Swimming-Smith sets backstroke world record at US Olympic Trials
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) -Regan Smith set the 100m backstroke world record at the U.S. Olympic trials in Indianapolis on Tuesday, touching…
Swimming-Ledecky fired up for Olympic relay team with teenager Gemmell
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Katie Ledecky said she is thrilled to lead a U.S. relay team at the Paris Games that…
Swimming-Smith conquers self-doubt to regain backstroke world record
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Regan Smith was so riddled with self-doubt the American thought her days of breaking backstroke records were…
Cricket-England’s Topley ready for death-overs bowling duties
(Reuters) - Reece Topley assumed new ball duties on his return to the England side after missing the first two…
Cricket-India’s Suryakumar happy to temper aggression on slow tracks
(Reuters) - Suryakumar Yadav has proved time and again the kind of havoc he can wreak with the bat but…
Heavy floods, landslides kill at least nine
THE south reeled from heavy rains that triggered landslides that killed at least nine people, knocking out power for entire…
Step up in rare earth race
Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited a lithium processing plant in resource-rich Western Australia state yesterday, highlighting China’s push to secure…
Priyanka Gandhi to make electoral debut in by-election
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, will make her electoral debut in a constituency recently won…
FBM KLCI to continue consolidation, oil and gold counters rally
KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI could be seeing further consolidation above the 1,600 psychological level in the absence of fresh…