JANUARY 9, 2022
Brief Scorecard: England 294 (Bairstow 113, Stokes 66, Boland 4-36) and 9 for 270 (Crawley 77, Stokes 60, Boland 3-30) drew with Australia 8 for 416 dec (Khawaja 137, Smith 67, Broad 5-101) and 6 for 265 dec (Khawaja 101*, Green 74, Leach 4-84)
Joe Root on the draw: 'It was hugely important, especially off the back of...
JANUARY 9, 2022
Amid an ongoing Omicron menace, Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus and head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology confirmed the detection of a new Covid-19 strain ‘Deltacron’ that combines delta and omicron in Cyprus.
In an interview with Sigma TV Friday, the professor confirmed the discovery of a new strain...
JANUARY 6, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden slams Trump while making remarks in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill one year after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
In a remarkable speech on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden laid the blame for the insurrection clearly and emphatically at the feet of Donald Trump.
He never...
JANUARY 4, 2021
SHANGHAI - China said on Tuesday it will put in force new rules to increase its oversight of plans by Chinese platform firms to list on overseas stock markets in the latest move to tighten its grip on its sprawling technology sector.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said the new rules come into effect on Feb. 15...
JANUARY 2, 2021
The D.C. area is expected to get 2 to 6 inches of snow Monday—more than previously anticipated—after mild weather Sunday and high temperatures in the 60s.
Storm Team4 is in Weather Alert mode and says to expect a storm Monday that may affect your schedule. D.C. advised residents to plan on slippery road conditions that could snarl the...
JANUARY 1, 2022
The first celebrity wedding of the year has kicked off the New Year. Mohit Raina’s wedding photos have surprised his fans after Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif were married in a private ceremony in December. On New Year’s Day, the Mahadev actor took to Instagram to announce his marriage.
Mohit captioned a photo of himself with his wife...
JANUARY 1, 2021
Kapil’s grit and gusto, his flamboyant style of batting, his energetic run up, his diction and his mannerisms are all on display on screen through an actor who was born two years after 1983. (Representative Image/HT File)
Those were very different times in India. Simplicity, quite simply, adorned people’s expressions. Success was rare. But we had our heroes....
DECEMBER 31, 2021
A picture shows a vial of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine during a vaccination drive at the al-Manahel School in the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, on December 12, 2021. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
Even after Covid-19 cases fall from their current record-high levels, it's...
DECEMBER 31, 2021
After the somber welcome that greeted 2021, many people saw this year’s holiday season as a time to revel in a return to near-normal. But New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world have once again been canceled or scaled back amid a new wave of Covid-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant.
In Germany, large public gatherings, including...
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Betty White. - Credit: Matt Sayles/AP/Shutterstock
"Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever," Betty White's agent and close friend Jeff Witjas tells PEOPLE in a statement
Betty White, TV's perennial Golden Girl, has died. She was 99.
"Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever," her agent...
