Sinner to face Medvedev in Shanghai Masters quarter-finals on October 10, 2024World number one Jannik Sinner will face Daniil Medvedev in the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals after both had straight-set victories on Wednesday. Sinner put some old demons to rest in overcoming American Ben Shelton 6-4, 7-6 (7/1), while Medvedev took out Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6 (7/3), 6-3. Shelton, ranked 16, knocked Sinner out at the same […]
Klopp to return as head of Red Bull football operations on October 10, 2024Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has a new role as head of football operations at Red Bull, which owns the RB Leipzig, Salzburg and New York clubs, the company said Wednesday. Klopp left Liverpool at the end of last season after nine years in charge, during which he rejuvenated the club and won the Premier […]
Wimbledon replaces line judges with electronic system on October 10, 2024Wimbledon announced Wednesday that it is scrapping its iconic line judges in favour of electronic line-calling from 2025, changing the face of the grass-court tournament. Smartly dressed umpires and line judges are as much part of the 147-year-old Grand Slam as strawberries and cream and the all-white kit that players must wear. But Wimbledon has […]
Trio wins chemistry Nobel for protein design, prediction on October 10, 2024Americans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing the secrets of proteins through computing and artificial intelligence. The three were honoured for cracking the code of the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life, with the jury hailing their work […]
Braving war: Lebanon’s ‘badass’ airline defies odds on October 10, 2024After narrowly escaping Israeli air strikes, Lebanese mother Tanaz Agha shared a picture taken from her plane window as she flew out of Beirut. “Proud to be a Lebanese who can travel on my national airline in a time of war,” the 46-year-old says she told her friends on social media. As Israel ramped up […]
Pacific island nations swamped by global drug trade on October 10, 2024A surge of drugs is engulfing the paradisal South Pacific, as cartels and triads use far-flung island nations to channel narcotics across the globe, top police and UN officials have told AFP. Pacific islands such as Fiji and Tonga sit at the crossroads of largely unpatrolled ocean-trafficking routes used to shift cocaine from Latin America […]
Japan PM dissolves parliament for snap election on October 10, 2024Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved parliament on Wednesday ahead of October 27 snap elections, banking on his honeymoon popularity and a fragmented opposition to lead his scandal-tainted party to victory. Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has governed Japan almost uninterrupted for decades — albeit with frequent leader changes — and is almost certain to […]
Harris holds slight edge nationally over Trump: poll on October 10, 2024Kamala Harris has taken a slim lead over Donald Trump in the US presidential race, a new poll showed Tuesday, as the Democrat slammed her rival for “weakness” during a media blitz four weeks before the election. Vice President Harris and Republican former president Trump — who was doing a three-hit airwaves blitz of his […]
Indian held Kashmir elects first regional government in a decade on October 9, 2024Indian-administered Kashmir elected Tuesday its first government since the restive Himalayan territory was brought under New Delhi’s direct control, as voters backed opposition parties to lead its regional assembly. Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government cancelled Kashmir’s partial autonomy to control its affairs in 2019, a sudden decision accompanied by mass arrests and a […]
Bangladesh’s Yunus says reforms will come before elections on October 9, 2024Nobel Peace prize-winner turned interim leader of Bangladesh, Mohammad Yunus, said in an interview published Tuesday that he would not call elections before necessary reforms had been pushed through. Yunus, known for his efforts to lift people out of poverty through microlending regimes, took over as the country’s interim leader after violent student protests led […]