Vivo paid $330 million for a five-year deal up to 2022 NEW DELHI: The Chinese headline sponsor of the Indian Premier League, the world’s richest cricket tournament, is set to withdraw amid mounting hostility after a border clash between the Indian and Chinese armies, reports said. Phonemaker Vivo was […]
Day: August 4, 2020
LONDON: Chelsea forward Pedro has undergone surgery on his shoulder ahead of an expected transfer to Roma, meaning he will not play for the Premier League club again. The 33-year-old Spain international confirmed on social media his operation had been successful. He landed awkwardly on his right shoulder when appearing […]
BERLIN: Football clubs in Germany’s top two divisions on Tuesday agreed to plans drawn up by the league which could allow the partial return of fans to stadiums from mid-September, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Under the plans proposed by the German Football League (DFL) for the new season, which starts […]
The 2021 Women’s World Cup in New Zealand could be played behind closed doors and in a bio-secure environment. Organisers of the tournament, scheduled for February and March, are advertising for a “bio-security manager”. The International Cricket Council (ICC) is understood to be looking at a range of options, in […]
MADRID: Spain’s World Cup-winning captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas announced his retirement from the professional game on Tuesday (Aug 4), ending a career that spanned over two decades in which he captured the game’s biggest prizes. The former Real Madrid skipper had called time on his five-year spell with Portuguese […]
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation today urged Russia to follow the established guidelines for producing safe and effective vaccines after Moscow announced plans to start swiftly producing Covid-19 jabs. Russia said yesterday it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine in September and turn out “several million” doses […]
Twenty-nine new deaths were reported over the same period, bringing the country’s total toll to 30,294. PARIS: France could “at any moment” lose control over the spread of the coronavirus, the government’s Covid-19 scientific council warned today as official data showed the first rise in intensive care patients since […]
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Donald Trump says the government should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if an American firm buys it. The US president said he made a demand for a “substantial portion” of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft’s boss. He also […]
PARIS: Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez will miss his second straight race after he was ruled out of Sunday’s Czech Grand Prix following another operation on his fractured right arm, his team said Tuesday. “After undergoing a second operation on his injured right arm, Marc Marquez and HRC have […]