NEW YORK: Rupert Murdoch announced on Thursday (Sep 21) he will step down as chairman of his global media empire, a conservative behemoth that shaped politics across continents, and hand control over to his son Lachlan. The Australian-born mogul, who built a global entertainment and news juggernaut instrumental in events […]
Year: 2023
SUZUKA, Japan: Red Bull’s runaway Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen roared back from defeat in Singapore to set the fastest lap in the first practice for the Japanese Grand Prix on Friday (Sep 22). The Dutch 25-year-old laid down an immediate marker as the first driver on the track, […]
WASHINGTON: Debris from a stealth jet that went missing after the pilot ejected has been found, the US military said on Monday (Sep 18), after a day in which failure to track the US$80 million aircraft drew amazement and ridicule in equal measure. The debris field from the F-35 was […]
KYIV: The western Ukrainian city of Lviv was rocked by blasts in the early hours today, with local officials saying the Russian air attack injured one man and caused a major fire at an industrial warehouse. “A woman and a man were found under the rubble in Lviv. According to […]
WASHINGTON: A group of 18 state attorneys general said yesterday they backed Montana’s effort to ban Chinese-owned short video app TikTok, urging a US judge to reject legal challenges ahead of the January 1 effective date. The state attorneys general led by Virginia and including Georgia, Alaska, Utah, Indiana, Nebraska, […]
BEIJING: China plans to manage monkeypox in the same way it handles infectious diseases such as Covid-19 starting from September 20, health authorities said today, after detecting around 500 cases of the viral infection last month. Monkeypox will be managed under Category B protocols, the National Health Commission (NHC) said […]
After multiple delays, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom will finally see the light of day. The first trailer of the movie was released on Sep 15 and gave fans a sneak peek of how Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry/Aquaman has changed since his last solo outing in 2018. Turns out, he […]
LAMPEDUSA (Italy): The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa struggled yesterday to cope with a surge in migrant boats from North Africa after numbers peaked at 7,000 people—equivalent to the entire local population. The island’s reception centre, built to house fewer than 400 people, was overwhelmed with men, women and children […]
ZURICH: Did banking giant UBS make the deal of the century when it bought one of the world’s biggest banks for a pittance as it teetered on the edge of the abyss? Switzerland’s largest bank was in March strong-armed by Swiss authorities into a US$3.25 billion takeover of Credit Suisse, […]
DERNA: Thousands of people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern coastal city of Derna. A senior medic in Derna told Reuters […]