MELBOURNE: Melbourne’s shops, restaurants and hotels opened for business on Wednesday (Oct 28) after a four-month coronavirus lockdown, with happy customers enjoying alfresco eating in the spring sunshine and shopkeepers hoping for big sales to make up for lost revenue. The state of Victoria and its capital Melbourne, Australia’s second […]
Day: October 27, 2020
WASHINGTON: More than 70 million Americans have cast ballots in the US presidential election, more than half the total turnout of the 2016 election with one week to go until Election Day, according to a Tuesday (Oct 28) tally from the US Elections Project. The tally, which shows a record-breaking […]
MADRID: Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned as Barcelona president on Tuesday, along with his board of directors, and left with a bombshell admission that he had accepted a proposal for the club to play in “a future European Super League”. Bartomeu’s departure comes following mounting pressure from fans and his public […]
PARIS: Holders Bayern Munich continued their perfect start to their Champions League title defence on Tuesday as Real Madrid had Casemiro’s late goal to thank for scrambling a 2-2 draw away to Borussia Moenchengladbach. Liverpool and Manchester City also made it six points out of a possible six in Europe […]
NEW YORK: World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman will miss next year’s Tokyo Olympics after being banned for two years for breaching whereabouts rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Tuesday. Coleman, who narrowly escaped a ban last year for missing three doping tests, was provisionally suspended by the […]
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will premiere its last season on December 31 on Netflix. The fourth and final season of the supernatural horror series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is set to start streaming from December 31, Netflix has announced. The last season of the show, fronted by Kiernan Shipka as […]
BURNLEY, England: Son Heung-min’s prolific start to the season continued with his 76th minute header giving Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 win at winless Burnley in the Premier League on Monday (Oct 26) and moving Jose Mourinho’s side up to fifth. The South Korean was left unmarked at the back post […]
NEW DELHI: The United States and India must work together to confront the threat posed by China to security and freedom, US Secretary Mike Pompeo said toay as he prepared for talks with Indian leaders. Pompeo arrived in New Delhi yesterday along with Defense Secretary Mark Esper for an annual […]
SINGAPORE: A new task force has been set up to help vulnerable professionals, managers and executives (PMEs), particularly those who are aged 40 to 60. This was announced by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and the Singapore National Employers’ Federation (SNEF) on Tuesday (Oct 27), and comes two months […]
HANOI: Vietnam was rushing to ensure more than half a million people were out of harm’s way today, ahead of the arrival of a powerful typhoon set to dump more heavy rain on a central region devastated by weeks of intense weather. Hundreds of flights were cancelled and schools closed […]