JANUARY 3, 2021
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, meets with incoming GOP senators for the 116th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 14, 2018. - J. Scott Applewhite, AP
The divide within the Republican Party over the results of the 2020 presidential election deepened last week as a dozen GOP Senators declared they will join their House colleagues in objecting to...
JANUARY 2, 2021
India will make vaccines free nationwide, Thailand’s capital will close entertainment venues and Hong Kong plans to roll out inoculations in February as authorities in Asia try to suppress recent outbreaks.
Sydney has mandated masks in many indoor settings as the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down in 2021. Tokyo’s governor is urging Japan to declare a...
JANUARY 1, 2021
The world's greatest living explorer is planning his travels again. Once the end of the Covid tunnel is finally in sight, Sir David Attenborough is itching to make up for lost time – and he knows where he's going first. 'Europe,' he says.
'I don't know it as well as I might.' This is a man who went...
JANUARY 1, 2020
Ex-GOP senator suggests forming new party, calls Trump 'ringmaster' of Republicans. - Getty Images
William Cohen, a former Republican senator from Maine and Defense secretary under former President Clinton, blasted GOP lawmakers challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election in a Thursday interview in which he suggested the formation of a new political party.
Cohen made the comments...
JANUARY 1, 2021
Brexit won't just change how people live and work in the UK and EU -- but it will change travel, too. - KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images
After four years of confusion, it has finally happened.
The United Kingdom officially severed ties with the European Union last night, as the Brexit transition period ended at 11 p.m. UK time.
Brexit hasn't been...
JANUARY 1, 2020
MUMBAI, INDIA: Markets regulator Sebi on Friday fined Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani and two other entities a total of Rs 70 crore for alleged manipulative trading in the shares of Reliance Petroleum — which was merged with RIL in 2009— in a case that dates back to 2007.
Sebi, in its 95-page order, said in November 2007, RIL...
JANUARY 1, 2021
New Delhi, INDIA: Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has opened up on his controversial walk-off with batting partner Chetan Chauhan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1981 after being wrongly adjudged out by the umpire. In an interaction with former Australian fast bowler Damien Fleming at 7Cricket, Gavaskar cleared it was not the poor umpiring but an...
JANUARY 1, 2021
A couple walks among graves at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery on Veterans Day in San Diego. In California, deaths from COVID-19 have recently passed 25,000. (Gregory Bull/Associated Press)
I've never been much of a numbers person. When they get too big, they blur.
I've stopped relying on them to process our coronavirus losses. Each time I try to...
DECEMBER 31. 2020
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge during downsized New Year's Eve celebrations due to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sydney, Australia, January 1, 2021. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
Fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House, but the harbour below was a deserted ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for...
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 431 (Williamson 129, Watling 73, Taylor 70, Nicholls 56, Afridi 4-109, Yasir 3-113) and 180 for 5 dec (Blundell 64, Latham 53, Naseem 3-55) beat Pakistan 239 (Ashraf 91, Rizwan 71, Jamieson 3-35) and 271 (Alam 102, Rizwan 60, Southee 2-33, Jamieson 2-35, Santner 2-52, Wagner 2-55, Boult 2-72) by 101 runs
The New...
