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TOKYO (KSNT) - The organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games fired opening ceremony director Kentaro Kobayashi Thursday after a joke he made about the Holocaust in 1998 surfaced, according to a tweet from the Associated Press. The joke came during a comedy show from 1998. Tokyo 2020 officials said they became aware of [...]

Brian Fies is a cartoonist from Santa Rosa, California. On October 9, 2017 wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures were destroyed. He wrote an 18-page webcomic to describe and deal with the fire and the losses it brought to his family and community. Fies later More

Researchers have developed a more protective bicycle helmet with an outer shell made from Elium, an energy absorbing thermoplastic resin reinforced with carbon fibre. Developed by a team from NTU Singapore and partners Arkema, the helmet prototype is claimed to reduce the amount of energy transferred to a cyclist’s head in the event of an accident, […]

Prince George just turned eight years old!

The athletes are in the Village and the world's media has arrived, but for many in Japan, there's little festive cheer just a day before the Olympics open…

Recently, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison who is commonly known as “Scotty from Marketing” – in short: Scomo – said, his Covid-19 “exit strategy depends largely on vaccination rates”. This if fine propaganda. Yet it does not match reality. Perhaps it does not have to. Still, PR works brilliantly. Here is public relations expert Scomo’s More

Malaysia The significant increase in Covid 19 infections in our country in the last one week has prompted concerned Malaysians to ask the authorities to re-strategize their approach towards the fight against the spread of the virus. A total lockdown, some feel, where most movements are severely curbed is not the solution. They prefer a More

Chris Cooley, a full-time caddie at Queenwood Golf Club for almost 20 years, has sadly passed away ahead of this week’s Senior Open Championship.

Toto Wolff says he accepts emotions were running high in the aftermath of the British Grand Prix, however has questioned the manner and language used by Red Bull.

Australia could only manage one run for the second match in a row but it was enough to get a 1-0 win over Italy on Thursday.

Britney Spears was seen cruising with boyfriend, Sam Asghari, after she was granted permission within her conservatorship to drive again.

TEHRAN, Jul. 22 (MNA) – While supporting protests in southern Iranian province of Khuzestan, US State Department Spokesman claimed that Washington is closely monitoring the events.

Residents of a tower block wrapped in plastic say the lack of light is affecting their health.

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Presidential polls and beyond: Why Uttar Pradesh elections are crucial?

It was a fabulous weekend of golf festivities and a big thank you to Lady Captain Anne Looney for the wonderful efforts she and her trusted ladies...

Milley said the Taliban now control about half of the 419 district centres in Afghanistan, and while they have yet to capture any of the country's 34 provincial capitals, they are pressuring about half of them. As the Taliban seize more territory, the Afghan security forces are consolidating their positions to protect key population centres, including Kabul.

SO MUCH IS unfamiliar about the pandemic that it has never been easy to make sense of what is going on. Yet in recent days uncertainty has gone into overdrive. Stockmarkets are volatile; uncertainty about the path of inflation and labour markets is high. The fate of the economic recovery seems to hinge on the answers to a number of big questions. Will the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus derail the global recovery? Will underlying weaknesses be revealed as governments unwind stimulus? Читать дальше...

LAST YEAR many South-East Asian countries were praised for preventing large outbreaks of covid-19, even as they recorded sharp declines in output. They have not escaped unscathed this year. While widespread vaccination may limit the spread and the severity of the Delta variant in much of the rich world, the vast majority of South-East Asians are still unjabbed. Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand are reporting more cases than ever. New daily cases in Vietnam are three times higher than the annual total for 2020. Читать дальше...

ANTITRUST USED to be as American as apple pie. The Boston Tea Party was, in part, a protest against the monopoly of the British East India Company. The word itself stems from the trusts, such as Standard Oil, that lorded it over the American economy in the 19th century. For stretches of the 20th it became America’s charter not just for free enterprise, but for political freedom. Contrast this with China, a Communist dictatorship whose AntiMonopoly Law, introduced in 2008, has more often than not been used only to cudgel foreign firms. Читать дальше...

Halima Aden was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, where her family had to move after a civil war broke out in Somalia. They went to the United States when she was seven. Aden received media attention after she participated in a 2016 Miss Minnesota pageant where she wore a traditional Muslim veil.