Reusser wins women’s Tour fourth stage, Vos retains lead

BarsurAube, France, July 27 (AFP/APP):Swiss rider Marlen Reusser won the women’s Tour de France fourth stage on Wednesday as Dutchwoman Marianne Vos retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey in fifth place. Team SD Worx’s Reusser, 30, broke away with 15km left after four gravel sections […]

James Lovelock, famed UK scientist behind Gaia theory

Paris, July 27 (AFP/APP): The independent British scientist James Lovelock, who has died on his 103rd birthday, was hugely influential for his Gaia theory that Earth is a single self-regulating system — and later his dire warnings about climate change. In a wide-ranging career that […]

Pro-Sadr protesters storm parliament in Iraq’s Green Zone

Baghdad, July 27 (AFP/APP): Supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Wednesday danced and sang after storming parliament in the capital’s high-security Green Zone, in protest at a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi called on the protesters to “immediately […]

Fed attacks US inflation with another interest rate hike

Washington, July 27 (AFP/APP):The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday again raised the benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point in its ongoing battle to tamp down raging price pressures that are squeezing American families. It was the second straight 75 basis point increases, […]

India makes 225-3 in rain-hit third ODI

Port of Spain, July 27 (AFP/APP): India totalled 225 for three off 36 overs batting first against the West Indies in the rain-affected third and final One-day International of a three-match series at Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad on Wednesday. Brief scores: India 225-3 off […]

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