SYDNEY: Australia’s footballers’ union lashed out on Wednesday (Jul 8) at “unacceptable” chaos after three Melbourne-based A-League teams were prevented from leaving Victoria for a second time with borders shutting as coronavirus cases surge. The top flight A-League is due to resume next week but Melbourne City, Melbourne Victory and […]
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SYDNEY: Outspoken Australian Nick Kyrgios questioned Dominic Thiem’s intellect Wednesday (Jul 8) after the world number three told him to stop criticising fellow tennis stars Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic for taking risks with the coronavirus. Kyrgios said Thiem wasn’t on the same “intellectual level” after the Austrian called his […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s double world champion snowboarder Alex Pullin drowned while spear fishing off a Gold Coast beach on Wednesday (Jul 8), plunging the country’s winter sports community into mourning. Pullin, Australia’s flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, was found by a snorkeller on an artificial reef just before […]
LONDON: Manchester United have spent more than £1 billion ($1.2 billion) on new players over the past nine years but the Red Devils latest revival owes much to a home-grown superstar in 18-year-old academy graduate Mason Greenwood. The young forward was the star of the show as United scored five […]
LONDON: Britain’s National Gallery reopens on Wednesday (Jul 8), with masks recommended and social distancing and advance booking mandatory, as the country continues to emerge from three months of coronavirus lockdown. The central London venue is the first major art museum in the British capital to open its doors after […]
HONG KONG: China opened a new office on Wednesday (Jul 8) for its intelligence agents to operate openly in Hong Kong for the first time under a tough new security law, in a public display of its tightening control over the finance hub. The new base is located in a […]
SEOUL: A South Korean court ordered Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un to compensate two former prisoners of war who spent decades as forced labourers in the North, in a move that could set a far-reaching legal precedent on the divided peninsula. The ruling was the first time a South Korean […]
MILAN: AC Milan scored three times in five astonishing second-half minutes as they hit back from two goals down to beat visiting Serie A leaders Juventus 4-2 on Tuesday, the first points dropped by the Turin side since the season restarted last month. Juve appeared to be cruising to another […]
MELBOURNE: Shoppers in Australia’s second-biggest city stripped supermarket shelves Wednesday (Jul 8) as millions in Melbourne prepared for a return to virus lockdown, with warnings the new restrictions will cost the economy A$1 billion (US$700 million) a week. Five million residents were ordered back into a six-week lockdown beginning midnight […]
TATSUNO, Japan: As the sun sets in the Japanese town of Tatsuno, thousands of fireflies begin glowing, producing a spectacle that usually draws crowds of delighted visitors. But this year, the dance of the incandescent insects is being performed without spectators, after coronavirus prevention measures forced organisers of a popular […]