Tokyo stocks ended higher on Monday, as financial issues were bought on hopes for improved profits and exporters on the yen’s weakness.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, ended up 697.12 points, or 1.80 percent,…
After a four-year hiatus, the Wuhan Open, the final WTA 1000 tournament of the year, returns, to run from Monday to Sunday.
On the eve of the tournament’s opening ceremony, Belarusian tennis ace Aryna Sabalenka reflected on her impressive 2024 season…
Two scientists, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation, said the Swedish award-giving body on Monday.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Monday that it has approved a 42-million-U.S.-dollar loan to protect coastal and riverbanks and increase the resilience of local communities and natural ecosystems in Maharashtra, India.
The ADB said the Maharash…
Residents of the Otweya informal settlement whose makeshift structures survived the recent devastating fire that claimed a life , have expressed concern over their living conditions . Herman Fillipus , whose home is just a few metres from the burnt – …
The box office takings for the 2024 National Day holiday have exceeded 2 billion yuan (about 285 million U.S. dollars), according to the movie data platform Maoyan.
Leading the charts are three domestic productions: “The Volunteers: The Battle of Lif…
A 33 – year – old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging at Keetmanshoop on Saturday . Namibian Police Force crime investigations coordinator for the || Kharas Region , Deputy Commissioner Nikodemus Mbango told Nampa on Sunday that the deceased wa…
Dong Bing flew to Auckland from Beijing on the first day of China’s National Day holiday with her husband and 5-year-old son. The long-awaited overseas vacation has been highly anticipated by the family of three during the “Golden Week” which offers a…
The Namibian Police Force ( NamPol ) are conducting the Border and Infrastructure Protection Annual Command Conference at Rundu aimed at deliberating issues affecting the operations of the directorate . The conference will also devise strategies to co…
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, once warned that: ‘If nothing is done, the effects of terrorism and organised crime in the Sahel region will be felt far beyond the region and the entire African continent.’
For almost tw…
WASHINGTON, Oct. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute has provided its investigational Marburg vaccine to Rwanda to support the ongoing outbreak response. The initial shipment of approximately 700 vaccine doses will be used in a trial targeting frontline workers, including healthcare professionals who have been hardest hit by the deadly virus. Sabin […]
The polling centers for the Tunisian presidential elections opened on Sunday in 24 provinces of Tunisia, Tunisia’s Independent High Authority for Elections said.
Voting started at 8:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) and will close at 6:00 p.m. local tim…
Real Madrid are likely to be without Spain international right back Dani Carvajal for the remainder of the season, after he injured his cruciate knee ligament during Saturday night’s 2-0 win at home to Villarreal.
The defender had to be carried off …
China’s railway operator is expecting a surge in return trips on Sunday as the week-long National Day holiday draws to a close.
On Sunday, 18.73 million train trips are expected, with more than 1,400 additional trains scheduled to meet the growing t…
On Oct. 3, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) debuted an annual international lecture in Abuja with national and Sahel security in focus.
The Inaugural lecture was novel, a departure from the agency’s timely delivery of factual and objective news, to …
