LONDON: Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said his team must embrace the pressure in their remaining Premier League matches as they look to secure a top-four finish and qualify for next season’s Champions League. First-half goals from Olivier Giroud and Willian and a late strike from Ross Barkley earned Lampard’s fourth-placed […]
Month: July 2020
SPIELBERG, Austria: Carlos Sainz is relishing the opportunity to hog the limelight of being a Ferrari driver in 2021 but won’t even think about it until the last lap of the last race of this truncated season is over. The Spanish driver has been handed the task of filling the […]
SPIELBERG, Austria: Lewis Hamilton will begin his campaign for a record-equalling seventh world title on Sunday (Jul 5) on a grid where rivals are pushing back at his passionate anti-racism message after he suggested they lacked understanding of the issues. Hamilton will start the delayed season opener at the Red […]
WASHINGTON, DC: Florida and Texas, two states that have emerged as the latest hot spots of the US coronavirus outbreak, both reported new single-day record increases in confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday (Jul 4), with nearly 20,000 additional infections combined. For a second straight day, Texas also registered an all-time […]
LONDON: A British royal historian who said slavery was not genocide has quit his honorary position at Cambridge University and been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins. The comments from Professor David Starkey came during a period of soul searching in Britain over its colonial past. The Black Lives Matter movement […]
MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s death toll from the new coronavirus rose to 30,366 on Saturday (Jul 4). The latest figure propelled it past France to become the country with the fifth-highest number of fatalities in the global pandemic, according to the health ministry. “As of today, 30,366 people who had tested […]
FRANKFURT: German animal-rights activists protested outside a meat factory in North Rhine Westphalia on Saturday (Jul 4) where hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus last month, prompting local quarantines and shutdowns. Activists climbed the roof of the slaughterhouse and processing plant in Toennies and unfurled a banner saying […]
HMD Global’s Nokia 5310 2020 is the re-envisioned version of the original Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, which was launched in 2007. HMD Global, the Finnish startup that is marketing the iconic Nokia brand now, has extensively used the power of nostalgia to sell new devices. Its latest phone using this strategy […]
Previous pandemics show that women are worse-off in terms of economic security and job opportunities, say observers. SYDNEY: The global research evidence is clear: Economic crises exacerbate pre-existing inequalities, damaging the employment opportunities and economic security of women more than men. The 1980s debt crisis, the 1997 Asian financial crisis […]
We need to use the lessons gained from the pandemic to reshape international development, rather than returning to the status quo, say Iqbal Dhaliwal and Samantha Friedlander. CAMBRIDGE: As with so much else, international development has been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. How might we use these lessons to […]