WASHINGTON: The US economy got off to a roaring start in 2019, breezing past President Donald Trump’s extended government shutdown and wiping away fears of a slowdown in growth, at least for now, the government reported Friday. The unexpected surge was welcome news for Trump, whose record five-week shutdown of
LONDON: Athletics icons Mo Farah and Haile Gebrselassie are locked in an escalating dispute just days away from the London Marathon with claims of robbery and an alleged assault at the heart of the row. Britain’s quadruple Olympic champion Farah, aiming to win Sunday’s race, went public at his pre-marathon
LOS ANGELES:The San Antonio Spurs weren’t about to go quietly in their first round series with the Denver Nuggets, delivering a dominating 120-103 win on Thursday to force a winner-take all game seven. The Spurs kept their postseason alive by shooting and rebounding their way to victory in game six
BOSTON: John Havlicek, a Hall of Famer and the Boston Celtics’ all-time leading scorer, died Thursday in Florida. He was 79. Havlicek spent all 16 seasons of his NBA career with the Celtics, won eight NBA titles and was selected to the all-star team 13 times. He had been suffering
CHRISTCHURCH: George Bridge returned from a four-week injury lay-off to bag two tries as the Canterbury Crusaders strengthened their lead in the Super rugby competition with a 36-10 victory over the Lions in Christchurch on Friday. In a rematch of the last two championship finals, the defending titleholders outscored the
LOS ANGELES: Stacy Lewis fired a six-under 65 on Thursday for a share of the lead with Hannah Green after the first round of the USLPGA Tour’s Los Angeles Open on Thursday. The 34-year-old American birdied four of her last six holes in the bogey-free round at Wilshire Country Club.
PARIS: Atalanta reached their first Coppa Italia final since 1996 as Josip Ilicic and Alejandro Gomez scored in a 2-1 victory over six-time winners Fiorentina on Thursday. Their three away goals in the first leg which finished 3-3 in Florence, as well as the two efforts at home, were enough
VLADIVOSTOK (Russia): Kim Jong Un has accused the US of acting in “bad faith” in talks on its nuclear arsenal, North Korean state media said yesterday as he left Russia following his first summit with President Vladimir Putin. Kim’s armoured train departed the Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok a
TAIPEI (Taiwan): Taiwan’s wealthiest man Terry Gou has sparked criticism after he was quoted dismissing his wife’s opposition to his recently announced presidential bid by saying “the harem should not meddle in politics”. Gou, the head of tech giant Foxconn, made a surprise announcement last week that he plans to
WASHINGTON (United States): North Korea demanded that the United States pay a $2 million medical bill for US student Otto Warmbier, who went into a coma after allegedly being tortured in the totalitarian country, a report said Thursday. The Washington Post quoted unidentified sources as saying that a US official