MIAMI: Roger Federer admits he faces a real battle to land the 101st title of his career with the in-form Daniil Medvedev next up after Serbian Filip Krajinovic was dispatched 7-5 6-3 on Monday at the ATP and WTA Miami Open. The Swiss superstar produced an excellent all-round performance despite
SEOUL: A Seoul university professor forced students to write her daughter’s thesis to gain entry to an elite dental school, a government report revealed Tuesday, the latest scandal to hit South Korea’s hyper-competitive education system. The professor, who teaches at Seoul’s Sungkyunkwan University, made her graduate students conduct a three-month
LOS ANGELES: Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor said Monday he had retired from the sport, vowing to hang up his gloves for the second time in three years. The trash-talking Irish star of the Ultimate Fighting Championship wrote on Twitter that he had decided to call time on his
TORONTO: A woman who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed US global surveillance programmes arrived Monday in Canada with her daughter, where they were granted asylum. “Now me and Keana are permanent residents in Canada. Now we are safe and free. I’m so grateful,” Vanessa
SYDNEY: Australia warned social media giants Tuesday that executives could be jailed if they fail to quickly remove extremist material from their platforms. Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with a number of tech firms Tuesday – including Facebook, Twitter and Google – to ask how they planned to keep their
CALELLA (Spain): Belgian Lotto-Soudal rider Thomas de Gendt completed a long range solo break through the mountains to win the Tour of Catalonia’s opening stage on Monday ahead of an all star cast of contenders. In glorious spring sunshine De Gendt finished a 164km route in 4hrs 14mins and 32sec
LONDON: The new Formula One season is under way but the action on the track is being overshadowed by concerns over the implications of Brexit, with so many teams calling Britain home. Seven of the 10 F1 teams are based in Britain and there are nine European races this season,
Singing and laughter briefly drown out the roar of cars under a Jakarta flyover, where an unlikely library for kids is thriving despite choking fumes — and opposition from menacing gangsters. There’s no quiet rule at this open-air reading park wedged between two lanes of traffic just outside Indonesia’s capital,
Google on Tuesday unveiled a streaming platform called Stadia that allows video game play on any internet-connected device, eliminating the need for games consoles. The tech platform, announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, aims to connect more people to participate in interactive play on PCs, tablets, smartphones
ANKARA: Turkey’s central bank yesterday vowed to use all the tools at its disposal to “maintain price stability” after a slide in the lira last week amid investor concerns over domestic monetary policy. The lira lost around 5.2 percent in value against the greenback on Friday, its worst day since
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