Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The number of coronavirus cases in Brazil have skyrocketed in recent weeks, pushing many hospitals to the brink and prompting health experts to warn that the country is on its way to becoming the next global hotspot while cases plateau in other hard-hit countries. The ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.  Sign up here. Britain will have done “very well” to keep deaths from coronavirus below 20,000, a senior health official said Saturday The U.K.’s total fatalities crept past 1,000 on Saturday, with reports saying 260 people died in the past 24 hours. CLICK HERE FOR FULL CORONAVIRUS ...

An explosive winter storm roared across Britain on Sunday, packing high winds and heavy rain that prompted a record number of flood warnings in England. The Met Office, Britain’s meteorological service, said Storm Dennis was expected to dump 5 1/2 inches of rain in south Wales before gradually easing. The weather service issued a rare “red warning” for life-threatening flooding in that region. Numerous rescues ...

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May talks to journalists after her meeting with European Council President Donald Tusk at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) “America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier.” That’s what allied and axis fighters called Britain during World War II. The United Kingdom remains as vital to American security today as it was ...

“NO ONE buys furniture in a crisis,” laments Konstantinos Vourvoulakis. He and his father used to sell handmade furniture, but as customers became strapped for cash, they shut up shop in 2014. A chatty man with a sunny disposition, he started driving a taxi instead, ferrying tourists around Athens and offering travel tips. But he doubts he will be able ...

IT IS the summer of 1979 and Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the everyman-hero of John Updike’s series of novels, is running a car showroom in Brewer, Pennsylvania. There is a pervasive mood of decline. Local textile mills have closed. Gas prices are soaring. No one wants the traded-in, Detroit-made cars clogging the lot. Yet Rabbit is serene. His is a Toyota ...

IN THE tiny Croatian town of Zabok patients arrive in their thousands each year from across Europe and the Middle East, seeking replacement hips or knees at the St Catherine hospital, which specialises in orthopaedic work. Some come for treatment they cannot get at home, others to escape long waiting-lists for public health care or high prices for private operations. ...

THE maelstrom that hit global financial markets a decade ago is known in Japan as the Lehman Shock, after the bankruptcy of the American investment bank that caused it. Japanese banks themselves escaped relatively unscathed, owing to defences built during the 1990s, when the country struggled with deflation and excessive debt. But they seem to have forgotten the lesson. Risk-taking ...