| Greetings, QuickTake readers! In this edition: U.S. indicts Chinese army, Merkel's heir apparent stands down, and the sun will never look the same after NASA's latest mission.  Global death toll tops 1,000 The global death toll from coronavirus climbed to at least 1,018 Monday after Hubei, the province at the center of the outbreak, reported 103 more deaths. Infections worldwide now exceed 43,000. The ascent into quadruple digits struck the same day that a report estimated the pathogen now has a mortality rate of 1%. The vast majority of cases remain in mainland China, where researchers calculated the fatality rate may be as high as 18%. More: - Cases on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship doubled overnight to a total of 135 infections, Japan's health ministry said.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping stepped out of his self-imposed isolation in a rare appearance at a coronavirus hospital in Beijing.
- Officials in and around Wuhan sprayed hundreds of residential areas, hospitals and markets in a large-scale disinfectant operation.
$ignificant figures $4.8 trillion. Trump's election-year budget proposes spending billions more on defense, border wall construction and a U.S. mission to Mars but would make deep cuts to social programs and foreign aid. 29. The death toll after a 16-hour shooting rampage outside a shopping mall in northern Thailand on Saturday. The gunman, a disgruntled soldier, also wounded 57 others. 825 mph. The top speed of a British Airways flight that set the record for the fastest subsonic trip from New York to London, propelled in part by high winds, clocking in at 4 hours and 56 minutes. Highly quotable "Deliberate, sweeping intrusion." The U.S. charged four members of China's People's Liberation Army in the 2017 Equifax hacking in which personal data of about 145 million Americans was stolen. "I regret it." What Angela Merkel said after her hand-picked successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, abruptly announced her decision to quit as the leader of the CDU, Germany's ruling party. "A very opportune moment in history." What Parasite producer Kwak Sin-ae said accepting the Oscar for Best Picture, a watershed moment for the Academy, as the first non-English language film to win the top honor. This is not normal T-shirt weather. Antarctica's Esperanza research base hit a record-high of 18.3° C (65° F) last week, surpassing the prior high set in 2015. What's more, the Marambio base registered its highest February temp since 1971.  The future is now Burning questions. Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter has rocketed into space on an unprecedented mission to capture for the first time close-up views of the Sun's magnetic poles to better understand space weather.  What's good For the culture. Frustrated by the media's inaccurate depictions of his home country, Ivorian designer O'Plérou created a new emoji every day for a year to bring the beauty of Africa to smartphone keyboards.  Now that you're caught up... Tell your friends to sign up to receive the QuickTake newsletter five days a week, and follow us on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Guess who? Which of the world's billionaire's bought this $650-million hydrogen-powered superyacht? It's not Bill Gates... Thanks for reading!
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