LONDON: British police said today they had opened an investigation into possible Covid lockdown breaches at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street residence after receiving evidence from an internal government probe into a series of gatherings. Johnson is fighting for his political life after a series of claims that he […]
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Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem had shared screen space in the acclaimed Bond movie Skyfall, where Bardem played the main antagonist. Actor Javier Bardem has revealed that he once dressed in drag to celebrate “Skyfall” co-star Daniel Craig‘s birthday. The two actors, who became close friends during the making of […]
SEOUL: South Korea’s daily count of new coronavirus cases topped 8,000 for the first time today, as the highly contagious Omicron variant spreads rapidly despite the recent extension of strict social-distancing rules to slow infection. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported 8,571 cases for yesterday, exceeding the […]
WASHINGTON: The United States today warned Russia of damaging sanctions, including high-tech export curbs, and said attempts by Moscow to “weaponise” its enormous oil and gas industry would backfire. “We are prepared to implement sanctions with massive consequences” that go far beyond previous measures implemented in 2014 after Russia invaded […]
TOKYO: A Japanese advisory panel is set to approve the expansion of tougher measures against Covid-19 to 18 additional regions today, putting more than 70 per cent of the country under restrictions. The western prefectures of Osaka and Kyoto are among the areas covered by the measures, taken in response […]
TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp will halt more production in Japan this month because COVID-19 infections among autoworkers had slowed supplies of parts, the company said on Monday (Jan 24). That disruption, which comes amid a shortage of semiconductors, will cut planned production this month by 65,000 vehicles, 18,000 more than […]
MELBOURNE: Australian Open favourite Daniil Medvedev labelled the tennis tour’s bathroom break rule as “stupid” after rowing with the chair umpire about freshening up during his sweaty fourth round win over Maxime Cressy on Monday (Jan 24). Russian Medvedev barked at French chair umpire Renaud Lichtenstein over the recently updated […]
NEW YORK: Merck & Co’s antiviral pill will be evaluated in a large British trial as a possible treatment for patients hospitalised with Covid-19, amid the worldwide spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The pill, molnupiravir, has been approved by Britain for use in people with mild to […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest stages of the universe, neared its gravitational parking space on Monday (Jan 24) in orbit around the sun, almost 1 million miles from Earth. With a final course-correcting manoeuvre by on-board rocket thrusters set […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan appointed its first female Supreme Court judge on Monday, after a nomination process that proved unusually contentious. Justice Ayesha Malik, 55, had been selected by a commission that decides on the promotion of judges. As is typical for Supreme Court judges, she was sworn in on live TV, […]