Beijing Omicron case prompts temple closures, queues for COVID-19 tests
BEIJING: China on Sunday (Jan 16) reported 65 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases for Jan 15, including the first Omicron case in Beijing, just weeks from...
Key moments in Novak Djokovic’s Australian saga
MELBOURNE : Tennis star Novak Djokovic's bid to win a record-breaking 21 men's Grand Slam titles at the Australian Open ended on Sunday with a...
Djokovic boards plane bound for Dubai after court upholds visa cancellation
MELBOURNE : Tennis star Novak Djokovic boarded a plane bound for Dubai on Sunday evening, a Reuters journalist said, after the Australian Federal Court upheld...
Murray finds spark before long-awaited return to Melbourne Park
MELBOURNE : Tears, pain and a defiant five-set loss marked Andy Murray's last appearance at the Australian Open but the Scot will stroll Melbourne Park's...
Alpine skiing-Odermatt wins last men’s super-G before Beijing
Swiss skier Marco Odermatt cemented his status as an Olympic favourite with victory on home snow in Wengen, the last men's Alpine World Cup super-G...
Novak Djokovic ‘playing by his own rules’, says Stefanos Tsitsipas
The 34-year-old, a vaccine sceptic, fuelled widespread anger in Australia when he announced he was heading to Melbourne with a medical exemption from requirements for...
Covid-19: France to relax travel rules from the UK
France will relax its restrictions for those travelling from the UK from Friday, the government has announced. Vaccinated travellers will no longer need a compelling...
French holiday bookings surge after rule change
French holiday bookings have jumped after Paris said it would ease restrictions on UK travellers, travel firms have said. Airline Jet2 said it had seen...
Why the brutally bashed Marvel’s Eternals would have made better sense as a Disney Plus series
No Marvel film has been bashed as brutally as The Eternals. Though the film earned $162 million in its opening weekend, it fell short of...
German court convicts Syrian man of crimes against humanity
Prosecutors alleged Anwar Raslan supervised the ‘systematic and brutal torture’ of more than 4,000 prisoners between April 2011 and September 2012. A former Syrian secret...