Sports,Cricket
England captain Joe Root hailed Moeen Ali as a role model and said he would be a huge loss to the test side after the all-rounder announced his decision to quit the longest format of the game on Monday.Moeen, who made his test debut in 2014, scored 2,914 runs in 64 tests at an average of 28.29 and c...
World
Young activists who fought to get climate change to the top of the global agenda are being challenged to help come up with the solutions ahead of next month's COP26 United Nations summit.Thousands of young people, including Greta Thunberg, will converge on Milan this week, with some 400 from abo...
G ermany's Social Democrats said on Monday they would start the process of trying to forge a three-way alliance and lead a government for the first time since 2005 after they narrowly won Sunday's national election.The Social Democrats' chancellor candidate, Olaf Scholzsaid he aimed to b...
A n earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 5.8 struck the Greek island of Crete on Monday, killing one person and injuring several others, while damaging homes and churches and causing rock slides near the country’s fourth-largest city.The quake sent people fleeing into the street...
T he social media guru for Italy's Matteo Salvini said on Monday he had quit his post, key to building the far-right leader's popularity, following media reports that he was under a narcotics investigation.Luca Morisi, 48, widely considered to have had a crucial role in cultivating Salvini&#...
P ortugal's ruling Socialists suffered a astonishment setback successful Sunday's municipal elections, losing power of Lisbon aft 14 years, though they remained the biggest enactment nationwide aft a ballot that encompassed much than 300 metropolis and municipality halls.Carlos Moedas, erstw...
Sports,Football
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said he would drill the importance of the North London derby into the heads of his players ahead of Sunday’s home Premier League game against local rivals Tottenham Hotspur, describing it as the “most special game of the season”.Spurs have won only once...
No representative from Myanmar is scheduled to address the annual high-level United Nations General Assembly, a UN spokesman said on Friday amid rival claims for the country's UN seat in New York after a military coup ousted the elected government.Competing claims have also been made on Afghanis...
Young people around the world began taking to the streets on Friday to demand urgent action to avert disastrous climate change, in their largest protest since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.The strike takes place five weeks before the UN COP26 summit, which aims to secure more ambitious climate ...
England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said on Wednesday (Sept 22) that Covid-19 transmission was currently highest in 12- to 15-year-olds, and that almost all unvaccinated children would get infected at some point.All those in the 12 to 15 age bracket in England are to be offered a Covid-...
AstraZeneca on Thursday (Sept 23) struck a deal with the firm behind Imperial College London's experimental Covid-19 vaccine to develop and sell drugs based on its self-amplifying RNA technology platform in other disease areas.Under the deal, VaxEquity, a start-up founded by Imperial vaccinologi...
Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo has reclaimed top spot in the list of the world's highest-paid soccer players from Lionel Messi, according to Forbes.Ronaldo, 36, rejoined United from Juventus in August after 12 years away, while Messi has swapped boyhood club Barcelona to join Paris ...
Matthijs de Ligt's second-half strike earned Juventus their first victory of the Serie A season at the fifth attempt as a 3-2 comeback win at Spezia on Wednesday moved Massimiliano Allegri's side out of the bottom three.The Dutch defender fired home in the 72nd minute to give Juve all three ...
Lava poured from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma for a fourth day on Wednesday, blanketing houses and fields, a day after people with homes on the path of the molten rock were allowed back briefly to recover belongings.Towers of magma burst high into the air overnight...
In a new take on vaccine diplomacy, a free mobile Covid-19 testing and vaccination station is welcoming world leaders and delegates at this week's United Nations General Assembly, seeking to avoid a super-spreader event.After a virtual meeting last year, about a third of the 193 UN states are pl...
France should not have been shocked that Australia cancelled a submarine contract, as main considerations about delays, price overruns and suitability had been aired formally and publicly for years, Australian politicians stated.Paris has recalled its ambassadors from Canberra and Washington, saying...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday (Sept 21) that Russia was responsible for the 2006 killing of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko who died an agonising death after he was poisoned in London with Polonium 210, a rare radioactive isotope.Kremlin critic Litvinenko, 43, died weeks af...
AC Milan forward Ante Rebic's late header earned a 1-1 draw at Juventus in Serie A on Sunday, leaving Massimiliano Allegri's side still searching for a first league win of the season.Juve's Alvaro Morata scored for the third successive match in all competitions after just four minutes to...
A late Mauro Icardi strike earned Paris St Germain a last-gasp 2-1 home victory against Olympique Lyonnais with Lionel Messi making limited impact on his Parc des Princes debut on Sunday.Icardi headed home from Kylian Mbappe's cross four minutes into stoppage time after Neymar had levelled ...
Senate Democrats hit a major roadblock on Sunday in their effort to allow millions of immigrants to legally stay in the United States, after the Senate Parliamentarian ruled against attaching the measure to a US$3.5 trillion (S$4.72 trillion) spending bill, lawmakers said.The provision aimed to give...
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