MELBOURNE : Sam Stosur’s 69th and final appearance in a Grand Slam singles draw ended in a 6-2 6-2 second-round loss to 10th seeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at the Australian Open on Thursday. The 37-year-old said last month that she would focus only on doubles after her 20th singles appearance […]
Day: January 19, 2022
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden came in facing extraordinary challenges: A nation divided after the Donald Trump years, the Covid pandemic, and an economy in tumult. And he promised Americans a lot: To heal the country’s democracy, defeat Covid, address deep-rooted racial and economic problems, and restore US standing around […]
Netflix series Arcane is a show that delivers uniformly. A narrative-rich video game adaptation with stunning visuals and stellar background score to match. What’s not to love? Video game adaptations that are cool-looking and narratively rich. You may well ask if they even exist, given the history of mostly mediocre […]
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Wednesday (Jan 19) said it was too soon to make commitments on lifting US tariffs on Chinese goods, but his chief trade negotiator Katherine Tai was working on the issue. “I’d like to be able to be in a position where I could say they’re […]
SYDNEY: The undersea telecommunications cable connecting Tonga to the rest of the world that was damaged by a volcano eruption will take at least a month to fix, its owner said today, with the delay likely hampering disaster recovery efforts. The explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, which has […]
VILNIUS: Russian troops arriving into Belarus for what Moscow and Misnk say will be joint military exercises are a direct threat to Lithuania, said the Nato member’s defence minister Arvydas Anusauskas. “In the current situation, we consider the entry of Russian military forces into Belarus not only as a destabilising […]