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Romania's Simona Halep holds her trophy after winning the final match of the Women's Italian Open against Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova, who pulled out following injury, at Foro Italico on September 21, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Riccardo Antimiani / POOL / AFP)

Relaxed Simona Halep heads into French Open as clear favourite

ROME: File photo shows Romania's Simona Halep poses with her trophy after winning the final match of the Women's Italian Open against Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova, who pulled out following injury, at Foro Italico on September 21, 2020 in Rome, Italy. - AFP PARIS: Former champion Simona Halep arrives at the rescheduled French Open as the player to beat in a women's draw missing title holder Ashleigh Barty and recent US Open winner Naomi...

Chelsea's German midfielder Kai Havertz (L) runs past Barnsley's English goalkeeper Brad Collins to score his team's fifth goal during the English League Cup third round football match between Chelsea and Barnsley at Stamford Bridge in London on September 23, 2020. (Photo by Alastair Grant / various sources / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or 'live' services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. /

Havertz hat-trick helps Chelsea hit six, Arsenal edge out Leicester in League Cup

LONDON: Chelsea's German midfielder Kai Havertz (L) runs past Barnsley's English goalkeeper Brad Collins to score his team's fifth goal during the English League Cup third round football match between Chelsea and Barnsley at Stamford Bridge in London. - AFP LONDON: Frank Lampard said Kai Havertz is just getting started after opening his Chelsea account with a hat-trick in a 6-0 thrashing of Barnsley, while Arsenal also booked their place in the...

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Usman, happy to pave way for emerging martial artists

ABU DHABI: In this file handout image taken on July 12, 2020 and released by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), shows Nigeria's Kamaru Usman (L) with his hand raised after winning the welterweight championship fight during the UFC 251 event at UFC Fight Island in Abu Dhabi's Yas Island. - AFP United Arab Emirates: Kamaru Usman last year became the first African-born mixed martial artist to win a world title with the Ultimate Fighting...

A screen shows a coronavirus vaccine at a press conference during a media tour of a new factory built to produce a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at Sinovac, one of 11 Chinese companies approved to carry out clinical trials of potential coronavirus vaccines, in Beijing on September 24, 2020. (Photo by WANG ZHAO / AFP)

Worldwide virus cases cross 31.88 million

BEIJING: A screen shows a coronavirus vaccine at a press conference during a media tour of a new factory built to produce a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at Sinovac, one of 11 Chinese companies approved to carry out clinical trials of potential coronavirus vaccines, in Beijing yesterday.-AFP LONDON: More than 31.88 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 975,065? have died, according to a Reuters...

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Arab leaders voice alarm at UN over Iran tensions

A handout photo made available by the Saudi press Agency (SPA) shows King Salman bin Abdulaziz delivering a speech from his residence in Neom during the virtual 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. - AFP UNITED NATIONS: Arab leaders voiced fears Wednesday before the United Nations of new conflict in the region as tensions soar between Iran and the United States. The annual extravaganza of international diplomacy at the UN General...

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Afghanistan's first female envoy to UN warns over women's rights

NEW YORK: This UN handout photo shows Adela Raz, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations, speaks during the second day of the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York. - AFP KABUL: The Taleban's stance on women's rights should concern the world, one of Afghanistan's top female diplomats has warned, as the government holds power-sharing talks with the...

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 23: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump fielded questions about a coronavirus vaccine and the latest developments in the Breonna Taylor case among other topics. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images/AFP

Trump hedges on transferring power

WASHINGTON, DC: US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House on Wednesday in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump declined on Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov 3 election to Democratic rival Joe Biden and said he expected the election battle to end up before the Supreme Court. "We're going to have to see what happens," Trump, a...

A man repairs his makeshift protection wall, to protect his house before the next high tide arrives in Bargny on September 03, 2020. - Fishing villages like Bargny have been fighting the rising seas for decades, hundreds of houses have been lost and families displaced. Through the months of July to September, peaking at the equinox, coastal towns like Bargny must brace for the worst, tides are at their highest, rising every year, storms are more frequent, battering the coastline which speeds up the erosion. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

Torrential rains in Senegal expose big gap in $1.4 billion flood plan

A man repairs his makeshift protection wall, to protect his house before the next high tide arrives in Bargny. – AFP DAKAR: More than two weeks after heavy rains hit Senegal, thigh-high stagnant water still fills streets in Dakar's suburbs, as angry residents ask what happened to a $1.4 billion government plan to protect citizens from rising flood risk. Three months' worth of rain fell on Sept. 5, forcing over 3,200 people to abandon their...

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong poses for a photo after leaving Central police station in Hong Kong on September 24, 2020, after being arrested for unlawful assembly related to a 2019 protest against a government ban on face masks. (Photo by ISAAC LAWRENCE / AFP)

HK activist Wong arrested Again but vows to fight on

HONG KONG: Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong poses for a photo after leaving Central police station in Hong Kong yesterday, after being arrested for unlawful assembly related to a 2019 protest against a government ban on face masks. - AFP HONG KONG: Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was arrested yesterday for taking part in a protest at the height of the city's pro-democracy unrest last year, but he vowed to continue resisting China's...

The coronavirus sniffer dog named E.T. receives a cuddle from the trainer Anette Kare at the Helsinki airport in Vantaa, Finland, where he is trained to detect the Covid-19 from the arriving passengers, on September 22, 2020. (Photo by Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT

Dogs used to detect virus in pilot project at Helsinki airport

HELSINKI: The coronavirus sniffer dog named E.T. receives a cuddle from the trainer Anette Kare at the Helsinki airport in Vantaa, Finland, where he is trained to detect the COVID-19 from the arriving passengers. - AFP HELSINKI: Dogs trained to detect the novel coronavirus began sniffing passenger samples at Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa airport this week, authorities said, in a pilot project running alongside more usual testing at the airport. The...

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North Korean troops gun down S Korean man, burn body: Seoul

SEOUL: South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff officer Lieutenant-General Ahn Young-ho speaks during a briefing on a missing official near the western border sea, at the Defence Ministry in Seoul yesterday. North Korean forces shot dead a South Korean fisheries official who disappeared off a patrol vessel. - AFP SEOUL: North Korean troops shot dead a South Korean fisheries official who went missing earlier this week, before dousing his body in oil...

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Two US police shot as protests erupt over Breonna Taylor case

LOUISVILLE: Protesters march in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 23, 2020, after a judge announced the charges brought by a grand jury against Detective Brett Hankison, one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in March. - AFP LOUISVILLE: Two police officers were shot as angry protests rippled across the United States after authorities announced no one would be charged with the killing of Breonna Taylor....

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