LONDON: The new Formula One season is under way but the action on the track is being overshadowed by concerns over the implications of Brexit, with so many teams calling Britain home. Seven of the 10 F1 teams are based in Britain and there are nine European races this season,
Singing and laughter briefly drown out the roar of cars under a Jakarta flyover, where an unlikely library for kids is thriving despite choking fumes — and opposition from menacing gangsters. There’s no quiet rule at this open-air reading park wedged between two lanes of traffic just outside Indonesia’s capital,
Google on Tuesday unveiled a streaming platform called Stadia that allows video game play on any internet-connected device, eliminating the need for games consoles. The tech platform, announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, aims to connect more people to participate in interactive play on PCs, tablets, smartphones
ANKARA: Turkey’s central bank yesterday vowed to use all the tools at its disposal to “maintain price stability” after a slide in the lira last week amid investor concerns over domestic monetary policy. The lira lost around 5.2 percent in value against the greenback on Friday, its worst day since
Junta primes to retain power after election BANGKOK: Thailand yesterday awaited the results of its first election since a 2014 coup, with the junta primed to retain its grip on power after a vote that saw its main rival diminished but vaulted a new pro-democracy force into the kingdom’s politics.
TAIPEI: China is trying to establish a “new world media order” to prevent and counter criticism, a project that threatens press freedom globally, watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned in a report released yesterday. Communist authorities in China strictly control the flow of information to citizens, including through the “Great
CAIRNS (Australia): A man has been bitten on the leg by a shark in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, authorities said yesterday, the fourth such attack in six months at the popular tourist site. Paramedics were called to a diving pontoon at Hardy Reef off the Queensland coast just after midday
BEIJING: The death toll from a chemical plant explosion in China rose to 78 yesterday, with hundreds still receiving medical treatment four days after one of the country’s worst industrial accidents. Thursday’s explosion in Yancheng city, eastern Jiangsu province razed an industrial park and blew out the windows of surrounding
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday ordered an independent judicial inquiry into whether police and intelligence services could have prevented the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15. Ardern said a royal commission – the most powerful judicial probe available under New Zealand law – was needed to find
MISHMERET (Israel): A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in a community north of Tel Aviv yesterday, wounding seven Israelis and leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut short a visit to the United States. Israel’s army said the rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave run
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