South Korea sweat on Son ahead of opener with wildcards Uruguay
South Koreans will be anxiously awaiting news of whether captain Son Heung-min is available when they need him most, as the Asian giants start their World Cup campaign on Thursday ...
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Kosovo, Serbia reach deal to end dangerous dispute over car plates
Kosovo and Serbia reached a deal to end a nearly two-year dispute over car licence plates in northern Kosovo, which the West had warned could trigger ethnic violence, the European ...
Ukrainians suffer in cold, darkness as president implores U.N. to punish Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy demanded the United Nations punish Russia for air strikes on civilian infrastructure, after a missile barrage plunged cities into freezing darkness in the worst nationwide power ...
Credit Suisse flags hefty loss as rich clients leave
Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) expects a pre-tax loss of up to 1.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.58 billion) in its fourth quarter as it keeps bleeding cash, the Swiss bank said on Wednesday, ...
TikTok on ‘high alert’ in Malaysia as tensions rise over election wrangle
Short video platform TikTok said on Wednesday it was on high alert for content that violates its guidelines in Malaysia after authorities warned of a rise in ethnic tension on ...
Sony to expand Chinese game incubator in Microsoft head-to-head
Sony Group Corp (6758.T) said it plans to expand a programme to identify and incubate Chinese-made games, in a race with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to tap China’s gaming ...
Courtois saves penalty as disappointing Belgium beat Canada 1-0
Keeper Thibaut Courtois showed his class as Belgium made the most of Canada’s woeful finishing to win their opening World Cup Group F game 1-0 thanks to a Michy ...
African leaders agree on ceasefire in east Congo from Friday
African leaders have declared a cessation of hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo starting Friday, in particular attacks by the M23 rebel group, they said in a joint statement ...
Poland asks Germany to send Patriot missile launchers to Ukraine
Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday he had asked Germany to send Patriot missile launchers offered to Poland to Ukraine.
“After further Russian missile attacks, I asked Germany ...
New space observatory helps solve mystery involving enormous black holes
Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way’s center, some are fierce – guzzling surrounding material ...
Spain hammer Costa Rica 7-0 in perfect World Cup start
Spain thrashed Costa Rica 7-0 on Wednesday, their biggest ever winning margin at a World Cup, helped by two goals by Ferran Torres and strikes by five other players to ...
World Cup gatherings may fuel Brazil’s latest COVID wave
Brazil faces a new wave of COVID cases just as the football-crazed nation is gathering en masse to follow the World Cup, with new coronavirus sub-variants and delayed vaccine boosters ...
Erdogan says Turkey will launch Syria land operation when convenient
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey’s air operations against a Kurdish militia in northern Syria were only the beginning and it would launch a land operation when ...
UK braced for Christmas post chaos as union rejects ‘final’ pay offer
Strikes by British postal workers in the run up to Christmas look set to go ahead after Royal Mail’s largest labour union rejected the latest pay offer from the ...
Crypto world: Let’s talk about decentralized exchanges
As the crypto castle crumbles, some true believers say the answer is to double down on DEX. Decentralized exchanges, that is.
The spectacular collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, a ...
Japan stun Germany with late strikes at World Cup
Goals from substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano in the last 15 minutes gave Japan a stunning 2-1 upset over four-times champions Germany in their World Cup Group E opener on ...
Russia fires missiles across Ukraine to knock out heat as winter looms
Russia rained down volleys of missiles across Ukraine on Wednesday, hitting infrastructure in the capital Kyiv and other cities as Moscow pursued its campaign to knock out Ukraine’s power ...
European Parliament declares Russia a state sponsor of terrorism
The European Parliament on Wednesday designated Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, arguing Moscow’s military strikes on civilian targets such as energy infrastructure, hospitals, schools and shelters violated ...
Croatia held by Morocco in goalless stalemate
Croatia’s World Cup campaign got off to a stuttering start with a 0-0 draw against a battling Morocco on Wednesday as the 2018 runners-up lacked the punch of the side ...
Elon Musk names South Korea among top candidates for EV investment
Tesla (TSLA.O) chief executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that South Korea was among its top candidate locations for a factory it plans to build in Asia for making ...
FTX was run as ‘personal fiefdom,’ faces hacks, missing assets, attorneys say
FTX was run as a “personal fiefdom” of former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, attorneys for the collapsed crypto exchange said in its first bankruptcy hearing as they detailed ongoing challenges such ...
Oil prices edge higher as large US crude stock drop outweighs China demand worries
Oil prices inched higher on Wednesday as data showing a larger-than-expected US crude drawdown last week outweighed concerns about lower fuel demand from China amid tightening COVID-19 curbs.
Brent crude ...
Pope compares Russia’s war in Ukraine to 1930s famine inflicted by Stalin
Pope Francis said on Wednesday that Ukrainians were suffering today from the “martyrdom of aggression” and compared Russia’s war in Ukraine to the “terrible genocide” of the 1930s, when ...
World Cup’s most valuable teams – which squads are worth most?
England, who are gunning for their second World Cup title, have the most valuable squad in Qatar with Jude Bellingham topping a list of over 800 players, a study has found. ...