Sports,Football
Greek striker Giorgos Giakoumakis hits a second half hat-trick as Atlanta United crushed the New England Revolution 4-1 in Major League Soccer on Saturday.There was last-minute drama as stoppage time winners saw champions Columbus Crew beat the Chicago Fire 2-1 and Minnesota United pull of a 3-2 ups...
Sports,Cricket
India have climbed to the number one spot in Test cricket rankings following an emphatic 4-1 series victory against England.The Indian team moved past Australia who are now second in the table, according to the rankings released by the International Cricket Council late on Saturday.India lost ...
Matt Henry and Ben Sears tore through Australia's struggling top-order late on a dramatic day three at Hagley Oval, but Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head halted New Zealand's push to leave the second Test on a knife's edge.Needing 279 runs to clinch the series 2-0, Australia were in disarra...
Arsenal moved to the top of the Premier League in dramatic fashion as Kai Havertz spared Aaron Ramsdale's blushes with a crucial late strike in Saturday's 2-1 win against Brentford. Mikel Arteta's side were just minutes away from a damaging draw after Gunners keeper Ramsdale gifted ...
Sports,Tennis
Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka saved four match points and needed four of her own to earn a 6-7 (2/7), 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) victory over Payton Stearns at the Indian Wells Masters on Saturday.The world number two was pushed to the limit in her opening match by the American outsider ranked 64th.T...
World
Deadly fighting raged on in Gaza on Sunday, with no truce in sight on the eve of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and a dire humanitarian crisis gripping the besieged Palestinian territory.A Spanish charity ship carrying food aid was expected to soon set sail from the Mediterranean island-nation of ...
Business & Commerce
India and the four-member European trade bloc EFTA, including Norway and Switzerland, signed a $100-billion free trade agreement on Sunday to promote investment and exports, officials said.The deal will see the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) -- made up of non-European Union nations, inc...
World,Front Page
Hamas's armed wing said Friday there would be no compromise on the movement's demand that Israel withdraw from Gaza to secure the release of hostages seized in the October 7 attack."Our top priority to reach a prisoner exchange deal is the complete commitment for the halt of aggression ...
World,Back Page
Hundreds of Cambodians braved sticky tropical heat to set an unusual new world record: for the most people performing a "bridal carry" at the same time.Late on Friday, 245 men hoisted their partners -- wives, girlfriends, sisters or mothers -- with one arm under the legs and one behind the...
Ravichandran Ashwin took a five-wicket haul in his landmark 100th Test as India hammered England by an innings and 64 runs in the fifth match to seal the series 4-1 on Saturday.England's James Anderson reached 700 Test wickets early in the day to be just the third bowler to achieve the feat, but...
Sports
Regan Smith produced an impressive double with wins in the 200m butterfly and 100m backstroke at the Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Illinois, where Caeleb Dressel nabbed a second win of the week on Friday.Smith dominated the 200m fly field, clocking 2min 04.80sec -- more than four seconds faster than ...
The Queens of North and South America women's football clash as the United States face Brazil in the final of the CONCACAF women's Gold Cup on Sunday.The USA, four-time World Cup and Olympic champions, have long dominated the game in North America but have looked increasingly vulnerable in t...
An international effort is gathering pace to get desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza by sea in a bid to counter overland access restrictions blamed on Israel as it battles Hamas militants.The dire conditions more than five months into the war have led some countries to airdrop food and ...
India on Friday began deporting dozens of Myanmar nationals who had fled a recent surge in fighting between the ruling junta and rebels in a border region, a top state official said.“First batch of Myanmar nationals who entered India illegally deported today,” N. Biren Singh, chief minis...
Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday sent troops to rescue more than 250 pupils kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the country's northwest in one of the largest mass abductions in three years.The Kaduna state attack was the second mass kidnapping in a week in Africa's most p...
Tunisians are bracing themselves for more subdued celebrations during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as an economic crisis grips the North African country.In past years "you wouldn't have been able to set foot in the market because it was so crowded", vegetable merchant Mohamed Doryi...
The mother-in-law of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was on Friday appointed to serve in India's parliament, capping a career working for the philanthropic arm of her billionaire husband's tech firm.Sudha Murthy, 73, is the former chair of the Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of ...
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is not giving up on love -- even at age 92.Murdoch announced Thursday that he plans to wed his girlfriend, Elena Zhukova, in June, The New York Times reported.Murdoch has been married four times before.His roller-coaster personal life is often fodder for the tabloid news...
Expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes "a war crime" and risks eliminating "any practical possibility" of a viable Palestinian state, the United Nations rights chief warned on Friday.Volker Turk said there had been a drastic acceleration...
Britain will supply Ukraine with more than 10,000 drones to aid its fight against Russia's invasion, the government said Thursday as Defence Secretary Grant Shapps visited Kyiv. The defence ministry said it was spending a further œ125 million ($160 million) on "cutting-edge drone...
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