WASHINGTON: In 2017 the president of the United States shocked Washington’s Western allies during his first European trip, scolding them for failing to pay their “fair share” on defence, physically shoving aside one prime minister, and white-knuckling another leader in a public handshake. After four tumultuous years for the transatlantic […]
Month: June 2021
SAN FRANCISCO: As part of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the tech firm showcased the main new features coming to iOS 15, available as an update for all the brand’s smartphones from the iPhone 6s onwards. One of the most notable changes concerns FaceTime calls, which will benefit from spatial […]
LONDON: Logan and Jake Paul would make great Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, Bellator president Scott Coker has said as he targets exhibition matches featuring the YouTube personalities such as the former’s boxing bout against Floyd Mayweather. Logan Paul went the distance, surviving eight rounds against unbeaten (50-0) five-division world […]
Monsta X just released their latest album, One Of A Kind. As Monsta X release their new album, they appeared on a show to talk about each other and their new song Gambler. Their album, One Of A Kind, released on June 1. On MBC FM4U’s A Song For Hope […]
ST IVES: US President Joe Biden will announce plans on Thursday to buy and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to more than 90 countries, while calling on the world’s democracies to do their part to help end the deadly pandemic, the White House said. Biden will […]
SYDNEY: Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of next week’s Queen’s Club Championships grasscourt event due to neck pain, raising doubts about the Australian’s participation at Wimbledon later this month. Kyrgios, who last played at the Australian Open in February, was due to make his return for the grasscourt season after […]
BENGALURU: An Indian state has raised its Covid-19 death toll sharply higher after the discovery of thousands of unreported cases, lending weight to suspicion that India’s overall death tally is significantly more than the official figure. Indian hospitals ran out of beds and life-saving oxygen during a devastating second wave […]
SHANGHAI: Police in China arrested more than 1,100 people suspected of using cryptocurrencies to launder illegal proceeds from telephone and Internet scams in a recent crackdown, the Ministry of Public Security said. The arrests came as authorities in China step up their crackdown on cryptocurrency trading. Last month, three industry […]
WASHINGTON: Alphabet’s Google said on Wednesday (Jun 9) it was building an undersea cable that would connect the United States, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, to bolster internet connection capacity between these regions. The cable, called Firmina, will be the longest cable in the world, Google said in a blog post, […]
There’s always an Easter Egg or a teaser at the end of every Marvel production but Loki episode 1 skipped the tradition, like WandaVision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier before it. For over a decade, Marvel fans have been compelled into staying till the end of the credits […]