Americans Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson, both of Stanford University, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their research into auction theory, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

India became the second country after the United States to record over 7 million Covid-19 cases on Sunday, as the pandemic continues to spread across the South Asian nation at a rapid pace.

The South Korean military said on Saturday that North Korean authorities had staged a large military parade, apparently to mark the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party.

The number of new infections with the coronavirus in Europe has climbed above the 100,000 mark for the first time, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO).

The European Commission said on Thursday it had secured additional supplies of the antiviral drug remdesivir, approved to treat Covid-19, for up to 500,000 patients.

Research into genome editing — a method of “rewriting the code of life” known as CRIPSR-Cas9 — garnered the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.

The Italian government on Wednesday made it compulsory to wear face masks outdoors as part of new containment measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Op-ed by Olivér Várhelyi, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement