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Luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton's parent firm LVMH, which also owns champagne brand Moet & Chandon, watchmaker Tag Heuer, and jewelry company Bulgari, has announced that it will shift from perfume production to hand sanitizer manufacturing due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the products being made available for free to France's health authorities.

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Microsoft's chat and communications software, Team, crashed for European users due to the load caused by most European businesses encouraging employees to work from home, and schools utilizing the service for online classes. Users experienced trouble signing in and sending messages, with the problem being resolved by Microsoft in about two hours.

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The United Nations has estimated that close to half a billion students all over the world are unable to go to school due to closures prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Bahrain reporting its first death from the coronavirus, also marking the first death in the Gulf states. More than 100 people have died of the coronavirus in Iran over the past 24 hours.

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Donald Glover, whose rapper alter-ego Childish Gambino won the Grammy award for song and record of the year with This is America before he retired it in 2018, has released a surprise album titled Donald Glover Presents, featuring 21 Savage, Ariana Grande, and SZA. The album was only available on the website donaldgloverpresents.com for about 12 hours before mysteriously disappearing from it.

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Amidst climbing mortgage rates and widespread economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fed has decided to make dramatic changes in its policies, cutting interest rates to zero and investing 200 billion USD in mortgage-backed bonds to stabilize the spike in mortgage prices last week, as part of a 700 billion USD financial package to ease the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.

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The public education firm Scholastic has made up to three hours of daily courses on its website free for schoolchildren who are stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Scholastic's Learn From Home section will allow students to choose from four categories: Pre-K and kindergarten, Grades 1 and 2, Grades 3-5 and Grade 6+, with free content available for a week, with 15 more days on the way.

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Coronavirus cases in India are rising as the total number of cases crossed 110 on Sunday. The union health ministry announced that Maharashtra reported 12 fresh cases in a single day. Two deaths confirmed in Delhi and Karnataka. The total number of cases in Maharashtra reached 32 followed by 22 in Kerala and 14 in Haryana

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Hollywood actress Olga Kurylenko, best known for her starring role in 2008' 'Quantum of Solace' has announced that she has tested positive for the coronavirus. She doesn't appear to be filming any movies at the moment and it is unclear where in the world she has quarantined herself. She asked her fans to get tested and take the virus seriously.

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Football star Wayne Rooney has said that professional footballers are being treated as guinea pigs for the coronavirus as it took a long time for football to be suspended. It was only after Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta tested positive for the virus that the sport was canceled. He said that the delay was because of all the money that is involved in the sport.

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The UK's Department for Transport has announced that it is reviewing new policies regarding electric scooters and medical deliveries via drones. These scooters were previously banned in most UK cities but may be coming back as the government looks at greener transport alternatives. They are also looking at other new innovative modes of transport.

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US President Donald Trump has said that Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently called him to apologize and that Google has substantiated his earlier comments about a coronavirus testing website. Although Alphabet did say in an earlier statement that the site is not as Trump described, Trump has said that this statement was fake news.

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Movie ticket sales in North America have dropped to their lowest point in the last 2 years this weekend as the coronavirus takes hold of the continent. Ticket sales only generated $55.3 million in total over the weekend as many people have chosen to stay at home and cinemas have been forced to limit seating capacity.

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The Chinese government has started a number of new data collection campaigns to help them keep track of the coronavirus epidemic. Citizens are being asked to fill out surveys and have their temperature taken at various travel centers around the country. This data collection may help the government find infected people much faster.

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The President of Mexico has been holding large public rallies where he is in close proximity to a large number of people, despite warnings from his health ministry. Mexico now has a few cases of the virus and the health ministry has encouraged people to engage in social distancing to prevent the spread.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he will not rule out shutting down the country's borders in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Canada currently has 313 confirmed cases and just one death that has been caused by the virus but many fear a spike in cases will occur in the near future.

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Democratic Presidential hopeful Joe Biden has recently announced that he will pick a female running mate if he is nominated for the 2020 US election. He also said that he will pick the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. He made both of these statements during his one on one debate against Bernie Sanders.

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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has managed to raise around $2 million in funding on Kickstarter. The game will be a top-down adventure RPG that will use the same systems as Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the previous game in the series. Although Kingmaker was only able to raise $800,000 on Kickstarter around 3 years ago.

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For the second Sunday this month, Pope Francis delivered his Sunday blessings in front of an eerily empty St. Peter’s Square in Vatican city amid Coronavirus outbreak in Europe. Normally, Tens of thousands of followers gather at St. Peter’s Square every Sunday to seek blessings, but this time it was a different picture from the square. Pope praised medical staff and volunteers helping people in these difficult times.

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After the UK-based financially strained airline Flybe went out of business last week amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic, other UK airlines such as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have stated that the economic fallout caused by the travel restrictions necessitated by the COVID-19 outbreak may drive them bankrupt unless the government provides emergency financial support. The UK government has stated that it is considering releasing emergency funds to these airlines.

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Phone sanitization company PhoneSoap, which uses UV light to eliminate germs accumulated on users' phones, has recorded more than 20 times the orders it usually receives due to the coronavirus outbreak, though it is not yet clear if the PhoneSoap device kills the COVID-19 virus. The company has stated that it hopes the pandemic encourages people to be more mindful of phone hygiene in the future.

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Punctuated by the severe disruption of life in the US caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and his rival and current front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden engaged in the last Democratic debate before the party needs to decide on its nominee for the 2020 presidential elections. Biden has emerged as the clear favorite after sweeping recent primaries, finishing far ahead of second-place Sanders.

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Amid the global economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Saudi state-owned oil company Aramco, currently the most valuable company in the world, has announced that it will miss its first profit targets as a publicly listed company. CEO Amin Nasser also stated that the company will restrict its capital spending in 2020 due to Saudi Arabia's ongoing oil price war with Russia.

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The governments of the UAE, Saudi Arabia , and Egypt have announced massive stimulus packages for their countries to combat the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, with the UAE authorities announcing 27 billion USD to help businesses stay afloat, Saudi Arabia committing to 13 billion USD, and Egyptian President announcing 6 billion USD to combat the COVID-19 infection.

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Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese online retail giant Alibaba, has announced that he is sending a consignment of two million face masks and medical equipment to Belgium to help European governments in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The first consignment of 500,000 masks will head to Italy, with Ma also committing to provide 500,000 testing kits and a million masks for the coronavirus effort in the US.

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Portuguese Juventus F.C star football player and one of the world's most well-paid athletes, Cristiano Ronaldo has offered his chain of 4-star hotels in Portugal as hospitals for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes his 4-star hotel in Funchal, located in his native island of Madeira, and in the capital city Lisbon. Ronaldo has isolated himself in his home in Madeira to be close to his mother.

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