Feb. 27, 2026, 5:40 a.m. ET The English Premier League title race is heating up with Arsenal clinging to a five-point lead over Manchester City, which has a game in hand. Arsenal host London rival Chelsea on Sunday in a showdown that also has implications for the Blues’ hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions…
A Hong Kong court has jailed a retiree for eight months for posting speeches on his social media account in which he seditiously criticised authorities and called on voters to boycott last year’s Legislative Council election. Lam Ming-chung, 68, on Friday admitted to posting seditious content on his Facebook account between September 2024 and November…
Morning opening: Russia, Ukraine agree on temporary ceasefire to repair lines to Zaporizhzhia plant Jakub Krupa A local ceasefire around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine has been agreed, with the help of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to allow for necessary repairs of the backup power lines to the plant. The IAEA has…
This article was produced by Capital & Main, an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. It is co-published here with permission. At the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park near Los Angeles, food service worker Sam Nassar doesn’t need a corporate earnings call to know that tourism is down, including…
The publisher of the South China Morning Post, Tammy Tam, has been appointed to Hong Kong’s Law Reform Commission as the representative for the media industry for a three-year term starting in March. Tam succeeded May Chan Suk-mei, a news director at Commercial Radio, who completed two three-year terms, with Secretary for Justice Paul Lam…
South Korea will soon no longer be one of the few countries where Google Maps doesn’t work properly, after its security-conscious government reversed a two-decade stance to approve the export of high-precision map data to overseas servers. The approval was made “on the condition that strict security requirements are met,” the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure…
Daniel Kanu had his breakout season in 2023/24. He scored two in his first four games for Charlton in Sky Bet League One, then went on loan to Southend – where he scored four goals in a 5-0 win over Solihull Moors on his full debut – and, less than a month later, made his…
Bitcoin (BTCUSD) continues to display an incomplete bearish sequence from the October 6 peak, which suggests that further downside remains possible. The extreme target zone derived from that peak lies between $41,411 and $52,204, and this area continues to serve as the broader downside objective. Despite this longer-term view, the cryptocurrency has been staging a…
Ryan O’HanlonFeb 27, 2026, 05:10 PM Close Ryan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.” Multiple Authors Back in 1912, an Italian statistician named Corrado Gini developed a method to measure what would eventually become maybe the defining feature of modern life:…
HONG KONG, Feb. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lingnan University welcomed nearly 200 higher education leaders from all over the world at its Tuen Mun campus today (27 February). The visit was one of the main activities of the 2026 Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) Conference and Exhibition. Through campus tours and interactive exchanges, Lingnan showed its…