Chinese language film ticket gross sales surpassed these of the US final yr, as the worldwide cinema trade struggled to remain afloat amid coronavirus restrictions. The development started even earlier than the pandemic hit and may be right here to remain. ...

Russian Sports activities Minister Oleg Matytsin has assessed the choice by the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to impose a two-year ban on Russia, stressing that the sanctions might have been far more durable. ...

Incoming US president Joe Biden will as soon as once more try to rebuild the Western-led world order and embrace ‘liberal globalization’ with the only purpose of stopping globalization on what’s seen as China’s phrases. ...

Influential televangelist Pat Robertson has suggested Donald Trump to “transfer on” from making an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the election. He was immediately ridiculed on-line for saying again in October that God instructed him Trump would win. ...

Investigators declare Luis Suarez cheated on an Italian citizenship check forward of a failed switch to Serie A champions Juventus, after they discovered that the participant had been "communicated prematurely" the contents of the examination. ...

Barcelona have deleted a social media submit about Lionel Messi's homage to Diego Maradona after receiving a backlash from followers accusing the membership of 'utilizing loss of life as promo.' ...

A US plane provider and different warships are headed to the Persian Gulf to bolster troop withdrawals within the area, a protection supply advised CNN, insisting the deployment is unrelated to the current homicide of a prime Iranian scientist. ...

Donald Trump has warned presumed President-elect Joe Biden that he can solely ascend to the presidency by “proving” his votes within the 2020 election “weren't fraudulently obtained,” although he earlier agreed to an orderly transition. ...

A brand new video from Armenia reveals a column of navy vehicles shifting out of the city of Goris. They carry Russian peacekeepers deployed to supervise a truce within the disputed Azerbaijani area of Nagorno-Karabakh. ...

The bosses of the world’s two largest automakers, Volkswagen and Toyota, have hit out at Tesla as they search to problem their US rival’s management within the electrical automobile market and keep away from falling into oblivion. ...