Melbourne: New Zealand and Cricket Victoria have decided to cancel the opening day of their two-day warm-up match ahead of the Boxing Day Test against Australia due to extreme heat forecast for Friday. ### New Zealand coach Gary Stead confirmed his team would rest on Friday with temperatures expected to reach 45 degrees Celsius in…
Damascus: The October Revolution of Lebanon has awakened cross-sectarian national sentiment in in the tiny Mediterranean country, after years of slumber imposed by Israel occupations and full-blown Iranian hegemony. ### For two months, young people have been on the streets of Beirut, demanding the resignation of corrupt politicians and doing away with the sectarian order…
### When a state starts beating up its students, alarm bells on its democratic credentials should go to red. When a democracy attacks its own students – the future — it has lost the argument. ### Code red flashed in India as the Narendra Modi government has intensified a crackdown on largely peaceful mass protests…
Washington DC: Researchers have identified a gene in mice that seems to influence memory recall at different times of the day and tracks how it causes mice to be more forgetful just before they normally wake up. ### Prof Satoshi Kida from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, said: “We may have…
Melbourne: New Zealand pace spearhead Trent Boult says he is “ticking all the right boxes” in his rehab as he looks to return for the Boxing Day Test against Australia. ### Boult was ruled out of the opener of the three-match series at Perth Stadium with a rib injury as injury-hit New Zealand suffered a…
Beijing: Chinese smartphone giant Huawei’s next flaghsip — the P40 and P40 Pro will be unveiled in March, but without Google Mobile services, according to Huawei Consumer Group CEO Richard Yu. ### Since Huawei was blacklisted by the US government from using US tech, Huawei hasn’t been able to license Google’s software. Android 10 is…
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Some days I just sit at a table in the cafe with my coffee, keep my ears open and, as if by magic, a story, like one of Newton’s apples, drops right into my lap, although Newton’s apple, history tells us, landed squarely on his head. ### On this day, I have actually arrived wanting…
Riverside, California: A thief stuffed a total of 30 bags of frozen shrimp down his pants in back-to-back burglaries of a Southern California grocery store, police said Wednesday. ### The man took the shrimp from a Vons market in the city of Riverside by entering the store three times in a span of 15 minutes…