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Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday announced that Google will invest more than $10 billion in offices and data centres across the Uss in 2020. "Google currently has a presence in 26 states across the country and our new investments will be focused in 11 of them: Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and California. "These investments will create thousands of jobs - including roles within Google, construction jobs in data centers and renewable energy facilities, and opportunities in local businesses in surrounding towns and communities," Pichai said in a statement. This effort builds on the momentum of the $13 billion investment in communities from South Carolina to Nevada that Google made in 2019. Combined with other R&D investments, Google's parent company Alphabet was the largest investor in the US last year, according to a report from the Progressive Policy Institute. Pichai sa

South Korea reported its fourth death from the new coronavirus on Sunday and added 123 new cases to bring the total confirmed cases to 556. Three of the four deaths were from Daenam Hospital in the southeastern city of Cheongdo, where the country's first COVID-19 fatality took place and more than 110 people, including nine medical staff, were found to be infected, reports the Yonhap News Agency. The fourth victim of the novel virus was confirmed to be infected on Wednesday. The patient in his late 50s suffered from serious pneumonia before being infected with the novel coronavirus. The number of COVID-19 infections more than doubled in a single day on Saturday, with most cases centered around a religious organization in the country's fourth-largest city of Daegu and the neighbouring Daenam Hospital. Of the 123 new cases, 75 are related to worship services of the Shincheonji church in Daegu, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The number

Polls paint a mixed picture of US President Donald Trump's political fortunes in this election year showing his job approval ratings and sense of betterment at the highest levels while also having all the leading Democratic challengers defeating him. A Gallup poll released on Thursday that said that 61 per cent of Americans felt they were better off now than they were three years ago, the highest number since 1992 during a year the president is facing re-election. A Gallup poll released on February 4 on the eve of Trump's acquittal showed a 49 per cent approval rate for him, steadying his support in the Senate. That job approval rating in Gallup's poll in the first week of February of the re-election year is higher than former President Barack Obama's 47 per cent in 2012. In other polls also he was doing well overall, although the picture is mixed. The job approval rating, which is seen as a measure of his popularity, aggregated by RealClear Politics (RCP).was at 45.