The coronavirus transmission ability is getting stronger and infections could continue to rise, China's National Health Commission said on Sunday, with more than 2,000 people globally infected and at least 56 in China killed by the disease. VOA speaks to an American who has been living in Wuhan, where the virus is believed to have originated, about her experience.

Plus President Trump's lawyers have started their impeachment trial defense, arguing Democrats are trying to overturn the 2016 election. Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, speaks about the strategy the President’s team of lawyers are employing in their impeachment defense and its implications.

And Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday. He was 41.

We’ll have those stories and more on today’s International Edition.