MUMBAI: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back at work filming India’s version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” following a bout of Covid-19, while authorities eased coronavirus curbs on movie and TV shoots. A blanket ban on studio activity in March dealt a huge blow to India’s cinema and
CHRISTCHURCH: Some survivors raged, others chanted prayers, and many wept for lost loved ones — but all of those who lived through New Zealand’s mosque shootings had a message of defiance Monday as they stood before the gunman. The sentencing hearing for Brenton Tarrant opened in a Christchurch court with testimony
TOKYO: Next year’s Paralympics need to be able to guarantee zero coronavirus cases, the head of the Games has told AFP, adding that they cannot go ahead if protection measures don’t improve. The warning from International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons comes as Tokyo marks exactly one year to the
KUALA LUMPUR: VAR will make its debut in Asia’s Champions League next month, officials said Monday, as the competition gears up to restart following a six-month coronavirus hiatus. Video assistant referees have been introduced in competitions worldwide from the Premier League to the 2018 World Cup, but their decisions have
HONG KONG: Asian markets rose Monday, tracking another record on Wall Street as the US appeared to tone down its anti-China rhetoric, while traders turn their attention to a meeting of central bankers later in the week. Hong Kong led the gains, boosted by tech giant Tencent after reports said
BEIJING: A “lucky” mobile phone number has sold for a whopping 2.25 million yuan ($300,000) after hundreds of people vied online for the right to use the apparently auspicious string of digits. The number ends in five eights, a sought-after combination in China as the word “eight” in Mandarin sounds
LOS ANGELES: Some of California’s largest-ever fires raged across the state Saturday, forcing tens of thousands from their homes as forecasters warned of further blazes sparked by lightning. Several thousand lightning strikes in recent days ignited fires that left thick smoke blanketing the region. The total area burned for all
PARIS: Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Death toll tops 800,000 The pandemic has killed at least 800,004 people worldwide since surfacing in China late last year, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Saturday. More than 23 million cases have been registered
JUBA, South Sudan: Four passengers and three crew were killed Saturday when a cargo plane belonging to a local operator crashed near South Sudan’s capital Juba, the transport minister said. The aircraft crashed shortly after its early morning take-off in the Kameru neighbourhood around seven kilometres west of the city’s
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: A 116-year-old survivor of the 1918 Spanish Flu believed to be among the world’s oldest people died Saturday in South Africa, his family said. Born on May 8 1904, Fredie Blom had “lived this long because of God’s grace”, he told AFP this year. Guinness World Records
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