TOKYO: Argentina’s players hugged each other and cried after reaching the women’s hockey final at the Tokyo Olympics with a 2-1 win over India on Wednesday. Argentina will face the Netherlands in Friday’s final, while India will battle Britain for bronze. Argentina suffered an early setback, conceding a second-minute goal when India’s Gurjit Kaur flicked the ball into the goal …

CHIBA: Ukraine’s Zhan Beleniuk went one step further than his silver medal in 2016 by winning the Greco-Roman middleweight gold at the Tokyo Olympics by beating Hungary’s Viktor Lorincz in the final on Wednesday. Beleniuk, a twice world champion and Ukraine’s first Black member of parliament elected in 2019, was in control throughout. At 1-1 in the second period, he …

TOKYO: Lasha Talak­hadze pumped everyone up with three world records on the final day of Olympic competition in weightlifting. The defending champion from Georgia lifted 223kg in the snatch and 265kg in the clean and jerk for a total 488kg on Wednesday. All three figures broke his own world records in the over-109kg men’s superheavyweight category. Ali Davoudi of Iran …

TOKYO: The Tokyo Games keep producing some of the fastest moments the world has ever seen on the track. A day after the men’s 400m hurdles staged possibly one of the greatest races ever run, the women put on their own show as one of the Games’ most anticipated rivalries lived up to the hype. The United States’ Sydney McLaughlin …

Barbra Streisand recently weighed in on wanting to obtain “a purpose bigger than myself” through philanthropy. The star got candid about it all in an exclusive interview clip with Zane Lowe. There she began by stressing on the importance of wanting a ‘purposeful’ existence and admitted, “Isn’t it great for women now? Oh my God. I mean, I started off with …

Pop star Rihanna’s net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion, making her the richest woman musician in the world, but her music is not the primary source of her wealth, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday. The Barbados-born singer, whose birth name is Robyn Fenty, derives an estimated $1.4 billion of her fortune from her 50% stake in the Fenty Beauty cosmetics line, Forbes reported. The …

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Security Council has convened an emergency meeting for Friday (Aug 6) to discuss rising violence in Afghanistan, a senior diplomat said here on Wednesday. The meeting was called after Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar spoke to India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in the wake of Taliban’s assault on major cities and an attack on the …

ISLAMABAD: As Saudi Arabia allows the entry of fully vaccinated travellers if they get booster dose of a recognised vaccine in the wake of a United Arab Emirates’ decision to lift a ban on transit flights, Pakistan on Wednesday made another record of per day Covid-19 vaccination. Saudi Arabia, says a Dawn.com report, decided to allow entry to the foreign travellers fully …

GENEVA: The WHO called on Wednesday for a moratorium on Covid-19 vaccine booster shots as China tightened overseas travel curbs after recording its highest number of infections in months, while Tokyo reported the Olympic Games’ first cluster. The World Health Organisation said halting booster shots until at least the end of September would help ease the drastic inequity in dose …