LONDON: Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes has played down comparisons to Eric Cantona after a blistering start to his career at Old Trafford, insisting he needs trophies on his resume before he can begin to reach the Frenchman’s status. Fernandes has made an instant impact since arriving from Sporting Lisbon in […]
Year: 2020
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump now has a verified account on TikTok competitor Triller, another sign of the White House’s disfavour toward the ByteDance-owned video-sharing app. Triller is one of several TikTok alternatives that have experienced a surge of downloads since Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 6 that […]
WASHINGTON: Despite being gaffe-prone, getting up in years and barely heading out on the campaign trail, Democrat Joe Biden is leading in the polls as the coronavirus epidemic and economic crisis make the November presidential election a referendum on Donald Trump. The COVID-19 outbreak has stripped Trump of his beloved […]
Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in Chennai before she moved to the USA to pursue a doctoral degree at University of California Berkeley. Kamala Harris, the US vice-presidential candidate, on Saturday congratulated India on the progress “our people have made in the fight for justice” as she extended her […]
The president visited his brother at a New York City hospital on Friday after White House officials said he had become seriously ill. President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being […]
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday (Aug 15) he could exert pressure on more Chinese companies such as technology giant Alibaba after he moved to ban TikTok. Asked at a news conference whether there were other particular China-owned companies he was considering a ban on, such […]
Samsung Galaxy S20 Fan Edition 5G is expected to launch later this year. The new version of the premium phone will come with some minor design changes and almost same set of specs as the main variant. Samsung will soon launch a special edition of its flagship Galaxy S20. Called […]
California on Friday became the first US state to surpass 600,000 cases and the Midwest saw several record one-day rises as some states struggled to contain the pandemic even as a few welcomed students back to school campuses. Russia said on Saturday that it has produced the first batch of […]
Over the last three weeks, the number of new confirmed cases in South Africa has dropped from a peak of over 12,000 a day to an average over the past week of around 5,000 a day. The recovery rate has increased from 48 per cent to 80 per cent. A […]
The op-ed was written by John Eastman, a conservative attorney who argues that the US Constitution doesn’t grant birthright citizenship. Eastman sowed doubt about Harris’ eligibility based on her parents’ immigration status. Newsweek has apologized for an op-ed that questioned Sen. Kamala Harris’ US citizenship and her eligibility to be […]