SYDNEY: Australian flag carrier Qantas announced plans Tuesday to cut almost 2,500 more jobs, just days after posting a huge annual loss as it reels from a collapse in demand caused by the coronavirus. Qantas and its budget offshoot, Jetstar, said they would outsource their ground handling operations at all
NEW YORK: Usain Bolt was in quarantine on Monday as Jamaican media reported the sprint legend had tested positive for the coronavirus, just days after he celebrated his 34th birthday with a lavish party. The retired 100m and 200m world-record holder didn’t confirm his test result, but he urged anyone
MAHĀD, India: Rescuers in India pulled a four-year-old boy from the rubble of a collapsed building to loud cheers on Tuesday, hours after the five-storey apartment block came down “like a house of cards”, burying up to 70 people. The accident late Monday in the western town of Mahad, south
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