Tesla’s Elon Musk qualifies for $11 billion options payout
Tesla’s (TSLA.O) quarterly report on Monday hit targets qualifying Chief Executive Elon Musk for two options payouts worth a combined $11 billion.
The electric car maker beat Wall Street’...
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Vaccinated? Airports seek ways to process proof
While politicians hail digital health passes as the solution to aviation’s Covid-19 crisis, airline bosses are still having sleepless nights about clogged up airports as they worry how to ...
Iheanacho secures vital win for Leicester over Palace
Kelechi Iheanacho’s stunning late goal earned Leicester City a crucial 2-1 home victory over Crystal Palace which tightened their grip on third place in the Premier League on Monday.
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US to share up to 60m AZ vaccine doses globally
The United States will start to share up to 60 million doses of AstraZeneca Plc’s coronavirus vaccine with other countries as soon as the next few weeks, the White House ...
India asks Twitter to take down tweets critical of its Covid handling
The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, ...
Rights abuses make closer ties hard with Turkey, EU says
Deepening the European Union’s relationship with Turkey will be difficult as long as authoritarianism continues under Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the head of the European Council said on Monday.
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Music and massage: Malaysian farmers attempt to grow prized Japanese muskmelons
By Ebrahim Harris
After more than a decade of experimenting, a trio of Malaysian farmers say they have found the right concoction of nutrients and treatments to successfully grow Japanese ...
US Supreme Court to hear major case on carrying handguns in public
The U.S. Supreme Court stepped back into the heated debate over gun rights on Monday, agreeing to hear a challenge backed by the National Rifle Association to New York ...
Syrian refugees face Ramadan penury amid Lebanon’s economic ruin
Hussein al-Khaled and his family have lived in a makeshift hut in Lebanon for a decade since fleeing the war in neighbouring Syria, but this year COVID and economic collapse ...
Turkish lira nears record low, rattled by US ties and rates policy
The currency, among the worst performers in emerging markets this year, weakened as much as 0.6 per cent to 8.48 versus the dollar, close to its 2021 low water mark and closing in ...
Spain’s Pamplona cancels bull-running festival for second year in row
The mayor of the Spanish city of Pamplona on Monday cancelled the San Fermin festival, which draws thrill-seekers from all over the world to run with fighting bulls through its ...
German government revises 2021 growth forecast up after strong Q4
The German government has raised its growth forecast for this year to 3.5 per cent, compared with the 3 per cent growth it was expecting back in January, a source said, adding ...
EU sues AstraZeneca over delayed deliveries of Covid-19 vaccine
The European Commission said on Monday it had launched legal action against AstraZeneca for not respecting its contract for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines and for not having a “reliable” ...
Coronavirus swamps Indian hospitals as countries promise aid
India’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for a fifth day on Monday, as countries including Britain, Germany and the United States pledged to send urgent medical aid ...
Worryingly global military spending rises 2.6% in 2020 despite pandemic hit
Global military expenditure rose by 2.6% to $1.98 trillion last year even as some defence funds were reallocated to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a ...
Nadal outlasts Tsitsipas to claim 12th Barcelona Open title
Rafa Nadal saved a match point before defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4 6-7(6) 7-5 to claim a record-extending 12th Barcelona Open title on Sunday, ending his Greek opponent’s nine-game unbeaten ...
UK denies report that PM Johnson said ‘let the bodies pile high’
A newspaper report that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he would rather bodies piled “high in their thousands” than order a third lockdown is not true, Defence Secretary ...
UK economy to grow faster than US this year – Goldman Sachs
Britain looks set to see faster economic growth than the United States this year as the country races ahead with its vaccination programme after its slump in 2020, Goldman Sachs said ...
Turkey says it will respond in time to ‘outrageous’ U.S. genocide statement
U.S. President Joe Biden’s declaration that massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide is “simply outrageous” and Turkey will respond over coming months, Turkey‘s presidential ...
Wizz Air sees summer capacity at between 60%-80%
Wizz Air (WIZZ.L) is expecting to fly 60 per cent to 80 per cent of its previous capacity this summer, its chief executive said on Friday, as the Hungarian low-cost airline ...
‘Nomadland’ wins best picture at Oscars, Hopkins wins over Chadwick Boseman
“Nomadland” won best picture while its star Frances McDormand took home the lead actress Oscar on Sunday on a night of several firsts and a return to Hollywood glamour after ...
City beat Spurs to win fourth straight League Cup
Manchester City secured a record-equalling fourth successive League Cup triumph as Aymeric Laporte’s late header sealed a deserved 1-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
Spurs had soaked up ...
Fire from oxygen tank blast in Baghdad Covid-19 hospital kills 82
A fire caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a COVID-19 hospital in Baghdad took at least 82 lives and forced some people to leap through windows out of the burning ...
Germany rejects idea of redrawing Western Balkans borders – minister
Germany rejects a redrawing of borders in the Western Balkans along ethnic lines and the idea has been “put back into a drawer”, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday.
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