DUBAI: Pakistan´s spinners scythed through Australia´s top order in the second innings to get them close to victory in the first Test after twin centuries from Younus Khan and youngster Ahmad Shehzad helped the hosts set an improbable target. Left-arm … read more
DUBAI: Australia got off to a solid start after wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed´s brilliant hundred guided Pakistan to a big first innings total of 454 in the first Test in Dubai on Thursday. Opener David Warner smashed a quickfire 75 and … read more
MURSITPINAR: US-led air strikes in Syria were reported Thursday to have killed more than 500 militants in a month, as fighting raged in the embattled border town of Kobane. An AFP correspondent across the frontier in Turkey reported fierce clashes … read more
PARIS: Some 458 million years ago, Earth was whacked in a double asteroid strike, leaving craters visible in Sweden today, space scientists reported on Thursday. The event, they said, can be traced to “one of the largest cosmic catastrophes” in … read more
GENEVA: Ebola remains a global emergency, the World Health Organization said Thursday, flagging grave concerns over hard-hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. “The situation in these countries remains of great concern,” the UN agency said after a session of its … read more