The latest: China says another doctor, Liu Zhiming, has died of COVID-19 disease. Liu is at least the 7th health-care worker to die of the disease, which has infected 1,700 medical professionals. UN secretary general says outbreak ‘is not out of control but it is a very dangerous situation.’ WHO expected to provide update at 10:30 a.m. ET.…

Japanese health authorities said Tuesday they have confirmed 88 more cases of the new virus on a quarantined cruise ship near Tokyo. The new cases bring the total on the Diamond Princess to 542. Global Affairs Canada has said there were 256 Canadians on board the ship. Of those, 32 have tested positive for COVID-19, which is…

Barraged by hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in hopes of working out a potentially mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow the hallowed, 110-year-old organization to carry on. The Chapter 11 filing in federal bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, sets in motion what could be one…

It was early in the morning — before 6:00 a.m. — last August when Ali Chahine woke up in his home in Detroit’s suburbs and checked his smartphone. What happened next highlights why an increasing number of U.S. police forces are embracing Amazon’s consumer technology as a low-cost solution to help fight crime, and shunning persistent concerns…

Britain issued severe flood alerts Monday, warning of life-threatening danger after storm Dennis dumped weeks’ worth of rain in some places. One woman swept away by the floodwaters was feared dead. To the east, Dennis’s gale-force winds also injured nine people in car accidents in Germany as trees crashed down onto roads and train tracks.…

China said Monday it may postpone its annual congress in March, its biggest political meeting of the year, as the military dispatched hundreds more medical workers and extra supplies to the city hit hardest by a two-month-old virus outbreak. The standing committee for the National People’s Congress said it believes it is necessary to postpone…