COLOMBO: Sri Lanka today extended a stringent coronavirus curfew for another week after reporting its highest daily death toll of more than 200. A nationwide lockdown had been due to end Tuesday but Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said it would be extended until September 6. The announcement came as […]
Month: August 2021
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football – Italy – Serie A – Udinese v Juventus – Dacia Arena, Udine, Italy – August 22, 2021 Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo during the warm up before the match REUTERS/Massimo Pinca MANCHESTER, England : Cristiano Ronaldo will decide who he plays for next and anything can […]
Mexican Sergio Perez will race on with Red Bull next year alongside Max Verstappen, the Formula 1 team said in a statement on Friday. Perez joined Red Bull from Racing Point, now Aston Martin, and won in Azerbaijan in June – his second F1 victory after the 2020 Sakhir Grand […]
LEEDS, England: England grabbed a massive first innings lead of 354 runs and then reduced India to 34-1 to stay on course for a series-levelling victory in the third test at Headingley on Friday (Aug 27). The hosts lost their last two wickets quickly to be all out for 432 […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft says it has warned thousands of its cloud computing clients of a recently discovered flaw that left their data vulnerable for an extended period. The problem involved keys used to access Microsoft Azure’s flagship database service Cosmos DB, and was discovered two weeks ago by cybersecurity company […]
BEIJING: China today condemned the deadly attacks by Islamic State suicide bombers outside Kabul airport, saying Afghanistan still faces a “complex and severe” security situation as the United States withdraws. Two blasts killed at least 85 people including 13 US soldiers near the airport yesterday, ripping through crowds desperate to […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The Huawei Nova 8 has officially arrived in Malaysia a month after the company introduced the Nova 8i. It is Huawei’s latest mid-range smartphone that packs a 90Hz OLED display, a quad-camera setup with a 64MP main camera and it supports 66W fast-charging. Pricing and availability The Huawei […]
Botanists at Texas Tech University recently tested a new genetic resource on plants from the Guadalupe Mountains, a region that boasts some of the most diverse ecosystems in Texas. Called Angiosperms353, the resource — a massive, standardized set of genes common in flowering plant species — has the potential to help […]
Asia’s fastest man, Su Bingtian, believes he can improve on the continental record set at the Tokyo Olympic Games as he became the first Chinese man to qualify for the final of the 100 metres. Su ran 9.83 seconds in the semi-finals in Tokyo to break the Asian mark and […]
MELBOURNE: Australian police patrolled the streets and blocked transport into the centre of Sydney on Saturday (Aug 21) to prevent a planned anti-lockdown protest as the country reported a record high daily number of new COVID-19 infections. Officials reported a total of 886 cases in New South Wales and Victoria […]