VIENNA: Italian motorcycling legend Valentino Rossi said riders needed to “improve their behaviour” and show more respect after he and Yamaha teammate Maverick Vinales narrowly escaped serious injury in the Austrian Grand Prix. Rossi, a nine-time world champion, was left shaken after Franco Morbidelli’s cartwheeling Yamaha, travelling at around 300 […]
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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Airlines (SIA) Group continues to feel the impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. On Monday (Aug 17), the company released figures which showed three of its carriers continuing to see sharp declines in passenger traffic for July. SIA Group said this was down to “severely curtailed” demand […]
MADRID: Barcelona insisted they had not heard from Lionel Messi that he wants to leave the club, as an emergency board meeting was being held at Camp Nou today. Barca officials, including under-fire president Josep Maria Bartomeu, were due to discuss wholesale changes following the team’s humiliating 8-2 Champions League […]
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration announced on Monday (Aug 17) it will further tighten restrictions on Huawei Technologies, aimed at cracking down on its access to commercially available chips. The US Commerce Department actions, first reported by Reuters, will expand restrictions announced in May aimed at preventing the Chinese telecommunications giant […]
Researchers have found a way to tackle a disease that threatens thousands of hectares of Alpine forests each year. Needle bladder rust causes Norway spruce needles to yellow and fall out, causing a significant reduction in growth. Scientists in Austria have unlocked a natural defence mechanism that the species can […]
SINGAPORE: Motorists who travel regularly between Singapore and Malaysia could soon find it more convenient to do so with the launch of a new dual-currency contactless card by Singapore’s EZ-Link and Malaysia’s Touch ‘n Go. The dual-currency cross-border card, which the companies say is a first for the region, will […]
James Wan directorial The Aquaman 2 is expected to be released in 2022. Director James Wan has teased that Aquaman 2, starring Jason Momoa, will feature a “little bit” of his love for horror. The 43-year-old filmmaker, who made his directorial debut with the horror film Saw, further said he […]
The company says it will use machine learning to power only that part of the screen where your thumb touches the most. We have already seen companies that have smartphones with in-display front camera. Most have also come with an in-display fingerprint sensor. However, Huawei seems to be working on […]
RIYADH: Pakistan’s army chief arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday (Aug 17), its embassy in Riyadh said, amid a diplomatic spat that has threatened Riyadh’s financial life line to the cash-strapped South Asian nation. General Qamar Javed Bajwa arrived in Riyadh at 10am (0700GMT), the embassy said. A military source […]
NEW DELHI: A top Facebook executive in India has filed a police complaint in New Delhi saying she is receiving death threats after a media report said she and the U.S. social network company allegedly favoured Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party. Ankhi Das, Facebook’s top public-policy executive in India, […]