trump

As the novel coronavirus wreaks havoc across the globe, countries with excess supplies have stepped up humanitarian efforts to ease the global pressure. Be it India sending medicines like paracetamol across the world, or the Chinese mass-producing face masks.

We don't take advice from Americans: Iran rejects Trump's offer of ventilators

Chabahar Port is the link that has helped India in sending its humanitarian aid of 5022 MT wheat consignment to Afghanistan deal during the coronavirus pandemic.

Chabahar plays a central role as India's wheat aid all set to reach Afghanistan

The rush to understand, predict and head off the COVID-19 outbreak has prompted researchers worldwide to create several tools to detect the virus and has driven them to analyse hundreds of ways to avoid the virus.

Cough against COVID? Yes, this app tests you for coronavirus through the sound of you coughing

With the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of slowing its spread, governments across the world are trying to use mobile technology to trace people thought to have the virus.

What is coronavirus contact-tracing technology and how does it work?

While the death toll is rising due to COVID-19, China’s economy is now feeling the effects. It has contracted by 6.8 percent, for the first time in more than 40 years.

How is the Chinese economy's shrinkage reconfiguring the global economy?

Economic activity has come to a grinding halt around the world. India too, is reeling for the ill-effects of coronavirus-induced slowdown. India could grow by less than two percent this year.

Coronavirus could push India closer to a recession: More so than previously thought

In a bid to kick start the economy, Amazon has started to develop a test for COVID-19. In his annual letter, CEO Jeff Bezos said that “regular testing will both help keep people safe and help get the economy back up and running.

Amazon to develop COVID-19 test for screening employees

Kim Jong-Un absent on country’s most important holiday: Precaution or doom? North Korea’s most important holiday - the Day of the Sun falls on April 15, in honour of the country’s founding father Kim II Sung.

Kim Jong Un absent on North Korea’s most important holiday: Precaution or doom?

China had recently employed thermal imaging technology to find coronavirus symptoms among patients. According to Tech Crunch, the could soon be makings its way to the United States.

New thermal scanning tech could save millions of lives during the COVID-19 crisis

Belarus has a peculiar problem - the President Alexander Lukashenko refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of COVID-19, along the lines of Brazilian, Mexican, and American leaders.

As Belarus' president calls coronavirus 'psychosis', organisations step-up mobilisation efforts

Did former United States President Barack Obama predict the seriousness of a potential outbreak? Turns out, the Obama administration had been pushing for a universal healthcare infrastructure to globally deal with a potentially “air borne” pandemic, similar to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

Did former United States President Barack Obama predict the seriousness of a coronavirus-like pandemic in 2014?

For the second year in a row, Twitter CEO and billionaire Jack Dorsey has taken a salary of $.140. Recently, the CEO had announced to donate $1 billion towards coronavirus relief.

Twitter CEO Dorsey takes a salary of $1.40 - second year in a row!

China has the knowledge and the techniques to manufacture new viruses and animal models to test the ability of those new viruses to infect humans. The question remains – is the Chinese virus, COVID-19, the cause of the global pandemic, a naturally-occurring coronavirus that 'jumped' from bats to humans within the Wuhan Seafood Market as China claims or did it 'leak' from a Chinese laboratory either as a yet unknown bat viral isolate stored there or as a man-made virus?

China, coronavirus and the weaponisation of medical science

Wuhan's 'wet markets' struggle after virus lockdown

Now there are reports of a second coronavirus wave in China even as the country has been claiming victory over COVID-19. Also Read: How China deceived WHO chief Tedros over coronavirus The city of Sui Fen He is being called the new epicenter, the new Wuhan A third of China's post-Wuhan cases have reportedly come from this city.

As COVID-19 cases dip in Wuhan, another city in China on coronavirus alert

Angry Trump denies plan to axe coronavirus doctor but signals new fights Trump, who on Sunday fueled speculation by retweeting a critical comment with the hashtag #FireFauci, sought to draw a line under the latest White House turmoil.

Morning news brief: IMF approves debt relief for poor countries, France extends lockdown and more

The recent report about People’s Bank of China (PBoC) buying stake in HDFC Limited shouldn’t come as a surprise; off late Chinese investors have been buying up strategically small stakes in Indian companies especially startup’s; the startups need funding and for them, it’s easy to access to much-needed capital.

Explained: Why Chinese firms are exploring investment opportunities in India

The world has admired the Narendra Modi government’s handling of the Wuhan virus threat. A near prompt national lockdown of over three weeks has limited the number of those infected to a few thousand, and those killed by the virus to under 300 at this point.

Coronavirus outbreak: India shows economic common sense

Amid reports of Africans being discriminated in China's Guangzhou over the spread of coronavirus, the foreign ministry said that all "quarantine measures were taken according to relevant laws.

Quarantine measures taken according to law, says China amid racism row against Africans in Guangzhou

Coronavirus outbreak: Global cases cross 1,800,000; death toll rises to 114,247 The epicentre of the pandemic has shifted twice, first from China to Europe, and then from Europe to North America.

Morning news brief:  Global cases surpass 18 lacs, US could start reopening in May and more

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