Entertainment & Glomour
Warner Bros.’ ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’, a dark new musical Batman spinoff, earned an estimated USD 40 million over the weekend to top the North American box office, industry watchers reported Sunday.But that was far behind the USD 96.2 opening of the original ‘Joker’ in 20...
World
With just one month left in a deadlocked US presidential election, Donald Trump urged supporters Sunday in battleground Wisconsin to get out the vote, as Kamala Harris kicked off a week-long media interview blitz with a focus on reproductive rights.Polls have the Republican and Democrat candidates n...
World,Back Page
US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA and its role in how genes are regulated.Understanding the regulation of gene activity has been an important goal for decades, the Nobel jury said.If gene regulation goes awry, it can...
Sports,Football
Brazil beat Argentina 2-1 in Uzbekistan to win their sixth world title, while Ukraine defeated France for bronze.The result brought Brazil their sixth world title in the ten editions of the tournament, and their first in 12 years after missing out on the final in both 2016 and 2021. Argentina, by co...
Business & Commerce
Top Chinese economic policymakers are expected to flesh out a raft of growth-boosting policies on Tuesday, after the announcement of long-awaited stimulus measures last month sparked a blistering stock market rally.Beijing has struggled to kickstart the economy as officials target around five percen...
Monaco went top of the Ligue 1 table on Saturday with a 2-1 win away to Rennes, moving three points ahead of reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain.Goals from Thilo Kehrer and Folarin Balogun sent the principality side to 19 points. PSG, who are on 16 with a better goal difference, will have the cha...
Sports,Cricket
Ben Stokes' England take on Pakistan in a three-Test series starting on Monday, buoyed by memories of an astonishing 3-0 series sweep in 2022.England, third in the world rankings after winning five of their past six Tests, are facing a Pakistan team at a low ebb after being crushed by Bangladesh...
Inter Miami remained on track for the record points tally in Major League Soccer history after Leonardo Campana's stoppage-time goal gave them a 1-0 win at Toronto.Miami started with all their big-name stars, including Lionel Messi, on the bench but the Argentine was introduced in the 61st minut...
The UN secretary-general denounced Hamas and called for an immediate end to the "shocking violence and bloodshed" in Gaza and Lebanon in a statement Saturday ahead of the anniversary of the Palestinian group's October 7 attack.Monday marks one year since the devastating assault on Isra...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday told his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un that Beijing hoped to "deepen friendly... cooperation" with Pyongyang, as the two leaders exchanged messages to mark a major diplomatic anniversary.China and North Korea are traditional socialist allies, a...
Al-Jazeera, Beirut, Lebanon Israel waits until dusk to bomb Beirut.The shockwaves from explosions, the buzzing of drones, and the rumble of warplanes terrify the population – including Palestinian refugees.Most attacks have focused on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of the capital, reducing the onc...
Iran's supreme leader vowed in a rare address on Friday that his allies around the region would keep fighting Israel, as he defended his country's missile strike on its foe.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's address in Tehran followed Iran's second-ever direct attack on Israel. It was also the...
An Israeli official told AFP on Saturday that the military is "preparing a response" to the Iranian missile barrage that targeted Israel earlier this week."The IDF (Israeli military) is preparing a response to the unprecedented and unlawful Iranian attack on Israeli civilians and Isra...
A source close to Hezbollah said Israel had conducted 11 consecutive strikes on the group's south Beirut stronghold late Thursday, in one of the most violent raids since Israel intensified its bombardment campaign last week.AFP correspondents in the capital and beyond heard loud bangs that made ...
The United Nations Security Council offered its full support to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, after Israel said he was "persona non grata" for not quickly condemning Iran's ballistic missile barrage.Without naming Israel, the council's five permanent members -- Britain, China...
Sports
World number one Iga Swiatek on Friday confirmed she has split with her coach Tomasz Wiktorowski."After three years of the greatest achievements in my career, together with my coach Tomasz Wiktorowski we decided to part ways," Swiatek wrote on Instagram.Swiatek said she has held "firs...
Reigning Spanish and European champions Real Madrid have started the season below their brilliant best and this week finally tumbled to a first defeat since January.Carlo Ancelotti's side were beaten at Lille in the Champions League on Wednesday and trail Hansi Flick's Barcelona by three poi...
Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag desperately needs a reversal in his side's Premier League fortunes on Sunday against an Aston Villa team on a high after beating Bayern Munich in the Champions League.Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City will all be confident of three points heading into the...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would use nuclear weapons "without hesitation" if attacked by the South and ally the United States, state media reported Friday.Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points in decades, with Seoul this week staging a mil...
Afghanistan's Islamic State group is staging a growing number of bloody international attacks, presenting a rare but complicated opportunity for foreign cooperation with the Taliban government to counter the jihadists.Since winning their own insurgency in defiance of the international community ...
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