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Messi to break silence on Barcelona departure as PSG wait
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» MADRID: Lionel Messi will break his silence over his future on Sunday, three days after financially-strapped Barcelona announced they were unable to keep the superstar who is reportedly close to a move to Paris Saint-Germain.
Tokyo hands Olympic baton to Beijing but virus, boycott calls weigh
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» BEIJING: The focus immediately shifts to Beijing as the curtain falls on the Tokyo Olympics, with a growing coronavirus outbreak in China and boycott calls looming large just six months from the start of the Winter Games.
Furniture factory hit by fire
Pongpat Wongyala, Published on 08/08/2021
» PATHUM THANI: A fire broke out at a timber processing factory of Aree Aphiluck Co in Muang district of this Central province north of Bangkok. There were no reports of injuries or deaths, police said.
A drought-hit California town finds itself sinking into the ground
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» CORCORAN (UNITED STATES) - "You've got too many farmers pumping all around," complained Raul Atilano. This octogenarian resident of Corcoran, the self-proclaimed farming capital of California, was struggling to make sense of the strangest of phenomena: his already suffering town is sinking, ever so gradually, into the ground.
'Tour like no other' ends in dramatic Springboks triumph
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» JOHANNESBURG: The British and Irish Lions visit to South Africa was branded "a tour like no other" and so it proved with coronavirus, unrest, under-fire match officials and damning comments about some of the rugby.
Global supply snags could mean fewer toys under the Christmas tree
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» NEW YORK: It's always "better to shop a little early" for the holidays, but this year, says Judy Ishayik, co-owner of a New York toy store, "We are telling people to shop for Christmas in September."
Aaliyah, R. Kelly, and a 'violent puzzle' of alleged abuse
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» NEW YORK: This month marks 20 years since the death of Aaliyah, who at age 22 was killed in a plane crash that sent international shockwaves as contemporary R&B lost one of its burgeoning stars.
Covid cases pass 750,000 as rate dips Sunday
Online Reporters, Published on 08/08/2021
» Thailand amassed 138 Covid-19 fatalities and 19,983 new cases over the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Sunday morning, ending a streak of successive record highs -- but sending the accumulated caseload past three-quarters of a million.
Eight reported missing in huge California wildfire
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» LOS ANGELES - US authorities said Saturday they were searching for eight people missing as a huge wildfire raged in northern California, leaving two towns in little more than cinders.
English maintains two-shot lead in WGC St. Jude
AFP, Published on 08/08/2021
» WASHINGTON: Harris English fired five birdies in a five-under par 65 on Saturday to maintain a two-shot lead over hard-charging Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith in the WGC-St. Jude Invitational.