(Reuters) – French Alpine skier Nils Allegre celebrated a surprise first World Cup win, and first podium appearance in eight years of trying, after a weather-affected super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday. The 30-year-old’s previous highest placings were two fourths, one of them in a super-G on the German resort’s Kandahar …

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – England vice-captain Ollie Pope’s sublime hundred against India in the opening test has set a benchmark for all touring batsmen on how to bat on the country’s spin-friendly tracks, team mate Joe Root said on Saturday. England conceded a first-innings lead of 190 and risked defeat …

(Reuters) – Juergen Klopp’s shock announcement that this will be his last season as Liverpool manager was hard to take for the players but will spur them on even more for the rest of the season, captain Virgil van Dijk said on Saturday. Klopp has been in charge at Anfield …

DOHA (Reuters) – The Asian Cup enters the business end when the last-16 round kicks off on Sunday, with some shock results in the group stages leaving a few of the continent’s heavyweights facing an uphill task if they are to make it all the way to the final. Juergen …

KUALA LUMPUR: The fighting spirit of the Harimau Malaya players who fought hard in the last Group E match against South Korea, despite realising that the chance to progress to the next stage had long been buried, deserves praise. But the same praise must be given to a fan of …

KLANG: Scammers are starting to target animal welfare organisations, and the first victims include the Paws Animal Welfare Society, Second Chance Animal Society, and Hope Johor. This has led to two of the bank accounts linked to Paws being frozen. Shelter manager Edward Lim said that the scammers’ modus operandi …

REMBAU: Malaysia will present its oral submission at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, regarding Israel’s atrocities against Palestine on Feb 22, says the Foreign Minister. Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said Malaysia supported the case brought by South Africa against Israel under the 1948 Genocide Convention, …

MELAKA: The enhancement of entrepreneurship skills among youth will be a focal point of newly-elected Junior Chamber International Malacca City Entrepreneur (JCI MCE) president Gregory Ng. “I will dedicate my efforts to organise entrepreneur enhancement programmes for youths and children and ensure JCI MCE’s outreach and impact to serve the …

DOHA (Reuters) – Australia may have the easiest Asian Cup last 16 game on paper when they take on Indonesia, who scraped through to the knockout stages, but coach Graham Arnold said on Saturday that the south-east Asian team would be a hard nut to crack. Indonesia were the last …

KOTA KINABALU: There is a need to implement the long-delayed registration of unregistered foreign workers, undocumented foreigners and those possessing various refugee documents in Sabah, says social activist Dr Chong Eng Leong. Dr Chong, a well-known Sabah surgeon, recommended that the state and federal governments implement the registration following the …