LOS ANGELES: World welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather will put his undefeated record on the line when he fights Mexican champ Saul โCaneloโ Alvarez on Sept. 14 in Las Vegas. โI chose my opponent for September 14th and itโs Canelo Alvarez,โ the 36-year-old Mayweather tweeted Wednesday night. โIโm giving the fans what they want.โ Mayweather fought May 4 and remained unbeaten with a …
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Britainโs most successful Olympian Hoy retires from cycling
LONDON: Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy, who spearheaded a golden period of British track cycling dominance, announced his retirement Thursday, content he had nothing left to prove after a long and stellar career. Britainโs most successful Olympian, who won two golds at the 2012 London Games to add to three from Beijing four years earlier and his first in Athens in 2004, said the time was …
Read More »Syrian rockets kill man in northeast Lebanon
HERMEL, Lebanon: One man was killed and several people were wounded Sunday when Syrian gunmen slammed rockets into Lebanonโs border village of Qasr in the Hermel region, a Lebanese security source said. Ali Hasan Qataya died after three rockets fired from the Syrian side of the border landed near the mosque in Qasr. Several residents were wounded and rushed to hospitals, the source …
Read More »Everest mountaineer George Lowe dies at 89
LONDON: George Lowe, the last surviving climber from the team that made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 89. Mary Loweย said her husband died Wednesday at a nursing home in Ripley, central England, after an illness. Lowe and his friend Edmund Hillary were the only two New Zealanders on the 1953 …
Read More »Erdogan says comments on Zionism ‘misunderstood’
COPENHAGEN: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published Wednesday that his controversial comments branding Zionism a crime against humanity had been misunderstood. Erdogan, who has often attacked Israeli policies, triggered a storm of protest about his comments on Zionism at a UN forum in Vienna last month. “I understand that my statement in Vienna led to some debate. But no one should misunderstand …
Read More »Phelps throws cold water on comeback report
LOS ANGELES: Olympic swimming great Michael Phelps has thrown cold water on a report that he would come out of retirement with a view to swimming at the 2016 Rio Games. “Why do I keep getting texts about coming back?” Phelps said on Twitter Friday night after a Florida television station reported he planned to return to the pool. Peter Busch of an NBC station in Fort Myers, Florida, …
Read More »Japan PM says Tokyo 2020 will be ‘inspiring’
TOKYO: Prime Ministerย Shinzo Abeย said Mondayย Tokyoย could be an inspiration for other cities if it wins the right to host the 2020 Olympics, after becoming the first place inย Asiaย to get the Games in 1964. Promising his government’s “fullest” support for Tokyo’s new Olympic bid, Abe told inspectors from theย International Olympic Committeeย (IOC) that hosting the Games was his “life-long dream”. “Tokyo, 2020, will …
Read More »Salafists fail to stop ‘Harlem Shake’ in Tunisia
TUNIS: Salafist Muslims tried to prevent the filming of current Internet craze the “Harlem Shake” at a Tunis school on Wednesday, but were driven off after coming to blows with students, an AFP correspondent said. When the dozen or so ultra-conservative Muslims, some of them women in veils, showed up at the Bourguiba Language Institute in the El Khadra neighbourhood, a Salafist bastion, students shouted “Get out, get out!” …
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