CHINA

Futures foretell a second day of gains for all three major Wall Street indices.

Qiao Liang, a retired Chinese air force major general who normally takes a hawkish view about the country's political issues, warned against Beijing’s objective to take back Taiwan.

Taklamakan can be roughly translated from the local Uygur language to "you go in, but you won't come out" and it is also nicknamed the "Sea of Death."

The first official reports of COVID-19 in France were reported in January. However, doctors at a Paris hospital found evidence coronavirus may have been in France earlier than what researches believed.