Fresh Murray leads British charge, faces Tsitsipas test (order of play)
A fresh and fit Andy Murray will lead the British men’s charge in Wimbledon’s second round on Thursday, where the 36-year-old will have to overcome Stefanos Tsitsipas to ...
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South Africa gas leak kills 17; official blames illegal mining
The death toll from an overnight gas cylinder leak in a South African shantytown rose to 17 on Thursday, as one local official blamed the accident on an illegal mining operation ...
Turkey’s Erdogan says Sweden’s NATO steps undermined by protests
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sweden has taken steps in the right direction for its NATO bid with anti-terrorism legislation but continued protests there by Kurdish militant sympathisers undermined its ...
Meta launches ‘Twitter Killer’ Threads app, 5 million sign-ups in 4 hours
With Twitter already on the ropes, Meta’s top Mark Zuckerberg delivered another blow to Elon Musk on Wednesday, ramping up the tech billionaires’ rivalry with the launch of Instagram’...
Russian missile strikes apartment block in Lviv, kills at least three
A Russian missile attack killed at least three people in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, and rescuers were searching through the debris of a apartment building for survivors and ...
Eurozone business activity contracts in June
Eurozone business activity slipped into contractionary territory last month in a broad-based downturn across the bloc’s dominant services industry and a deepening decline of factory output, a survey showed.
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Russia to decrease daily forex sales in coming month
Russia’s finance ministry said on Wednesday it would sell 1.7 billion roubles’ ($18.9 million) worth of foreign currency a day between July 7 and Aug. 4, a decrease in the volume of daily ...
Problems mount for Wimbledon, but Djokovic and Swiatek serene
Climate change protesters and yet more rain snagged Wimbledon on Wednesday but while security and scheduling headaches intensified for the organisers reigning men’s champion Novak Djokovic moved serenely through ...
US Navy says it prevented Iran from seizing tankers in Gulf of Oma
The U.S. Navy said it had intervened to prevent Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, in the latest in a series of ...
Philadelphia mass shooting suspect arraigned on five murder charges
A Philadelphia resident arrested in one of a series of mass shootings across the country over the Fourth of July weekend was arraigned in court on Wednesday on five murder ...
Man dies after detonating explosive device at court in Ukrainian capital (Update 2)
A man who detonated a explosive device at a court in the Ukrainian capital died on Wednesday after barricading himself inside part of the building, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said, ...
Democracy ‘not radically worse’ in EU than a year ago, says bloc’s executive
The European Union’s latest democracy health check showed there was no significant deterioration across the 27-nation bloc in areas like media and court freedoms or efforts to tackle corruption ...
Palestinians defiant and angry after Israel’s Jenin raid (Updated)
Palestinian militant fighters paraded in Jenin on Wednesday and angry crowds confronted senior Palestinian Authority officials, accusing them of weakness, after one of the largest Israeli military operations in the ...
Zaporizhzhia residents calm, prepared amid claims of planned nuclear attack (Updated)
Residents in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia appeared calm on Wednesday after Kyiv’s latest warning that Russian forces could trigger a catastrophe at the nearby Moscow-held nuclear power ...
Just Stop Oil protesters briefly halt play on third day of Wimbledon
Protesters briefly interrupted play on the third day of Wimbledon on Wednesday, releasing orange ticker-tape mixed with jigsaw puzzle pieces on Court 18 during a men’s singles match.
Two protesters ...
UK financial services minister urges caution over central bank digital currency
Britain should be cautious about whether to issue a digital version of the pound given privacy and other issues involved, financial services minister Andrew Griffith said on Tuesday.
The finance ...
Man Utd sign Mount from Chelsea on five-year deal
Manchester United have signed midfielder Mason Mount from Chelsea on a five-year contract with an option for a further 12 months, the Premier League side announced on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old England ...
Why a $1.5 trillion source of corporate financing is choking on higher rates
A financial stream that helped fund the world’s riskiest companies and grew into a market estimated at $1.5 trillion in the low interest rate years is drying up, as aggressive ...
Garcia to miss first British Open in 25 years
Sergio Garcia will miss the British Open for the first time since 1997 after coming up short in a qualifying event on Tuesday.
The 2017 Masters champion, who plays on the LIV ...
Forest Green’s Dingley becomes first woman to manage pro English men’s team
Fourth-tier side Forest Green Rovers appointed Hannah Dingley as caretaker head coach on Tuesday following Duncan Ferguson’s exit, making her the first woman to manage a men’s professional ...
Rare Dutch summer storm hits air, train traffic
People across much of the Netherlands were told to stay indoors as a rare summer storm hit the Dutch coastearly on Wednesday, packing winds of up to 145 kilometres (90 miles) per ...
EU court strips Catalan separatist leader’s immunity as MEP
The European Union’s General Court on Wednesday stripped the leader of Catalonia’s failed bid for independence from the legal immunity he had as a member of the European ...
Battling Brexit, some British firms turn to invest in Europe
Sick of customs delays and extra bureaucracy since Britain left the European Union, Farrat, a small manufacturer on the edge of Manchester, is ramping up investment to compensate – in Germany.
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Airbus trials new wing designs in technology race with Boeing
Airbus (AIR.PA) is stepping up testing of radical new wing technology as the planemaker lays the foundation for a future successor to its best-selling A320 series, but faces a ...