MELBOURNE : Fifth seed Andrey Rublev avoided a third round banana skin in the form of Briton Dan Evans at the Australian Open on Saturday after former world number one Karolina Pliskova sailed into the last 16 of the women’s tournament. Red-headed Russian Rublev has found Evans a handful in […]
Month: January 2023
WASHINGTON : Major unions and public interest and environmental groups are urging President Joe Biden to reject efforts by the European Union and other foreign governments to revise U.S. electric vehicle tax incentives. The $430 billion U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed in August restricts $7,500 consumer tax credits to […]
LONDON/SINGAPORE : Russia remained China’s second-largest source of crude oil in 2022, following repeat top supplier Saudi Arabia, as Chinese refiners snapped up low-cost Russian barrels while Western countries shunned them after the Ukraine crisis. China’s crude oil imports from Russia jumped 8 per cent in 2022 from a year […]
MELBOURNE : Order of play on the main showcourts on the sixth day of the Australian Open on Saturday (prefix number denotes seeding): * Day session: From 11 a.m. local time (0000 GMT) * Night session: From 7 p.m. local time (0800 GMT) ROD LAVER ARENA Varvara Gracheva (Russia) v […]
BENGALURU: India’s ShareChat, a short video-sharing platform backed by Google and Temasek, said on Monday it let go of around 20 per cent of its employees, as startups face increasing pressure from investors to cut costs. “There is a growing market consensus that the current global economic downturn would be […]
MELBOURNE : Jessica Pegula says she is happy to keep flying under the radar at the Australian Open after the American breezed into the second round on Monday with a 6-0 6-1 win over Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian. World number three Pegula, 28, attracted more media attention earlier this month due […]
KYIV: Kyiv can expect more deliveries of heavy weapons from Western countries soon, NATO said on Sunday (Jan 15), as President Vladimir Putin praised his forces after their claimed capture of a Ukraine town. The death toll from Russian missile strike on a tower block in the eastern city of […]
SHANGHAI : Investors should avoid Chinese currency risk and adapt to higher foreign exchange volatility, three state financial newspapers in Shanghai and Beijing said in front-page commentaries on Tuesday after more than a week of strong gains by the yuan. The currency may have strengthened, but this year it would […]
Astronomers recently detected a massive explosion on the far side of the sun, which likely spat out one of the most powerful flares the sun can produce. A massive explosion on the far side of the sun recently spat out an X-class flare — one of the most powerful solar […]
After filmmaker Bryan Singer was accused of sexual misconduct by several men a few years ago, the legacy of the X-Men franchise felt tainted in some ways. Hollywood star Hugh Jackman‘s X-Men movie was in many ways the film that re-introduced the superhero genre and pushed it to become what […]