Sports,Football
Portuguese champions Porto have reached an agreement for the transfer of attacking midfielder Fabio Vieira to Premier League side Arsenal for 40 million euros ($42 million), the club announced on Friday.Porto said Arsenal would pay an initial 35 million euros with a further five million dependent on...
World
SpaceX has fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter criticising chief executive officer Elon Musk's behaviour, The New York Times reported, citing three employees with knowledge of the situation.SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell sent an e-mail saying the company had investig...
Business & Commerce
Japan's Sony and Honda Motor on Thursday officially agreed to an equally owned joint venture that will start selling electric cars in 2025.Honda, like bigger rival Toyota Motor, has been slower to shift to electric vehicles (EV) than global automakers and is under pressure from investors to make...
A shooting in the southern California city of El Monte left two police officers and a suspect dead, the authorities said late on Tuesday (June 14), adding that the officers were shot in the line of duty while responding to a report of a possible stabbing."The El Monte Police Department responde...
United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday (June 15) demanded oil companies explain why they aren't putting more gasoline on the market, sharply escalating his rhetoric against industry as he faces pressure over rising prices.Biden wrote to executives from Marathon Petroleum Corp, Valero Ene...
Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday (June 14) unanimously recommended that the agency authorise Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine for children and teens aged six to 17 years.Around 77 million people in the United States have received at least a two-dose course of Moderna's va...
Awer Mabil said converting a penalty in the shootout triumph over Peru that took the Socceroos to a fifth successive World Cup on Monday was a thank you to Australia for taking him and his family in as refugees.The winger, born to South Sudanese parents in a Kenyan refugee camp, calmly converted the...
After five goals in four Nations League games for Norway interest in striker Erling Haaland is at fever pitch as he was unveiled as a Manchester City player in what will be one of the biggest transfers of the English close season.In early May the Premier League champions announced that they would be...
Sri Lanka may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as the nation faces shortages amid an unprecedented economic crisis, its Prime Minister told the Associated Press.Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, in an interview with the news agency on Saturday, said he would first look to other sources, b...
Police in India's Kashmir arrested a youth for posting a video threatening to behead a former spokesman of India's ruling party who had made derogatory remarks about Islam's religious leader Prophet Mohammad, officials said on Sunday (June 12).The video, circulated on YouTube, has been w...
Sahal Samad’s injury-time strike earned India a dramatic 2-1 victory over Afghanistan in Kolkata on Saturday that keeps the country’s hopes of qualifying for next year’s Asian Cup finals alive.Sunil Chhetri looked to have secured Igor Stimac’s side a second straight win after...
Taiwan's government threatened to take Beijing to the World Trade Organisation on Saturday (June 11) after China suspended the import of grouper fish from the island saying it had detected banned chemicals, the latest agricultural spat between the two.Last year, China suspended imports of pineap...
All Section,Entertainment & Glomour
Hollywood star Johnny Depp, who last week won a near-total victory in a defamation suit against his ex-wife Amber Heard, and English guitarist Jeff Beck will release an album of mainly covers next month, after taking to the stage together.Called "18", the 13-track album will be released on...
Sweden will look to make constructive progress in talks with Turkey on Ankara's objections over the Nordic country's application to join the Nato defensive alliance, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Friday (June 10).Finland and Sweden applied to join Nato last month in response to Russia&#...
The leaders of Australia and New Zealand vowed on Friday (June 10) to take their ties to "a new level" through greater collaboration on climate change and regional security.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the two countries shared concerns about the Pacific as China pushes t...
A former Afghan minister, who fled as the Taliban took over Afghanistan last year, returned on Wednesday (June 8), officials said, following security assurances given as part of the hardline group's initiative to woo back high-profile individuals.Mr Ghulam Farooq Wardak, a member of the cabinets...
North Korea's recent missile tests were "serious, unlawful" provocations, senior officials from South Korea, the United States and Japan said on Wednesday (June 8), urging Pyongyang to return to dialogue and accept offers of Covid-19 aid.South Korea vice-foreign minister Cho Hyun-dong,...
Sports,Cricket
A relieved Joe Root said the England test captaincy had taken a toll on his personal health after he guided his side to a memorable five-wicket win against New Zealand on Sunday in his first match since relinquishing the role.The 31-year-old stepped down as skipper in the aftermath of England's ...
Paris St Germain forward Kylian Mbappe is the most valuable soccer player in the world, according to Swiss research group CIES Football Observatory, followed by Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr and new Manchester City recruit Erling Haaland.Mbappe, who turned down Real and signed a new three-year deal ...
A parallel government opposed to military rule in Myanmar announced on Tuesday (June 7) that it was forming its own police force, in its latest effort to hamper the junta's efforts to govern after a coup last year.Myanmar has been in turmoil since the overthrow of Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's ...
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