Olympic Games, Tokyo-style: The pandemic era, in miniature

The Olympics are often billed as a slice of the globalized 21st-century world in miniature

As Tokyo Games open, can Olympic flame burn away the funk?

The Tokyo Games are arriving at last, after a yearlong delay

At least 100 US athletes unvaccinated as Olympics begin

About 100 of the 613 U.S. athletes descending on Tokyo for the Olympics are unvaccinated, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s medical chief said hours before Friday night’s Opening Ceremony

Ping pong: Spat over tracing app as shelves empty in England

Retailers in England warned Thursday of barren supermarket shelves as more and more staff get “pinged” on their phones to self-isolate because of contact with coronavirus cases

Tokyo new virus cases near 2,000 a day before Olympics open

Tokyo has hit another six-month high in new COVID-19 cases one day before the Olympics begin, as worries grow of a worsening of infections during the Games

Olympic opening ceremony director fired for Holocaust joke

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has fired the director of the opening ceremony because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998

Asia markets follow Wall St higher as virus fears recede

Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher for a second day as optimism about a global economic recovery appears to be outweighing concern over rising coronavirus cases

China rebuffs WHO's terms for further COVID-19 origins study

A senior Chinese health official says China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19

China rebuffs WHO on call for further COVID-19 origins study

A senior Chinese health official says China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19

Zeng Yixin