(Reuters) – World number two Simona Halep said she will announce on Monday whether she will play at the U.S. Open. Speaking after her victory over Elise Mertens in the Prague Open final, the 28-year-old Romanian said “she just needed her time” to make a decisi... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Italy and Spain, the two European countries hardest hit by the new coronavirus, have enforced the most drastic lockdowns to curb the pandemic but one country, Sweden, stands out for allowing life to go on much as before, Google data show. An... More »
LONDON/OAKLAND/BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Driving to work at his factory to the west of London last week, designer Steve Brooks had coronavirus on his mind. What could he make that would let him open a door without touching the handle? “Everyone has to use their li... More »
(Reuters) – Major sports events around the world that have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic: OLYMPICS * The International Olympic Committee and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe concluded the Tokyo 2020 Olympics must be postponed and held no later than the... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Highlights of the eighth day at the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Monday (times AEDT- GMT+11): 1633 MUGURUZA MARCHES INTO LAST EIGHT Unseeded Spaniard Garbine Muguruza continued her charge toward a third... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Simona Halep had to be at her counter-punching best to fight off another determined second-set comeback bid from Elise Mertens on Monday as the Romanian world number three advanced to the quarter-finals of the Australian Open. Halep, a be... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Coaches have welcomed the WTA Tour’s decision to allow them to help players from the stands this season after the issue became a hot-button topic in the wake of the 2018 U.S. Open final when Serena Williams was controversially penalized. ... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Garbine Muguruza powered into the Australian Open quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-3 demolition of ninth-seed Kiki Bertens in just 68 minutes on Monday. Muguruza, a former French Open and Wimbledon champion, was unseeded at Melbourne Park and ... More »
BUDAPEST/WARSAW (Reuters) – Eastern Europe is a new frontier for private medical care, and insurers and tech startups are racing to steal a march on their rivals by harnessing the region’s health data. Growing numbers of people in Eastern European states, from... More »
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s national food safety authority Nebih has found five cases of African swine fever in wild boar carcasses near Budapest, it said on Sunday. The causes of the infections found in a closed hunting area in Budakeszi, west of the Hunga... More »
(Reuters) – Tomas Berdych earned his first ATP win in six months with a 6-1 3-6 6-3 first round victory over Andreas Seppi at the Winston-Salem Open on Sunday. The Czech, who missed four months prior to Wimbledon with a back injury, had not recorded a triumph ... More »
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – American heavy metal band Metallica has donated 250,000 euros to a Romanian association building the country’s first pediatric oncology hospital, they said. The donation to Daruieste Viata (Give Life), founded in 2012, came ahead of the b... More »
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s veterinary authorities said on Friday they would cull 8,253 pigs after detecting an outbreak of African swine fever at a breeding farm in the northeast of the country, the sixth industrial farm in the Balkan nation to be hit by the... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain warned the European Union on Monday it needed to change its ‘stubborn’ position on Brexit if a no-deal exit was to be avoided. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted a deal but the EU had to change its position. “We want a goo... More »
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Some of the world’s top film makers, including two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, will show their movies and hold master classes honoring the 25th Sarajevo film festival in August, the festival director said on Fr... More »
ZURICH (Reuters) – With other parts of its business facing hefty cuts, Deutsche Bank wants to expand its European operations handling the assets of rich clients and take market share from rivals after staunching the outflow of assets. Hiring new client relatio... More »
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria has confirmed a new case of African swine fever among backyard pigs in the village of Novachene near the town of Pleven in the north of the country, the national food safety agency said on Friday. Bulgaria already reported two cases ... More »
(Reuters) – Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc has suspended a global social media marketing campaign in response to Reuters inquiries into the company’s use of young online personalities to sell its new “heated tobacco” device, including a 21-yea... More »
