Tokyo, March 20  A member of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) has called for the Tokyo Olympic Games to be postponed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Retired judo athlete Kaori Yamaguchi, who is also a member of JOC executive board, told Japan's Nikkei newspaper that athletes are not able to p

Monaco, March 20  Formula One's most glamorous race -- the Monaco Grand Prix -- has been cancelled amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The race, which was scheduled for May 21-24, has been held every year since 1955, having begun in 1929.

It was earlier announced that the race has been postponed, along

Beijing, March 20  World swimming governing body FINA has announced that the diving and artistic swimming Olympic qualification events will be postponed to June due to concerns over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

On Thursday, FINA -- after consulting with the International Olympic Committee and the organiz

Asuncion, March 20  The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) has urged FIFA to postpone the World Cup 2022 qualifiers to September as a preventive measure against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

"Request FIFA to postpone the South American qualifying rounds for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Tokyo, March 20  The Olympic flame arrived in Japan on Friday amid coronavirus fears with only four months to go until the opening of the Tokyo Games.

The Tokyo 2020 Go, a chartered aircraft carrying the flame, landed at the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force base in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture on Friday, repo

New York, March 20 A team of US researchers has invented a portable surveillance device powered by machine learning called 'FluSense' that can detect coughing and crowd size in real time, analyse the data to directly monitor flu-like illnesses and influenza trends and predict the next pandemic in the making.

San Francisco, March 20  Facebook-owned Instagram is also working on a Snapchat like ephemeral 'Stories' feature where users can let their posts disappear in some time.

First spotted by reverse engineering specialist Jane Manchun Wong, who found code in Instagram's Android app labelled with a &quo