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| - Duty Editor: James Hossack Tel: +852 2829 6211 -- TOP STORIES -- + US declares virus emergency; WHO says Europe epicentre + Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board + Dow rebounds 9.4% after bruising week + Coronavirus wipes out global sporting calendar + Fossilised penguin skin found in Argentina Health-virus,WRAP GENEVA US President Donald Trump declares a national state of emergency as the World Health Organization names Europe the new epicenter of the coronavirus, with countries sealing borders, shutting schools and canceling events in a frenzied attempt to slow the pandemic. 900 words 0200 GMT by Sebastian Smith. Picture. Video. Graphic Already moved: Health-virus-world,FACTS Health-virus-Europe-measures,FACTS US-internet-company-Microsoft-people-Gates,lead SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft announces that co-founder Bill Gates has left its board of directors to devote more time to philanthropy. 500 words moved Markets-world,WRAP NEW YORK Wall Street stocks rebound more than nine percent, concluding a bruising week on a positive note as President Donald Trump declared the coronavirus a national emergency and set the stage for more testing in the United States. 700 words moved Health-virus-sport-world PARIS The collapse of sports events worldwide gathers pace with England's Premier League, Europe's Champions League and the Masters golf major among competitions swept aside by the coronavirus pandemic. 700 words moved. Picture Argentina-palaeontology-Antarctic BUENOS AIRES Argentine researchers announce the discovery of fossilized skin on the remains of the wing of a 43-million-year-old penguin on Marambio Island in the Antarctic. 150 words moved -- CORONAVIRUS -- Health-virus-epidemic-finance-rates-politics,ANALYSIS LONDON "I think the patient is stabilised," then US president Barack Obama declared after G20 powers prescribed unprecedented remedies to steady the crisis-wracked world economy just over a decade ago. 750 words 0400 GMT by Jitendra Joshi Health-virus-transmission,FOCUS PARIS Can a single COVID-19 patient infect dozens of others? Although transmission rates in the current outbreak appear to be far lower, a variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many. 600 words 0330 GMT by Julie Charpentrat Health-virus-Britain-NHS LONDON Britain has adopted a light touch approach to coronavirus measures, opting so far not to shut schools, with the aim of staggering demand on the health service and developing "herd immunity" in the population -- but the strategy is controversial. 750 words moved by Alice Ritchie with Patrick Galey in Paris Health-virus-Africa,FOCUS JOHANNESBURG After escaping mostly unscathed by the coronavirus pandemic, sub-Saharan Africa starts to suffer its first outbreaks of the illness that has already engulfed China and Italy and spread to other parts of the globe. 850 words moved by Sofia Christensen and Africa bureaux. Picture Also moved: Health-virus-SAfrica,SCENE Health-virus-India,FOCUS NEW DELHI Despite being poorer and more densely populated than China and having a shakier healthcare system, India has officially recorded only 81 cases of the coronavirus and just one death. 750 words 0300 GMT by Simon Sturdee. Video. Picture Health-virus-China-Italy,FOCUS BEIJING Sara Platto's mother in Italy called her "crazy" for staying in Wuhan even as the virus-hit city was quarantined in January. Now she's offering advice to people back home on how to cope. 650 words 0300 GMT by Jing Xuan Teng and Leo Ramirez. Picture. Video Health-virus-US-Europe-airport-ban,SCENE LOS ANGELES The final planeloads of European passengers fly into an eerily quiet Los Angeles airport, wheeling their luggage past hand sanitizer stations as the hours tick down to a 30-day travel ban. 400 words moved by Javier Tovar. Picture. Video Health-virus-Brazil-US-politics BRASILIA Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro says he had tested negative for the new coronavirus, after a scare over a trip on which at least one infected member of his staff rubbed shoulders with US President Donald Trump. 600 words moved. Picture. Video. File picture Also moved: Health-virus-LatAm,lead Health-virus-government-Canada-family,FOCUS OTTAWA His children play with Lego in their rooms, his wife spends a lot of time on the phone: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offers a glimpse into the Canadian first family's COVID-19 quarantine while reassuring an anxious nation that he continues to govern. 500 words 0130 GMT by Eric Thomas and Michel Comte. Picture. Video Health-virus-politics-US-vote-Louisiana,3rdlead WASHINGTON Four major US states announce that they will go ahead with Democratic presidential primaries next week despite the coronavirus crisis, after Louisiana became the first to postpone its contest. 600 words moved by Elodie Cuzin. File picture -- ASIA -- NZealand-attacks-religion-Islam,FOCUS CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand One year after the Christchurch mosque attacks, Aliya Danzeisen says she still needs to rise before dawn to read the news so she can prepare her daughters for the harassment they can expect for being Muslim. 650 words 0300 GMT by Chris Foley -- AMERICAS -- Lifestyle-US-beer-Guinness BALTIMORE The coronavirus has canceled most St Patrick's Day festivities, but as the luck of the Irish would have it, Americans can still drown their sorrows with a beer produced in the first US Guinness brewery to operate since the 1950s. 650 words 0130 GMT by Sebastien Duval. Picture. Video -- AFRICA -- Mali-politics-unrest,FOCUS MOPTI, Mali After years of ethnic massacres and unrelenting jihadist attacks, central Mali has been left a harrowed area of deserted villages and displaced people. 600 words 0330 GMT by Amaury Hauchard. Picture. Video -- EUROPE -- Britain-France-aviation-Fbl-Sala ALDERSHOT, United Kingdom Footballer Emiliano Sala was killed when the unlicensed pilot of his plane lost control and flew too fast as he tried to avoid bad weather, British aviation investigators say. 550 words moved by David Harding. File picture. Video Britain-EU-Brexit-trade-talks,WRAP BRUSSELS Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier says he has sent an "ambitious" first draft of what could be a new post-Brexit trade deal with Britain to EU capitals. 700 words moved by Dave Clark and Clement Zampa -- LIFESTYLE AND ENTERTAINMENT -- France-culture-dance-entertainment,FOCUS PARIS The dancers gyrate and contort their bodies into sculptures made by the human body but which look distinctly other-worldly. A choreographer favoured by superstars like Madonna, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke and Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, Damien Jalet is on a mission to reinvent perceptions of the body. 650 words 0300 GMT by Rana Moussaoui. 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