For much of the spring, infections were below the 5,000 mark.
Market benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul retreated. Sydney gained.
It's been 55 agonising years for England through 26 World Cups and European Championship tournaments, seven of which they didn't even qualify for.
The global death toll from Covid-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant
Japan is set to place Tokyo under a state of emergency that would last through the Olympics, fearing an ongoing Covid-19 surge will multiply during the Games
Chinese authorities locked down a city bordering Myanmar on Wednesday, shutting most businesses and requiring residents to stay at home as a fresh outbreak of Covid-19 expanded
The fencing installed around the Capitol after the deadly January 6 insurrection will start being removed as soon as Friday, but most visitors are still not allowed inside the iconic building
Haiti's police chief says four suspected killers of President Jovenel Moise have been fatally shot by police and two others arrested in an apparent hostage-taking situation
England has broken through its semifinal ceiling at major soccer tournaments. A title match awaits for the first time in 55 years
Former South African president Jacob Zuma turned himself over to police early Thursday to begin serving a 15-month prison term
Oregon's death toll from last weekend's record-smashing Pacific Northwest heat wave has risen to 116
A fiery explosion erupted on a container ship anchored in Dubai at one of the world's largest ports late Wednesday, authorities said, sending tremors across the commercial hub of United Arab Emirates
Moise was killed in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday
Real gross domestic product is expected to return to its pre-coronavirus crisis level in the last quarter of this year.
Ghosn failed to listen to others, and stayed on for too long: Nissan CEO
Brazil striker Gabriel Jesus is out of the Copa America final because of a red card he received during his team's 1-0 quarterfinal win over Chile
Nissan chief executive Makoto Uchida told a Japanese court that the company's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, had held too much power, failed to listen to others, and stayed on for too long
Banned sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson was not on the Olympic roster released by USA Track and Field
It will be Lionel Messi's Argentina against Neymar's Brazil in the Copa America final on Saturday at the historic Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro
Hubert Hurkacz was 6 years old when Roger Federer won his first Wimbledon title.