LOS ANGELES: Pascal Siakam banked in the winning shot at the final buzzer as the Toronto Raptors won their eighth consecutive home game with a 111-109 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday. Siakam’s basket, which was upheld by a video review, bounced off the backboard and went in after
SINGAPORE: A former stalwart of Singapore’s long-ruling government and ex-presidential candidate said yesterday he is seeking to form a new party ahead of elections expected as early as this year. Analysts said the move by Tan Cheng Bock, who almost beat the ruling party’s de facto candidate in the 2011
BOGOTA: Colombia’ s government declared three days of mourning after at least 21 people died in a car bomb at a Bogota police cadet training academy, and 68 were wounded – the worst such incident in the city in 16 years. Authorities said they identified the bomber and that he
WASHINGTON: A top North Korean general was paying a rare visit yesterday to Washington, where he is expected to meet President Donald Trump to finalise a new summit aimed at denuclearisation and easing decades of hostility. Kim Yong Chol, a right-hand man to leader Kim Jong Un, is the first
JAIPUR (India): At least 40 people have died and more than 1,000 have tested positive for swine flu since the beginning of this year in a western Indian state popular with foreigners, authorities said yesterday. Last year around 1,100 people died and 15,000 were infected across India by the highly
LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May scrambled to put together a new Brexit strategy after MPs rejected her EU divorce deal, and insisted she could not rule out a potentially damaging “no-deal” split. The world’s fifth-largest economy is in political turmoil and grasping for solutions that could smooth its planned
LOS ANGELES: An enormous great white shark – believed to be one of the biggest on record – has been spotted off the coast of Hawaii by divers who took a swim with the predator. The six-meter female shark – bearing similar markings as “Deep Blue,” the largest great white
TOKYO: A rocket carrying a satellite on a mission to deliver the world’s first artificial meteor shower blasted into space yesterday, Japanese scientists said. A start-up based in Tokyo developed the micro-satellite for the celestial show over Hiroshima early next year as the initial experiment for what it calls a
NEW DELHI: A disgraced religious sect leader was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday for murdering a journalist who exposed rampant sexual abuses by the powerful guru. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who headed the Dera Sacha Sauda sect with millions of followers worldwide, was convicted by the court last week on
SYDNEY: Australia police on Friday arrested a man in relation to the murder of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe, some two days after her body was found in Melbourne. The 21-year-old was killed on the way home from a comedy show in Melbourne just after midnight on Wednesday, with her body
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