WASHINGTON: The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday (Nov 10) granted emergency approval to a synthetic antibody treatment against COVID-19 developed by Eli Lilly, after the drug was shown to reduce the risk of hospitalisation and emergency room visits. Bamlanivimab at a dose of 700 mg was authorised for […]
Month: November 2020
BARCELONA: Barcelona forward Ansu Fati will be sidelined for four months after undergoing knee surgery, the La Liga club said yesterday. Fati, who turned 18 last month, ruptured the internal meniscus in his left knee during Barcelona’s 5-2 home win over Real Betis on Saturday. “Ansu Fati has been operated […]
LONDON: Paul Pogba “cannot be happy” with the situation he finds himself in at Manchester United, France head coach Didier Deschamps said yesterday. The French midfielder has started just four of United’s seven Premier League games this season, and just one of three in the Champions League. Pogba’s future at […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who is refusing to concede election defeat, injected new volatility on Monday (Nov 9) by firing his defense secretary, while President-elect Joe Biden made good on a promise to focus on leading the country out of the COVID-19 crisis. With construction already starting in central Washington […]
WASHINGTON: A US judge said on Monday (Nov 9) he will consider arguments in a disputed order related to the protection of confidential information in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit filed against Alphabet’s Google LLC unit. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta directed the government and Google to file by Friday […]
AUGUSTA: Rory McIlroy’s quest to complete a career Grand Slam continues for a sixth consecutive year at the Masters this week and the Northern Irishman feels he could benefit from playing Augusta National in cooler autumn temperatures without spectators. The Masters is usually held in April as the first major […]
Celebrities are paying tributes to the Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek who died on Sunday after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. Alex Trebek, who was the host of beloved quiz show Jeopardy!, has died at the age of 80. Tributes have been pouring in from colleagues, contestants on his […]
“We’re fortunate that Joe’s got what it takes to be President and already carries himself that way,” former President Obama said in a statement. I could not be prouder to congratulate our next President, Joe Biden, and our next First Lady, Jill Biden. I also couldn’t be prouder to congratulate […]
THULASENDRAPURAM, India: After rooting for Kamala Harris as President-elect Joe Biden’s running mate, people in her small ancestral Indian village woke up on Sunday (Nov 8) morning to the news of her making history. Most of them had gone to sleep by the time Biden clinched the winning threshold of […]
Gopalan Balachandran, maternal uncle of Kamala Harris, said he was feeling “proud and happy”, describing her as a fighter. Soaking in the moment of glory, Gopalan Balachandran, maternal uncle of Senator Kamala Harris, on Saturday said he told her niece a day earlier that she was “going to win” to […]