Entertainment & Glomour
The long-awaited "The Lord of the Rings" prequel, "The Rings of Power," received widespread praise from television critics, with most reviews applauding the plot, visuals and cinematography of the first two episodes.The show is based on appendices in JRR Tolkien's original &q...
Sports,Football
A superb free kick by Dusan Vlahovic and a brilliant late goal by Arkadiusz Milik earned Juventus a 2-0 home win over Spezia in Serie A on Wednesday.Vlahovic netted a perfect free kick -- his fourth Serie A goal this season -- from nearly 30 yards to open the scoring in the ninth minute.Unmarked Spe...
Sports,Tennis
After missing the entire North American hardcourt season, American Danielle Collins showed no signs of rust battling past twice U.S. Open champions Naomi Osaka 7-6(5) 6-3 on Tuesday and into the second round at Flushing Meadows.The tournament winner in 2018 and 2020, Osaka's exit followed reigni...
World
At least 10 people were killed, including some children, after a truck crashed on Wednesday (Aug 31) near a bus stop outside a school in Indonesia's West Java province, police said. The students were waiting at the bus stop after class in the city of Bekasi, when the truck veered toward them and...
Less than 32km from the fortified border with North Korea, a combined force of South Korean and US troops held a major live-fire exercise on Wednesday with artillery, tanks and other weapons.South Korea and the United States have resumed the largest field exercises in years after diplomatic efforts ...
World,Front Page
Germany and France have issued a joint warning against a ban on tourist visas for Russians, saying such a step, advocated by other European Union member states, would be counter-productive.The split on tourist visas will be at the heart of a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers in Prague on T...
Colombian qualifier Daniel Galan stunned fourth-seeded Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-0, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 in an epic first-round showdown at the U.S. Open on Monday, winning the affair on the ninth match point.Playing in the main draw for the first time, Galan appeared right at home on tennis' biggest ...
Argentina's eye-catching purple away jersey at this year's Qatar World Cup will also have a powerful message associated with it, with sportswear giant Adidas saying the choice of colour represented gender equality.The two-times champions will wear a vibrant purple kit for the first time in t...
European Union defence and foreign ministers, meeting in Prague this week, will discuss options for setting up an EU military training mission for Ukrainian forces and also look into calls by some members to ban Russian tourists from entering the bloc.Several EU countries have been training Ukrainia...
Germany has secured a power link to a planned offshore wind hub in the Danish part of the Baltic Sea that will help reduce energy dependence on Russia, Denmark's energy ministry said on Monday (Aug 29).The planned energy hub on the island of Bornholm will by 2030 link several offshore wind parks...
French bosses are prepared to make efforts to meet a government demand to cut energy consumption by around 10 per cent to avoid rationing amid soaring prices and fears of power shortages as the war in Ukraine grinds on, their chief said on Monday (Aug 29)."We are looking at it, it is not imposs...
Sports,Cricket
Hardik Pandya's talent was never in doubt and the India all-rounder has now combined a calm mind with an uncluttered approach to emerge as a serious match-winner as he demonstrated in Sunday's Asia Cup thriller against Pakistan.Emotions run high whenever India and Pakistan clash in a cricket...
Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane has set his sights on chasing down Alan Shearer's all-time Premier League goalscoring record after his two goals against Nottingham Forest moved him up to joint-third in the scoring charts.Kane missed a penalty but netted twice to surpass 200 league goals in ...
Taylor Swift won the top honor at MTV's annual Video Music Awards on Sunday for a 10-minute version of her 2012 breakup song "All Too Well" and made a surprise announcement of a new album coming in October.The singer thanked fans from the stage at the Prudential Center in New Jersey as...
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag said Harry Maguire's position as club captain will not guarantee him a spot in the team, especially when they have Raphael Varane as an option in defence.Maguire was dropped in favour of Varane, a World Cup winner with France, in United's morale-boostin...
Rafa Nadal said it was sad news that his great rival Novak Djokovic will be missing from the U.S. Open, adding that the absence of a player of the Serbian’s calibre was an important miss for the hardcourt Grand Slam.Djokovic, who won Wimbledon to take his major singles titles to 21, has opted ...
Two South Korean companies have signed a US$5.76 billion (S$8.02 billion) contract with Poland to export tanks and howitzers, Seoul's arms procurement agency said on Saturday (Aug 27), after Warsaw agreed to ramp up arms imports amid tensions with Russia.The contract, signed in Poland on Friday,...
Manchester United's new signing Casemiro hopes his team mate Cristiano Ronaldo stays at the Premier League club, amid intense speculation over the 37-year-old's future.Ronaldo, who re-signed for United from Juventus last season, reportedly wants a move away from United following the team'...
Barcelona and Manchester City drew an entertaining friendly 3-3 at Camp Nou on Wednesday in a game held to raise awareness of and funds for research into Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).More than 90,000 fans attended the game and gave a standing ovation to former club goalkeeper and assistant he...
Business & Commerce
The Qatar Investment Authority aims to invest $3.0 billion in Pakistan, the Qatari ruler's office said on Wednesday, lending support to the South Asian nation's cash-strapped economy.Pakistan is in economic turmoil and faces a balance of payments crisis, with foreign reserves having dropped ...
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