Crowded theme parks. Theaters packed with boisterous Marvel and Star Wars fans. Bustling hotels, cruise ships and retail stores. No media company seems more vulnerable to social distancing than Disney. Source: New feed

A nationalist tabloid controlled by the Chinese Communist Party has dismissed claims by the Trump administration that the novel coronavirus originated from a laboratory, as the war of words over the pandemic escalates between Washington and Beijing. Source: New feed

All of the defining images of the coronavirus pandemic seem to feature one thing: plastic. Source: New feed

Odd jobs on construction sites used to earn Takahashi enough money to pay for a private booth each night at one of Tokyo’s internet cafes. But Japan’s coronavirus lockdown not only cost him his work, it has temporarily closed the cafe that was his de facto home. Source: New feed

It came as close as possible to Canada’s Sandy Hook tragedy. On April 18, an unhinged man went on a 13-hour rampage in rural Nova Scotia and killed 22 people, including a veteran Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. It was the worst mass killing in Canadian history and shocked an already traumatized…

It may be some time before tourists are traveling the globe again. But what if you could travel through designated, approved parts of it? Source: New feed

Spaniards soaked up the sun this weekend as figures released by the country’s Ministry of Health on Sunday revealed just 164 new deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the lowest number in six weeks. Source: New feed

Russia reported 10,633 new cases of the coronavirus in another record single-day increase Sunday, bringing the total number to 134,687. Source: New feed

CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh looks into the UK’s initial response to Covid-19 and how that may have contributed to now having close to the worst death toll in Europe. Source: New feed

The fashion industry is starting to care about its role in the climate crisis. But rapid consumption and fast-changing trends are in direct tension retailers’ sustainability missions. Source: New feed