Entertainment & Glomour
Ncuti Gatwa will take the mantle from Jodie Whittaker on “Doctor Who,” the BBC announced Sunday, ending speculation over the iconic Time Lord’s next regeneration.“Sometimes talent walks through the door and it’s so bright and bold and brilliant, I just stand back in awe...
Sports,Football
A stoppage-time goal from defender Jordi Alba earned Barcelona a 2-1 LaLiga win at Real Betis on Saturday, securing Xavi Hernandez's side Champions League qualification and edging them closer to a spot at the lucrative Spanish Super Cup finals.Alba received a precise pass from Dani Alves in the ...
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said his Liverpool side would still chase an unprecedented quadruple despite seeing their Premier League title hopes suffer a huge blow on Saturday.Klopp's side have already won the League Cup and are in the FA Cup and Champions League finals and victory over Tott...
Business & Commerce
India will on Friday launch an open network for digital commerce (ONDC) as the government tries to end the dominance of US companies Amazon.com and Walmart in the fast-growing e-commerce market, a government document showed.The launch of the platform comes after India's antitrust body on Th...
World food prices eased slightly in April after hitting a record high in March, but global food security remained a concern because of the difficult market conditions, UN food agency said on Friday.The Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most globally tra...
World
Thailand is aiming for 5 million to 15 million foreign tourist arrivals this year as the country further eases travel restrictions to support the key tourism sector, a government spokesperson said on Friday (May 6).The South-east Asian country removed on-arrival Covid-19 tests from May 1, the latest...
Thousands of shops, schools and businesses closed on Friday (May 6) as public and private sector workers in Sri Lanka went on strike, demanding the president and the government step down for their mishandling of the island's worst financial crisis in decades.Hit hard by the pandemic, rising oil ...
Heavy rain and flooding have killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops in Afghanistan, which is already facing a humanitarian crisis, a disaster management official said on Thursday (May 5).The Taliban government, struggling to cope with the disaster that has affected more than...
A major North Korean propaganda website denounced on Thursday (May 5) South Korea's incoming president Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a tougher line on weapons tests by Pyongyang, describing him as "pro-United States", and "confrontational".The North's state media h...
Germany has filed a case against Italy at the highest UN court because Rome continues to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation from the German state even after an earlier ruling that such claims violated international law.Germany's application to the International Court of Justi...
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said playmaker Kevin De Bruyne was the best player in his position and the Belgium international was an important member of the Premier League leaders.De Bruyne has been in scintillating form for City this season, bagging 15 goals and 12 assists in 40 games in a...
Sports,Cricket
England's fast bowler, James Anderson, said he would like to return to the Test team under new captain Ben Stokes after being controversially dropped from the squad.Anderson and Stuart Broad, England's all-time leading Test wicket takers with 1,177 wickets between them, were left out of the ...
HSBC Holdings' largest shareholder, Chinese insurance giant Ping An, has called for a break-up of the London-based bank, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.Ping An has set out its plan to split the company to HSBC's board, according to earlier media reports, which also cited pe...
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk sold $8.5 billion worth of shares in the electric vehicle maker, U.S. securities filings showed, in sales likely aimed at helping finance his planned purchase of Twitter Inc.Musk said in a tweet on Thursday that there are "no further TSLA sales planne...
Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades towards rock-hurling Palestinian youth at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday (April 29), the latest outbreak of violence at a site revered by Muslims and Jews alike.At least 12 Palestinians were injured in the early morning clashes at Islam...
Manchester United's interim manager Ralf Rangnick has been appointed the Austrian national team coach on a two-year dealtasked with qualifying for Euro 2024, the country's football association president Gerhard Milletich said on Friday.Rangnick, who will make way at United for Erik ten Hag a...
World shares rose on Friday, at the end of a month that will be the benchmark's worst in two years, as a slight pullback in the dollar from 20-year highs offered relief to battered markets.Asian shares enjoyed their best day in six weeks, led by Chinese tech stocks, while MSCI's global equit...
Karim Benzema was in a confident mood after scoring a brace that helped keep Real Madrid alive in their Champions League last-four tie against Manchester City and the French striker predicted his team would now qualify for the final.Real trailed by two goals three times in the semi-final first leg a...
Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini will retire from international football after the European champions play a friendly against their South American counterparts Argentina at Wembley in June.Italy's failure to qualify for this year's World Cup in Qatar seems to have hastened the 37-year-old Ju...
Britain unveiled a new taskforce on Monday (April 25) to write rules forcing financial firms and listed companies to publish plans from next year for transitioning to a net zero economy by 2050.In November at the COP26 UN Climate Summit, British finance minister Rishi Sunak said companies would have...
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