PARIS: France and Germany moved yesterday toward shutting down sectors of their economies as part of accelerating efforts worldwide to check a resurgent coronavirus and still limit the financial fallout. Hundreds of thousands of new infections took the known global caseload past 44.5 million with nearly 1.2 million deaths, as […]
Year: 2020
Over the last seven months, many of us have become used to the existential horror of Zoom calls with our colleagues. The prurient thrill of glimpsing their book collection, or the dirty laundry on their bedroom floor, has given way to a sort of Groundhog Day of socially-isolated sadness, as […]
NEW YORK: New York and other parts of the northeastern United States, which have kept the coronavirus outbreak under control after being an early epicenter in the country, are now seeing a worrying rise in infections. While the number of new cases is far from the high levels currently seen […]
LONDON: The cancellation of England’s game against the Barbarians because of COVID protocol breaches made rugby a laughing stock and his team have a responsibility to put the smile back on fans’ faces, England coach Eddie Jones said on Thursday. On the day the RFU was bringing charges against the […]
LAS VEGAS: A charity bout between former champions Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr next month is being billed as an exhibition but both boxers described it as war on Thursday (Oct 29), promising to hold nothing back even if they have to fight under women’s rules. The boxing greats, […]
ANTWERP, Belgium: Belgian league leaders Antwerp secured a shock 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan extended their unbeaten run to 23 games as they won 3-0 against Sparta Prague in the Europa League on Thursday (Oct 29), while Arsenal cruised to a 3-0 win over Dundalk. Veteran striker […]
TAMPA: Donald Trump and Joe Biden dueled over the crucial state of Florida yesterday, painting radically different visions of the United States as big new GDP figures showed the economy getting back on track even as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates again. With Trump touting an early end to the health […]
NICE: A knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman, inside a church in Nice on the French Riviera yesterday. The brutal killings come only two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by an Islamist extremist, after the […]
SEOUL: North Korea today placed blame for its killing last month of a South Korean fisheries official on Seoul’s “improper control of the citizen”. The incident, which occurred when troops shot the official after he drifted into North Korea’s waters ”was the result of improper control of the citizen by […]
WASHINGTON: The US economy grew at a record pace in the third quarter as the government injected more than US$3 trillion worth of pandemic relief which fuelled consumer spending, but the deep scars from the COVID-19 recession could take a year or more to heal. Though the Commerce Department’s report […]