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Images show the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, in Flushing Meadows, in Queens, New York, where the US Open Tennis Championship takes place at the end of summer. After weeks of uncertainty surrounding the tournament, which is being staged in the epicentre of the US coronavirus crisis, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the US Open will be held, but without fans. IMAGES
Chairman Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve will keep its key rate at zero "until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events and is on track to achieve its maximum employment and price stability goals." SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior members of his government mark a minute's silence in honour of NHS and other key workers who have died due to COVID-19 since the beginning of the global pandemic. IMAGES
As of this morning, Germans must wear masks on public transportation to protect themselves and other passengers from COVID-19. IMAGES of people wearing masks in Berlin
Residents of Paris's 7th arrondissement applaud healthcare workers from their windows, as France undergoes its 26th day of lockdown. IMAGES
British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, who is deputising for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak clap in support of medical workers from the NHS (National Health Service) and Johnson, hospitalised with COVID-19. Boris Johnson left intensive care Thursday after three days of treatment and was moved to the ward. IMAGES