HYDERABAD, India/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc has thousands of content labelers around the world who categorize content with the aim of creating large datasets that can be more readily analyzed by humans and software. One project at outsourcing vendo... More »
HYDERABAD, India/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad, India has ploughed through millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014. The workers categorize items ... More »
MOGOSOAIA, Romania (Reuters) – “Repeat after me! To be together with who I want,” a family of Romanian witches chant via a video call to a client in India paying for a love spell. The session, in a decorated shed in a back yard 15 km (9 miles) north of Buchare... More »
ROUEN, France (Reuters) – Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic led France to their sixth Fed Cup final as they won the doubles to seal the two-time champions’ dramatic 3-2 victory over Romania in their semi-final on Sunday. The two 25-year-olds defeated wor... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – World number nine Ashleigh Barty continued her recent strong run of form and guided Australia to their first Fed Cup final since 1993 with a 3-2 victory over Belarus in Brisbane on Sunday. Barty, who won both her singles matches in the semi-... More »
ROSS-ON-WYE, England (Reuters) – For almost 100 years, Chris Chinn’s family has farmed asparagus in the rolling hills of the Wye Valley in western England. This year, he fears uncertainty around Britain’s departure from the European Union will keep his eastern... More »
(Reuters) – World number two Simona Halep survived a tough challenge from Ukrainian qualifier Kateryna Kozlova to win their third round match 7-6(3) 7-5 at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, on Sunday. The Romanian finally put away the 114th ran... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Andy Murray’s hopes of a fairytale swansong at the Australian Open were crushed in the first round on Monday as Roberto Bautista Agut held off a thrilling fightback from the ailing Briton to claim a 6-4 6-4 6-7(5) 6-7(4) 6-2 epic. Though ... More »
(Reuters) – Simona Halep begins her Australian Open campaign against Kaia Kanepi on Tuesday in a rematch of their U.S. Open meeting which the world number one lost in straights sets. The Romanian has struggled for form and fitness since that first-round defeat... More »
(Reuters) – A look at the records of Romanian Simona Halep and Estonian Kaia Kanepi before their first-round match at the Australian Open on Tuesday (prefix number denotes seeding): 1-SIMONA HALEP Age: 27 WTA Ranking: 1 (Highest ranking: 1) Grand Slam titles: ... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer loom over Melbourne Park for the year’s opening Grand Slam as favorites for the Australian Open as questions remain as to whether one of Generation Next could finally end their stranglehold. The Serbian wo... More »
(Reuters) – World number one Simona Halep crashed to a straight-sets defeat against unseeded Ashleigh Barty in the second round of the Sydney International on Wednesday. Halep, playing in her first tournament since a back injury cut short her 2018 season, lost... More »
(Reuters) – Andy Murray is still feeling the effects of a hip injury that forced a premature end to his 2018 activity, but the Briton hopes the pain will ease as he plays more matches in the lead-up to next month’s Australian Open. The former world number one ... More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders arrive in Brussels for a second day of day of talks on Brexit, the euro zone, migration and Russia, among others. Below are some of their comments made on arrival. AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR SEBASTIAN KURZ “I think it was g... More »
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders arrive in Brussels for two days of talks on Brexit, the euro zone, migration and Russia, among others. Below are some of their comments made on arrival. FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON “We can have a political discu... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will not withdraw its political support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia, its foreign minister said on Monday, as some lawmakers suggested curtailing the project to punish Moscow for its seizure of Ukrainian ships and t... More »
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Starting out as a unit production manager in Romania’s film industry more than two decades ago, Ada Solomon felt she needed to punch above her weight. But after fighting with crew on set early on in her career, Solomon, now a producer of ... More »
SOFIA (Reuters) – China backs EU integration and wants to use a weekend summit with central and eastern Europe to boost cooperation with the region, not undermine the 28 member bloc, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday. Li is visiting Bulgaria, where sta... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – World number one Simona Halep blazed into the French Open quarter-finals by crushing Belgian Elise Mertens 6-2 6-1 as she showed her full range of weapons on Monday. Romanian Halep, twice a runner-up at Roland Garros, started slowly but once ... More »
