Li Qiang becomes China’s premier, tasked with reviving economy
Li Qiang, the former Communist Party chief of Shanghai, took office on Saturday as China’s premier, the country’s No.2 post, putting the close ally of President Xi Jinping ...
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Shiffrin slaloms to record 87th World Cup win
An emotional Mikaela Shiffrin wrote her name in the history books as the most successful Alpine World Cup skier of all time on Saturday after taking a record 87th career ...
Bournemouth battle to 1-0 win over lacklustre Liverpool
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah missed a second-half penalty as his side fell to a 1-0 defeat away at Bournemouth, with Philip Billing’s goal lifting the south-coast side off the ...
Silicon Valley Bank is largest failure since 2008 crisis, billions stranded (update1)
Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group SIVB.O became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis on Friday, in a sudden collapse that roiled global markets, left billions of ...
Liverpool boss Klopp ‘surprised’ by Firmino’s decision to leave
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said he was “a little bit surprised” by Roberto Firmino’s decision to leave the club at the end of the season but wants to end ...
Blast in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province kills one, injures five
A blast hit the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Saturday, police said, killing one person and wounding five a few days after the death of the province’...
Indian police arrest three after man killed for possessing beef
Police in India have arrested three men in eastern Bihar state in connection with the death of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was suspected of carrying beef, ...
Silvergate’s planned liquidation fuels another crypto rout
Silvergate Capital Corp (SI.N), one of the biggest banks in the cryptocurrency industry, said on Wednesday it was planning to wind down operations and liquidate voluntarily.
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Lineker pulled from BBC presenting after migration row
Former England soccer captain Gary Lineker has been taken off air by the BBC after his comments on Britain’s migration policy sparked a furious row between the government and ...
German police say “multiple” hostages held at Karlsruhe pharmacy
German police said “multiple” hostages were being held in an ongoing hostage situation at a pharmacy in the southwestern German city of Karlsruhe on Friday but that there was no ...
Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume ties in talks brokered by China
Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed on Friday to re-establish relations after years of hostility that had threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped fuel conflicts in the Middle ...
British unions lose legal challenge over $23 bln pension reform bill
Two British trade unions on Friday lost a legal challenge to changes to public sector pensions they argue allows the government to unlawfully pass the 19-billion-pound ($23 billion) cost of discriminatory ...
Banking regulators shutter SVB, collapse unnerves investors
California banking regulators on Friday moved quickly to close startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group SIVB.O, the largest bank failure since the financial crisis, a sudden collapse that prompted the ...
Trump cannot exclude ‘Access Hollywood’ tape from rape accuser’s trial
A U.S. judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to exclude an “Access Hollywood” tape of him making vulgar comments about women from a defamation lawsuit by the ...
Offshore workers to strike at UK continental shelf, says Unite
British union Unite on Friday said several Sparrows offshore services workers have voted to strike at dozens of platforms on the UK continental shelf including those of BP BP.L ...
Anonymous tip-off, German gun laws failed to stop slaughter at Jehovah’s Witnesses hall
A deadly rampage at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Hamburg has put scrutiny on how the gunman was in legal possession of a semi-automatic pistol despite Germany’s tightened ...
German gunman kills six, unborn child, at Jehovah’s Witness hall – police
A gunman in Germany shot dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall in Hamburg, authorities said on Friday, in an attack that is bound ...
Guardiola warns players to be careful in public as police investigate Walker
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola warned his players to be more careful when out in public after defender Kyle Walker became the subject of a police investigation for allegedly exposing ...
Chelsea’s Potter won’t get carried away despite ‘step forward’
Chelsea appear to have hit the brakes on their downward spiral after claiming back-to-back wins for the first time since October, but manager Graham Potter said on Friday he will ...
Zelenskiy leads tributes to revered Ukrainian fighter killed in Bakhmut
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy led tributes on Friday to Dmytro Kotsiubailo, a renowned commander known as “Da Vinci” who won public affection for committing his entire adult life to fighting ...
France, Britain strike migration deal paving way for new entente
Britain will pay France around 480 million pounds ($577 million) over three years to try to stop migrants travelling in small boats across the Channel as the two allies on Friday took ...
Silicon Valley Bank scrambles to reassure clients after 60 per cent stock wipe-out
SVB Financial Group (SIVB.O) scrambled on Thursday to reassure its venture capital clients their money was safe after a capital raise led to its stock collapsing 60 per cent and ...
German heating can’t be made 100 per cent electric, suppliers say
German heating system suppliers said they can roll out electric heat pumps to households on a large scale to replace oil and gas boilers and protect the climate, but lawmakers ...
Xi clinches third term as China’s president amid host of challenges
Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third term as president of China on Friday during a parliamentary session in which he tightened his control of the world’s second-largest economy as ...