Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag said right back Aaron Wan-Bissaka has a future at the club after the defender impressed in a 2-0 League Cup win over Burnley. United took the lead when Wan-Bissaka sent a cross into the six-yard box to set up Christian Eriksen from close range […]
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Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have agreed to have a bout early next year to decide the undisputed heavyweight world championship, Fury’s promoter Bob Arum said. Britain’s Fury roared out a challenge to Ukrainian Usyk, the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO champion, after retaining his WBC title this month with […]
NEW YORK: Billionaire Elon Musk said yesterday he will step down as chief executive of Twitter Inc TWTR.N once he finds a replacement, but will still run some key divisions of the social media platform. “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take […]
WASHINGTON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to visit the White House and the US Capitol today, though security concerns could force a change in plans, two sources familiar with the planning said yesterday. Punchbowl News first reported the possible trip, which would be Zelensky’s first known visit outside Ukraine […]
BEIJING: Funeral homes across China’s Covid-hit capital Beijing, a city of 22 million, scrambled today to keep up with calls for funeral and cremation services as workers and drivers testing positive for the novel coronavirus called in sick. After declaring that the Omicron strain has weakened, and unprecedented public protests […]
NEW YORK: Elon Musk said today he will reinstate the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended in a controversy over publishing public data about the billionaire’ s plane. “The people have spoken. Accounts who doxxed my location will have their suspension lifted now,” he tweeted.
CHICAGO: China’s abrupt lifting of stringent Covid-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). According to the group’s projections, cases in China would peak around April 1, when […]
TEHRAN: Iran said today that officials from the UN nuclear watchdog would visit the country in the coming days with the aim of resolving “ambiguities” over claims of secret activities. The UN’s Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, has for months been calling on Iran to explain the presence […]
LONDON: Thousands of homes on the Shetland Islands off Scotland’s northeast coast were without power in freezing temperatures today after “significant” snowfall, the electricity provider said. The Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said engineers were working to restore supplies to about 2,800 homes but that full restoration was only […]
JAKARTA : Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass a bill this week that will allow former politicians to head Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank, and expand its mandate to include supporting economic growth, moves that critics say could weaken its independence. The parliamentary commission overseeing the legislation, called the […]