SYDNEY: Australia on Thursday (Jul 30) reported a record number of new COVID-19 infections and its deadliest day of the pandemic so far following a spike in cases at elderly care homes. Days after authorities expressed hope that a Melbourne lockdown – now in its third week – was bringing […]
Month: July 2020
SINGAPORE: Ride-hailing company Uber has reversed its decision to move its Asia-Pacific headquarters out of Singapore and will stay put in the country until at least the end of 2022. The company had said two months ago that it planned to relocate its Asia-Pacific headquarters to Hong Kong, but has […]
DOHA: Former Barcelona star Xavi Hernandez said on Wednesday (Jul 29) that he had recovered from the coronavirus, returned home and resumed his duties as Qatari side Al-Sadd’s head coach. “Thank you so much for all the caring messages that I’ve received during these days,” he wrote on his verified […]
SAO PAULO: In Brazil, health care workers are on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic in more ways than one, treating patients but also volunteering to test some of the most promising experimental vaccines. Brazil is the country with the second-highest number of infections and deaths in the pandemic, […]
TOKYO: Japan will from next week lift a ban on the re-entry of some foreign residents, imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus, the foreign ministry has announced. Up to 90,000 foreign nationals with residence permits, including students, business people and trainees, are currently stuck outside Japan after authorities banned […]
Manchester City have had a 41 million pound bid for Bournemouth central defender Nathan Ake accepted by the relegated south coast team, the Bournemouth Echo reported on Thursday. MANCHESTER, England: Manchester City have had a 41 million pound bid for Bournemouth central defender Nathan Ake accepted by the relegated south […]
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak set daily records on Wednesday (Jul 29) with both 69,074 new confirmed cases and 1,595 related deaths, as the world’s second-worst outbreak accelerates toward the milestone of 100,000 lives cut short. Brazil is the country worst hit by COVID-19 outside of the United States […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN: The German economy suffered a record slump in the second quarter as coronavirus lockdowns took their toll, official data is set to show Thursday (Jul 30), but experts say a recovery is already under way. Federal statistics agency Destatis will unveil its flash estimate at 0800 GMT, […]
WASHINGTON: The US economy likely contracted at its steepest pace since the Great Depression in the second quarter as the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed consumer and business spending, potentially wiping out more than five years of growth. The bulk of the historic plunge in gross domestic product expected to be reported […]
WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the four liberal justices on the top US court, has been hospitalised again, the court said late on Wednesday (Jul 29). The 87-year-old liberal icon was undergoing a “minimally invasive non-surgical procedure” in a New York hospital, the country’s highest […]