Six-time Australian Open champion Serena Williams progressed to the second round of the Australian Open 2017 with a straight-set win over Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic on Tuesday. The American, 35, won 6-4 6-3 in one hour and 19 minutes against the 19-year-old in Melbourne, BBC Sport reported. The world number two, who is chasing a […]
Five terror suspects involved in fatal armed attacks on police and soldiers in Myanmar’s Rakhine have been arrested, a local media reported on Tuesday. The five suspects were captured by the security forces during a two-day combing operation in Rakhine that started on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported. The suspects have confessed to their part […]
French President Francois Hollande has that the European Union (EU) “does not need external advice” to tell it what it has to do, a media report said on Tuesday. Hollande’s remarks came on Monday in response to US President-elect Donald Trump’s comments on topics such as the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). […]
Over 90 animals on the protected species lists including a bottlenose dolphin and a green sea turtle were killed by newly installed shark nets in Australia’s New South Wales, a government report revealed on Tuesday. Over 700 marine creatures were caught in the nets, with 364 killed in just a one year period, Xinhua news […]
The Canadian stock market was down on the first day of the week following US President-elect Donald Trump’s claims to impose a tax on foreign-automotive companies. on Monday, the Toronto Stock Exchange’s benchmark Standard and Poor’s/TSX Composite moved down 17.99 points, or 0.12 per cent, to close the day at 15,479.29 points. Six of the […]
Hundreds of people in Tamil Nadu took to the streets on Tuesday against the arrest of those who protested in favour of Jallikattu. On Monday, thousands of youths who started their protest in Alanganallur in Madurai district against a Supreme court ban on the bull-taming sport, were taken into custody by the police on Tuesday […]
Democratic leaders joined hundreds of protesters in Los Angeles in rejecting the plan of President-elect Donald Trump and Republican congressmen to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), calling upon the public to take action to prevent that move. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told EFE news on Monday that everyone will pay the price of […]
Pakistani singer Atif Aslam stopped his concert mid-way here to rescue a girl, who was being harassed by a bunch of hooligans, who were present at the event, a media report has said. At the Karachi Eat 2017 concert on Saturday night, Aslam took some hooligans to task after rescuing a girl who was being […]
Former leader of South Korea’s biggest opposition party beat former UN chief in a recent presidential poll though the latter’s return to his home country boosted hopes among conservative voters, a local survey showed on Monday. Moon Jae-in, former chief of Minjoo Party, won an approval rating of 26.1 per cent last week, according to […]
Intense cold wave conditions will continue in Uttar Pradesh and will last for over four days, the Met office announced on Monday. The mercury has been hovering between 1.4-2.2 degrees Celsius in the past three days in most parts of UP but climbed to 4 degrees Celsius on Sunday. After remaining sunny all day, fog […]