Legends v Champions: Successful series bodes well for future events, says Nawaz
KARACHI: Following the success of the Legends v Champions series, the Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) is hoping to hold future Professional Squash Association (PSA) tournaments, in which international...
View ArticleChampions League: Griezmann double dumps Barca out of Europe
MADRID: Atletico Madrid dumped holders Barcelona out of the Champions League at the quarter-final stage for the second time in three seasons as Antoine Griezmann’s double sealed a 2-0 win on Wednesday...
View ArticleRussia jets make ‘simulated attack’ passes near US destroyer: US
WASHINGTON, DC: Two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a US guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, the US military said, with one official describing them as one of the...
View ArticleDelhi’s street kids on the beat with hard-hitting newspaper
NEW DELHI: As one of New Delhi’s thousands of street children, Jyoti Kumari knows more than most about the goings on in the Indian capital’s desperate and sometimes brutal underbelly. Now the...
View ArticleChampions League: Bayern see off Benfica to reach semis
LISBON: Bayern Munich came out on top in an entertaining Champions League last-eight clash with Benfica, reaching the semi-finals with a 3-2 aggregate victory, after a second-leg 2-2 draw in Lisbon on...
View ArticlePanama Papers reveal Hong Kong’s murky financial underbelly
HONG KONG: Jasmine Li was still a student when she opened her first offshore bank account through Mossack Fonseca Hong Kong, but the shady world she entered that day had been part of the city’s...
View ArticleGerman coalition leaders agree new counter-terror plans: sources
The leaders of Germany’s ruling coalition parties agreed at a meeting stretching into Thursday morning on a package of counter-terror measures, coalition sources said. The measures include increasing...
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Bollywood films don’t always need a song and dance: Shah Rukh Khan
The Indian film industry is changing and films no longer have to have a song and dance sequence to be successful, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said on Wednesday. Khan, who was in London on a...
View ArticleDazzling Rashford brings Man Utd FA Cup cheer
LONDON: Teenage sensation Marcus Rashford scored a delicious goal as Manchester United won 2-1 at West Ham United in Wednesday’s FA Cup quarter-final replay to bolster manager Louis van Gaal. West Ham...
View ArticlePhilippines rejects Islamic State’s claim it killed 100 troops
MANILA: The Philippines has dismissed as “purely propaganda” Islamic State’s claim that its militants killed scores of government troops in ambushes and said there was no evidence directly linking...
View ArticleIndia’s Infosys posts 16% rise in fourth-quarter profit
BANGALORE: Indian software giant Infosys on Friday reported a 16 percent jump in fourth-quarter net profit, beating expectations after it won new clients for its IT services business. Net profit in the...
View ArticleGriffith, Hick named as Australia coaches for ODI series
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA: Western Australia bowling coach Adam Griffith and former England batsman Graham Hick will join the Australian side temporarily for their one-day triangular series in the West...
View ArticleTeamwork or torture? Japan’s bone-breaking gym class
TOKYO: Rushed in for emergency surgery to stop bleeding on the brain, doctors at Matsudo City Hospital said the child was lucky to be alive. Others have come in with spinal fractures, broken ribs, and...
View ArticleSesame Street’s first Afghan Muppet empowers girls
KABUL: With purple skin and an orange nose, her multi-coloured braids wrapped in a headscarf, Zari is Sesame Street’s first female, Afghan muppet and she has a message: girl power. Producers hope the...
View ArticleIndia poachers kill rhino soon after royal couple visit
GUWAHATI, INDIA: Poachers shot dead a rhinoceros at a wildlife park in northeast India hours after Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate visited the sanctuary, a wildlife official said Friday....
View ArticleChina bank lending rebounds strongly in March
SHANGHAI: China’s bank lending posted a strong rebound in March, according to central bank figures released on Friday, boosting liquidity in the world’s second largest economy. New loans extended by...
View ArticlePakistani people will have to decide whether Nawaz should resign: US
WASHINGTON: As the chorus for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation gains momentum, the United States on Thursday said Pakistani people will have to decide whether the premier should resign. “These...
View ArticleAir traffic control officers charged over deadly Taiwan crash
TAIPEI: Taiwan has charged two air traffic control officers with causing a TransAsia plane crash that killed 49 people in 2014, the first prosecutions in the country’s worst air disaster for a decade....
View ArticleLula: Brazil’s embattled working-class hero
SAO PAULO: An ex-metalworker who became one of Brazil’s most popular presidents, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has put his increasingly threatened legacy on the line for his embattled successor. Lula, as...
View ArticleOil trades cautiously ahead of crunch producers’ summit
SINGAPORE: Oil prices rose in Asia Friday after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said it saw the crude supply glut easing by year’s end, but trading was cautious ahead of a crunch producers’...
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