Section: Daily News & Analysis (India)
Shanghai Masters: Rafael Nadal crushes Fabio Fognini, Roger Federer joins him in quarters
Rafael Nadal continued to scythe his way through the Shanghai Masters on Thursday, reaching the quarter-finals with a 6-3 6-1 thrashing of temperamental Italian Fabio Fognini. The Spaniard needed two minutes over the hour to dispatch Fognini, taking his winning streak to 14 matches since the start of the US Open where he claimed a 16th grand slam...
Europa League wrap: Olivier Giroud nets 100th goal in Arsenal win, Everton held at home
Arsenal led a list of nine clubs who grabbed a second win in as many games in the Europa League group phase as France striker Olivier Giroud scored his 100th goal for the club in a 4-2 win at BATE Borisov on Thursday. AC Milan, Braga, Dynamo Kiev, Lazio, Nice, Ostersund, Steaua Bucharest and Zenit St Petersburg also won again to add to their...
Snatchers target scribe in Mayur Vihar
A recent spate of snatching incidents in the Capital have left Delhiites worried. After Ukrainian Ambassador to India, Dr Igor Polikha’s phone was snatched on Wednesday while taking a selfie near Red Fort on Wednesday, a journalist was attacked by two-wheeler borne snatchers near a police residential building in Mayur Vihar on Friday. The...
Cincinnati Open: Rafael Nadal cruises, Rogers Cup champ Alexander Zverev stunned in first round
Rafael Nadal cruised to victory in his first match since clinching a return to world number one while Alexander Zverev’s 10-match win streak was halted at the WTA and ATP Cincinnati Masters. Nadal, a 15-time Grand Slam champion who captured his 10th French Open crown in June, defeated Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-4, improving to 15-0 in ATP...
After Trump’s rhetoric, Mattis and Tillerson soften tone against North Korea
Tension on the Korean peninsula eased slightly on Monday as South Korea’s president said resolving North Korea’s nuclear ambitions must be done peacefully and U.S. officials played down the risk of an imminent war. Concern that North Korea is close to achieving its goal of putting the mainland United States within range of a nuclear...
Competition over mammoth meat may have wiped out Neanderthals
Neanderthals may have been wiped out due a direct competition with early humans for meat, say scientists who found that for both species mammoths were the primary source of meat. Scientists studied the diet of anatomically modern humans and were able to refute the theory that the diet of early representatives of Homo sapiens was more flexible...
Donald Trump signs Russia sanctions bill into law
US President Donald Trump has signed legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia into law, a White House official said on Wednesday. The US Congress voted last week by overwhelming margins for sanctions to punish the Russian government over interference in the 2016 presidential election, annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea and other perceived...
Trump in a tough spot after US Senate slaps new sanctions on Russia
The US Senate voted almost unanimously on Thursday to slap new sanctions on Russia, putting President Donald Trump in a tough position by forcing him to take a hard line on Moscow or veto the legislation and infuriate his own Republican Party. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has repeatedly denied the conclusions of U.S. intelligence...
Damneet Singh wins silver in World U-18 Athletics
Damneet Singh grabbed a silver in boys’ hammer throw event to give India their first medal on the third day of the IAAF World U-18 Athletics Championships in Nairobi on Friday. Damneet sent the 5kg chain and iron ball to a best distance of 74.20m, which he came up in his first attempt. This was his personal best effort. Mykhaylo Kokhan of...
Wimbledon: Venus uses experience to beat teenager, will meet French Open champ Jelena Ostapenko in QF
Experience triumphed over youth on Wimbledon’s Centre Court on Monday as Venus Williams downed Croatian teenager Ana Konjuh 6-3 6-2 in a fourth-round battle of the baseliners. Facing each other across the net for the first time, the oldest and youngest players left in the singles draw slugged it out in a quickfire contest that was littered...
