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Star Wars actor Andrew Jack has died in Britain as a result of the coronavirus, his agent said on Wednesday. He was 76.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,500 Tuesday, eclipsing China's official count.

It may be possible for the novel coronavirus to transmit through the air, a new study released over the weekend suggests.

Healthcare staff at Sant Joan de Deu thanked their non-healthcare colleagues with a round of applause for their hard work amid coronvirus pandemic.

A Dutch museum that is currently closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus says a painting by Vincent van Gogh was stolen in a raid overnight.

The Tokyo Olympics will open next year in the same time slot scheduled for this year's games.

A Dutch cruise liner announced the death of four of its passengers Friday who apparently contracted COVID-19 aboard the ship. 

Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The head of the World Health Organization said the COVID-19 outbreak is accelerating.

Both Italy and the U.S. were on track to surpass China in the number of reported COVID-19 cases.

Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent and private investigator who disappeared from an Iranian island in 2007, is believed to have died in Iranian custody, his family revealed in a statement Wednesday.

The coronavirus is waging a war of attrition against health care workers throughout the world.

Prince Charles, the heir to the crown of the United Kingdom, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The World Health Organization says infections and deaths globally from the new coronavirus are expected to increase “considerably” when global figures are published later Tuesday.

Staff at a Welsh nursing home organized a life-size version of the classic tabletop game Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Italy overtakes China as country with most coronavirus-related deaths, registering 3,405 dead

A 37-year-old woman who flew from Los Angeles to Beijing last week before testing positive for coronavirus could reportedly face up to seven years in prison in China for allegedly hiding her symptoms.

Last month, Wuhan was overwhelmed with thousands of new cases of coronavirus each day. But in a dramatic development that underscores just how much the outbreak has pivoted toward Europe and the United States, Chinese authorities said Thursday that the city and its surrounding province had no new cases to report.

The number of people infected worldwide crested the 200,000 mark and deaths topped 8,000, with the number of people now recovered at more than 82,000, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.