SINGAPORE: Reverend Eileen Harrop has never courted fame, she said. But in a strange twist of fate, she has gone global, after being pictured giving Communion to her congregants with a pair of long chopsticks. Appearing on several major UK media outlets – including Sky News, the British Broadcasting Corporation […]
Year: 2020
KABUL: Trailblazing Afghan women’s rights campaigner Fawzia Koofi, a member of the negotiating team that will hold peace talks with the Taliban, has been wounded in a gun attack near Kabul, officials said Saturday (Aug 15). Gunmen opened fire on Koofi, 45, and her sister on Friday when they were […]
NEW DELHI: MS Dhoni on Saturday (Aug 15) retired from India’s national team ending one of the most heralded international cricket careers ever. The 39-year-old wicketkeeper batsman is India’s most successful captain having won the World Cup, the inaugural T20 World Cup and the Champions Trophy. Dubbed ‘Captain Cool’ because […]
GLASGOW: Scottish football has to assume it’s responsibilities in observing the coronavirus protocols and is not being singled out for punishment Professor Jason Leitch, Scotland’s national clinical director, told the BBC on Saturday (Aug 15). Scottish football has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past […]
NEW YORK: Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremonies for the late Kobe Bryant and other 2020 inductees have been postponed to May 13-15, 2021 due to COVID-19 issues, officials announced. The organization had been trying to set up an October 2020 date for ceremonies, which will be staged at Mohegan […]
The production company behind Hollyoaks is launching a guardians scheme in an effort to tackle racial inequality among the soap’s cast and crew. Lime Pictures’ measures come after some cast members claimed they had experienced racism on the series. The company’s bosses, Kate Little and Claire Poyser, said: “As a […]
US country music star Dolly Parton has come out in support of Black Lives Matter, in a rare comment on politics. She told Billboard Magazine: “Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!” With a broad fan base that spans the right and the […]
LONDON: Arsenal’s head of football Raul Sanllehi is leaving the club with managing director Vinai Venkatesham set to take over, the Premier League side announced today. Sanllehi, who was formerly Barcelona’s director of football, was initially appointed the club’s head of football relations before taking on the role of head […]
MADRID: Lionel Messi’s body language said it all as Barcelona were sent into full-blown meltdown in their historic Champions League quarter-final humiliation at the hands of Bayern Munich yesterday. He could only look on helplessly as the club to which he has brought so much glory succumbed to a record […]
LISBON: For the first time in 13 years, there is no Spanish team in the semi-finals of the Champions League and the way in which Barcelona were dumped out, with an 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich, emphatically ended the era of La Liga supremacy. There was one basic similarity in […]