The number of daily global cases also broke a record, with the United States as the biggest source of new infections. The U.S. death toll is also on the rise.

Some officials say that a joint American-Israeli strategy is evolving — some might argue regressing — to a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes.

The People’s Action Party, which has never been out of power, won yet again, but by a narrower margin than usual. The opposition had sought to deny it “a blank check.”

The measured response by Scotland’s leader, Nicola Sturgeon, is a marked contrast to the freewheeling approach of Prime Minister Boris Johnson — and appears to be working.

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny as a potential national security threat.

San Quentin prison in US has seven deaths and 1,500 positive tests; Serbia has record 18 fatalities; Australia caps incoming flights and charges for quarantine 6.53am BST Here is a little more on the situation in Queensland where the border has just reopened to tourists, except for Victorians. From AAP: Tourists continue to stream into […]

Emergency crews responded to the incident but were unable to save teenage boy’s lifeA shark attack on New South Wales’s mid north coast has claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy.Witnesses have told police a shark attacked the teenager while he was surfing at Wilsons Headland at Wooli Beach, near Grafton, just before 2.30pm. Continue […]

Exclusive: amid allegations of production continuing behind closed doors, regulators have clamped down in the cityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen the garment factory where Anil worked learned that the risk of coronavirus meant it couldn’t do business as usual, it didn’t shut up shop. Instead, it locked the doors.“It was always going,” […]

Police say independent pollster may have been hacked but there are fears of link to pro-democracy opposition’s primary electionHong Kong police have searched the office of an independent political pollster days after Beijing imposed sweeping national security legislation on the former British colony.The raid came ahead of weekend primary elections for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition, […]

Chinese telecom firm stockpiles 500,000 pieces of equipment but fears wider ban Huawei believes it can supply 5G hardware unaffected by White House sanctions to the UK for the next five years, sidestepping the expected conclusion of an emergency review on Tuesday next week.The company has stockpiled 500,000 pieces of kit but fears a wider […]

Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook cartoon depicts St. Peter at the gates of Heaven, screening would-be entrants for symptoms of COVID-19.

Eric Lach writes about how “unity task forces,” intended to bring supporters of Joe Biden and of Bernie Sanders together—and thus avoid the divisions that plagued the Democrats in 2016—could offer clues to how policy creation would occur in a Biden Administration.

Richard Brody writes that D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary of the cast-album recording for Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” thrillingly illuminates three art forms.

Andy Borowitz jokes that Donald Trump thinks social distancing in reopened schools should still allow students to cheat off one another, a reference to claims that he paid someone else to take his SATs.