January2024

Qatar go into the Asian Cup starting on Friday as hosts and holders but the shock axing of Carlos Queiroz as coach last month has thrown their title defence into serious question. Prior to that, the...

Can a prosthetic-legged, deaf Native American superhero revitalize Disney’s Marvel franchise, only weeks after the company’s CEO seemed to be criticizing his filmmakers for putting message before narrative? The story of Maya Lopez, a fierce former...

Following discussions in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the latest stop on a trip aimed at calming a region agitated by the Israel-Hamas conflict, US senior diplomat Antony Blinken stated that there was “clear interest” in pursuing...

Elon Musk, the millionaire American who founded SpaceX and Tesla, refuted reports in the past that he takes narcotics. “After that one puff with Rogan, I agreed, at NASA’s request, to do 3 years of random...

That’s what’s known as “airplane mode”—an iPhone that fell 16,000 feet (5,000 meters) from an Alaska Airlines aircraft and landed with the battery just halfway charged and not even a crack in the screen. On Friday,...

Starting on Thursday, South Africa and Israel will argue before the UN Supreme Court on Pretoria’s accusations against Israel of “genocidal acts” in Gaza, which the Israelis have rejected as “blood libel”. South Africa asked judges...

Christmas services were held in hundreds of Moscow churches for more than a million believers, according to Vitaly Suchkov, head of the capital’s department for national strategy and interregional relations, who spoke with TASS. “Despite the...

The US Justice Department announced on Monday that a US Navy petty officer who had entered a guilty plea to giving Chinese intelligence officers access to classified military material would serve a term of more than...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received congratulations from Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland KC on her win in Bangladesh’s national parliamentary election. “My congratulations to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her electoral victory,” she said in a...

Moderna on Monday said its 2023 COVID vaccine sales would be around $6.7 billion, coming in above the lower end of its full-year forecast, and reiterated its goal of returning to sales growth in 2025. Shares...