The intervention from the governing body for athletics in the US, which combines the blue riband sport of the Olympic Games and the richest nation, means that the efforts of IOC President Thomas Bach to persist in staging the games now appear to be in tatters.

The administration also said that the US has developed 20 different emergency testing options and that tomorrow Abbott Laboratories will begin shipping a rapid test that can return a positive result in as quickly as five minutes.  The US has tested 1 million samples for the coronavirus and has ramped up its testing capacity to 100,000 samples a day, US President Trump said at the White House's daily briefing.

 In March, Harry and Meghan, aka the duke and duchess of Sussex, spoke to Oprah Winfrey for an , and later, the duke appeared on Dax Shepard and Monica Padman's . He also worked with Winfrey on a mental-health series, The Me You Can't See, which is available on Apple TV Plus. The royal family might prefer Prince Harry to keep his experiences to himself, but now that he's in America, thousands of miles away from palace courtiers, they can't really tell him what to do.

Some historians have suggested it was the massive military spending of the Second World War, after the US belatedly entered in 1941, that finally put the Great Depression to bed and laid the foundations for the late 20th Century superpower.

While many books have been written about life in the royal family, they've almost all come from journalists, retired staff members or distant friends. It seems fair to say that no one this close to Queen Elizabeth II has ever written a memoir in which she will surely play a large role.

White House announces plan to ease restrictions The White House announced guidelines about how states, employers and individuals can gradually pull back from restrictions imposed to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. The Opening up America Again recommendations are contingent on medical factors like waning cases, sufficient testing abilities and hospital capacity for treating conditions other than COVID-19.



BERN, March 24 (Reuters) - A change of culture is needed at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to make decision-making more inclusive, an association representing 85,000 athletes around the world said on Tuesday, following the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to 2021.

The Swiss-based World Players' Association (WPA), which represents 85,000 players in over 60 countries, has called on Sheikh Salman al-Khalifa, the president of the Asian Football Federation (AFC), to help win al-Araibi's release.

Visiting friends and family from other households is banned. Police have been given the power to enforce the new rules, including through fines and dispersing gatherings. "From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction: You must stay at home," Johnson said.

But the scale of what was unveiled by the Prime Minister at a college in Dudley this morning appears to be on a far lower order of magnitude to that put in place by the Democrat in the early 1930s to combat the horrors of the Great Depression.

"The World Players Association has affiliates throughout the world and when sports of the level of the NBA, the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, international rugby... the football leagues in Europe are closing down because of the pandemic, the IOC was looking almost incredibly hopeful to the extent of being naive." (Writing by Brian Homewood Editing by Toby Davis)

Americans aren't doing enough to flatten the curve Social distancing effectively prevents new coronavirus cases, but some Americans aren't taking the president's guidelines seriously, the White House warned Thursday. That could lead to more outbreaks and make it harder to get the virus in check, an expert said, making it imperative for people to stay away from others to avoid getting sick. 

He said it was incumbent on FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Samoura and FIFA as an organisation to threaten Bahrain with sporting sanctions if it proceeded with the attempts at refoulement, the forcible return of a refugee, via Thailand's legal system.





World Players Association (WPA) executive director Brendan Schwab said that, while he was happy with the decision to postpone the Games, the delay in making it in the face of the growing coronavirus pandemic made the IOC look almost naive.

Spain said it would extend its countrywide lockdown until April 25. Meanwhile, some officials in Italy are considering the idea of measuring virus antibodies in people's blood when it eventually comes time to decide who gets to leave lockdown and return to work, The New York Times reported. Shifts in Europe Spain moved past Italy as the European country with the largest number of coronavirus infections: 124,870 Spanish cases versus 124,630 Italian infections as of Saturday afternoon Pacific Time, according to the Hopkins tracking tool. Such antibodies are a possible sign of immunity.