World
A vehicle drove at high speed into a group of Belgian carnival performers who were preparing a parade early on Sunday (March 20), killing four people and badly injuring seven others, Belgian media said.Those in the vehicle, which local media said was a car, were detained. The cause of the incident w...
Wildfires wiped out 86 homes and a majority of the small town of Carbon, Texas, the Dallas Morning News reported on Saturday (March 19), as four fires west of Dallas burned 22,000ha and killed a sheriff's deputy who was helping people flee.The four fires, designated as the Eastland Complex, have...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is healthy, sane and "in better shape than ever", his close ally Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has said in an interview with the Japanese television channel TBS."He and I haven't only met as heads of state, we're on friendly terms,&quo...
Sports,Tennis
Roger Federer will be donating $500,000 through his foundation to ensure children affected by the war in Ukraine are provided with care and access to education, the former world No 1 said Friday.The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said earlier this week that nearly 3m refugees have fled Ukraine, about 7% ...
Sports,Football
The Champions League draw threw up a mouthwatering range of possibilities on Friday as troubled holders Chelsea were drawn to play 13-time winners Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.The three Premier League and three La Liga clubs in the last eight avoided each other, with Manchester City up against ...
Atletico Madrid knocked Manchester United out of the Champions League and moved into the quarter-finals after a 41st minute header from Brazilian Renan Lodi gave them a 1-0 (2-1 aggregate) win at Old Trafford on Tuesday.It was a typical display of the kind of gritty defending and swift counter-attac...
Germany reported another record high seven-day incidence of the coronavirus on Wednesday (March 16) even as the country prepares to ease restrictions.The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) registered 262,593 new infections, a 22 per cent jump compared to a week ago, bringing the total number of infections ...
Demand for the Covid-19 vaccine produced by US biotech firm Novavax has been underwhelming in the European Union's main countries in the early rollout, so far undermining hopes that it could convince vaccine sceptics to get a shot. Over 85 per cent of adults in the 27-country EU bloc have receiv...
France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday (March 14) that he would travel to Corsica later this week and hold talks with local elected officials after violent protests erupted on the weekend, a few weeks before the presidential election.Calm must be restored immediately, the mini...
Business & Commerce
Russia urged India to deepen its investments in the sanction-hit country's oil and gas sector, and is keen on expanding the sales networks of Russian companies in Asia's third-largest economy.Russia's economy faces its deepest crisis since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, as the We...
World,Front Page
Asia passed the grim milestone of 1 million coronavirus-linked deaths on Friday, a Reuters tally showed, as a spike in omicron variant infections spreads across the region after starting in nations such as Japan and South Korea.The death toll in Asia, home to more than half the world's populatio...
Sports,Cricket
A marathon century by Nkrumah Bonner helped West Indies to a 62-run lead with a wicket in hand after day three of the first Test against England in Antigua on Thursday.The Jamaican, at the age of 33 playing only his 10th Test, displayed the utmost care and patience as West Indies crept to 373 for ni...
World,Back Page
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won India's most populous state with a big majority, according to the count on Thursday of a state assembly vote that could offer clues to the national mood before a 2024 general election.The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won o...
Cricketers will not be allowed to use saliva to shine the ball while the rarely used but entirely permissible "Mankad" method of dismissing batters will not be listed under unfair play in new laws approved by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).Cricketers have used the age-old method of shin...
Russia has told Ukraine it is ready to halt military operations "in a moment" if Kyiv meets a list of conditions, the Kremlin spokesman said on Monday (March 7).Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was demanding that Ukraine cease military action, change its Constitution to enshrine neutrality, ackno...
Turkey and Israel will seek to overcome years of animosity and insults when their presidents meet for the first time in more than a decade this week, expanding a recent Turkish charm offensive with regional rivals.The two countries have traded accusations over Israel's occupation of Palestinian ...
A first-half goal from Alvaro Morata was enough to give Juventus a 1-0 victory at home to Spezia in Serie A on Sunday as they tightened their grip on a Champions League spot.The hosts, who went close on the quarter-hour mark through midfielder Arthur Melo, took the lead after 21 minutes when the Bra...
Kevin De Bruyne and Riyad Mahrez scored two goals each as Manchester City restored their lead at the top of the Premier League to six points with a convincing 4-1 derby victory over Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.United had put up a decent fight in the first half, going in 2-1 dow...
Barcelona fought back to earn a 2-1 win in a frantically entertaining match at Elche on Sunday as a late penalty from Memphis Depay ensured they continued their revival after a difficult start to the season.Having fallen as low as ninth back in November, when former coach Ronald Koeman was fired, Xa...
Real Madrid fought back to earn a 4-1 home win against Real Sociedad that extended their lead at the top of LaLiga to eight points ahead of second-placed Sevilla on Saturday.Real dominated the game but they fell behind after 10 minutes to a penalty converted by Mikel Oyarzabal after Dani Carvajal tr...
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