LOS ANGELES: Michael Jordan described Tiger Woods’ Masters comeback as the “greatest ever” and added he called the golfing icon to personally congratulate him. “To me it is the greatest comeback I have ever seen,” Jordan told The Athletic. “I never thought he’d get back physically. He didn’t think he’d
PARIS: Pedro Rodriguez starred as Chelsea withstood a spirited Slavia Prague fightback in a wild 4-3 victory to qualify for the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday, while Arsenal knocked out Napoli after an assured display in Italy. Leading 1-0 from last week’s first leg in the Czech capital, Chelsea appeared
NEW DELHI: Voters across India cast ballots yesterday in the second round of the country’s mega elections amid more deadly violence including a poll worker gunned down by Maoist rebels. More than 157 million of India’s 900 million voters are eligible to cast ballots on the second of seven days
LOS ANGELES: An American teenager whose obsession with the Columbine High School massacre set off school closures and a manhunt in the Denver area has been found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said Wednesday. Media reports said 18-year-old Sol Pais’s body was discovered near the base of
LIMA : Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in hospital on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head at his home as police were about to arrest him in a sprawling corruption case. He was 69. The health ministry said Garcia died at 10AM of “a massive cerebral haemorrhage from a
SEOUL: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has supervised the test-firing of a new tactical weapon with a “powerful warhead”, state media reported yesterday, in the first test of its kind since nuclear negotiations with Washington stalled. The test marks a ratcheting up of tensions weeks after a summit between Kim
MONTE CARLO (Principality of Monaco): Rafael Nadal charged out of the blocks Wednesday to hammer Roberto Bautista Agut 6-1, 6-1 in his opening match at the Monte Carlo Masters. The 11-time champion showed no sign of the knee problems which forced him to quit ahead of an Indian Wells semi-final
LOS ANGELES: The Milwaukee Bucks and Houston Rockets cruised towards the NBA playoff conference semi-finals on Wednesday as Kyrie Irving led a late Boston fightback in a dramatic win over Indiana. In Milwaukee, Giannis Antetokounmpo gave a commanding display as the Bucks surged into a 2-0 series lead against the
SYDNEY: A push to sack Israel Folau over his anti-gay comments could pose problems for Rugby Australia and its boss Raelene Castle, with expensive consequences at stake for both sides. The devoutly Christian player has opted to challenge a decision to terminate his multi-year, multi-million-dollar contract with the Wallabies and
BORDEAUX: An Iranian woman, who became the country’s first female boxer to win an international fight, intends to stay in France, her spokesperson said Wednesday, adding an arrest warrant had been issued against her in Iran. Sadaf Khadem and her trainer Mahyar Monshipour are currently in the French city of