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Associated Press. Despite Japan's impressive performance prior to this match, having scored 14 goals and maintaining a flawless 4-0 record, they struggled to keep up with Sweden, who held a 2-0 lead late into the second half.

Concord Biotech IPO will likely be finalised on August 11. Investors will get shares on a lottery basis and the whole process will be supervised by the registrar. On the allotment date, investors get to know about the number of shares allotted to them as against the bids made.

The new boss of the company behind Ardmona canned tomatoes and Goulburn Valley fruit wants regulators to toughen up country-of-origin labelling so homegrown products can better compete with cheap imports that may have been made with poor labour practices.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell $1.58 to $82.82 a barrel Thursday

Asian stock markets are lower after U.S. inflation edged higher, fueling unease about the outlook for the biggest global economy

Investing.com-- Most Asian currencies fell on Friday amid persistent fears of an economic slowdown in China, while the dollar firmed after data showed that U.S. consumer inflation grew as expected in July.

NBC News. According to WHO officials quoted by the BBC, there is no suggestion that the E.5 variant is more severe or has higher risks compared to the previous variants of interest.

Moon and Mars. These regions, rich with planetary bodies, are the focus of numerous endeavors.

By Tom Westbrook

Delhi government has prohibited mobile phones in the classrooms in both public and private schools. According to the latest notification by the Directorate of Education (DoE), “Parents should ensure that their children do not bring mobile phones into the school premises. If students bring mobile phones to school, then the school authority should arrange to keep them in a locker and return the mobile phones to the students after school".

Rajinikanth's latest movie minted around ₹44.50 crore net in India for all languages, while the gross collection crossed the ₹50 crore mark on the opening day, according to a report available on Sacnilk.com. As per early estimates by Sacnilk, Jailer collected ₹52 crore on Thursday including ₹23 crore from Tamil Nadu, ₹11 crore from Karnataka, ₹10 crore from Andhra Pradesh, ₹5 crore from Kerala, and ₹3 crore from other states, HT reported. Rajinikanth's much-awaited Jailer movie has hit the big screens today, August 10.

buoyant conditions spreading across the globe. The world was said to be on the cusp of an unusually synchronized expansion. Few people still spoke of a jobless recovery in America, and China, after some rare stumbles, appeared to be returning to its old robust self.

By Ankur Banerjee

equity market is expected to open on a weaker note on Friday following mixed cues from global peers. The Asian markets were trading mixed, while the US stock indices ended largely flat overnight after the inflation for July came in lower than expected, raising hopes of an end to the aggressive policy tightening by central bank. On Thursday, the domestic market got spooked by the hawkish commentary from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), with both the benchmarks Sensex and Nifty ending nearly half a percent lower each.

It’s game on for Lendlease’s Australian Communities business, put up for sale via Macquarie Capital in April. First-round bids are in with at least four names throwing their hat in the ring, Street Talk understands.

India and Japan being active and vital middle powers in the Indo-Pacific region, their partnership for project-specific support in Sri Lanka holds significance and with their proven experience, knowledge, and expertise in tackling specific development challenges, both countries could support Sri Lanka financially and technically, suggested report brought out by prominent Colombo-based think tank Pathfinder Foundation. The report — “Medium and Long-term Strategy for Indo-Japanese Collaboration to Support the Economic Transformation of Sri Lanka” — was released here on Thursday in partnership with two prominent think tanks based in New Delhi, namely, NATSTRAT and Vivekananda International Foundation, and the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Mexico is “leading the way” in Latin America’s Travel Rule adoption drive, a study has found – with Argentina “lagging behind.”

Search giant Google is celebrating Mountain Day 2023 with a special doodle that celebrates the love for Japan's more than 12,000 mountain peaks. The festival was first enacted in 2014 after being advocated for by nature and hiking groups and was first celebrated in 2016. Mountain Day gives the people of Japan to visit and celebrate the mountains that account for around 70 percent of the landmass of the country.

Rovio, creator of the Angry Birds franchise, have overwhelmingly accepted Japanese Sega's offer to buy the company, allowing the deal to go through, the Finnish company said Thursday. Rovio said in a statement that 96.3 percent of its shareholders had accepted the offer, which values the company at more than 700 million euros ($770 million). The offer was contingent on more than 90 percent acceptance.

The 64-year-old designer is reinventing the Swiss traditional art of paper cutting, which typically shows Alpine landscapes and cows heading to mountain pastures, by infusing a large dose of poetry and modernity. Dubuis, a florist by training, told AFP that she has devoted herself to paper cutting since childhood and now spends around six hours a day on her passion. At her home studio in Chateau d'Oex, in the Pays-d'Enhaut area where the Swiss tradition was born around 200 years ago, she showed off her craft, using scissors or a cutter to carve out intricate scenes inspired by the surrounding woods and the people she meets. The works, either in black and white or in colour, have been shown in Switzerland, France, Germany and Japan.

HONG KONG—China lifted restrictions on group tours to the U.S., Australia, South Korea and Japan on Thursday, a move that is set to boost global tourism after three years of pandemic restrictions. China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism added almost 80 new destinations to a list of countries approved for group travel on Thursday, with immediate effect. The countries were the third batch of places that group tours led by travel operators can now visit, including some in East Asia that are among the most popular destinations for Chinese holiday makers.