Thousands flock to Southend beach
Thousands of visitors struggled to keep a social distance of two metres as they flocked to Southend-on-Sea to enjoy the warm May weather.
Thousands of visitors struggled to keep a social distance of two metres as they flocked to Southend-on-Sea to enjoy the warm May weather.
India's huge coronavirus vaccination drive is behind schedule, with a third of recipients not showing up for appointments because of safety fears, technical glitches and a belief that the pandemic is ending.
Panaji (Goa) [India], January 24 (ANI): After being restricted to a draw, FC Goa head coach Juan Ferrando said one point is no enough for them, adding that his side was better than Kerala Blasters FC.
Vitaly Sokolov, a doctor who has been treating critical coronavirus patients in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic, is anxiously waiting to be vaccinated.
Hammering at bamboo poles to erect a stilt house, minority Christians who have fled conflict in northern Myanmar are building a sanctuary on the outskirts of Yangon.
Liverpool are fourth with 34 points at the halfway stage of the league campaign, six points behind leaders Manchester United whom they face later on Sunday in the fourth round of the FA Cup. Klopp said he was baffled by Liverpool's setback against Burnley but said the result could spark the reigning league champions back to life.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 — Putrajaya should enforce the strictest of movement control order (MCO) for at least two weeks following the recent spike in the number of Covid-19 clusters involving...
On the surface, the Austrian ski resort of Semmering looks to have adapted well to the coronavirus pandemic.
Aubameyang missed Saturday's 1-0 FA Cup fourth-round defeat by Southampton which knocked the holders out of the competition. Arteta said the 31-year-old had been withdrawn a few hours before the game began. "He had a personal matter in the last few hours and we had to send him back," Arteta told Arsenal's website before the contest at St Mary's Stadium.
Former President Donald Trump considered replacing the acting attorney general with an official willing to pursue unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and he pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate President Joe Biden’s victory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said the efforts in the last weeks of Trump's presidency failed because of resistance from his Justice appointees who refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit in the Supreme Court. Other senior department officials later threatened to resign if Trump fired then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, several people familiar with the discussions told the Journal.
The president of São Paulo football club condemned a violent assault on their team bus on Saturday in what appeared to be a reaction to the club’s recent run of poor form. “The attack that the Sao Paulo Football Club delegation suffered heading to the Morumbi stadium is an inadmissible act and must never be tolerated,” Julio Casares said. It was Sao Paulo’s fifth league game without a win and leaves the club that was seven points clear at the top of the table late last year in second place, one point behind Internacional, who have a game in hand.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 24 — Things are rough now. We are told that things will get worse before they get better. And so that is what we hold on to: the thought that things will — they must —...
Goa [India], January 24 (ANI): After witnessing a draw against FC Goa, Kerala Blasters FC head coach Kibu Vicuna said he is satisfied with a point that they earned despite admitting that his side was close to winning three points from the game.
Former President Donald Trump considered replacing the acting attorney general with an official willing to pursue unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and he pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate President Joe Biden’s victory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said the efforts in the last weeks of Trump's presidency failed because of resistance from his Justice appointees who refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit in the Supreme Court. Other senior department officials later threatened to resign if Trump fired then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, several people familiar with the discussions told the Journal.
Rescue workers on Sunday lifted out the first of 22 miners trapped for two weeks hundreds of metres underground in an east China mine, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
With a new year and a new administration in the White House, the US central bank nonetheless faces an unprecedented challenge in guiding the post-pandemic economic recovery.
London will enjoy a very strong year for stock market flotations, analysts say, arguing that both Brexit and coronavirus offer firms a unique opportunity to expand.
Malaysian maritime authorities have arrested 16 Vietnamese fishermen from two boats they said were encroaching in Malaysia's waters without a license, the Bernama state news agency reported. The fishermen and their boats were detained off Terengganu state, on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, on Friday, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said. "Checks conducted on the two boats found that 16 crew members including the skippers, aged 18 to 62, did not have any valid identification documents nor possessed any licence to fish in the country's waters," Terengganu MMEA director Captain Muhammad Suffi Mohd Ramli was reported as saying.
LA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Darren Clarke won the Mitsubishi Electric Championship by two strokes Saturday for his second straight PGA Tour Champions victory, playing the back nine in 6 under in a closing 8-under 64. “Just to win, to get in the winners and to win again is certainly very gratifying,” Clarke said. Clarke finished at 21-under 195 at Hualalai Golf Course.
Rescuers in China on Sunday lifted to the surface one of 22 workers trapped for two weeks after an explosion in a northern gold mine, state media reported. Rescuers are in contact with 10 of the workers who were in the mine when an explosion ripped through on Jan. 10 while it was still under construction. Rescuers have drilled additional shafts for communication, ventilation and evacuation of survivors.
As Ghana prepares for the funeral of former president Jerry Rawlings, the two main political parties are squabbling over his legacy.