A Russian cosmonaut and two US astronauts arrived Friday at the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, five months after the failed launch of a rocket carrying two of the passengers. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and his Russian colleague Alexey Ovchinin, who both survived a dramatically […]
Thousands of young people marched through cities in Asia Friday, kicking off a global day of student protests that aims to spark world leaders into action on climate change. Classrooms in capitals from Lagos to London are expected to be empty, as the ambitious organisers of the global […]
British MPs have voted to ask the European Union to delay Brexit, with just two weeks to go until the UK is scheduled to leave the bloc. The UK is barrelling towards the March 29 Brexit deadline with no approved EU withdrawal agreement and a prime minister who […]
China’s rubber-stamp parliament approved Friday a foreign investment law that may serve as an olive branch in trade talks with the United States, but it received a lukewarm welcome from business groups. The legislation aims to address long-running grievances from foreign firms including stronger protections for intellectual property, […]
Brazil’s far right President Jair Bolsonaro will meet US counterpart Donald Trump next week to strengthen ties in the nascent regional conservative alliance aiming to ramp up the pressure on Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. After decades of fractious relations between Brasilia and Washington, things have improved with the assumption […]
Attacks on two Christchurch mosques left at least 49 dead Friday, with one gunman — identified as an Australian extremist — apparently livestreaming the assault that triggered the lockdown of the New Zealand city. In what appeared to be the worst attack against Muslims in a western country, […]
Christchurch ; The Bangladesh cricket team’s tour of New Zealand was Friday called off after the players had a narrow escape from a shooting attack on a mosque here, described as an “unprecedented act of violence” by the country’s Prime Minister Jacinda Arden. The attack on the Masjid Al […]
Swansea ; Pep Guardiola remains coy about Manchester City’s chances of winning the quadruple, but his side face Swansea in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday standing just 16 games away from a clean sweep of all four major trophies. Guardiola’s team moved closer to the unprecedented silverware haul […]
Indian Wells (United States) : Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic’s resurgence continued Thursday as she reached the Indian Wells WTA semi-finals with a battling 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over fifth-ranked Karolina Pliskova. Bencic, a former world number seven whose ranking slumped as injuries stalled her career, took her current winning streak […]
Ponte Vedra ; Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri battled through darkness in which he could “barely see” and swirling winds to be two-under 70 in an unfinished opening round of the PLAYERS Championship here. Lahiri’s playing partner and friend, Kiradech Aphibarnrat, had a very rough day despite a birdie start. […]
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