LONDON: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (pic) battle for a place in the Wimbledon final on Friday, 11 years after they mesmerised Centre Court in a Grand Slam championship match widely regarded as the greatest ever played. Nadal emerged triumphant that day, winning in five sets in a four-hour 48-minute
SYDNEY: Wallabies fly-half Bernard Foley said yesterday he was leaving NSW Waratahs to head overseas, reportedly joining Quade Cooper and a retiring Will Genia in accepting a lucrative Japanese club contract. Foley, a 68-Test veteran who is part of Australia’s squad for the World Cup in Japan later this year,
SINGAPORE: Growth in export-reliant Singapore suffered a surprise sharp contraction in the second quarter, official data showed yesterday, sending a stark warning that US-China trade tensions are hurting the global economy. The city-state’s gross domestic product shrank an annualised 3.4 percent, sharply down from 3.8 percent growth in the first
BEIJING: China’s Fosun Group is considering nearly a billion dollar rescue of embattled British tour operator Thomas Cook, the Hong Kong-listed conglomerate confirmed yesterday. The Chinese company said in a stock market announcement that there are ‘ongoing advanced discussions’ about a capital injection which would see a debt-for-equity swap at
BEIJING: China’s imports and exports both fell in June, official data showed yesterday, as weak demand at home and abroad hit trade in the world’s second largest economy. Beijing’s tariffs war with its top trading partner country has not helped, with imports from the US down nearly 30 percent in
FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German auto giant Daimler, maker of Mercedes-Benz, yesterday slashed its 2019 profit forecast for the second time in a few weeks, after booking a 1.6-billion-euro ($1.8-billion) operating loss in the second quarter. By comparison, between April and June last year, the Stuttgart-based group chalked up operating profit
BY VANITA SRIVASTAVA India will step up the international space race on Monday when it launches a low-cost mission to become only the fourth country to land a probe on the moon. Just five days before the 50th anniversary of man’s first lunar landing, Chandrayaan-2 — or Moon Chariot 2
NEW DELHI: Indians reacted with shock and dismay on Wednesday after their stunning World Cup exit, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailing the team’s “fighting spirit” and his main rival saying a billion hearts were broken. Near the end of the semi-final against New Zealand, with India still in with
COLMAR (France): Slovakia’s Peter Sagan kept enough strength in reserve in the hills of Alsace to win a reduced bunch sprint for his 12th overall Tour de France stage win on Wednesday. France’s Julian Alaphilippe held onto the leader’s yellow jersey and even had a tilt at the stage win
THESSALONIKI (Greece): Six people died and at least 23 were injured as a fierce storm tore through a beach front in one of Greece’s top tourist areas, terrifying thousands of holidaymakers caught in the open, authorities said yesterday. Six tourists including two children were killed — two each from the
