Werner finally finds the net as Chelsea beat Newcastle
Chelsea notched up their fourth league win in a row under new coach Thomas Tuchel on Monday and striker Timo Werner ended his goal drought as the Blues beat Newcastle ...
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US reassures Turkey over executions after Erdogan calls response ‘a joke’
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday reassured Ankara that Washington blames the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for the executions of 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, after Turkey called an ...
Johnson wants ‘cautious but irreversible’ path out of lockdown (Update 2)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday he would plot a cautious but irreversible path out of the COVID-19 lockdown this week after the vaccination of 15 million vulnerable people.
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UK’s Johnson says world needs pandemic treaty
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that world powers should clinch a global treaty on pandemics to ensure proper transparency after the novel coronavirus outbreak which originated in ...
Brexit causing supply problems for small UK manufacturers
New post-Brexit trade restrictions have pushed up the cost of parts and raw materials for two thirds of small British manufacturers surveyed last month, and a majority reported some level ...
British children in limbo over gender therapy after court ruling
– Almost as soon as she could speak, Nina told her parents she was not a boy and she has lived as a girl since she was seven. Until recently, she ...
Jaguar cars to go all-electric by 2025
Jaguar Land Rover’s luxury Jaguar brand will be entirely electric by 2025 and the carmaker will launch e-models of its entire lineup by 2030, it said on Monday, as it joined ...
Locked down and lonely, London Zoo faces fight to survive (with pics)
London Zoo should be teeming with children released from school by half-term holidays.
But instead, the monkeys’ pranks are unobserved, King Cobra is coiled friendless in the reptile house and ...
Covid vaccines touch down in Australia, New Zealand, inoculations to start
Australia and New Zealand have received their first COVID-19 vaccine deliveries and will begin rolling out inoculations in the coming week, while populous cities of Melbourne and Auckland remained locked ...
Australian Open order of play on Tuesday
Order of play on the main showcourt on the ninth day of the Australian Open on Tuesday (play begins at 0130 GMT, prefix number denotes seeding):
ROD LAVER ARENA
Hsieh Su-wei (...
South Africa’s ex-president Zuma fails to show at corruption inquiry
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma did not show up on Monday at an inquiry into corruption during his time in office despite the country’s top court ordering ...
India to ship vaccines to Canada as diplomatic tension eases
India’s Serum Institute will ship COVID-19 vaccines to Canada within a month, its chief executive said on Monday, in a sign a diplomatic row triggered by Canadian Prime Minister ...
Injured Berrettini withdraws to send Tsitsipas into last eight
Matteo Berrettini withdrew from his Australian Open fourth-round match against Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas on Monday due to an abdominal strain, the Italian ninth seed said.
Berrettini suffered the injury during ...
‘It’s amazing!’, Russian trio make last eight at Melbourne Park
Russia’s 16-year wait for a men’s Grand Slam singles champion may not come to an end next Sunday but you would not bet on it lasting too long ...
Most Japanese firms want Olympics cancelled or postponed
Over half of Japanese firms believe the Tokyo Olympic Games should be cancelled or postponed, a survey by think tank Tokyo Shoko Research showed on Monday, casting further doubt over ...
England’s quarantine hotels open for arrivals from red listed countries
Passengers arriving in England from Monday from any of 33 “red list” countries will have to spend 14 days quarantined in a hotel room under new border restrictions designed to stop new ...
Oil prices soar on Middle East tensions
Oil prices soared on Monday to their highest in about 13 months as fears of heightened tensions in the Middle East prompted fresh buying, while hopes that a U.S. stimulus ...
Vaccine cuts symptomatic Covid-19 cases by 94% — Israeli study
Israel’s largest healthcare provider on Sunday reported a 94 per cent drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections among 600,000 people who received two doses of the Pfizer’s vaccine in the country’...
‘Largest, most sophisticated cyberattack ever’ — Microsoft President
A hacking campaign that used a US tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft of US government agencies is “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ...
Aubameyang nets hat-trick in Arsenal win, United held by West Brom
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang marked his return to Arsenal’s starting line-up with his first ever Premier League hat-trick in his side’s 4-2 victory over Leeds United on Sunday.
The Gabon ...
Bitcoin approaches $50,000, wider adoption fuels record rally
Bitcoin hit a new record high and approached $50,000 on Sunday, building on its record rally as Wall Street and Main Street increasingly adopt the world’s biggest cryptocurrency
Bitcoin recently ...
Battle-weary Nadal, Djokovic lead second week charge in Melbourne
As the second week of the Australian Open begins, fans eagerly wait to see if the two Grand Slam winners left in the men’s draw can reach the summit ...
Sailors kidnapped off Nigeria return to Turkey, describe death threats
Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday and the ship’s captain described how they faced death threats ...
UK hits 15m vaccinations as pressure to unlock builds (Update)
By William James
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed a “significant milestone” on Sunday as data showed 15 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccinations had been delivered, fuelling calls for the ...