BARCELONA: Rafael Nadal said on Monday he won’t waste time dwelling on his weekend Monte Carlo semi-final loss but instead will concentrate on bouncing back at the Barcelona Open. “What has happened has happened, whatever the reasons are,” the 11-time Barcelona champion said after a promotional appearance at a mini-tennis
LOS ANGELES: The Milwaukee Bucks wiped away 18 years of frustration on Monday by beating the Detroit Pistons 127-104 to complete a four-game sweep of their first round Eastern Conference playoff series. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 41 points as the Bucks reached the second round of the postseason for the first
LONDON: Snooker great Ronnie O’Sullivan fell behind to James Cahill in the first round of the World Championship on Monday as the amateur threatened one of the great upsets in the sport’s history. Cahill, the first amateur to play in the tournament, led five- times world champion O’Sullivan 5-4 at
MIAMI: Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard, who ousted Tiger Woods from last month’s WGC Match Play Championship, has earned special US PGA Tour membership for the remainder of the 2018-19 campaign, the tour announced Monday. Bjerregaard, 44th in this week’s world rankings, joins England’s Matthew Fitzpatrick, ranked 33rd this week, in the
LONDON: Willie Mullins finally won the Irish Grand National as 6/1 favourite Burrows Saint led home a sweep of the first three for the veteran trainer at Fairyhouse, near Dublin, on Monday. Isleofhopendreams once again finished second, Acapella Bourgeois, also trained by Mullins, finished third. Monday’s result also gave jockey
ROME: Britain’s Tao Geoghegan Hart claimed the first senior victory of his career by winning the opening stage of the Tour of the Alps on Monday, while Chris Froome finished sixth. The 24-year-old Geoghegan Hart edged out Alexander Aranburu of Spain and Switzerland’s Roland Thalmann at the end of the
WASHINGTON: Houston will host the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, the first staged outside Europe or Asia since 1939, with Chengdu, China to follow in 2022, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) announced on Monday. Houston will become the first United States city to host the event, beating out Agadir,
Measuring melting ice is a fairly precise business in 2019 — thanks to satellites, weather stations and sophisticated climate models. By the 1990s and 2000s, scientists were able to make pretty good estimates, although work from previous decades was unreliable due to less advanced technology. Now, researchers have recalculated the
A giant lion with enormous fangs that roamed the Kenyan savannah more than 20 million years ago was one of the largest ever meat-eating mammals, researchers said Thursday. A team unearthed the lower jaw, teeth and other bones of a new species, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika — Swahili for “big African lion”.
In the beginning, more than 13 billion years ago, the Universe was an undifferentiated soup of three simple, single-atom elements. Stars would not form for another 100 million years. But within 100,000 years of the Big Bang, the very first molecule emerged, an improbable marriage of helium and hydrogen known