BEIJING: The foreign ministers of Ireland, Poland, Hungary and Serbia will visit China from Saturday (May 29), the Chinese foreign ministry said, in a sign of a push to strengthen ties with Europe after an investment treaty was frozen. The European Parliament this month halted ratification of the investment pact […]
Month: May 2021
In the new Loki clip, Tom Hiddleston’s supervillain Loki asserts that he is a “bit of both” when it comes to the question as to whether he is good or bad. A new clip from the upcoming MCU TV series Loki is out. Titled Chaos, the 21-second clip shows the […]
LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Olympic chief Thomas Bach has told athletes that they should travel to Tokyo with “full confidence” that the delayed 2020 Games will be safe for competitors and will not jeopardise the health of the Japanese people. Speaking in a Q&A session during an online conference of the Athletes’ […]
In the trailer of Disney film Jungle Cruise, actors Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt are on an adventurous voyage into the Amazon jungle to find a tree that has unparalleled healing powers. A new trailer of Jungle Cruise, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, was released on Thursday. The fantasy […]
WASHINGTON: The US economy grew at a robust annual rate of 6.4 per cent in the first three months of this year, unchanged from the government’s initial estimate. The recovery from last year’s deep recession gained steam has been helped by vaccines to combat the virus and trillions of dollars […]
TOKYO: The head of a Japanese doctors’ union warned on Thursday (May 25) that holding the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, with tens of thousands of people from around the world, could lead to the emergence of an “Olympic” strain of the coronavirus. Japan has pledged to hold a […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria will enter a one-week COVID-19 lockdown forcing its near 7 million residents to remain home except for essential business as authorities struggle to contain a highly-infectious outbreak. “We’re dealing with a highly infectious strain of the virus, a variant of concern, which […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook and Instagram yesterday announced plans to let users stop displaying “like” tallies racked up by posts, letting people opt out of seeking status through the approval of others. The two platforms will let users shun “like” counts completely or just keep such tallies to themselves, according to […]
Amazon has agreed to buy the historic MGM studios for $8.45bn (£5.97bn). MGM is one of Hollywood’s most famous studios, having produced classic films such as Some Like It Hot and Singin’ In The Rain. The sale will give the tech giant’s Prime streaming service access to a huge back […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today he took full responsibility for the response to Covid-19 and he was truly sorry for suffering during the pandemic after his former aide Dominic Cummings said mistakes led to unnecessary deaths. “I take full responsibility for everything that has happened,” Johnson told […]