MONTREAL: Anett Kontaveit spoiled Maria Sharapova’s return from injury Monday, rallying to beat the five-time Grand Slam champion 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the WTA tournament in Toronto. Sharapova, competing for the first time since retiring from her first-round match at Wimbledon, appeared to be on course for just a fourth
MONTREAL: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Lucas Pouille led a French exodus in the Montreal Masters opening round on Monday. Tsonga, the 2014 champion in Toronto, slumped to a heavy 6-2, 6-2 defeat by German Jan-Lennard Struff while Pouille, with coach Amelie Mauresmo looking on, lost to Canada’s Milos Raonic 6-4, 6-4.
BEIJING: China’s central bank said yesterday it is ‘resolutely opposed’ to the United States labelling Beijing a currency manipulator a day after it let the yuan weaken significantly against the dollar. China’s central bank steadied the yuan yesterday, but stock markets continued to fall. The US Treasury Department on Monday
Efforts to take down the 8chan website where a racist “manifesto” was posted shortly before the El Paso shooting highlight the legal and ethical difficulties in curbing online hate speech that foments violence. The digital security firm Cloudflare said Sunday it was terminating its services to 8chan, making it more
Armed with assault rifles and clad in combat gear, two white men methodically gunned down nearly 30 people over the weekend, underscoring fears that “white terrorism” is now the main threat in the United States. Amid rising grief and a clamor for action, politicians of both parties called for the
EVERY summer thousands of locals and tourists flock to an improvised mud-and-lye spa on the edge of an open-air salt factory near the Black Sea city of Burgas. Apart from its cooling effects, people also believe there are health benefits from spending time in the basins of pinkish lye water
A new so-called ‘selfie museum’ in Budapest that lets visitors pose by pink palm trees and frolic in multicoloured sprinkle baths has proved a hit with social-media savvy locals and tourists alike. With almost 30,000 visitors since it opened last December, the ‘Selfie Museum’, billed as the first of its
WASHINGTON: With its latest financial results, Apple is showing it can move beyond the iPhone with gadgets and services that can help the California tech giant weather the slumping smartphone market. In the just-ended quarter, Apple took in less than half its revenue from the iPhone, the long-time cash and
NEW YORK: With its main rival hobbled by the worldwide grounding of a top-selling jet, Europe’s Airbus could seem poised to emerge as the undisputed global aerospace leader. Airbus has overtaken the American giant Boeing in some key benchmarks in 2019. And the company is now better positioned to move
NEW YORK: Even before the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes claimed 346 lives, Boeing flight tests had revealed problems similar to those encountered by pilots on the ill-fated 737 MAX flights. Company officials learned that its MCAS anti-stall system — which is at the centre of both accidents —
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