Forced to remain at sea to keep global trade flowing, thousands of seafarers are waiting for a chance to return home. But as stress and fatigue mount, who will let them disembark?
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are advocating a tough stance on China in their campaign ads. But the urgent need to restore economic growth may keep them restrained.
Scientists around the world are racing to develop a vaccine for Covid-19. But in China they face an unexpected hurdle: there are not enough patients to test it on.
The US and China are using the coronavirus pandemic to score points rather than come together to fight it. Arguments over the World Health Organization exemplify this tension.
French scientists sequenced coronavirus genomes in the country and found that the outbreak in France was unlikely to have come from people who had recently visited China or Italy.