Djokovic cruises through at Roland Garros (Day 3 highlights)
World number one Novak Djokovic kicked off his French Open campaign with a routine 6-2 6-4 6-2 win against American Tennys Sandgren on Tuesday in the first men’s match ...
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Ancelotti leaves Everton for second stint as Real boss
Carlo Ancelotti returned to Real Madrid for a second spell as coach on Tuesday, re-joining the club from Everton, after agreeing a three-year deal at the Bernabeu.
The Italian was ...
China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu
A 41-year-old man in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10...
King of Clay Nadal up and running in Paris
Rafa Nadal launched his bid for a record-extending 14th French Open title with a straight-sets win over young Australian Alexei Popyrin on Tuesday but it was not as routine as ...
UK reports no new Covid deaths for first time since March 2020
Britain recorded no new deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test on Tuesday.
The last time Britain recorded no deaths was in March 2020, before the country had entered its ...
Lingard among six dropped by England from final Euro squad
England manager Gareth Southgate named four right backs in his final 26-man squad for the European championship on Tuesday after dropping six players including in-form attacking midfielder Jesse Lingard.
Others ...
Indigenous groups call for Canada-wide search after remains of 215 children found
Indigenous groups in Canada are calling for a nationwide search for mass graves at residential school sites after the discovery of the remains of 215 children at one former school last ...
Pope revises Church law, updates rules on sexual abuse
Pope Francis on Tuesday issued the most extensive revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, insisting that bishops take action against clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit ...
Florida joins states to ban transgender girls from sports
Florida on Tuesday became the latest and by far the largest state to ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports, part of a campaign in statehouses nationwide ...
Israel to gradually end jobless benefits as economy recovers
Israel will gradually end jobless benefits as the economy begins recovering from the COVID-19 crisis, starting with people younger than 28 and without children, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.
The ...
Coinbase to allow users to use card via Apple, Google wallets
Coinbase Global Inc launched a tie-up with Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday that will allow users to add cards from their accounts to the payment apps run ...
Cruise urges US president to back autonomous vehicle deployment boost
Cruise LLC, the autonomous vehicle (AV) company majority-owned by General Motors Co, has urged President Joe Biden to back efforts to speed thousands of self-driving cars to US roads, saying ...
OPEC, Russia seen gaining more power with Shell Dutch ruling
Climate activists who scored big against Western majors last week had some unlikely cheerleaders in the oil capitals of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Russia.
Defeats in the courtroom and ...
New coral reef restoration technology aims to reverse climate change damage
By Cassandra Garrison
Marine scientist Deborah Brosnan remembers “feeling like a visitor at an amazing party” on her diving trips to a bay near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy ...
‘Sea snot’ outbreak off Turkish coast poses threat to marine life
By Yesim Dikmen and Mehmet Emin Caliskan
A thick, slimy layer of so-called “sea snot” is spreading in Turkey’s Sea of Marmara to the south of Istanbul, posing a ...
Big oil may get more climate lawsuits after Shell ruling -lawyers, activists
By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals
A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming emissions on the basis of ...
Gun attack on Ugandan ex-army chief kills daughter, driver – military
Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, the military ...
Turkey launches probe into 1996 killing after mob leader’s claims
An Istanbul prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday it launched an investigation into the murder of a Turkish Cypriot journalist 25 years ago, after a mob leader said last month the ...
Ten years after Breivik attacks, survivors seek to confront far-right extremism
Nearly 10 years after Anders Behring Breivik tried to kill her on the Norwegian island of Utoeya, Astrid Hoem is back there to explain to a group of teenagers how she ...
Germany, U.S. hold talks in Washington on Nord Stream 2
Germany and the United States are holding talks in Washington to try to resolve a row over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday.
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Germany lowers coronavirus risk level as cases fall, Malaysia orders new lockdown
Germany’s public health agency lowered the coronavirus risk level to “high” from “very high” on Tuesday for the first time in 2021, reflecting a fall in the number of new ...
Germany, France, Dutch want more say over tech giants’ start-up deals
Draft rules targeted at Alphabet unit Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple should be beefed up to allow regulators to vet their acquisitions of start-up rivals, Germany, France and the Netherlands ...
Netanyahu legal challenge to rival’s PM bid is spurned
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party on Tuesday challenged the legality of a bid by a rival rightist to head a new Israeli government, but the last-gasp attempt at extending ...
Sicilian mafia ‘people-slayer’ released after 25 years in jail
Sicilian Mafia turncoat Giovanni Brusca, the man who detonated the bomb that killed judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992, has been released from jail after serving a 25-year sentence, causing grief and ...