Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "World's Largest Soccer Stadium to be Built in China" By the end of 2022, Guangzhou Evergrande, a professional Chinese soccer team, will have the world's largest soccer stadium as its new home. On April 16, work started on the 100,000 seat stadium, which will cost $1.7 billion and will be made to look like a lotus flower. Guangzhou Evergrande are one of the best soccer teams in Asia. They were...

Facebook will soon begin warning users when they interact with dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus. A notice will be sent to users who have clicked on, reacted to, or commented on posts with harmful or false claims about COVID-19 after they have been removed by moderators. The notification, which will start appearing on Facebook in the next few weeks, will direct users to a site where the World Health Organization debunks misinformation about the virus. Facebook said that in...

Netflix has gotten nearly 16 million new subscribers during the first three months of the year, showing that it has become one of the world's most popular services in times of isolation or crisis. During those three months, many governments around the world started telling people to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus. This appears to have made millions of people start using Netflix for entertainment. Netflix more than doubled the growth that it had predicted for the first three...

Professional cyclist Davide Martinelli is using his bike to bring medicine to elderly people and others who need help during the coronavirus pandemic. Martinelli's service is helping his hometown of Lodetto in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, which has been hit hard by the virus. Lodetto doesn't have a pharmacy or a supermarket, so Martinelli goes to the nearby town of Rovato every day to get supplies. The trip is 10 kilometers, which Martinelli said is easy for a professional...

NASA will send two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 27. This will be the first spaceflight with a crew launched from the US since 2011. For the last few years, NASA has been using Russian ships to send astronauts to the ISS. "NASA will once again launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil!" tweeted NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. The two astronauts are Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley. Behnken has been an astronaut with NASA since 2000...

According to Amnesty International, the number of executions around the world in 2019 decreased by 5% compared to the year before. However, the number in the Middle East and North Africa increased by 16%, from 501 in 2018 to 579 in 2019. Amnesty International's 2019 Death Sentences and Executions report noted that the number of executions in the world decreased from at least 690 in 2018 to at least 657 in 2019. That's the lowest number in more than 10 years. All of the world's executions...

While people can't travel, the Faroe Islands are offering remote tours that let people use the internet to control a tour guide and see the archipelago's small towns and volcanic islands. The tours were started to help sustain global interest in the North Atlantic islands, where tourism has recently become an important industry. It will also help people in lockdown see more of the world. The idea is to make people want to come and experience the Faroe Islands in real life, said Levi Hanssen...

Trump Ends US Aid to World Health Organization President Donald Trump has said he is cutting off US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), accusing the organization of failing to do enough to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Trump claimed the outbreak could have been contained at its source and that lives could have been saved had the UN health agency done a better job investigating early reports out of China. "The WHO failed in its basic duty and must be held accountable,"...

A survey has found that South Koreans spent an average of 2 hours a day searching for information on the coronavirus in March. Yonhap News Agency reports that two professors from Seoul's Yonsei University surveyed 2,035 people living in Seoul from March 14-21, including 18 people in self-quarantine. Those in self-quarantine spent an average of 2.3 hours a day looking for information on the virus. South Korea reported its first case of the coronavirus on January 20. There were still just 28...

For the 18th year in a row, American adults believe nurses are the most honest workers, according to a Gallup poll. The results show that 85% of US adults believe that nurses are honest or very honest, putting them above 21 other jobs like police officers, doctors, teachers and businesspeople. Second on the list are engineers, with 66% of people saying that engineers are honest or very honest. Also in the top five are doctors, who received a score of 65%, and pharmacists, at 64%. The fifth...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "How Finland Aims to End Homelessness" In 1987, there were over 18,000 homeless people in Finland. At the end of 2018, there were fewer than 5,500. In fact, Finland is the only European Union country where homelessness is falling, which many credit to the country's "Housing First" policy,...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Most Japanese Students Happy to Join Online Classes" More than half of Japanese university students feel good about taking classes online, according to a new survey from Nihon University in Tokyo. Professor Tetsuya Usui from the university used social media to ask 1,572 university students...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "US General Election to Be Biden vs. Trump" With Bernie Sanders' decision to end his campaign, Joe Biden will likely represent the Democratic Party against President Donald Trump this fall. Biden won't officially win the nomination until June, but with no Democratic rivals left, a general...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Jeff Bezos Still World's Richest Person Even After Divorce" Jeff Bezos is the world's richest person for the third year in a row, according to Forbes magazine's 2020 list of the world's billionaires. As of March 18, when the list was made, the CEO of Amazon was worth $113 billion. Bill Gates...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Study: Irregular Sleep Increases Risk of Heart Disease" A new study has found that not having a regular time to sleep and wake up can be bad for your heart. Having regular sleep was defined by the study as always going to bed and waking up within 30 minutes of the same times. The study looked...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Manhattan Opens Its Highest Outdoor Observation Deck" Opened on March 11, the Edge at 30 Hudson Yards is the highest outdoor observation deck in the Western Hemisphere, and the fifth highest in the world. 30 Hudson Yards is 387 meters high, making it the second tallest office building in New...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Tokyo Ends Smoking in Most Restaurants" Japan has been called a "smoker's paradise," but that's starting to change. From April 1, a new law in Tokyo, which was passed in June 2018, bans smoking in most bars and restaurants around the city. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's local law is...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Students in Nepal Required to Take Yoga Classes" According to The New York Times, Nepal is about to be the first country in the world to require all students between fourth and eighth grade to take yoga classes. The change will happen at the start of the 2020 school year. Giriraj Mani...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "The Best Ways to Study at Home" If you usually like to work in cafés and libraries, having to study at home might be difficult. So here are some ways to help you focus at home. Follow a schedule Having a clear plan for your day will help keep you from getting distracted. Try making a list...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Japan Declares State of Emergency" Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared a month-long state of emergency for Tokyo and six other prefectures to protect against the spread of the coronavirus. However, the move is only a stay-at-home request – not an order – and those who ignore it...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Why Air Pollution Has Decreased Due to Coronavirus" In an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a third of the world's population has gone into lockdown, meaning most people must stay at home, and many aren't going to work. That means fewer people driving cars, fewer factories running...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "10 Times More Americans Over 65 Now Use Marijuana" A new study has found that 10 times more Americans over 65 are now using marijuana than in 2006. In 2006, 0.4% of Americans over 65 had used marijuana in the last year. By 2015 that number was 2.9% – and it became 4.2% by 2018. Since 1996,...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Tokyo Olympics Postponed to 2021" The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that the 2020 Summer Olympics will be postponed as the coronavirus shuts down daily life around the world. The IOC said the Tokyo Games "must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020, but not later than...

🔴Please subscribe to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/channel/UCHl6jliV…ub_confirmation=1 🔴Script Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "AI Cameras Catch Drivers on Phones in Australia" On December 1, the Australian state of New South Wales started using artificial intelligence (AI) cameras to catch people using mobile phones while driving. For the first three months, drivers caught using their phones will only get a warning...