LONDON: “You have to run much less,” was the explanation Pep Guardiola offered on how he turned the worst start to a season of his managerial career into a third Premier League title in four years for Manchester City. After a 1-1 draw at home to West Brom in mid-December, […]
Month: May 2021
An image of an ORC, by Bärbel Koribalski, based on ASKAP data, with the optical image from the Dark Energy Survey In the last few years, astronomers have spotted a handful of gigantic and almost perfectly circular radio objects out in the distant universe. Though no one has an […]
Shares in Chinese food delivery giant Meituan have fallen sharply after its boss reportedly shared a 1,000-year-old poem on social media. The Book Burning Pit by Zhang Jie was posted, then deleted, by the firm’s billionaire chief executive, Wang Xing. The Tang dynasty poem was interpreted as a veiled criticism […]
BANGKOK: Three Myanmar journalists have been arrested in Thailand after fleeing across the border to escape a crackdown by the military junta, their employer has said. The trio were set to appear in court today, their editor added, urging Thai authorities not to repatriate them to the coup-hit country. Myanmar […]
Huma Qureshi and Zack Snyder have worked together on the upcoming Netflix movie Army of the Dead. Actor Huma Qureshi has joined forces with Save the Children — a global childs rights organisation — to help Delhi fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The actor on Monday evening shared that she will […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong today scrapped a plan to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for foreign domestic workers after the proposal sparked an outcry and a diplomatic tussle with the Philippines. Health officials planned to roll out mandatory inoculations for the 370,000 domestic workers in the city, mostly poorly paid women […]
LOS ANGELES: Russell Westbrook wrote his way into NBA history on Monday, bagging the 182nd triple-double of his career to break Oscar Robertson’s 47-year-old record. Washington Wizards star Westbrook, who had equaled Robertson’s record of 181 triples on Saturday, sealed his record-breaking triple with 8min 33sec remaining in Monday’s 125-124 […]
ROME: Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has said she is “not really sure” the delayed Tokyo Olympics should go ahead as the city battles a surge of coronavirus cases less than three months before the start of the Games. A virus state of emergency in the Japanese capital and other […]
The Treasury Department on Monday (May 10) launched its US$350 billion program to distribute aid to state and local governments, giving the US economy an added boost as President Joe Biden sought to assure the country that stronger growth is coming. The aid is part of Biden’s larger US$1.9 trillion […]
Here a butt, there a butt; everywhere a butt butt. How many butts is too many? One is usually enough for most animals — unless you’re a type of marine worm with a body that divides from a single head into dozens of different directions, and each of those branches […]