MADRID • Shakhtar Donetsk had travelled to Real Madrid without 10 first-team players and nine of their backroom staff due to a cluster of coronavirus infections at the club. Yet they somehow managed to pull off a 3-2 win on Wednesday – their first victory over the La Liga giants and the first recorded by... » read more
LOS ANGELES • Australian Adam Scott has withdrawn from the Zozo Championship after testing positive for Covid-19, the PGA Tour said on Wednesday. Scott, the winner of 14 PGA Tour titles, last competed in last month’s US Open and was expected to be among the biggest names at the tournament, which started yesterday and was... » read more
Rays fight back with two Lowe home runs ARLINGTON (Texas) • Brandon Lowe hit two home runs and the Tampa Bay Rays showed their resilience in a 6-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers that tied the World Series at one game apiece on Wednesday. Joey Wendle drove in three runs for the Rays, who... » read more
A one-year-old baby girl was among the eight new coronavirus cases announced yesterday, taking Singapore’s total to 57,941. The girl is a short-term visit pass holder who returned from India, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). She was asymptomatic and confirmed positive on Wednesday. She is also a contact of a 41-year-old permanent resident who... » read more
WASHINGTON • New Zealand’s Lydia Ko, a two-time Major champion who has not won in 21/2 years, is happy just to be playing at the LPGA Drive On Championship. The event, which started yesterday at Reynolds Lake Oconee in Greensboro, Georgia, was created to help alleviate the financial worries of players, who would usually be... » read more
Thai PM Prayut preparing to lift emergency measures in Bangkok The emergency measures had prompted demonstrations by tens of thousands of people. READ MORE HERE NUS files police report against former Tembusu College don for sexual misconduct NUS said it made the report because of the seriousness of the allegations, and has advised the victims... » read more
MUNICH (AFP) – Bayern Munich winger Kingsley Coman picked up where he left off last season with two goals in a 4-0 home rout of Atletico Madrid on Wednesday (Oct 21) as the holders got the defence of their Champions League campaign off to a winning start. Coman, whose header settled last season’s Champions League... » read more
MANCHESTER (AFP) – Manchester City’s latest quest for Champions League glory got off to a winning start as Pep Guardiola’s men came from behind to beat Porto 3-1 at the Etihad on Wednesday (Oct 21). Luis Diaz’s solo effort punished a sloppy City start for the Portuguese champions, who felt hard done by when Sergio... » read more
AMSTERDAM (AFP) – Liverpool proved they can cope without Virgil van Dijk as Nicolas Tagliafico’s own goal sealed a 1-0 win at Ajax in the opening game of their Champions League campaign on Wednesday (Oct 21). Jurgen Klopp’s side are likely to be without Van Dijk for the rest of the season after the influential... » read more
BARCELONA • Lionel Messi became the first player to score in 16 consecutive Champions League seasons, but Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman was left ruing a moment of rashness that could cost his side top spot in Group G. With minnows Ferencvaros and Dynamo Kiev in the draw, the Catalan giants and Juventus are firmly expected... » read more
PARIS • Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was full of praise for his “excellent” Manchester United side on Tuesday after Marcus Rashford’s late strike saw them win at Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League for the second time in three seasons. “The performance was good and we deserved to win it. It was a better performance than... » read more
A cousin of Mustafa Centre boss Mustaq Ahmad told the High Court yesterday that his father came home crying “like a baby” one day in 2004, after making a will stating that he held a 15.12 per cent stake in the company. Mr Fayyaz Ahmad said his father, Mr Samsuddin Mokhtar Ahmad, felt hurt and... » read more
There were 12 new coronavirus cases confirmed yesterday, taking Singapore’s total to 57,933. All of them were asymptomatic. The cases were all imported and comprised nine work permit holders, two dependant’s pass holders and one short-term visit pass holder, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) last night. The nine work permit holders had returned from... » read more
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has made a police report against former Tembusu College don Jeremy Fernando following allegations of sexual misconduct made against him. It had also advised the two female students who accused Dr Fernando of misconduct to do the same. In a statement last night, NUS said it made the report... » read more
Children under the age of five are at the lowest risk of being infected by Covid-19 from adults, as they may be more resistant to the virus, according to a household transmission study conducted by the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH). According to the study results released yesterday, the adult-to-child transmission rate among 137... » read more
Participating in Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications project: “Survey Study for International Expansion of AI Diagnosis Support System Using Ultra-High Magnifying Endoscopes in India” TOKYO, Oct 20, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Olympus Corporation took part in a ground-breaking project as a business promoter, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications... » read more
SINGAPORE – A domestic helper hit her employer’s one-month-old baby three times on his back to “vent her stress”. Indonesian Lana Ngizatul Mona, 26, was caught after the infant’s mother viewed a closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of the incident. The baby boy sustained a bruise on his right shoulder as a result of the incident.... » read more
TraceTogether check-ins to be compulsory at malls, restaurants by December Checking in with the TraceTogether app or token will be mandatory at other popular public venues, like workplaces and schools, too. READ MORE HERE Task force spells out steps for S’pore to get to phase 3 by end-2020 Testing and contact tracing to be stepped... » read more
SINGAPORE – Loot boxes in video games, including mobile titles, are akin to virtual goodie bags that have random rewards. These boxes can be bought with digital currencies earned in a game or purchased indirectly with real cash. As a result, loot boxes are considered a type of video game micro transaction. Loot boxes tend... » read more
SINGAPORE – From next year, primary and secondary school students here may be taught about the ills of the gambling-like elements, commonly called loot boxes, that are present in many video games now, especially free mobile titles. This comes even as concerns mount that games with such features could be gaining mainstream prominence, with large... » read more