AUGUSTA: Tiger Woods heads back to Augusta National to resume his pursuit of a 15th major championship with a firmer grip on the realities of his game and fitness than he could claim in his long-awaited Masters return last year. “This year, to be able to ramp up a schedule
PARIS: The gruelling Tour of Flanders on Sunday starts without a clear favourite to etch his name on the second monument of the cycling season. The Ronde is the cruel culmination of Flemish Cycling Week. It is a 266-kilometre slog from Antwerp to Oudenarde over a route that takes in
ITEN: As dawn breaks high in Kenya’s Rift Valley, car headlights pick out groups of elite athletes, mere silhouettes on roadsides as their grinding daily training routine gets under way. Coach Lawrence Saina, himself a sub-2hr 10min marathon runner in his day, oversees nine of his Kenyan proteges, sending them
NEW DELHI: Indian star Ravichandran Ashwin has insisted he has no regrets over his controversial ‘Mankad’ dismissal of England batsman Jos Buttler which sparked a worldwide debate. “You can’t say that Ashwin is a villain,” the Indian all-rounder insisted in his first interview since the storm erupted after he ran
From a modern summer villa with an outdoor pool to a fully equipped film studio or a casino, paper model makers in Taiwan are ensuring the dead enjoy an eternity of luxury. Across the global Chinese diaspora, burning paper offerings has long been seen as a way to send ancestors
LONDON: The British government and the main opposition were to hold further crisis talks yesterday after MPs voted in favour of a Brexit delay that would avoid Britain crashing out of the EU on April 12. With options running out, May switched course and invited Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for
CHRISTCHURCH (New Zealand): The man accused of attacking two mosques in Christchurch last month will face 50 murder charges when he appears in court today, New Zealand police said. Australian Brenton Tarrant was previously charged with one murder as a holding measure, but police said yesterday that all the deaths
PARIS: French authorities are investigating an attack on a transgender woman who was assaulted and jeered at a demonstration in central Paris against Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika that sparked outrage Wednesday among activists and politicians. A video of the incident on Sunday, which has been viewed over 1.5 million times
ADDIS ABABA: The crew of the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last month killing 157 people, repeatedly followed procedures recommended by Boeing, but were unable to regain control of the jet, according the investigators’ report released yesterday. The initial report, unveiled by Ethiopian Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges, cast further doubt
WASHINGTON: A teenager told police that he escaped from captivity on Wednesday and identified himself as a boy who has been missing for seven years, US media reported. The 14-year-old gave his name as Timmothy Pitzen and said he had been held by two men with bodybuilder physiques at a
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