Sports,Football
Paris St Germain continued their march towards the Ligue 1 title when a Kylian Mbappe double earned them a clinical 2-0 home victory against Monaco on Sunday.Mbappe found the back of the net with a penalty and a precise strike in the opening half to put the league leaders on 45 points from 18 games,...
World
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden have agreed to hold more talks amid tensions over a Russian troop build-up near Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Sunday and Putin would like to meet in person at some stage too.The Kremlin said Putin and Biden had agreed to hold more talk...
The Group of Seven warned Russia on Sunday of massive consequences and severe costs if President Vladimir Putin attacks Ukraine, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters.US intelligence assesses that Russia could be planning a multi-front offensive on Ukraine as early as next year, involving u...
Germany's federal cybersecurity watchdog, the BSI, on Saturday (Dec 11) issued a red alert warning, its highest, on a flawed piece of widely-used software, saying it posed an "extremely critical threat" to web servers.A vulnerability in a Java-based library known as Log4j can be exploi...
Business & Commerce
Gulf exchanges are likely to have another busy year of initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2022, possibly surpassing this year's bumper crop, a Bank of America executive told Reuters.After a year that featured three major IPOs on both Abu Dhabi's ADX and Saudi Arabia's Tadawul markets, Du...
World,Back Page
Some 50 people are “likely” to have been killed in a devastating outbreak of tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky and several other US states late Friday and early Saturday, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said.He told local TV station WLKY that the number of dead could be “signif...
Palestinians held municipal elections in the occupied West Bank on Saturday (Dec 11) in a rare democratic exercise and amid rising anger with President Mahmoud Abbas after he cancelled planned legislative and presidential votes earlier this year.More than 400,000 Palestinians were eligible to cast b...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives have lost their poll lead over the opposition Labour Party after revelations about alleged lockdown parties at Johnson's residence provoked an outcry over hypocrisy.A YouGov poll for The Times newspaper showed Johnson's Conservatives h...
Wildfires produced a record amount of carbon emissions in parts of Siberia, the United States and Turkey this year, as climate change fanned unusually intense blazes, the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said on Monday.Wildfires emitted 1.76 billion tonnes of carbon diox...
Sports,Cricket
The fifth test in the upcoming Ashes series between Australia and England will be moved from Perth to another venue because of the border controls in place in Western Australia, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday.The governing body said attempts to negotiate conditions for the Jan. 14-18 match at...
World,Front Page
Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a four-year jail term on Monday on charges of incitement and violations of a law on natural disasters, a source familiar with the proceedings said.The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said ousted President Win Myint got the same ...
Sports,Tennis
Russia took an unassailable 2-0 lead over Croatia in the Davis Cup final in Madrid Sunday to secure their third title and first in 15 years, as Daniil Medvedev outlasted Croatian Marin Cilic 7-6 (7) 6-2.Reigning US Open champion Medvedev had to produce his best tennis to survive a tense first set as...
Juan Cuadrado scored directly from a corner as Juventus comfortably beat struggling Genoa 2-0 on Sunday to rise to fifth place in coach Massimiliano Allegri's 250th Serie A victory.Cuadrado struck a high, inswinging delivery into the far top corner after eight minutes to put the Old Lady in fron...
A cruise ship set to dock in New Orleans with more than 3,000 passengers has detected 10 cases of Covid-19 among its crew and guests, the Louisiana Department of Health said late on Saturday (Dec 4).Cruise ship Norwegian Breakaway, which is owned by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, departed New Orlea...
Real Madrid secured a statement 2-0 win against Real Sociedad on Saturday after travelling north to San Sebastian as they moved eight points clear at the top of LaLiga.With striker Karim Benzema forced off after 17 minutes with a hamstring injury, it was once again Vinicius Jr who stood out by scori...
Liverpool's Divock Origi came off the bench to score a brilliant injury-time winner to help his side to a 1-0 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday.Origi picked up a cross from Mohamed Salah before swivelling and drilling the ball home in the 94th minute, sending the Liverpool fans into rap...
Top scorer Robert Lewandowski scored twice, including a second-half penalty, to guide the German champions to a crucial 3-2 victory at title rivals Borussia Dortmund on Saturday and a four-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga.The Pole opened his account in the ninth minute to level after Dortmund...
Georginio Wijnaldum came to the rescue with a last-gasp goal as Ligue 1 leaders Paris St Germain salvaged a fortunate 1-1 draw at RC Lens on Saturday.The Dutch midfielder headed home two minutes into stoppage time to cancel out Seko Fofana’s second-half opener and put PSG on 42 points from 17 ...
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New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel became only the third bowler to pick up all 10 wickets in an innings in international cricket, achieving the feat against India in the second Test at the Wankhede Stadium.The 33-year-old joined England off-spinner Jim Laker (1956 against Australia) and India leg-spinne...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc and the International Finance Forum (IFF), a Beijing-headquartered think tank, launched a green finance working group on Saturday, the two said.The working group will facilitate dialogue on climate action among senior executives from global corporations and researchers from l...
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