PERTH (Australia): World number one Ashleigh Barty has enjoyed a career-changing season and is “extremely hungry” to end it on a high by steering Australia to their first Fed Cup in 45 years. The seven-time champions have not tasted success in the tournament since the days of Evonne Goolagong in
MELBOURNE: Ernie Els opted yesterday for the experience of Jason Day and Adam Hadwin alongside rookies Im Sung-jae and Joaquin Niemann as he made his Internationals Team Presidents Cup captain’s picks to face Tiger Woods’s Team USA next month. The Internationals will tee off at Australia’s Royal Melbourne from December
JOHANNESBURG: Springbok legend Tendai ‘The Beast’ Mtawarira announced Wednesday his retirement from international rugby, four days after helping South Africa win the Rugby World Cup. It was his third appearance at the global showpiece and after quarter-final (2011) and semi-final (2015) losses, he achieved his greatest ambition in Japan last
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s auction of drilling rights to four deep-sea oil fields raised a disappointing $17 billion on Wednesday, officials said, well short of expectations for the highly-anticipated mega sale. The government had hoped to collect more than $26 billion from the auction of so-called pre-salt reserves trapped beneath
TOKYO: Japanese giant SoftBank Group said yesterday it suffered an operating loss of $6.4 billion in the second quarter, the worst in its history, as it took a hit from investments in start-ups including WeWork and Uber. The eye-watering results follow a turbulent period for the firm and led CEO
KUALA LUMPUR: MARA Corporation has strongly defended the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it signed with Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd for collaboration on several projects, including attracting downstream industries and downstream customers to Malaysia. MARA Corporation chairman Akramsyah Muammar Ubaidah Sanusi said contrary to news report that the MoU was signed
BY GREGORY WALTON & ANNE LEVASSEUR The cows of Qatar’s Baladna farm, housed in climate-controlled farms in the desert, exemplify the lengths to which Qatar has gone to resist what it calls an economic ‘blockade’ enforced by its Saudi-led neighbours. When the boycott began in June 2017, Qatar responded with
Workplace romances are fairly common, but they are becoming more regulated in the United States amid the #MeToo movement. US companies, particularly the larger ones, have had codes of conduct for their employees for years, and more firms have been adopting them recently. At McDonald’s, for example, “employees who have
PARIS: Novak Djokovic beat Grigor Dimitrov on Saturday to set up a Paris Masters final against Canadian youngster Denis Shapovalov, as Rafael Nadal withdrew from the tournament with an abdominal injury. Top seed Djokovic saw off Dimitrov 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 in the last four before Nadal, his rival for the
AUSTIN: Lewis Hamilton’s hopes of clinching his sixth drivers’ world championship with a stylish American triumph were rocked on Saturday when his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas grabbed a surprise pole position at the United States Grand Prix. Bottas, the only man who can delay Hamilton’s celebrations, kept alive his own