Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Football: Dortmund outclass Tottenham in Europa League
PARIS (AFP) – Brilliant Borussia Dortmund have one foot in the quarter-finals of the Europa League after sweeping aside Tottenham Hotspur with a 3-0 win in their last 16, first leg on Thursday.Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang put the Bundesliga side ahead in the first half and Marco Reus netted twice in the second half at the Signal Iduna Park to...
United, Liverpool renew rivalry in Europa League
PARIS (AFP) – Eternal rivals Manchester United travel to Liverpool in the Europa League last 16, first leg on Thursday in a battle of English footballs two most successful sides.United have won the English title a record 20 times, twice more than Liverpool, but the Reds have the edge abroad, having been crowned European champions on five...
Finland environment nuclear pollution causes emergency
HELSINKI, March 8, 2016 (AFP) – Finnish authorities are investigating a mysterious highly exceptional spike in levels of radioactive caesium-137 detected over Helsinki, officials said Tuesday.Nuclear safety regulator STUK said that while the radioactive surge last week posed no danger to human health, it was keen to get to the bottom of the...
Tennis: Patience pays as Svitolina wins Malaysia Open
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Elina Svitolina shrugged off a dropped first set and lengthy rain delays to defeat Eugenie Bouchard for the Malaysian Open title on Sunday.The win is the fourth WTA title for the Ukrainian world number 19, who won 6-7(5) 6-4, 7-5 over Bouchard, of Canada.The third set was hit by intermittent suspensions of more than two...
Svitolina, Bouchard head to Malaysian Open final
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Second seed Elina Svitolina will square off against sixth seed Eugenie Bouchard in the Malaysian Open final Sunday after both won their semi-final matches in straight sets.Svitolina, ranked 19th in the world, easily dispatched Chinas Lin Zhu 6-3, 6-3 in the first semi-final match which only lasted about an hour on...
NATO commander says Russia, Syria using migrant crisis as weapon
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Top NATO General Philip Breedlove warned US lawmakers Tuesday that Russia is helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turn the refugee crisis into a weapon against the West.The supreme allied commander in Europe for the 28-member military alliance said the massive flow of migrants from war-torn Syria has had a...
High school senior was Ukrainian man, 23, with fake ID
PENNSYLVANIA (AP) – A Pennsylvania high school honors student just months from graduation was actually a 23-year-old Ukrainian national using a false identity after his visa expired, police said Thursday.Artur Samarin, who used the alias Asher Potts, was arrested and charged Tuesday in Harrisburg, the capital city, police said.Samarin is...
Football: Man City beat Liverpool in League Cup final
LONDON (AFP) – Willy Caballero proved an unlikely hero with three penalty saves as Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-1 in a Wembley Stadium shootout on Sunday to win the English League Cup.The game finished 1-1 following extra time, Philippe Coutinho equalising for Liverpool in the 83rd minute after Fernandinho had put City ahead early in...
True grip: Ukrainian pulls five tramcars with his teeth
LVIV (AFP) – All it took was a steel cable and a set of very strong front teeth.A Ukrainian children’s doctor pulled five tramcars over a stretch of 14 metres (46 feet) Friday in a stunt in Lviv aimed at drawing attention to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.The 38-tonne weight was pulled by 34-year-old Oleg Skavysh —...
Climbers make first winter ascent of Nanga parbat
ISLAMABAD (AFP) -Climbers from Pakistan, Spain and Italy have become the first mountaineers to scale Nanga Parbat, Pakistans Killer Mountain and second highest peak after K2, in winter, a mountaineering official said Friday.Alex Txikon (Spain), Ali Sadpara (Pakistan) and Simone Moro (Italy) have reached the top of Nanga Parbat, Karrar Haidri,...
