France registered 23,608 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing its accumulative total since the outbreak of the epidemic to 2,938,333, data from the health authorities showed on Tuesday. France registered 23,608 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing its accumulative total...

LEICESTER, England: Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said he expects his position to come under heavy scrutiny after the team lost 2-0 to Leicester on Tuesday for a fifth loss in the last eight games in the Premier League. Chelsea, which spent nearly $300 million on new players ahead of this season, d...

Qatar has called for Gulf Arab countries to hold talks with Iran, the foreign minister said in an interview aired Tuesday, after Doha reconciled with its neighbours following a rift....

ROME, Italy: Spezia advanced to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup with a 4-2 win against nine-man Roma after extra time on Tuesday. Former Roma winger Daniele Verde and Riccardo Saponara scored in extra time for Spezia, which next plays Napoli. The match changed two minutes into extra time as Ro...

US President Donald Trump, in a farewell address released on Tuesday, urged prayers for the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden but declined to acknowledge his Democratic successor by name. "This week, we inaugurate a new administration and pray for its success in keeping America sa...

LEICESTER, England: Leicester moved to the top of the Premier League at the midway point of its campaign after a dominant 2-0 victory over Chelsea on Tuesday. Wilfred Ndidi and James Maddison scored in the first half to lift Leicester above Manchester United and Manchester City into first place. Le...

US President-elect Joe Biden will roll back Donald Trump's tough approach to undocumented immigrants in sweeping reforms to be introduced on his first day in office, Biden's Homeland Security Department nominee said Tuesday....

MIAMI, Fla.: A South Florida-based performance facility founded by former star wide receiver Brandon Marshall will try to help fill the void left by the NFL not allowing in-person workouts for the scouting combine because of the coronavirus pandemic. House of Athlete announced Tuesday the performan...

LOS ANGELES: Don Sutton, a Hall of Fame pitcher who was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Dodgers rotation spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela, died Tuesday. He was 75. The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, said Sutton died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, af...

Twelve US National Guard troops have been pulled from duty protecting the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden, partly due to an investigation of extremist sympathies in the ranks, the Pentagon said Tuesday....

Aries Be restrained with your words. If you say anything wrong it can spoil your relationship forever. Do not take any kind of decision in anger or excitement. Taurus Mental stress can occur. Your secrets can come out. You should take special care of your and family's health. Gemini It will be a won...

US President Donald Trump, in his farewell address on Tuesday, highlighted his accomplishment as president and offered luck as well as "best wishes" to the incoming administration. US President Donald Trump, in his farewell address on Tuesday, highlighted his accomplishment as presiden...

Centre on Tuesday said that out of the total people vaccinated against Covid-19 till now, 0.18 per cent have exhibited adverse events following immunisation, adding that 0.002 per cent of them had to be hospitalised, which is "fairly low". The Health Ministry on Tuesday said that a total 6...

The NHL is temporarily ditching microchipped pucks six days into the season after concerns were raised about their performance. The league announced games from Tuesday night on would be played with pucks made for last season. A review showed the first supply of pucks used for tracking werent finish...

Coach Steve Pikiell isn't worried about the four-game slide that has caused Rutgers to drop out of the AP Top 25. After all, every team goes through a tough stretch. The Scarlet Knights (7-5, 3-5 Big Ten) have struggled since opening the season with six consecutive wins and then running into a buzz...

CHICAGO: The U.S. men's soccer team will open its 2021 schedule with an exhibition against Trinidad and Tobago on Jan. 31 at Orlando, Florida. A roster missing all Europe-based regulars has been working out in preparation for the match, which is not on a FIFA international match date. Fans will be ...

PITTSBURGH: Ben Cherington is tearing it all down. All of it. It's the only way the Pittsburgh Pirates general manager sees a way forward. The process Cherington began when he took over 15 months ago is picking up speed after the Pirates sent starting pitcher Joe Musgrove to the San Diego Padres as...

A US Army soldier was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly trying to help Islamic State fighters attack American troops and targets in New York, including the 9/11 Memorial....

Tiger Woods has suffered a setback with his back, disclosing Tuesday that he recently had a fifth surgery that will keep him from starting the year until after the West Coast Swing on the PGA Tour. Woods will not play next week in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, which he has won seven t...

WACO, Texas: Chrislyn Carr has transferred to Baylor and joined the No. 9 Lady Bears after two-plus seasons at Big 12 rival Texas Tech. Baylor announced Carr's addition on Tuesday, though the school said the 5-foot-5 sophomore guard's eligibility and availability to play for her new team was still ...

Five years after achieving the unthinkable, Leicester is back atop the Premier League and making another improbable run at the title. For big-spending Chelsea and its under-pressure manager, Frank Lampard, any ambitions of winning the league already appear to be dashed. Leicester beat Chelsea 2-0 o...

A 28-year-old software engineer allegedly died by suicide at his house near Hyderabad on Tuesday after reportedly suffering losses while playing online games. The deceased, working in an IT firm in Bengaluru, was working from home for the past several months due to Covid-19 pandemic and was found ha...

Just in case it matters, Chad Henne isn't nearly as likely as Patrick Mahomes to chuck the ball deep down the field for the Kansas City Chiefs. The sample size is closer than people might think as well. If Mahomes can't start the AFC championship game against Buffalo because of concussion protocols...

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Tuesday that All MPs will be requested to undergo Covid-19 test before the start of the Budget session and arrangement for the same will be made in the parliament premises from January 27. Addressing a press conference about the commencement of the parliament sessi...

