FILE PHOTO: Gonzalo Acuna plays his accordion to lift his parents’ spirits after they starting practicing social isolation in their house to prevent themselves from catching the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Concepcion, Chile March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Luis Saavedra SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean musician Gonzalo Acuna knew a hug was out of the question as
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A Michelin-starred restaurant in Berlin forced to close its doors by the coronavirus lockdown has turned its culinary skills to helping to feed doctors, nurses, policemen and firefighters who cannot work from home. “We are doing ‘Cooking for heroes’, that means we are cooking for people in operational professions where it’s not
(This March 26 story corrects reporting credit) PARIS (Reuters) – An opera singer in Paris is giving daily concerts from his balcony window to lift his neighbors’ spirits during the nationwide lockdown enforced to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Opera tenor Stephane Senechal has taken to opening his windows and belting out classic songs
FILE PHOTO: 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards – Arrivals – Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 19, 2020 – Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. REUTERS/Monica Almeida LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson returned to Los Angeles on Friday after spending more than two weeks in quarantine in Australia after testing positive
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A global shortage of condoms is looming, the world’s biggest producer said, after a coronavirus lockdown forced it to shut down production. Malaysia’s Karex Bhd (KARE.KL) makes one in every five condoms globally. It has not produced a single condom from its three Malaysian factories for more than a week due
DAKAR (Reuters) – The mural stretched over 10 metres of wall in Senegal’s seaside capital Dakar shows a giant pair of hands reaching out for sanitiser, and a woman in hoop earrings and a facemask colored blue, red, gold and green. Serigne Boye aka Zeus, a graffiti artist from RBS crew works on his mural
BERLIN (Reuters) – Stick to a daily routine, stay connected with family and treat yourself occasionally – those are some of the tips German astronauts gave for surviving lockdown during the coronavirus crisis, which they said was much like their time in space. Thomas Reiter, 61, who was the first German astronaut to perform a
FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prince Harry and Jon Bon Jovi pose for a picture with choir members during a visit at Abbey Road Studios in London, Britain February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. rocker Jon Bon Jovi teamed up with Britain’s Prince Harry and a military choir to release the single “Unbroken”
Covid, a Bengal tiger cub, named after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, is pictured at the zoo in Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico March 25, 2020. Picture taken on March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Sofia Dorantes NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The rare birth of a baby tiger called “Covid” has brought a glimmer of hope
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jacob Kunthara’s wife and three adult children had never seen him without the mustache he sported for 45 years. During Coronavirus lockdown this week at home in Gilbert, Arizona, he shaved and covered up with a face mask, which he whipped off at dinner to shock his entire family. Selfies of
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin, wed on Wednesday at her family’s Australia Zoo, in an event that spurred online protest as it came just hours before a ban on ceremonies with more than two witnesses took effect. Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late Steve Irwin, poses at
MADRID (Reuters) – Andrea Chabant Sanchez, a Madrid-based publicist, normally travels to Paris once a month to see his girlfriend. In January he booked his flights through to July. Andrea Chabant Sanchez, 29, video-calls his girlfriend Emma, 24, from a park in Madrid while Emma is with her family in Normandy, France, January 30, 2020.
LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s oldest zoo is shut to the public for the first time since World War Two as London locks down because of the coronavirus pandemic, but for the roughly 18,000 animals housed there, life must go on. FILE PHOTO: Heidi the lion is seen during the annual stocktake at ZSL London
LONDON (Reuters) – Londoners have been struggling to get their food shopping done as panic buying triggered by the coronavirus crisis has emptied supermarket shelves, but some will soon be receiving food boxes prepared by a Michelin star-winning chef instead. Andrew Wong, Michelin starred chef at A. Wong, prepares food at his restaurant for the
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin, got married on Wednesday, Australian media said, in an event that spurred online protest as it came just hours before a ban on ceremonies with more than five people took effect. Australian adventurer Steve Irwin holds his four-year-old daughter Bindi aloft as
TORONTO (Reuters) – Acclaimed in song and on Twitter fan accounts, including a feed devoted to one official’s choice of scarves, Canada’s medical health officers have become a popular, comforting sight in daily coronavirus briefings and gained a celebrity-like following. FILE PHOTO: Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam attends a news conference as
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Americans are employing humor as a balm to soothe nerves during the coronavirus pandemic, flocking to new Instagram stars like Quentin Quarantino and sharing Facebook memes about taking off bras and pants and putting on weight in self-quarantine. Jonathan Jaffe poses for a photograph in his “man cave” at his Scotch
A model of a small-town railway station called Cheadle Hill, an OO gauge layout made by Paul Willard in his garage in Stockport, Britain, in this undated handout photo. PAUL WILLARD/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – The trains of Britain have been known to grind to a halt due to such minor hazards as leaves
PARIS (Reuters) – World-famous singer and saxophonist Manu Dibango has died from a coronavirus infection at the age of 86 in France, his management team said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Camoroonese musician Manu Dibango plays his saxaphone during French designer Sorbier’s Spring/Summer 2005 high fashion collection in Paris, January 26, 2005./File Photo “It is with
SYDNEY (Reuters) – As most shopping comes to a halt under shutdown rules meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus, an Australian book shop is getting its goods out by bicycle to readers in quarantine or reluctant to leave their homes. Book delivery cyclist Nerida Ross approaches a bike as Australian bookstores has begun
FILE PHOTO: A woman poses with the new comic book “Asterix chez les Pictes” (Asterix and the Picts), written by French author Jean-Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad, in front of a bookstore in Paris October 24, 2013. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier PARIS (Reuters) – Albert Uderzo, illustrator and co-creator of famous comic series “Asterix and
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As restaurants and bars across the United States shut their doors and lay off their staff in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, America’s famed service culture is moving online – with regulars paying their out-of-work waiters, favorite bar staff, and even total strangers via virtual tip jars. Ana Owens, who started
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An independent publisher released a memoir by movie director Woody Allen on Monday after it was dropped by another outlet following protests over a decades-old allegation that Allen molested his daughter. FILE PHOTO: Director Woody Allen arrives for a screening of the film “Wonder Wheel” in New York, U.S., November 14,
23 March 2020 – Golf instructor Pete Cowen told the Daily Telegraph in London that he has all the symptoms of coronavirus. Cowen, 69, hasn’t been tested despite having an ambulance come to his London home as his health worsened. “Low oxygen blood levels, high temperature, hot and cold shivers, racing heart rate, shortage of
FILE PHOTO: General view of a near deserted Regent Street as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues. London, Britain March 21, 2020 REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – London’s Time Out, a food, drink and entertainment listings magazine, has rebranded as Time In and stopped its print run after coronavirus forced its usual readers
FILE PHOTO: Charles Barkley, representing the 1992 United States Olympic “Dream Team” in the Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2010, speaks during the enshrinement news conference at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts August 13, 2010. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Charles Barkley: COVID-19 test negative Charles Barkley tested negative for COVID-19 after
(Reuters) – Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who is serving a prison sentence for sexual assault and rape, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the head of the state corrections officers union. Weinstein, 68, has been placed in isolation at Wende Correctional Facility, said Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional
(Reuters) – Grammy-winning country singer Kenny Rogers died late on Friday night at the age of 81, his family said on Saturday. The American singer “passed away peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family,” a statement on the singer’s website said. “The family is planning a
A combination picture shows residents posing on their balcony and the window of their homes with an object significant to them during the coronavirus lockdown imposed by the Belgian government in an attempt to slow down the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium March 19, 2020. Picture taken March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman BRUSSELS
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish singer Beatriz Berodia is helping to banish the coronavirus blues with a nightly concert from her balcony to entertain her neighbors in locked-down Madrid. Berodia, known as “Betta”, is acccompanied by her guitar-playing partner Andrea Capalbo on the adjacent balcony in the capital’s Lavapies district. A placard attached to the balcony
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