SYDNEY: Former Sri Lankan Test batsman Chandika Hathurusinghe has been appointed as the new coach of the Sydney Thunder in Australia's Big Bash League, the team said on Thursday.The former opener, who played 26 Tests for Sri Lanka, takes over from Sh...
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Batan Islands region in the northern Philippines in the early hours of Thursday, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake hit at 4.20am (2020 GMT) at a depth of 15.9 kilometres (9.9 miles). No tsunami war...
DA NANG: Vietnam has unveiled a new steel bridge shaped like a dragon that literally shoots fire from its mouth. The 1,864-foot long bridge is designed with steel arches that serve as the body of the dragon, which is modeled after one from the Ly Dyn...
NEW YORK: A letter the British scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA wrote to his son announcing the news sold Wednesday for a record sum of just over $6 million, Christie's said. Elizabeth Van Bergen, a spokeswoman for the auction house i...
NEW YORK: If Dr Karl Deisseroth were an architect, he might be replacing stone or brick walls with floor-to-ceiling glass to build transparent houses. But since he is a neuroscientist at Stanford University, he has done the biological equivalent: inv...
MOHALI: A masterful innings by Mike Hussey gave Chennai Super Kings their first victory of IPL 6 as they demolished Kings XI Punjab by 10 wickets at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on Wednesday. Hussey, who made an unbeaten 86 off 54 balls, once again show...
LAHORE: Pakistan Wednesday launched a hunt for fast bowlers to overcome a shortage of quality pacemen in the country once known for its production line of quicks.Under the "King of Speed" programme, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will seek out bowl...
TEHRAN: Rescuers Wednesday wound up operations after pulling 20 people from the rubble of an earthquake that struck near the port city of Bushehr, killing 37 people but sparing Iran's sole nuclear power plant. "With the rescue operation being wrapped...
MUMBAI: No one would have imagined Mumbai will go past the 200-run mark after they lost Ricky Ponting (0) and Sachin Tendulkar (1) in the first couple of overs. The former was caught and the latter run-out — both by Mahela Jayawardene before Dinesh K...
DUBAI: Bahrain has been rounding up pro-democracy activists ahead of its controversial staging of the April 21 Formula One Grand Prix two years after a bloody crackdown, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. Plainclothes police officers have arrested...
DORTMUND: Borussia Dortmund scored twice in added time to seal a dramatic 3-2 quarter-final, second-leg win at home to Malaga on Tuesday to reach the last four of the Champions League. With Malaga leading 2-1 in the dying stages, Dortmund's Marco Reu...
LONDON: Players found guilty of racial abuse will face minimum suspensions of 10 matches, under plans laid out by UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino on Wednesday. Infantino also said racist offences would trigger partial stadium closures in the ...
MOHALI: The Kings XI Punjab will face the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League on Wednesday. The match will be broadcast live on Geo Super at 7:30 PM (PST). The Kings XI won their first match of the IPL, while the Super Kings faced defeat...
ISTANBUL: Real Madrid withstood a second-half onslaught from Galatasaray to qualify for their third successive Champions League semi-final 5-3 on aggregate, despite losing 3-2 on the night. Already leading 3-0 from the first-leg last week, it took Lo...
LONDON: Chelsea can take a step closer to becoming only the fourth side to win all three of UEFA's major club competitions by cementing a place in the Europa League semi-finals when they travel to Rubin Kazan on Thursday. Only Juventus, Ajax and Baye...
LONDON: It started as the work of a former cricketer looking to secure an income in his retirement and was priced at a modest one shilling.By contrast, Wednesday saw the publication of the 150th edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, with the hardba...
PARIS : It's been frozen, baked, suffocated and sprayed with toxins... and each time the bedbug bounces back, leaving tiny bite marks on legs or arms where it takes a blood meal. But thanks to an unusual combination of Balkan folklore and nanoscale s...
BAMAKO/PARIS: Malian authorities will give French President Francois Hollande another camel after the one they gave him in thanks for helping repel Islamist rebels was killed and eaten by the family he left it with in Timbuktu, an official in Mali sa...
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan today conducted a successful launch of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Hatf IV Shaheen-1 Weapon System, said a handout issued by the Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR). The missile incorporates series of improv...
LONDON: "Ding Dong! The witch is dead", as sung by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, on Tuesday raced to the top of the Amazon download chart in Britain, a day after the death of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Another version sung by jazz l...
Why Afghanistan is nervous about the US troop withdrawal
By December 2014 the Afghan National Security Forces that have been b...
Lion of Kabul recruited for 'clean and green' campaign
Kabul: Once known as a city of gardens and abundant fruits, Kabul is ...
Fearing Afghanistan instability, Russia mulls border troops
KABUL: Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw f...
Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights
The Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women has been in effect si...
Flying with the Afghan Air Force
It will take nearly five years for the Afghan Air Force to become full...
Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
President Barack Obama trimmed his funding request for the war in Afg...
Dr. Cornel West Calls President Obama a War Criminal
Cornel West: 'They say I'm un-American' The American academic and f...
Afghan Taliban Fighters Turn on Pakistan
“The true face of our enemy has now been revealed,” says one commander...