BERLIN: Teenager Florian Wirtz scored for Bayer Leverkusen in a 2-1 win which dealt Borussia Dortmund its latest Bundesliga setback on Tuesday. Dortmund, which was held 1-1 at home by lowly Mainz on Saturday, slumped to its second defeat in six games under new coach Edin Terzi. Dortmund could fall ...

NATO and the European Union are looking forward to working with US President-elect Joe Biden to strengthen transatlantic ties, the military alliance's chief said on Tuesday....

China poses the most significant challenge "of any nation-state to the United States", said Anthony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of State, adding that the means of confronting Beijing are "fully within our control". China poses the most significa...

The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll rose by 1,610 on Tuesday, the largest single-day increase since the start of the pandemic, the UK Department for Health and Social Care said. The United Kingdom's COVID-19 death toll rose by 1,610 on Tuesday, the largest single-day increase since the star...

TOWSON, Md.: Zane Martin had 24 points as Towson narrowly beat UNC Wilmington 78-74 on Tuesday. Charles Thompson had 17 points for Towson (3-5, 2-1 Colonial Athletic Association). Solomon Uyaelunmo added 12 points and seven rebounds, and Jason Gibson had 10 points. Mike Okauru scored a career-high ...

A vial of COVID-19 vaccine once opened for inoculation needs to be fully used within four hours, else the remaining doses go waste and need to be destroyed, senior doctors said on Tuesday....

In a parting shot against China and Russia, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Tuesday (local time) claimed that India and Brazil have understood that Beijing and Moscow are threats to their people. In a parting shot against China and Russia, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Tuesday ...

Three-time Pro Bowl running back Mark Ingram has been released by the Baltimore Ravens, who used the 10-year veteran as a starter for the first seven games this season before dropping him deep on the depth chart. The 31-year-old Ingram was on the inactive list for four of Baltimore's last five game...

A Thai court on Tuesday sentenced a 65-year-old woman to more than 43 years in jail for sharing online posts criticizing the royal family, her lawyer said, the country's harshest ever sentence for insulting the monarchy. Her sentence comes at a time of unprecedented youth-led demonstrations in which...

The Assam government on Tuesday distributed financial aids to 1279 surrendered members of militant organisation National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), a year after they laid down their arms. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal distributed the financial aids to the surrendered members of N...

Washington, Jan 20: President Donald Trump's last full day in office Tuesday is also senators' first day back since the deadly Capitol siege, an unparalleled time of transition as the Senate presses ahead to his impeachment trial and starts confirmation hearings on President-elect Joe Bi...

An emotional President-elect Joe Biden flew to Washington Tuesday on the eve of his inauguration, as his predecessor Donald Trump -- who will snub Biden's swearing-in -- for the first time wished success to the new administration....

More than 400,000 people have now died from coronavirus in the United States, figures showed Tuesday, as some European nations battled record surges in daily fatalities with the fear of new strains taking hold....

VIJAYAWADA: Telugu Desam chief N. Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday slammed the YSR Congress Government, saying it has turned Andhra Pradesh into a hub of violence. There, he said, were a series of murders, suicides, suspicious deaths and atrocities. He said the chief minister and the ministers were no...

Intensifying its ongoing drive against property tax defaulters, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on Tuesday sealed 18 commercial properties over non-payment of an outstanding amount of Rs 1.15 crore. The action was initiated under Section 123D of DMC Act as the Assessment and Collection Depa...

INDIANAPOLIS: That much-anticipated opening Thursday of March Madness will belong to the play-in teams, part of a scrambled and modestly condensed schedule for the 2021 tournament released Tuesday. The coronavirus pandemic forced the NCAA to move the entire 67-game tournament to Indiana, which mean...

INDIANAPOLIS: Caris LeVert said Tuesday he was awaiting additional test results on a small mass in his left kidney before establishing a treatment plan or a timeline for his Indiana Pacers debut. Team doctors found the growth during a routine post-trade physical late last week. LeVert said he doesn...

Donald Trump in a farewell address Tuesday said he was the first president in many years to have left office without starting a war....

A Delhi Court on Tuesday discharged three Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs in a case registered in 2017 for allegedly manhandling and abusing a woman on the assembly premises....

The picture of elections to 12 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council has been made clear now with the unopposed election of 12 candidates, including 10 from the BJP, with the nomination paper of an independent nominee being rejected during scrutiny of papers on Tuesday. The nomination papers of...

The United States declared Tuesday that China is carrying out genocide against the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim people, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dramatically raising pressure over Beijing's sweeping incarceration of minorities on his last full day in office....

SYRACUSE, N.Y.: Kiara Lewis scored 10 of her 23 points in Syracuse's 27-9 fourth quarter, freshman Tiana Mangakahia had 19 points and 13 assists, and the No. 23 Orange rallied past North Carolina 88-76 on Tuesday. Emily Engstler closed the third quarter with a 3-pointer to pull Syracuse within 67-6...

The infamous blimp of outgoing US President Donald Trump dressed as a baby could soon greet visitors to the Museum of London, which on Monday announced it had acquired the inflatable effigy....

NEW YORK: Sarah Thomas will cap her sixth NFL season by becoming the first female to officiate the Super Bowl in NFL history. Thomas, a down judge, is part of the officiating crew announced Tuesday by the NFL. Sarah Thomas has made history again as the first female Super Bowl official, said Troy Vi...