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Thibaut Courtois has signed a fresh five-year deal with Real Madrid, the club confirmed on Monday. Madrid have allowed experienced defenders Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane leave the club, as they look to ease financial difficulties compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Madrid have decided to secure the long-term future…

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News Indian Idol 12 is looking forward to the commencement of its epic grand finale today and the finalists would be delivering their ultimate knock-out performances. 15 Aug 2021 04:56 PM Mumbai MUMBAI: Indian Idol 12 is working wonders on the small screens. Also Read:  EXCLUSIVE! Megastar Chiranjeevi to GRACE…

On Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was scheduled to launch Earth observation satellite EOS-03 on the GSLV launcher. The mission was initially expected to be carried out in March 2020 but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Earth observation satellite EOS-03, launched on Thursday from the…

WASHINGTON - The US Department of Homeland Security issued a new terrorism threat advisory ahead of the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks and amid a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic. The National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin said the United States faces a "heightened threat environment" from both domestic terrorists "and…

All of NSW is under strict lockdown after a record number of COVID-19 cases that have authorities concerned for the healthcare system. NSW reported 466 new locally-acquired cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Friday, the state's worst day during the pandemic so far. The precautionary decision to lockdown…

SMEs’reliance on eCommerce systems and communication has intensified as Australian cities impose lockdown restrictions to suppress the Delta variant. With this latest setback creating more uncertainty, it is worth looking back at how entrepreneurs have leaned into the COVID-19 crisis to keep their goods moving, with the most successful being…

This government's failure of leadership during the pandemic is the result of the Coalition's indifference to its citizens' lives and health. (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas) Though you never see it in the movies, London in 1940 was in political uproar. The repeated failures of leadership, imminence of invasion, housing shortages from…

Experts have long predicted that the pandemic will end with a whimper, not a bang. That is, COVID-19 won’t so much disappear as fade into the background, becoming like the many other common pathogens that sicken people, but also can be controlled with vaccines and drugs. “This can become a…

Minouche Shafik has spent a career straddling the worlds of government, central banking and academia. She has held senior positions in the World Bank, the U.K. government, and the International Monetary Fund, and is now director of the London School of Economics. Having spent a lifetime studying what makes economies…