Australia beat England by nine wickets in the first Ashes test after lunch on day four at the Gabba on Saturday.
Jorginho will “play through pain” when Chelsea face Leeds United in the Premier League on Saturday, with fellow midfielders N’Golo Kante and Mateo Kovacic still unavailable, manager Thomas Tuchel said. Kante has missed games due to COVID-19 and a groin problem this season and has not played since injuring his […]
NAPLES: Brendan Rodgers admitted he doesn’t know what the Europa Conference League is after Leicester’s 3-2 defeat at Napoli condemned them to a place in the unheralded competition on Thursday. Napoli sent Leicester crashing out of the Europa League as the Italian side advanced to the knockout stages in a […]
BEIJING: China branded US democracy a “weapon of mass destruction” today, following the US-organised Summit for Democracy which aimed to shore up like-minded allies in the face of autocratic regimes. China was left out of the two-day virtual summit ― along with countries including Russia and Hungary ― and responded […]
MEXICO CITY: Mexico yesterday urged Washington to rethink its migration policy after a horror road accident killed 55 undocumented migrants in a truck on a major transit route to the United States. Bodies draped in white sheets lined the roadside near Tuxtla Gutierrez in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, […]
The Texas law enables private citizens to sue anyone who performs or assists a woman in getting an abortion after embryo cardiac activity is detected. The US Supreme Court on Friday left in place a ban on most abortions in Texas but allowed a legal challenge to proceed, with the […]
The UK Health Security Agency said that two doses of vaccines provide “much lower levels” of protection against symptomatic infection compared to the currently dominant Delta variant of Covid-19. A third booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine provides 70-75 per cent protection against symptomatic infection from the Omicron variant, the UK […]
LOS ANGELES: Jaren Jackson scored 25 points and Desmond Bane added 23 as the Memphis Grizzlies withstood LeBron James’s 100th career triple-double in a 108-95 NBA victory on Thursday. Lakers superstar James scored 20 points, pulled down 10 rebounds and handed out 11 assists and Anthony Davis added 22 points […]
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden warned Thursday that the United States was preparing “additional measures” against Iran as expectations grow that talks on halting Tehran’s nuclear program are set for failure. “The president has asked his team to be prepared in the event that diplomacy fails and we must turn to […]
MANAGUA: Nicaragua on Thursday broke its longstanding diplomatic ties with Taiwan, switching allegiance to Beijing in a recognition of the Chinese Communist party’s One China policy and reducing Taipei’s dwindling pool of international allies. “The government of the Republic of Nicaragua today breaks diplomatic relations with Taiwan and ceases to […]