Anastasia Tsioulcas

The Bureau of Prisons has announced that for the next two weeks, inmates in every institution across the country will be kept in their assigned cells or quarters.

Confinement can create "fertile ground for domestic violence," says the country's minister for gender quality. France is also creating support sites for women at supermarkets and pharmacies.

The town of Llandudno, Wales, has gone quiet, like so many other communities around the globe observing anti-coronavirus measures. Going into the breach: a herd of curious Kashmiri goats.

The community of Lakewood is experiencing a very high rate of infections as well. Police have broken up numerous gatherings recently, despite a stay-at-home order from the governor.

The East Meadow in Central Park and a training facility at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Queens are scheduled to become makeshift hospitals while regular facilities are strained by COVID-19.

The hospitals — including Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, Brigham and Women's, and Tufts — say that a combined 345 employees have tested positive for COVID-19.

The author and illustrator — who, by his own reckoning, worked on more than 270 titles — died Monday at age 85. Among his classics is the Caldecott winner Strega Nona, a seemingly ancient folk tale.

The painting, titled The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884, was stolen early Monday morning from the Singer Laren museum near Amsterdam. Police say the thieves smashed a glass entrance.

On Thursday, the former opera star was fired by the University of Michigan. It said it found a pattern of "harassing, abusive and exploitative" behavior. Daniels separately faces a charge in Texas.

The 59-year-old chef, who became a cooking star in both the United States and his native India, died Wednesday of complications from COVID-19 in New Jersey.

The five-time Tony Award winner whose work spanned some four dozen plays and musicals died Tuesday at age 81 due to complications related to COVID-19.

The Cameroonian musician who became an international star with his song "Soul Makossa" died Tuesday at age 86 in Paris. His music helped fuel disco — and songs by Michael Jackson and Rihanna.

The nation's largest performing arts organization has told its orchestral players, chorus and stagehands they will not be paid after March 31. The company has canceled the rest of its season.

For the first time in its six-decade history, the international singing competition has been called off. Singers and groups from 41 countries had been set to compete.

In a superseding indictment filed Friday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn levied nine charges against the R&B singer, including racketeering and sexual trafficking.

Arts and cultural events and institutions across the country are announcing cancellations and closures, including SXSW in Austin, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

On Tuesday, the California opera company released a summary of independent investigators' findings. They substantiated 10 claims of alleged incidents that took place between 1986 and 2019.

The influential annual music festival in Indio, Calif. announced Tuesday that it has to move its dates from April to October.

"We are devastated to share this news with you," organizers said. " 'The show must go on' is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place."

On Friday afternoon, Hachette Book Group announced that it would no longer be publishing Allen's memoir. The decision comes after Farrow, who is Allen's son, said he could no longer work with HBG.