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BEIRUT: A rocket was fired from south Lebanon towards Israel on Sunday, Lebanese security sources said, and residents of a northern Israeli town reported hearing a blast. “An explosion was heard. Soldiers are searching the area. The cause is still being investigated,” an Israeli military spokeswoman said. A second Israeli military source said the explosion was probably caused by a mortar. The incident came …

LONDON: Carl Froch enjoyed sweet revenge by unanimously out-pointing Mikkel Kessler in an epic world super-middleweight title unification fight Saturday. The English boxer avenged a 2010 points defeat to the Dane after a disciplined display behind his jab earned scores of 118-110, 116-112 and 115-113 in front of 18,000 fans at the O2 Arena in London. But Froch, who maintained his piston-like jab through …

MANCHESTER: After spending nearly a year away from the baize, Ronnie O’Sullivan predicted “car crash” TV as he launched the defense of his world snooker title. In the end, his journey to recapturing the game’s biggest prize couldn’t have been smoother. O’Sullivan, snooker’s most talented and controversial player, won the world championship Monday for the fifth time, defending his title …

LOS ANGELES: World welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather will put his undefeated record on the line when he fights Mexican champ Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on Sept. 14 in Las Vegas. “I chose my opponent for September 14th and it’s Canelo Alvarez,” the 36-year-old Mayweather tweeted Wednesday night. “I’m giving the fans what they want.” Mayweather fought May 4 and remained unbeaten with a …

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. Britain’s 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 …

HERMEL, Lebanon: One man was killed and several people were wounded Sunday when Syrian gunmen slammed rockets into Lebanon’s 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 …

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 Lowe 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 …

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 …