In Chile, strangers write letters to offer hope to coronavirus patients in hospital

With social distancing in full force and people retreating into digital worlds, a Chilean hospital has reintroduced letter writing as a way to comfort its coronavirus-stricken patients.

Discarded puppy Locky's luck turns in Moscow lockdown

A month ago, Locky the mongrel puppy was left abandoned on the side of a road with her mother and six siblings.

Park right of the jet and enjoy the movie: lockdown cinema at empty airport

A cargo airplane took off from Vilnius airport on Thursday, while just a few hundred meters away people watched a movie from their cars at a makeshift drive-in cinema on the airport tarmac.

Bad hair day? How one Paris salon plans lockdown exit

No one is having their hair highlighted or nails painted right now in the Christophe Bruno salon in Paris. Still, co-owner Bruno Amaru is busy stocking up on masks and sanitizer, re-arranging chairs...

Captain Tom made honorary member of England team on 100th birthday

British World War Two veteran Captain Tom Moore, who has raised millions for the country's National Health Service (NHS), was made an honorary member of the England cricket team as he celebrated his...

Vatican's 'Robin Hood' helps feed transsexual prostitutes hit by lockdown

When the coronavirus lockdown left a group of transsexual street prostitutes in a beach town near Rome without work, they turned to a local Catholic priest for help to buy food.

A scarf a day turns Dr. Birx into pop culture star at COVID-19 daily briefings

U.S. coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx is best-known for her calm, authoritative briefings at the daily White House press conferences. But she has also become a pop culture...

Musical minivan brings birthday messages to quarantined Colombians

Luis Armando Velasquez normally drives around the streets of San Martin in central Colombia blaring advertisements for local businesses from the loudspeakers atop his minivan.

COVID strains: Dancer performs 'virus melody' in empty Budapest square

Dressed in black and wearing a facemask, the dancer leaps and pirouttes across Budapest's deserted central Heroes Square - to the strains of a melody that mirrors the molecular structure of the...

Nightly show in Swiss block helps beat lockdown blues

Dressed in a black trench coat and hat, 36-year-old Audrey Lecomte performed "Singing in the Rain" on a drizzly Tuesday evening to the residents of Geneva's Round House apartment complex, who twirled...

Locked in under lockdown: "we can't complain", say pals stuck in pub

If you are going to be stuck under lockdown, there are worse places to end up than a spacious pub with free beer on tap.

Food 2 Go-Go: Oregon strip club brings burlesque to coronavirus carry-out

An Oregon strip club forced into the takeout-dining business in the age of the coronavirus has returned to its burlesque roots by offering delivery and drive-through services featuring exotic dancers...

Hello, social distancing. Goodbye, handshakes?

It started centuries ago as a symbol of peace, a gesture to prove you weren't holding a weapon, and over time it became part of almost every social, religious, professional, business and sporting...