Mohammad assures ambassadors full support
Abu Dhabi: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday received the credentials of several foreign ambassadors to…
Cricket World Cup 2019: Children want to emulate Tahir’s run, Faf du Plessis says
Manchester: The retirement of any cricketer, or a top flight sportsperson, is always an emotional affair. South Africa’s Imran Tahir and J.P. Duminy played the last One Day International matches…
Wimbledon: Federer, Nadal, Djokovic star on ‘Manic Monday’
London: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, with 14 Wimbledon titles between them, dominate ‘Manic Monday’ at the All England Club with the ‘Big Three’ still standing while weary…
Changing focus on suicide attempts
It’s hard to quantify the number of people in the UAE who attempt to ease the pain of their lives by trying to end it all in a suicide attempt.###Certainly,…
Even poop is cute at Japanese museum that encourages play
Yokohama: Japan's culture of cute makes no exceptions for poop. It gets a pop twist at the Unko Museum in Yokohama near Tokyo.###Here, the poop is artificial, nothing like what…
Dubai housemaid on trial for stabbing man
Dubai: A housemaid is on trial in the Dubai Court of First Instance for stabbing a man in the chest.###The 25-year-old Ethiopian woman allegedly stabbed the Sudanese man because he…
Cricket World Cup 2019: A Reporter’s Diary — Retirement talks fill the air as World Cup nears its end
- K.R. Nayar, Chief Cricket Writer, Gulf News######Saturday, July 6###Leeds: It had been a hat-trick of match reporting for me over the past three days.###After I had reported the Afghanistan-West…
Copa America: Brazil wary of Guerrero threat in final against Peru
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil will be looking to maintain their defensive invincibility against Peru in Sunday’s Copa America final, midfielder Casemiro says.###The hosts have yet to concede a goal in…
Sharma-Rahul centuries trounce Sri Lanka
Leeds: India ended their last of the round-robin matches in a glorious manner through opener Rohit Sharma’s record-breaking feat of five centuries in a single World Cup to trounce Sri…
Boeing 737 Max’s autopilot has problem, European regulators find
Seattle: Europe’s aviation regulator has outlined five major requirements it wants Boeing Co. to address before it will allow the planemaker’s 737 Max to return to service, according to a…
Powerboating: Weather torments Grand Prix of France
Dubai: Qualifying for the F1 Powerboating Grand Prix of France was pushed to later on Saturday after race organisers decided prevailing weather conditions in Evian were a deterrent for the…
Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik confirms ODI retirement after World Cup exit
LONDON: Pakistan batsman Shoaib Malik confirmed his retirement from one-day cricket without making a farewell appearance in his side's victory over Bangladesh on Friday.###Malik had admitted last year that he…