Pain Bites Into Portuguese Life As Crisis Deepens

Hardis White, 78, could hardly wait to break out of suburbia. He dressed in a flannel shirt, jeans and a Bears cap, strode out of the rectangular bungalow he shares with his wife and daughter and folded his tall frame behind the wheel of his silver Nissan sedan. Forty minutes away from his suburban

Britain's public service broadcaster has been at the heart of media in the United Kingdom and many parts of the world for the best part of a century. Now it's facing a brutal fight for survival.

In offices across Asia, desks are empty and the phones are quiet, as the region grapples with a deadly virus.

The flight was supposed to last less than two hours, quick and painless. Instead, it turned into what one passenger described as a painful assault -- and a lightning rod for what constitutes proper airline etiquette.

The small companies that drive China's economy are worried about how much damage the novel coronavirus outbreak will cause. Without more help or a reprieve from the disease, many may have only weeks to survive.