LONDON: Bradley Wiggins plans to become a social worker as the former Tour de France winner moves onto a new life after his remarkable cycling career. Wiggins was the first Briton to win the Tour de France in 2012 and he followed that memorable success by taking an Olympic time
NEW YORK: United States captain Juli Inkster named Morgan Pressel and Stacy Lewis as her wild card picks for the Solheim Cup on Monday, opting for experience as the Americans aim to defend their title against Europe at Gleneagles next month. Pressel, 31, and Lewis 34, boast a combined 35
MIAMI: World number one Brooks Koepka was named PGA of America Player of the Year for a second straight year on Monday. Koepka, who successfully defended his PGA Championship crown this year, edged out Rory McIlroy for the honour despite the Northern Ireland star’s win in the PGA Tour Championship
SRINAGAR (India): Stonethrowing protesters in Indian Kashmir killed a driver of what they thought was a military truck, police said yesterday, as a crippling security lock down entered its fourth week. The fatality came ahead of talks between Narendra Modi and Donald Trump at the G7 in France when the
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they made landfall in the United States, Axios reported Sunday. During a hurricane briefing, Trump asked if it were possible to disrupt hurricanes forming off the coast of Africa by dropping a nuclear bomb in the eye of
KABUL/PESHAWAR (Pakistan): As US and Taliban negotiators push to wrap up talks aimed at securing the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, Taliban sources say a pact will not mean an end to fighting with the US-backed Afghan government. US and Taliban officials have been negotiating in Qatar since last
LONDON: Britain’s Prince Andrew insisted on Saturday that “at no stage” during his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein did he “witness…any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest”. The prince, Queen Elizabeth II’s second son, is under heavy fire over his relationship with the disgraced US
METZ (France): More than 180 pigs were killed when a lorry that was transporting them to the slaughterhouse overturned at the weekend in north-eastern France, rescuers said yesterday. “A heavy goods vehicle (HGV) which was transporting 205 pigs overturned” at a roundabout in Etain, about 50 kilometres from the city
KHARTOUM (Sudan): Sudan activated a state of emergency Sunday in an eastern state and ordered a probe into deadly tribal violence that has rocked the region for days, authorities said. Clashes have raged since Wednesday between the tribes of Bani Amer and Nuba in Port Sudan, the capital of the
THE HAGUE: Nearly 100 international companies have moved to the Netherlands and 325 more are interested owing to uncertainty over Britain’s exit from the EU, Dutch officials said yesterday. British businesses are showing major interest but firms from North America, Asia and Australia are also eyeing a shift to the
