HONG KONG: Families in Asia’s financial hub of Hong Kong are suffering isolation and trauma after strict coronavirus rules have led to babies being separated from parents and those with newborns herded into tiny quarantine quarters for up to 14 days. Hong Kong authorities have ordered that anyone testing positive […]
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Ahead of this year’s Grammys, voters faced a choice between records that engaged with the outside world and ones that retreated from real life. Both approaches were valid. Protest songs like Beyoncé’s Black Parade and H.E.R’s I Can’t Breathe felt as necessary to surviving 2020 as the escapism of Taylor […]
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance Holdings Ltd is being probed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over concerns that it allowed Americans to make bets that violated U.S. rules, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. REUTERS: Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance Holdings Ltd is being probed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission […]
MADRID: Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said on Friday that he is unsure as to where captain Sergio Ramos’s future lies after recent speculation about the defender’s next move. Ramos reiterated in multiple interviews on Thursday that he wanted to stay at the club once his contract expires this summer, […]
NEW DELHI: About 3,000 police will be deployed to enforce a week-long curfew and lockdown in the central Indian city of Nagpur from Monday after a 60 per cent jump in coronavirus cases there, officials said. The commercial and logistics hub in Maharashtra state will be the first Indian city […]
ROME: Italy will be placed under a nationwide lockdown over the Easter weekend for the second year running, the government said today, underlining the struggle to stem a fresh surge in coronavirus cases. Non-essential shops will be shuttered nationwide from April 3-5 and on those days, Italians will only be […]
Jackie Shroff,, who plays the role of Pushpak in Hotstar Specials’ OK Computer, appeared in the trailer sans any clothing. He was instead seen hiding behind trees and bushes. The trailer of Hotstar Specials’ OK Computer starring Vijay Varma, dropped recently. And among the reasons which make the series a […]
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will meet today with the leaders of Australia, India and Japan, a group central to his efforts to counter China’s growing military and economic power. The White House has said the virtual meeting of the countries known as the Quad would show the importance Biden […]
Quantum scale gravity has long been a mystery to physics, but things could be starting to change. Physicists have measured the smallest gravitational field ever recorded, in an experiment that could help in the search for a unified theory of physics. Of the four fundamental forces known to physics — […]
A rare strip of parchment more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and adorned with Christian emblems shows chemical traces of its use by women in medieval England as a magical amulet to protect them during pregnancy and childbirth, according to a new study. On the surface of the strip […]