September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Two world records tumbled on Saturday when Kenya’s Agnes Tirop surged to victory in the 10 km race and Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi triumphed in the 5 km distance at an event in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Tirop, a twice world 10,000m bronze medallist, won the 10 km event with a time of […]
Motor racing-Raducanu’s success rubs off on F1 favourite Ricciardo
September 12, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris stayed up late to watch British teenager Emma Raducanu’s U.S. Open triumph on Saturday night and her success proved contagious. The McLaren pair finished one-two in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix with Ricciardo ending the team’s nearly nine year wait for a win. […]
Soccer-Salah joins 100 club as Liverpool win at Leeds in match marred by Elliott injury
September 12, 2021 By Peter Hall LEEDS, England (Reuters) – Mohamed Salah’s 100th Premier League goal helped Liverpool cruise to a 3-0 victory at 10-man Leeds United on Sunday in a match that was marred by a nasty injury to teenager Harvey Elliott. After a lightning-fast start to the game, Salah became the 30th player […]
Motor racing-Hamilton says halo saved him in Monza collision
September 12, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Seven times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said he was grateful to be alive after being hit on the head by title rival Max Verstappen’s car at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday. The ‘halo’ head protection device took most of the blow as the Red […]
Kansas City Southern determines Canadian Pacific bid superior to other offer
September 12, 2021 (Reuters) -Kansas City Southern said on Sunday it has received a revised proposal from Canadian Pacific, which the board determined was superior to the offer from Canadian National Railway. Under the terms of Canadian Pacific’s revised proposal, each share of Kansas City Southern common stock would be exchanged for 2.884 common shares […]
Motor racing-Verstappen handed three-place grid drop for Russian GP
September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Formula One world championship leader Max Verstappen will have a three-place grid drop at the Russian Grand Prix after stewards ruled he was mainly to blame for a collision with title rival Lewis Hamilton at Monza on Sunday. The collision put both men out of the Italian Grand Prix, with […]
Investors eye wobbling energy sector as gauge for Delta fears
September 12, 2021 By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) -Energy stocks are becoming a popular bellwether for concerns over how deeply the Delta variant of the coronavirus is expected to impact the U.S. economy, as the so-called reopening trade that boosted some parts of the market earlier this year continues to stumble. The S&P 500 […]
Analysis-As West ponders aid for Afghanistan, China and Pakistan quick to provide relief
September 12, 2021 By Charlotte Greenfield ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – As international donors gather in Geneva on Monday to discuss humanitarian relief for Afghanistan under Taliban rule, neighbours China and Pakistan have already reached out with aid and discussions of future assistance. The economy in the war-torn country is in crisis and a humanitarian crisis is […]
Golf-American Horschel wins PGA title, Wiesberger earns Ryder Cup debut
September 12, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – American Billy Horschel birdied the 18th hole to claim the BMW PGA Championship title in a tense finish on Sunday in a tournament with huge implications for Europe’s Ryder Cup team. Horschel was tied for first in a group on -18 as he stood over his third shot at […]
Box Office: ‘Shang-Chi’ Triumphs Again in Second Weekend, ‘Malignant’ Misfires
September 12, 2021 By Rebecca Rubin LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” ruled the domestic box office again, collecting $35.8 million in its second weekend in theaters. Ticket sales for the superhero movie, led by Simu Liu and Awkwafina, fell 53% from its debut, a decline on par […]
Canada’s Trudeau , after gravel throwing, condemns rhetoric of right-wing leader
September 12, 2021 By Steve Scherer CANDIAC, Quebec (Reuters) – Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, who was pelted with gravel at a rally last week, said the leader of the right-wing People’s Party of Canada (PPC) was using irresponsible rhetoric. The 49-year-old Trudeau was campaigning in London, Ontario, last week ahead of the […]
Afghan pilots start leaving Uzbekistan for UAE, despite Taliban pressure-source
September 12, 2021 By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and other personnel who fled to Uzbekistan and were held in an Uzbek camp for about a month started departing the country on Sunday, a pilot told Reuters. They left under a U.S. deal that came despite Taliban pressure for the return of […]
Athletics-Vienna marathon winner disqualified after shoes’ soles violate rules
September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa won the Vienna City marathon on Sunday but was disqualified soon after when the soles of his shoes were found to be one centimetre too thick and in violation of the rules. Hurisa crossed the line with a time of 2:09:22 but less than 45 minutes later, […]
Argentines start voting in litmus test for Peronists
September 12, 2021 By Nicolás Misculin and Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentines lined up to vote on Sunday in midterm primaries that represent a litmus test for the center-left Peronist government of President Alberto Fernandez as the COVID-19 pandemic and rising poverty have weakened its popularity. Voting stations around the South American nation opened […]
Qatari foreign minister visits Kabul, Al Jazeera says
September 12, 2021 CAIRO (Reuters) – Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani visited Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday and met Taliban-appointed Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund, Doha-based news channel Al Jazeera reported. Qatar is considered one of the countries with the most influence over the Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan last […]
Tennis-Britain’s Channel 4 nets 9.2 million viewers for Raducanu’s historic title
September 12, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – British teenager Emma Raducanu’s staggering U.S. Open final victory had a nation glued to their screens on Saturday night with Channel 4 saying the audience for their broadcast peaked at 9.2 million viewers. Such was the hype around Raducanu’s fairytale run to the final in New York against Canadian […]
Greece plans firm hand on Afghan migrants, wants more EU help
September 12, 2021 By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece would seek to block a potential wave of Afghan asylum-seekers fleeing Taliban rule and needs more European Union help on migrant issues, the prime minister said on Sunday. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has brought fears of a replay of 2015 when nearly a million […]
With sales momentum, Bookshop.org looks to future in its fight with Amazon
If Gutenberg were alive today, he’d be a very busy angel investor. With book sales booming during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, the humble written word has suddenly drawn the limelight from VCs and founders. We’ve seen a whole cavalcade of new products and fundings, including algorithmic recommendation engine BingeBooks, book club startups like Literati […]
Should we care about the lives of our kids’ kids’ kids’ kids’…
We live during a time of live, real-time culture. Telecasts, spontaneous tweetstorms, on-the-scene streams, rapid-response analysis, war rooms, Clubhouses, vlogging. We have to interact with the here and now, feel that frisson of action. It’s a compulsion: we’re enraptured by the dangers that are terrorizing whole segments of the planet. Just this past month, we […]
Motor racing-Hamilton and Verstappen collide and crash at Monza
September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Formula One title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen collided and crashed out of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday. Mercedes’ seven-times world champion Hamilton had pitted and returned alongside Red Bull’s championship leader, with the pair colliding at the first chicane and Verstappen’s car wedged on top […]
