Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK minister: We hope record fundraiser Captain Tom pulls through
LONDON (Reuters) - A British minister said she was hoping centenarian Captain Tom Moore, who raised millions of pounds for the health service in last year's lockdown, would pull through after the reco...
Feb 01, 2021
AstraZeneca vaccine to arrive in France by next week - minister
PARIS (Reuters) - The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which was approved by the European Commission last week, will start arriving in France next week at the latest, French European Affairs Minister Cle...
Feb 01, 2021
Germany's stricter lockdown sinks retail sales in December
BERLIN (Reuters) - German retail sales plunged far more than expected in December as a decision to tighten lockdown measures in the COVID-19 pandemic choked consumer spending in Europe's largest econo...
Feb 01, 2021
Tennis-Gauff fends off Teichmann to advance at Gippsland Trophy
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Coco Gauff was rusty on serve and struggled to produce her best tennis but the American prodigy prevailed 6-3 6-7(6) 7-6(5) over Swiss Jil Teichmann to reach the second round of ...
Feb 01, 2021
NFC beats AFC in first-ever virtual Pro Bowl
Capping a challenging season played amid a global pandemic, the NFC won the first-ever virtual Pro Bowl 32-12 over the AFC Sunday in a game played on the Madden 21 video game, with NFL players and cel...
Feb 01, 2021
'Loved ones, not numbers': Inside a British funeral business as COVID deaths surge
By Andrew R.C. Marshall LONDON (Reuters) - It was a normal busy winter for British funeral director Matthew Uden until the second week of January. "Then it was like someone flicked a switch," he said....
Feb 01, 2021
Nintendo upgrades full-year forecast for Switch sales to 26.5 million units
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd on Monday hiked the full-year sales forecast for its Switch console to 26.5 million units from 24 million units previously after a bumper end to...
Feb 01, 2021
Ryanair forecasts record annual loss as COVID-19 'wreaks havoc'
By Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair said on Monday it may lose close to 1 billion euros ($1.21 billion) in its current financial year, by far its worst ever performance, but Europe's largest...
Feb 01, 2021
Wrapped in Brexit red tape, a UK freight firm struggles to trade
By Kate Holton FELIXSTOWE, England (Reuters) - In just one month of post-Brexit trading, British logistics expert Jon Swallow has seen exports dive, prices rise and customers so desperate that he is p...
Feb 01, 2021
Myanmar's Suu Kyi urged people to oppose a coup: published statement
(Reuters) - A verified Facebook account from Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) party on Monday published a statement on behalf of detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi, saying that people shoul...
Feb 01, 2021
