Fearless Forecast vs Seattle:
Fantasy Pts: 18.43
Starting Pitcher Rank: 4
Sri Lanka’s prime minister says the island nation's debt-laden economy has “collapsed” as it runs out of money to pay for food and fuel
Macau tightened social distancing restrictions on Thursday -- closing almost everything except casinos -- as the Chinese gambling hub embarked on another round of citywide testing to battle a Covid-19 outbreak.
DHAKA/GUWAHATI,India (Reuters) -Authorities in Bangladesh intensified efforts on Wednesday to deliver food and drinking water to millions of people struggling after heavy rain unleashed catastrophic flooding across a quarter of the country. Bangladesh is considered one of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, with a 2015 analysis by the World Bank Institute estimating about 3.5 million Bangladeshis are at risk of river flooding every year. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the government was working hard to rescue people trapped in the floods and provide relief.
Australia opener David Warner said pitches offering "extreme" spin in Sri Lanka's ODI series victory have helped the tourists prepare for the upcoming Tests.
BENGALURU (Reuters) -IKEA India plans to source more products locally to combat rising inflation, as the Swedish furniture group looks to sell more to the country's burgeoning middle class with the launch of its latest store on Wednesday. The company's fourth and biggest store in India opened in the country's tech hub of Bengaluru, four years after IKEA entered the Indian market. The furniture maker is betting big on home furnishings in Bengaluru, where rental spaces are more affordable and bigger than Mumbai, where IKEA has two stores.
US actor and comedian Ben Stiller said Tuesday he had been deeply affected by the stories he heard from Ukrainians after a surprise visit to the war-torn country.
The police response to the Uvalde school massacre in Texas last month was an "abject failure," a top law enforcement official told a hearing into the tragedy Tuesday, saying police wasted vital time looking for a classroom key that was "never needed."
A court in eastern China sentenced a client of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to 18 months in prison for molesting a former female Alibaba employee. The man, Zhang Guo, met the former employee, Zhou, in July 2021 at a dinner. While Zhou was inebriated, Zhang molested her at the restaurant and again in her hotel room the next morning, the Huaiyin District People’s Court in Jinan in eastern Shandong province on Wednesday. “The court held that the defendant, Zhang Guo, violated the will of the vict
Tundra Esports sat at the top of the leaderboard while Team Secret needed a win to keep their hopes of attending the Arlington Major alive. Here's how that unfolded.
Indian gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd plans to liquefy natural gas for easy transportation and sale in areas that are not connected with the pipeline grid, helping the nation boost use of the cleaner fuel. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to raise the share of cleaner fuel in the country's energy mix to 15% by 2030 from the current 6.2% as India aims for net zero carbon by 2070. To meet that objective companies are investing billions of dollars to build gas infrastructure including liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals, pipelines and setting up LNG fuelling stations.
Singapore Red Cross official Sahari Ani was in Warsaw to help Ukrainian refugees when he witnessed the love of a couple for their son, who is suffering from a rare disease.
Pfizer on Thursday said it would extend until 2030 a drug donation programme aimed at eliminating trachoma, an eye disease responsible for blinding or visually impairing nearly two million people worldwide.
A World Health Organization committee of experts will meet on Thursday to discuss the monkeypox outbreak for the first time and decide whether it constitutes a global health emergency.
A batch of the Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream product sold in Singapore has been ordered for a recall by the Singapore Food Agency over a banned pesticide.
President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday announced it would develop a new policy requiring cigarette producers to reduce nicotine to non-addictive levels -- a move that would deal a powerful blow to the tobacco industry.
An ancient Buddhist city carved out of immense peaks near Kabul is in danger of disappearing forever, swallowed up by a Chinese consortium exploiting one of the world's largest copper deposits.
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against "expanding" military ties on Wednesday in a speech ahead of a virtual summit with top leaders from Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa.
Protesters in Muslim-majority country claim yoga is against tenets of Islam
It was China’s third-largest incursion targeting Taiwan this year
Monkeypox may soon have a new name after scientists called for a change to dispel stereotypes of Africa being seen as a crucible of disease.
