Following her triumph in the recent US Open tennis tournament, Emma Raducanu was interviewed by Chinese media outlet CGTN and revealed that maths was her favourite subject at school. Raducanu told the interviewer she was “a numbers person” and really enjoyed the problem-solving aspect. The tennis player, who recently receivedContinue Reading
LONDON — The co-founder and chief medical officer of BioNTech, the German firm which developed a Covid-19 vaccine alongside Pfizer, told CNBC that the world “should not live in fear” of the virus. “Covid will become manageable. It already has started to become manageable” Dr. Ozlem Tureci said in theContinue Reading
When the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, called for an end to the war on the Korea peninsula recently, the initial response was a rebuff from North Korea’s vice foreign minister. This has been the standard response from Pyongyang whenever the idea has been raised of turning the 1953 armisticeContinue Reading
Keir Starmer’s first in-person conference speech as Labour leader covered a lot of ground, though there was no single piece of rhetoric to act as a governing idea. It wasn’t an Ed Miliband “one nation” moment. There was, though, a clear message: that Starmer represented a “serious” politics. He usedContinue Reading
RATTLE OWL, 9/2, ‘rattled’ home yesterday; what a wonderful month this has been and, of course, we’ve profited considerably. Calm Skies will probably be a major target for ‘big-hitters’ to justify favouritism and make it fifth time lucky in the Fillies’ Novice Stakes over six furlongs of Kempton polytrack tonightContinue Reading
MATTEO GUENDOUZI is allegedly wearing thin his Marseille teammates’ patience – just eight games into his loan spell with the Ligue 1 club. The 22-year-old is reported to have clashed with a number of players in the squad, according to L’Equipe. 2 Guendouzi recently joined Marseille in a loan withContinue Reading
Sakhorn/Shutterstock “Ms A”, an 18-year-old woman held on remand in HMP Bronzefield women’s prison in Middlesex, England, gave birth to her first child alone in her cell after her calls for help were ignored. A new report from the prisons and probation ombudsman provides details on Ms A’s case andContinue Reading
COVID was leaked from a Wuhan lab in the “cover up of the century” that is “worse than Watergate”, former intelligence chiefs and diplomats have claimed. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) – a high security facility specalising in coronaviruses – has been in the eye of the storm asContinue Reading
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has said she would not be in favour of a female Bond as she attended the premiere of the latest film in the series No Time to Die. The acclaimed creator of Fleabag was drafted in to work the script walked the red carpet at the film’s glitteringContinue Reading
Islamic landmark in China: the Dongguan mosque in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, western China. David Stroup, Author provided In the normally quiet city of Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai province, everyday interactions between the city’s ethnic groups – Han Chinese, Hui Muslim, Tibetans, Turkic Salars and othersContinue Reading
