Japan rocked by powerful earthquake
Parts of northeastern Japan have been shaken by a powerful earthquake. The 7.3 magnitude tremor struck Fukushima, Miyagi and the surrounding areas.
Parts of northeastern Japan have been shaken by a powerful earthquake. The 7.3 magnitude tremor struck Fukushima, Miyagi and the surrounding areas.
Indonesian resort island Bali has launched a drive-thru vaccination campaign targeting thousands of hospitality workers, as the popular tourist destination eyes reopening to foreign visitors.
Trescothick, who played 76 tests for England and helped them win the Ashes in 2005, will step down as assistant coach of Somerset to take up his new role. Former New Zealand off-spinner Jeetan Patel has been named England's spin bowling coach and youth team head coach Jon Lewis has been promoted to the role of the senior team's pace bowling coach.
Just like us, it appears that when not required to, celebrities are more than happy to make no effort whatsoever on Zoom.
Juventus slipped 10 points off the title pace as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Hellas Verona before leaders Inter thumped Genoa 3-0. Andrea Pirlo’s side have a game in hand over their rivals, but the champions' stranglehold of the Serie A title is under serious threat as they endure their worst league season in nine years. Juve have picked up 46 points, their lowest total after 23 rounds since 2011-12.
Three-time Grand National-winning trainer Gordon Elliott has apologised after a photograph emerged of him chatting on the phone while sitting on a dead horse.
The Harvard scientists analysed more than 2 million adults from around the world.
A possible “snow devil” or “snownado” made an appearance at a snow mobile racing event in Walden, Colorado, on February 27.Snowmobiler Nate Jones captured footage of swirling snowy vortex.“I was in between races, getting ready to fire up my sled, and I spotted a squall coming in and it looked pretty gnarly. I had enough time to grab my camera and got this little snow twister,” Jones told Storyful. Credit: Nate Jones via Storyful
A French court will deliver its verdict in the corruption trial of former president Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, with prosecutors demanding he face jail time. Sarkozy, who led France from 2007 to 2012 and remains influential among conservatives, is accused of trying to bribe a judge and of influence peddling in exchange for inside information on an investigation into his presidential campaign finances. Prosecutors told the court the 66-year-old should be jailed for four years and serve at least two.
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Williams said the 22-year-old, whose success in the all-female series boosted her profile in 2019, would "continue to be fully immersed within the team both trackside and certain Grands Prix and at the factory". "I feel I am improving as a driver all the time, and my time spent in the simulator this coming season will prove to be invaluable," Chadwick said in a statement https://www.williamsf1.com/news/2021/02/williams-racing-confirms-jamie-chadwick-for-2021. Chadwick has also signed up with the Veloce team for the new electric off-road Extreme E series that is due to begin in April.
Olympic men's basketball champions the United States will play France in their Tokyo Games opener on July 25 -- three days after the end of the NBA Finals -- organisers said Monday.
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder says his side's hopes of staying in the Premier League are all but over after their 21st league defeat of the season, at home to Liverpool.
It comes as protesters marched in Myanmar in defiance of a crackdown by security forces that killed at least 18 people a day earlier, as calls grew for a more united international response after the worst violence since a coup one month ago.Myanmar has been in chaos since the army seized power and detained elected government leader Aung San Suu Kyi and much of her party leadership on Feb. 1, alleging fraud in a November election her party won in a landslide.
China has pledged to deliver 400,000 doses of Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine to Afghanistan, Afghan officials said on Monday, in a boost for an immunisation campaign begun last week. "China's ambassador to Kabul said in a meeting with health officials that his country would provide Afghanistan with 400,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine," Ghulam Dastagir Nazari, the health ministry's head of the immunisation programme, told Reuters.
If you thought the Dardenne brothers were the only game in town when it comes to fraternal auteur duos making unvarnished studies of life on the skids in working-class Belgium, newcomers Harpo and Lenny Guit have at least one surprise in store for you. If you’re thinking of the Dardenne brothers at all, however, the […]
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Ghana's president Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday became the world's first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free for poorer countries.
Over 300 MFA employees continue to serve at Singapore's overseas missions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, said Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.
Japanese government and ruling party officials are discussing possible additional cash payouts to low-income households to help them cope with the coronavirus pandemic, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. The amount of the potential payout has not been fixed, but government spending is likely to be much lower than a previous package that offered cash handouts of 100,000 yen ($940) to all citizens, said the sources, who were not authorised to speak to media and spoke on condition of anonymity. The previous cash payouts cost the government 12.9 trillion yen ($120 billion), which was financed by deficit-covering bonds.
Syria's health ministry said on Monday it had started administering COVID-19 vaccinations to frontline healthcare workers. "For the second day in a row COVID-19 vaccinations are being given to frontline healthcare workers that are working within coronavirus isolation centres across governorates," a ministry statement said. The statement did not make clear what type of vaccine Syria had acquired or the quantity.