Apollo Global said on Monday it would buy Athene Holding in an all-stock deal valuing the annuities provider at about US$11 billion, making it the private equity firm’s first major deal after co-founder Leon Black stepped down as CEO. REUTERS: Apollo Global said on Monday it would buy Athene Holding […]
Month: March 2021
PARIS: Hospitals in the Paris region have been ordered to cut all non-Covid patient care and surgery by 40 per cent as new virus cases risk overwhelming their intensive care capacity, health authorities said today. The Ile de France greater Paris region, which counts about 12 million inhabitants, currently has […]
PARIS: Novak Djokovic set a new landmark of 311 weeks as world number one on Monday, one week longer than Roger Federer whose tally of a record 20 Grand Slam titles is now firmly in the Serb’s sights. “Big day today”, tennis superstar wrote on Twitter. Djokovic, 33, won his […]
BEIJING: China will speed up lawmaking aimed at countering foreign sanctions and “long-arm jurisdiction”, its parliament said today, amid increasing pressure from Western countries over issues ranging from Xinjiang to Hong Kong. Reading its annual work report at a parliamentary session, parliament chief Li Zhanshu said China will in the […]
SAN FRANCISCO: “Just setting up my twttr” ― the first ever tweet on the platform is up for sale after Twitter boss Jack Dorsey listed his famous post as a unique digital signature on a website for selling tweets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The post, sent from Dorsey’s account in […]
ISKANDAR: Here’s a chilling message from Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) head coach Benjamin Mora to the rest of the Super League teams: “I don’t think we are at 100 per cent.” If this JDT side, who are not firing on all cylinders, can shrug aside Kedah Darul Aman FC (KDA […]
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden believes that authorisations for the use of military force that have been used to justify US attacks on overseas targets should be re-examined, the White House said yesterday. Democratic Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Senator Todd Young introduced legislation this week to repeal the 1991 […]
WASHINGTON: More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp’s email software, a person familiar with the U.S. government’s response said on Friday. The hacking has already reached more places than all of the tainted code downloaded from SolarWinds […]
Only 700 Mediterranean monk seals are left in the wild. The world’s rarest seals have been caught on camera in secret breeding caves in northern Cyprus. The new breeding sites provide hope for a struggling species, but the caves are now in need of protection. Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus) […]
A Quiet Place Part II was originally scheduled to to open in the US on March 20 last year but the plans were derailed by the coronavirus pandemic. Actor-filmmaker John Krasinski on Friday announced that his much-anticipated horror thriller A Quiet Place Part II will now hit the theatres on […]