Klopp pleased after Liverpool overcome ‘tricky’ Villa challenge
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said preparing to face a youthful Aston Villa team in Friday’s FA Cup third round clash presented a challenge he had never faced before, but ...
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Major advance in technology for self-driving cars from Sense Photonics
Sense Photonics has developed new detection technology that hits a key milestone required for self-driving cars, the laser sensor company said on Friday.
The company led by automotive industry veteran ...
Facebook and Twitter crackdown on Trump is too little, too late
By the time social media companies took action against users and groups spurring on the siege of Capitol Hill this week, culminating in the suspension of US President Donald Trump’...
Twitter deletes Trump account and tweets on @POTUS, other platforms ban Parler
Twitter Inc on Friday deleted new tweets posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on official government account @POTUS and suspended the account of his presidential campaign, after booting his ...
Twitter permanently suspends Trump’s account, cites ‘incitement of violence’ risk
Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has permanently suspended U.S. President Donald Trump‘s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence following the storming of ...
Trump to blame for death of woman trampled in Capitol riot, family member says
The brother-in-law of a woman killed during Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob seeking to overturn President Donald Trump’s election loss said he blames ...
As impeachment looms, Pelosi urges military to keep Trump from nuclear codes
As Democrats in the House of Representatives on Friday prepared to impeach President Donald Trump again if he does not step down, their leader Nancy Pelosi spoke to the top ...
Greece extends some Covid lockdown curbs until Jan 18
Greece on Friday extended some lockdown curbs to contain the spread of the coronavirus until Jan. 18, Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias said in a televised briefing.
The country, in ...
UK sees record daily Covid deaths, London hospitals on brink
The United Kingdom recorded its highest daily death toll on Friday since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as London declared a major incident, warning that its hospitals were at ...
Managing under pressure makes Chelsea job more exciting, says Lampard
Chelsea manager Frank Lampard says his team’s recent poor run of results makes his job at Stamford Bridge more exciting and gives him an opportunity to learn more about ...
Denmark developing digital Covid-19 ‘vaccine passport’
Denmark is developing a digital “vaccine passport” for people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine, a move that may enable them to travel to countries where such documentation is required ...
Villa cleared to face Liverpool in FA Cup but Premier League games in doubt
Aston Villa’s FA Cup third round tie at home to Liverpool on Friday will go ahead as planned but Wednesday’s Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur is in ...
EU gives go ahead to extract more shots from each Pfizer vaccine vial
Europe’s medicines regulator gave the go-ahead on Friday for an extra sixth dose to be extracted from Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine vials, increasing the number of available shots at a ...
FIFA to trial concussion substitutes at Club World Cup
FIFA will trial concussion substitutes at next month’s Club World Cup in Qatar, soccer’s world governing body said on Friday.
The decision comes after the game’s rule-making ...
China simulates possible Tokyo atmosphere to train athletes
China’s huge army of Olympic athletes are preparing behind closed doors for this year’s Tokyo Games, simulating the kind of atmosphere they might experience in Japan, the Xinhua ...
Power struggle leaves UN rights body without leader
Russia and China are opposed to a candidate from Fiji seen as a staunch human rights defender to lead the top U.N. rights body, diplomats and observers say, creating ...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveil underground missile base
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location on Friday, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened tension between Tehran and ...
Israel, Ukraine tighten lockdown measures, Orban slams Brussels
Israel tightened a national lockdown on Friday in a bid to curb a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising that all Israeli adults could ...
EU secures nearly half of Pfizer’s 2021 global output of Covid shots
The European Union reached a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 300 million additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, the head of the European Commission said on Friday, in a move ...
UK Transport minister: Vaccine might not work against S.African variant
British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Friday there were concerns that COVID-19 vaccines might not work properly against the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus discovered in South Africa.
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EU may ask too high a price for financial services trade, BoE warns
Britain should not submit to the European Union’s financial services rules just to get better access to the bloc’s market after Brexit, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey ...
Democrats inch toward second Trump impeachment after Capitol siege
Congressional Democrats were moving closer to a historic step on Friday as they weighed impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, two days after his false claims of election ...
England to require travellers to show negative Covid tests
Britain’s government will require people entering England to present a negative COVID-19 test result on arrival starting next week to protect against new strains of the coronavirus from other ...
EU citizens will be banned from using ID cards to enter UK from October
European Union citizens will be banned from using ID cards to enter Britain from October amidst growing concern about the proliferation of fake European IDs, the Telegraph reported on Thursday.
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