REUTERS: Watford’s interim head coach Hayden Mullins says he was partly to blame for their relegation from the Premier League after failing to win either of his two games in charge. Watford were three points clear of the relegation zone with two games to play when they parted ways with […]
Year: 2020
Tokyo Olympics venues that would have been packed with the world’s top athletes and supporters but for the coronavirus pandemic are now being opened up for use by sporting federations and the public. TOKYO: Tokyo Olympics venues that would have been packed with the world’s top athletes and supporters but […]
REUTERS: Tottenham Hotspur captain Harry Kane has wished defender Jan Vertonghen and goalkeeper Michel Vorm nothing but the best with “whatever is next” for them, suggesting they will not be at the Premier League club next season. Belgian international Vertonghen has struggled for playing time this season while Dutchman Vorm […]
SHANGHAI: Huawei Technologies’ founder Ren Zhengfei’s global ambitions are marked in bricks and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas from European cities. Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, the operator of short video app TikTok, has plastered his Beijing headquarters with posters including […]
LOS ANGELES: Gone With the Wind star Olivia de Havilland, considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died on Sunday (Jul 26) at the age of 104, the Hollywood Reporter said. She died of natural causes at her home in Paris, where she had lived for […]
CHENGDU: Beijing announced the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu was closed on Monday (Jul 27) morning, after it ordered the facility be shut in retaliation for China being ousted from its consulate in Houston, Texas. Police in Chengdu restricted access to the area around the consulate on […]
Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co has cut its India revenue target for 2020 by up to 50per cent and is laying off more than half of its staff in the country, the Economic Times reported on Monday, amid calls to boycott Chinese goods in Asia’s third-largest economy. REUTERS: Chinese […]
MECCA: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (Jul 29) begins hosting the annual Haj pilgrimage, dramatically down-scaled due to the coronavirus pandemic that has barred millions of international pilgrims for the first time in modern history. Up to 10,000 people residing in the kingdom will participate in the Muslim ritual, a tiny […]
HONG KONG: Gold hit a record high on Monday (Jul 27) as investors rushed into the safe-haven on concerns about China-US tensions, a spike in virus infections around the world and a lack of progress on a new stimulus bill in Washington. After months of healthy rallies across equity markets, […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria will take longer than the current six-week lockdown period to stem the spread of the coronavirus, authorities said on Monday (Jul 27), as the country battles to contain a second wave of the virus. Australia, one of the least-hit countries by the […]