(Reuters) – Andy Murray has agreed to play at the June grass-court tournament in Rosmalen in the Netherlands, as the former world number one steps up his bid to fully recover from hip surgery in time for Wimbledon. The Scot has not played a competitive match s... More »
Mar 11, 2018- Indian Wells, CA, USA- Simona Halep (ROU) during her second round match against Caroline Dolehide (not pictured) in the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports (Reuters) – Top seed Simona Halep narro... More »
Touch Me Not, a film about intimacy and sex that shocked some viewers with explicit scenes, won the Golden Bear prize for best film at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday. More »
A horse-drawn carriage is pictured on a street in Dragomiresti, Dambovita county, Romania, January 23, 2018. Picture taken January 23, 2018. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS DRAGOMIRESTI, Romania (Reuters) – Romanian mayor Dragos Vladulescu has a criminal... More »
Tennis – Australian Open – Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 22, 2018. Simona Halep of Romania celebrates winning against Naomi Osaka of Japan. REUTERS/Thomas Peter MELBOURNE (Reuters) – World number one Simona Halep proved too experienced fo... More »
FILE PHOTO – Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose addresses the Romanian Parliament before a no-confidence vote against Romania’s Social Democrat-led government, in Bucharest, Romania, November 23, 2017. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea/via REUTERS BUDAPEST (Reuters)... More »
FILE PHOTO: The company logo of China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) is seen at its headquarters in Beijing, China, November 3, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo LONDON/PARIS/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s COFCO International is in the throes of a sta... More »
Tennis – Australian Open – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, January 12, 2018. Romania’s Simona Halep hits a shot during a practice session ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament. REUTERS/David Gray (Reuters) – Picking a women’s singles champion at... More »
(Reuters) – Penpix of the top women’s contenders at the 2018 Australian Open, which begins on Monday: Simona Halep (Romania) World ranking: 1 Born: Sept. 27, 1991 (Age 26) Height: 1.68 metres Plays: Right-handed Grand slam titles: 0 WTA match record in 2018 (w... More »
Aug 31, 2017- New York, NY, USA- Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia hits a backhand against Kurumi Nara of Japan (not pictured) on day four of the U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY S... More »
Top-seeded Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia has withdrawn from the Tianjin Open with an injury, organizers announced on Monday. More »
World number one Garbine Muguruza fell at the first hurdle at the China Open on Monday, with the Spaniard forced to retire due to illness during her first-round match against Czech Barbora Strycova. More »
World number one Garbine Muguruza fell at the first hurdle at the China Open on Monday, with the Spaniard forced to retire during her first-round match against Czech Barbora Strycova. More »
French President Emmanuel Macron won backing from Angela Merkel for plans to reform the European Union after Brexit, founded on what the German chancellor called "intense" cooperation between Paris and Berlin. More »
After years of bailing out Greece, the idea of letting more poorer states into the euro zone has sparked controversy, particularly in Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking re-election in two weeks time. More »
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker urged European Union governments on Wednesday to use economic recovery and Brexit as springboards toward a closer union, built on an expanded euro zone and a pivotal role in world trade. More »
List of U.S. Open men's singles champions since the open era began in 1968: More »
Companies need to make sure that employees are aware in advance of management monitoring of their work email accounts, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday in a landmark privacy case. More »
A year ago Kaia Kanepi was reading books, walking her dog and trying to figure out what she wanted to do with her life. More »
Fresh off a thrilling victory in front of a sold-out crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday, former world number one Maria Sharapova will look to prove that she has the stamina to back it up when she battles Timea Babos at the U.S. Open on Wednesday. More »
Highlights from day two of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Tuesday (all times GMT): More »
Spanish fourth seed Garbine Muguruza fine-tuned her preparations for this month's U.S. Open by crushing Simona Halep 6-1 6-0 in the Cincinnati Open final on Sunday. More »
