The child actor, Grant Feely, plays a young Luke Skywalker in the upcoming Disney+ series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, which stars Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen. The Force is strong with this one. Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who has played Luke Skywalker in multiple films, has given his blessings to the […]
Month: March 2022
TOKYO : Japan’s big manufacturers’ business mood likely turned less optimistic in the first quarter, as firms struggled with supply disruptions and surging energy prices after Russia launched its war in Ukraine, a Reuters poll showed. Other data next week is expected to show core consumer prices in Tokyo likely […]
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space tourism service has postponed until March 29 a flight initially set for next week, while “Saturday Night Live” comic Pete Davidson will not be a passenger on the launch, the company said on Thursday. The company, in a brief notice first posted on Twitter, gave […]
Nick Kyrgios had a typically direct message for his hecklers after his loss to Rafa Nadal at Indian Wells on Thursday: “Don’t tell me how to play…just be quiet.” The 26-year-old Australian unravelled on a number of occasions as he fell to a 7-6(0) 5-7 6-4 defeat and was hit […]
KUALA LUMPUR: Long-time Windows users will know that, if you begin seeing ads while using your computer, this typically means that you’ve accidentally downloaded some form of malware. However, some Windows 11 users have begun reporting that they’re seeing ads within the File Explorer programme itself on Windows 11. According […]
KARACHI, Pakistan : Pakistani business-to-business fintech startup Bazaar has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round, the platform said on Tuesday, taking the total funding to $100 million in less than two years, said a statement. The latest funding, led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Tiger Global, makes […]
BEIJING: China does not want to be impacted by Western economic sanctions on Russia, state media reported today, as pressure grows on Beijing to withdraw support from an isolated Moscow. Beijing has refused to condemn its close ally Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, while blaming the United States and […]
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo took a camping trip to the country’s future capital, he said on social media today, posing for photographs in a forest at the site of the new city. The country is preparing to move its capital from overcrowded Jakarta to Nusantara, in a megaproject that […]
SEOUL: US forces stationed in South Korea said today they have enhanced the intensity of exercises for their Patriot missile air defence system amid signs that North Korea might soon conduct another long-range missile test. Tension on the Korean Peninsula has been growing amid speculation North Korea could test its […]
KYIV: Russian strikes hit civilian targets in central Ukraine’s Dnipro city today, as Moscow’s troops edged closer to Kyiv, where officials said the capital was being transformed into a “fortress”. Hundreds of thousands of civilians remained trapped and under fire in Ukrainian cities, including besieged Mariupol, after the first talks […]