WASHINGTON: Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray said on Friday he will return to singles competition next week at the ATP Cincinnati Masters, seven months after having right hip surgery he feared might end his career. The British star posted a photo of himself on his Facebook page on court
SHANGHAI: At least 13 people were killed and 16 others missing as Typhoon Lekima lashed eastern China yesterday, downing thousands of trees and forcing more than a million people from their homes. Waves several metres high hit the coastline as the storm made landfall in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai.
HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy activists kept up the pressure on authorities with a colourful “family rally” and a sit-in at the city’s airport yesterday, as protests enter a third month. There was little sign of a softening in the position of the financial hub’s chief executive, who ruled out
WASHINGTON: A 20-year-old man armed with an assault rifle has been arrested at a Walmart store in the mid western US state of Missouri and charged with making a “terrorist threat”, police said. Dmitriy Andreychenko, who was wearing body armour and fatigues, was detained by an armed off-duty firefighter who
SEOUL: North Korea conducted the latest in a series of missile launches yesterday to protest US-South Korean war games, just hours after US President Donald Trump expressed his own frustration with the exercises. Defence officials in Seoul said what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles were fired at daybreak
SRINAGAR (India): Big queues formed in Kashmir’s main city yesterday outside cash machines and food stores as Indian authorities eased a crippling curfew to let the Himalayan region prepare for a major Muslim festival, residents said. But huge numbers of troops remained on the streets a day after security forces
STOCKHOLM: An explosion rocked a Copenhagen police station in the early hours yesterday, causing damage but no injuries just days after a similar blast at the national tax agency. The glass entrance doors were shattered and debris was scattered on the ground outside, images showed. The cause of the explosion
BEIRUT: Hundreds of Lebanese gathered Friday in Beirut for a protest concert in solidarity with a home-grown band being cancelled from a top music festival over alleged blasphemy. Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead singer is gay and whose Arabic lyrics tackle a range of taboo topics, were supposed to play in
LONDON: Nearly one million people were affected by a major power outage for several hours across areas of England and Wales on Friday, including parts of London, causing rush-hour transportation chaos. Problems with two generators caused the massive electricity cut, the National Grid said. “This evening we had an unexpected
MONTREAL: Canadian manufacturing group Bombardier has announced it had signed a multi-billion dollar agreement to build two automated monorail lines in Egypt’s notoriously congested capital Cairo. The $4.5 billion agreement, which was signed with Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels, is subject to “final signatures of supplementary documents,” Bombadier and its