Jul 31, 2017- Washington, DC, USA- Daniil Medvedev of Russia hits forehand against Reilly Opelka of the United States (not pictured) on day one of the Citi Open at Fitzgerald Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports Russia’s Daniil Medvede... More »
Tennis – BNP Paribas WTA Finals – Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore Sports Hub – 26/10/15 Taiwan’s Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan (L) celebrate winning the doubles match Action Images via Reuters / Jeremy Lee Livepic Taiwan’s tennis playing sisters Chan Yu... More »
Bethanie Mattek-Sands was undergoing tests on Friday to assess the extent of the knee injury that left her screaming in agony on court during her second round match on day four of the Wimbledon championships. More »
A look at the 2017 records of Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko and Canadian Francoise Abanda ahead of their second round match at Wimbledon on Wednesday (prefix number denotes seeding): More »
Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst U.S. President Donald Tru... More »
Tennis – French Open – Roland Garros, Paris, France – June 7, 2017 Czech Republic’s Karolina Pliskova celebrates after winning her quarter final match against France’s Caroline Garcia Reuters / Benoit Tessier If a place in the French Open final were not a big ... More »
Tennis – French Open – Roland Garros, Paris, France – June 7, 2017 Romania’s Simona Halep in action during her quarter final match against Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina Reuters / Pascal Rossignol A look at the 2017 records of Romanian Simona Halep and Karolina Pli... More »
Tennis – French Open – Roland Garros, Paris, France – June 7, 2017 Romania’s Simona Halep celebrates after winning her quarter final match against Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina Reuters / Gonzalo Fuentes Here’s a look at the form and previous records ahead of Thurs... More »
Bulgaria said on Saturday it would conduct checks on different food products of multinational companies sold in the Balkan state and compare them with food sold in richer western European countries, amid concerns over quality. More »
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration Officials across the globe scrambled over the weekend to catch the culprits ... More »
Portugal’s Salvador Sobral celebrates after winning the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 at the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Portugal’s Salvador Sobral won the Eurovision Song Contest on S... More »
Ukraine’s Jamala performs a song as security detain a fan. REUTERS/Stringer Ukrainian police have detained a Ukrainian prankster for jumping onto the stage at the Eurovision Song Contest and dropping his trousers while singer Jamala was performing, Interior Mi... More »
A reconstructed apartment interior is pictured inside the newly opened kitsch museum in Bucharest, Romania May 4, 2017. Picture taken on May 4, 2017. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS Visitors to Romania who yearn for a taste of communist era kitsch now ha... More »
A reconstructed apartment interior is pictured inside the newly opened kitsch museum in Bucharest, Romania May 4, 2017. Picture taken on May 4, 2017. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via REUTERS Visitors to Romania who yearn for a taste of communist era kitsch now ha... More »
Gaps in vaccination coverage against measles have lead to several outbreaks of the highly-contagious disease in Europe in the past year, with both children and young adults affected, health officials said on Monday. More »
Italy said on Wednesday it was suffering a measles epidemic following a fall-off in vaccinations, as the United States issued a warning to visitors about the outbreak of the potentially fatal disease. More »
Mar 29, 2017- Miami, FL, USA- Venus Williams of the United States hits a backhand against Angelique Kerber of Germany (not pictured) on day nine of the 2017 Miami Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center. Williams won 7-5, 6-3. Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports Venus Wil... More »
Police work at Carriage Gate outside the Houses of Parliament. REUTERS/Neil Hall The attacker who plowed a car through a throng of pedestrians and then stabbed a policeman outside Britain’s parliament was named on Thursday as Khalid Masood, a British-born man ... More »
Harald Krueger, Chief Executive of German luxury carmaker BMW, gives a speech during the Handelsblatt Automotive Summit 2016 in Munich, southern Germany, November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Michael Dalder BMW (BMWG.DE) CEO Harald Krueger said the big investments needed ... More »
U.S. Bradley fighting vehicles that will be deployed in Latvia for NATO’s Operation Atlantic Resolve wait for an unload in Garkalne, Latvia February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins Russia views the deployment of NATO troops and military hardware to the Baltic st... More »
Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the fastest ever women’s 2,000 meters at the indoor Miting Internacional de Catalunya meeting in Sabadell, Spain on Tuesday. More »
