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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
Can children really stop you catching a bad case of COVID-19?
Don't be fooled. They don't really have super powers. nazarovsergey/Shutterstock Having young children in your home may lower your risk of being hospitalised with COVID-19, according to a new study of NHS workers in Scotland. Children often catch coughs and colds, and this includes seasonal coronaviruses that cause the commonContinue Reading
Gaining knowledge is what makes a degree valuable, not graduate salaries or transferable skills
PhotoSky/Shutterstock The unexpected social and economic challenges brought by the coronavirus pandemic have given increased urgency to questions about the purposes of a university education and the kinds of graduates that society needs. Much of this debate has focused on the extent to which university degrees lead to graduate jobsContinue Reading
French Open 2020: Sofia Kenin Downs Scream Queen Danielle Collins To Make Semi-Finals
Sofia Kenin will face Petra Kvitova for a place in Saturday’s final.© AFP Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin moved two wins from a second Grand Slam title of 2020 when she defeated American compatriot Danielle Collins to reach the Roland Garros semi-finals on Wednesday. The 21-year-old fourth seed prevailed 6-4,Continue Reading
Turkey’s involvement in the Karabakh conflict could harm Azerbaijan, warns journalist Rovshan Aliyev · Global Voices
Should Azerbaijanis be wary of their close friend’s embrace? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meets Azerbaijani President IIham Aliyev in Baku, February 2020. Photo CC-BY-4.0: President.Az / Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved. This isn’t the first time in recent years when fighting has flared up in Nagorno-Karabakh. But what isContinue Reading
Estonia is a ‘digital republic’ – what that means and why it may be everyone’s future
Basakk/Shutterstock.com People around the globe have been watching the build up to the US election with disbelief. Particularly confusing to many is the furore over postal ballots, which the US president, Donald Trump is insisting will lead to large-scale voter fraud – despite a complete lack of evidence to backContinue Reading