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Serbian government first flaunts, then denies having sold weapons to both Armenia and Azerbaijan
Mixed messages by President Aleksandar Vučić may be an attempt not to antagonise Russia and Turkey Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Serbian Armed Forces weapons during a military exercise on August 21, 2020. Publicity photo by Presidency of Serbia/Dimitrije Goll. Use permitted. This story originally appeared at Istinomer (Truth-O-Meter), a fact-checking initiative ofContinue Reading
SRH vs KXIP, Match Statistics Head To Head For SunRisers Hyderabad vs Kings XI Punjab
IPL 2020, SRH vs KXIP: SunRisers Hyderabad will take on Kings XI Punjab in Dubai.© BCCI/IPL SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) are set to face Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in the 22nd match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 season, at the Dubai International Stadium, in Dubai. SRH are currentlyContinue Reading
Indian Premier League 2020: Ravichandran Ashwin Says Ricky Ponting Talking To ICC Committee For Penalty Against Batsman For Backing Up | Cricket News
IPL 2020: Ravichandran Ashwin plays for Delhi Capitals, a team Ricky Ponting coaches.© BCCI/IPL Delhi Capitals’ spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has floated an idea of penalising the batting team 10 runs for backing up too far at the non-striker’s end and head coach Ricky Ponting is already in talks with the InternationalContinue Reading
On China National Day, scripted interview with ‘patriotic’ Hong Kong citizen draws online mockery
Beijing attempted to present a pro-China protester as a grassroots Hong Kong citizen Image from the Stand News. Used with permission. On October 1, when China celebrates National Day, a media stunt by Beijing’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong attracted widespread ridicule online. With celebrations of this year’s holiday haltedContinue Reading
Indian Premier League 2020, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings: Yuvraj Singh’s Cheeky Comment On Ben Stokes’ Tweet Is Self-Deprecation 101
IPL 2020: Ben Stokes is quarantining after his arrival in the UAE to play for Rajasthan Royals.© Rajasthan Royals/Twitter Ben Stokes and Yuvraj Singh are left-handed batsmen who can also bowl. However, Yuvraj fancies putting himself in the league of “bowlers who can bat” as he told Stokes when theContinue Reading
Novak Djokovic Defeats Pablo Carreno Busta To Reach 10th French Open Semi-Final | Tennis News
French Open: Novak Djokovic will face Stefanos Tsitsipas on Friday for a place in the final.© AFP World number one Novak Djokovic recovered from dropping his first set at this year’s French Open and overcame a bothersome left arm, to defeat Pablo Carreno Busta and reach a 10th Roland GarrosContinue Reading
No blockbusters: how COVID-19 has worsened the fraught relationship between cinemas and distributors
Cineworld also operates Picturehouse's independent cinemas. Meantime Media/Shutterstock To add an additional shade of darkness to the current cloud of gloom over the country, cinema operator Cineworld announced that it would be temporarily closing all of its cinemas in the UK. Close on the heels of this came a decisionContinue Reading
IPL 2020 Points Table Update: Orange Cap Holder And Purple Cap Holder List After KKR vs CSK | Cricket News
IPL Points Table: Rahul Tripathi’s 51-bal 81 saw KKR beat CSK to go 3rd in the table.© BCCI/IPL Kolkata Knight Riders snatched an unlikely 10-run victory against Chennai Super Kings to go third in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 points table, as their rivals on the night stay atContinue Reading
The climate crisis message in Jamaican environmentalist’s new novel is rooted ‘in love for home’ · Global Voices
‘Daylight Come’ is Diana McCaulay’s dystopian take on the future Jamaican author and environmentalist Diana McCaulay. Photo by Jonathan Chambers, used with permission. “How do you live, when daylight kills?” That’s the question posed in award-winning Jamaican writer and environmental activist Diana McCaulay’s fifth novel, “Daylight Come,” published by Peepal TreeContinue Reading
Nobel Prize: two women scientists share chemistry prize for the first time for work on ‘genetic scissors’
Emmanuelle Charpentier, director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, US, are the joint winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for the development of a precise method of editing genomes. This is theContinue Reading