How a fast-growing baby food firm saw investors pull out because of the Covid-19 crisis.

Kenyan premier league champions Gor Mahia have turned to fans to bail them out of a financial crisis that has seen players go without pay for at least five months.

This week President Jair Bolsonaro said: "We are sorry for all the dead, but that's everyone's destiny"

The former vice president spoke optimistically of the majority of Americans in a time of crisis.

A major investigation is to be launched into racial inequalities in the UK, which have been exposed by the coronavirus crisis.

Russia's second-largest city, St Petersburg, issued 1,552 more death certificates in May 2020 than in May 2019 (a 30 percent hike), even though the city's official coronavirus death toll is just 172 so far, Reuters reports. The disparity casts fresh doubt on the credibility of Russia's pandemic figures, which make Russian president Vladimir Putin look as though he handled the crisis far better than the rest of the world.

The U.S. unemployment rate likely shot up to almost 20% in May, a new post World War Two record, with millions more losing their jobs, exposing the horrific human toll from the COVID-19 crisis.

THE European Union has been brutally torn apart by Members of the European Parliament in a new scathing report, as huge pressure builds on the bloc to restructure itself following Brexit and the coronavirus crisis.

The Covid crisis is putting the survival of one of the UK's largest zoos at risk.