AMMAN: Eight people, including four tourists, were wounded in a knife attack on Wednesday at the famed archaeological site of Jerash in northern Jordan, a security spokesman told AFP. Four tourists — three Mexicans and a Swiss woman — were wounded, along with a Jordanian tour guide and a security
SEOUL: South Korea said yesterday it expelled two North Korean men after learning they murdered 16 crew members on their fishing boat before fleeing to the South. The pair, both in their 20s, were questioned by South Korean authorities after being found on Saturday near the maritime border in the
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
