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Mon, 30 May 2022 08:00:19 GMTPandya tipped as future India captain after Gujarat's IPL fairytale
Pandya's Gujarat Titans thrashed Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets in the Indian Premier League final on Sunday, with the skipper taking three wickets and scoring 34 runs in front of nearly 105,000 fans in the world's biggest cricket stadium.
It wa...
Mon, 30 May 2022 06:08:17 GMTHigh-tech race to map Ukraine's damaged historic buildings
One of them is volunteer French engineer Emmanuel Durand, a specialist in 3D data acquisition, who is assisting a bevy of architects, engineers, historic building experts and a museum director to record buildings in Kyiv, Lviv, Chernigiv and Kharkiv...
Mon, 30 May 2022 05:34:12 GMTRace to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpieces
Then they have to negotiate a 137-metre (yard) natural tunnel into the rock, passing through the mouth of the cave until they emerge into a huge cavern, much of it now submerged.
Three men died trying to discover this "underwater Lascaux" as rumour...
Mon, 30 May 2022 04:12:15 GMTTiananmen masses axed as crackdown memorials erased in Hong Kong
Since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in 2020 to snuff out pro-democracy demonstrations, once-packed candlelit vigils have been banned, a Tiananmen museum has been forced to close, and statues have been pulled down.
The annual Cath...
Mon, 30 May 2022 03:50:19 GMTUkraine pushes back in Kherson as Zelensky visits east
Zelensky, who on Monday will press EU leaders to break a deadlock on a new round of sanctions against Russia, a day earlier walked the streets of the devastated Kharkiv region's capital in a bullet-proof vest.
While one-third of the northeastern re...
Mon, 30 May 2022 03:42:11 GMTCeltics beat Heat, advance to face Warriors in NBA Finals
Boston captured the winner-take-all matchup to take the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals 4-3 and secure a place in the championship series, which begins Thursday in San Francisco.
The Celtics, who eliminated 2021 NBA champion Milwaukee in a ...
Mon, 30 May 2022 03:30:16 GMTHardliner, China hawk elected Australian opposition leader
Dutton came out swinging after accepting the top spot, saying the country's newly elected Labor government was not "ready to govern and we are already seeing their inexperience on display".
He promised his party will go to the next election, due in...
Mon, 30 May 2022 03:24:11 GMTAsian markets extend Wall St rally as China eases curbs
The gains extended a positive end to last week for global equities with some commentators saying there was a growing hope that the months-long sell-off may have run its course.
Wall Street provided a strong lead and snapped a series of weekly losse...
Mon, 30 May 2022 03:02:10 GMTNepal army finds wreckage of missing plane
"A search team has located the wreckage of the plane and shared a picture. Additional teams are heading there so we can get details," said Nepal Army spokesman Narayan Silwal.
An image shared by Silwal on Twitter showed debris from the wreckage of ...
Mon, 30 May 2022 02:42:11 GMTIrish judges to rule on ex-soldier accused of IS membership
Lisa Smith, 40, from Dundalk on Ireland's east coast, pleaded not guilty to membership of an unlawful terrorist group between October 28, 2015 and December 1, 2019.
She also denied funding terrorism by sending 800 euros ($900) to aid medical treatm...
Mon, 30 May 2022 02:24:23 GMTTech giant Grab's female co-founder blazes a trail
This month the company announced it will raise the proportion of women in leadership positions to 40 percent by 2030 -- up from 34 percent now -– and is committed to ensuring equal pay.
The key weapon in her arsenal for gender equality? Data.
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Mon, 30 May 2022 02:00:17 GMTGermany agrees $107 bn fund to modernise military in face of Russia threat
An agreement was reached late Sunday to create a special fund for military procurement that will also allow Berlin to achieve NATO's target of spending two percent of GDP on defence.
The deal, which involves amending budgetary rules in the national...
Mon, 30 May 2022 01:52:13 GMTFrance holds meeting to prevent repeat of Champions League chaos
Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said they want to identify what went wrong to avoid a repeat of Saturday's scenes outside Paris' Stade de France.
The Liverpool club said it has called for an investigation into the treatment of its supporters a...
Mon, 30 May 2022 01:42:11 GMTChina eyes security pact in Pacific Island summit
The virtual summit is expected to discuss leaked proposals for China to radically increase its involvement in the security, economy and politics of the South Pacific.
Wang is in the Fijian capital Suva, where he will co-host a virtual meeting with ...
Mon, 30 May 2022 01:32:22 GMTHigh and low points of Depp vs Heard trial
Depp filed suit against Heard over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse."
Heard did not name Depp in the piece, but he sued her for implying he wa...