Tennis – Pan Pacific Open Women’s Singles Round 2 match – Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo, Japan – 21/09/16. Monica Puig of Puerto Rico serves the ball against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic. REUTERS/Issei Kato Monica Puig would never trade her surprise singles go... More »
Tennis – Australian Open – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – 16/1/17 Shelby Rogers of the U.S. shakes hands after winning her Women’s singles first round match against Romania’s Simona Halep. REUTERS/Thomas Peter Simona Halep fell at the Australian Open’s... More »
German Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt answers reporters questions during a Reuters interview in Berlin, Germany July 4, 2016. REUTERS/Joachim Herrmann Germany is considering ordering its poultry farmers to keep their flocks indoors following an outbrea... More »
A staff of British American Tobacco Japan displays its new tobacco heating system device ‘glo’ after a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon British American Tobacco PLC (BAT) plans to test a new tobacco-based cigarette alte... More »
A general view shows Bran Castle, also known as Dracula’s Castle, in the Carpathian mountains, 200km (124 miles) north of Bucharest, Romania in this May 19, 2006 file photo. Sorin Marinas More »
The sculpture ”The Meekness of the Earth” of Romania’s modernist giant Constantin Brancusi is seen on display at the Cotroceni Museum, in Bucharest, Romania, March 18, 2016. Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea/File photo via REUTERS Romania’s government said on Wednesda... More »
Thousands of people demonstrate against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) in the centre of Brussels, Belgium September 20, 2016. Reuters/Eric Vidal Southern Belgium is ... More »
Tennis – China Open Men’s Singles quarterfinal – Beijing, China – 07/10/16. Britain’s Andy Murray shakes hands with his compatriot Kyle Edmund after their match. REUTERS/Thomas Peter World number two Andy Murray has urged his British compatriot Kyle Edmund to ... More »
A British flag and an EU flag are seen in front of a monitor displaying a graph of the Japanese yen’s exchange rate against the U.S. dollar at a foreign exchange trading company in Tokyo, Japan, June 27, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai German Economy Minister Sigmar ... More »
BUDAPEST Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday said Donald Trump had proposed security policies that Europe should take to heart to solve a security crisis he blames on uncontrolled immigration. Speaking at a summer university in Baile Tusnad, Roma... More »
LONDON She was once the ponytailed Romanian teenager excited at the thought of owning colored socks and eating bubble gum yet Nadia Comaneci went on to captivate the world by performing an Olympic feat that continues to stir the emotions four decades later. Th... More »
LONDON Nick Kyrgios described his first-round clash with the oldest man at Wimbledon — wily Czech Radek Stepanek — as “pretty crazy” on Saturday, saying the 37-year-old had been offering to help coach him. Stepanek likes nothing better than to make life diffic... More »
BRUSSELS Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new NATO force on Russia’s border from next year, but some eastern allies said the alliance’s effort must go further to deter Moscow. Weeks before a critical NATO summit i... More »
PARIS Following the example set by Paul the Octopus, Watson the sea-lion hopes his nose for winners will bring him international stardom – and a few extra fish – as he predicts the outcome of France’s games in the Euro soccer championship. Weighing in at a spr... More »
LONDON British Prime Minister David Cameron stands by his description of Donald Trump’s proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States as “divisive, stupid and wrong”, a spokesman said on Monday. Trump, when asked about Cameron’s criticism,... More »
World number one Novak Djokovic survived a stern test from qualifier Bjorn Fratangelo to make the third round of the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday, with Spaniard Rafa Nadal also needing three sets to advance from a tricky opening clash. American Fratangelo, the w... More »
MELBOURNE Andy Murray continued Britain’s Australian Open success when he overcame David Ferrer 6-3 6-7(5) 6-2 6-3 in a grueling tussle to reach the semi-finals for the sixth time in seven years on Wednesday. The world number two was forced to scrap for almost... More »
Companies and organizations are pledging to provide funds, goods and services to help thousands of migrants arriving in Europe from war-torn and impoverished countries. Companies are helping through both corporate and employee schemes. Following are some examp... More »
NEW YORK A Latvian man pleaded guilty on Friday to engaging in a scheme to transmit a computer virus that infected more than a million computers worldwide and caused tens of millions of dollars in losses. Deniss Calovskis, 30, pleaded guilty in federal court i... More »
