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Being good at maths might help you become great at sports – Emma Raducanu showed us why
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
‘Covid will become manageable’: BioNTech co-founder says the virus will be with us for years
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
North Korea: the rise and rise of ‘first sister’ Kim Yo-jong
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 conference speech as Labour leader was a serious affair – here’s what you need to know
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
‘Skies’ all set to become stormy for bookies!
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
Marseille players ‘turning on’ Arsenal loanee Guendouzi ‘after criticism’
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
HMP Bronzefield stillbirth proves prison is not safe for pregnant women
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
Bombshell clues that ‘PROVE’ China hid Covid lab leak in ‘cover up of the century worse than Watergate’
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: I don’t want to see a female bond
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
China: removing ‘Arab-style’ features from country’s biggest mosques the latest move in campaign of Muslim assimilation
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