LONDON: It was a record-breaking night for Harry Kane and Cristiano Ronaldo as qualifying for the European Championship in 2024 got underway on Thursday. Kane became England’s all-time leading goalscorer as the Three Lions enjoyed a perfect start by winning 2-1 away to Italy. A first-half penalty lifted Kane to 54 goals for his country, one more than Wayne Rooney. …

PARIS: A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defence efforts, according to the European Space Agency. The asteroid, named 2023 DZ2, is estimated to be 40 to 70 metres (130 to 230 feet) wide, roughly the size of the Parthenon, and …

Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The company has told at least two customers that using its Bing search index – a map of the …

BUENOS AIRES: Lionel Messi capped a night of unbridled joy with the 800th goal of his career as world champions Argentina celebrated their homecoming with a 2-0 friendly victory over stubborn Panama in Buenos Aires on Thursday. The 35-year-old seven-time Ballon d’Or winner’s stunning free-kick in the dying minutes came after 21-year-old MLS sensation Thiago Almada gave a glimpse of …

LAHORE: A high-performance skills camp for emerging women cricketers commences on Saturday at the Inzamam-ul-Haq High-Performance Centre, Multan. In the two-week-long camp, a total of 27 emerging women cricketers will undergo skills and fitness training. The camp is set up to pick a Pakistan team which will represent the national team in the Asian Women Emerging Cup to be held …

A Tarrant County grand jury declined to indict one of the men arrested in the death of Chin “Jin” Shin, who was fatally shot in Fort Worth in August. The grand jury issued a no-bill Wednesday for Kameron Taylor, 28, meaning he won’t be charged with murder in connection with Shin’s death. Fort Worth police arrested Taylor in December. Two other men …

Two people were found fatally shot in a vehicle in Denton on Thursday night, police say. About 10:30 p.m., the department said a large number of officers had been dispatched to the 1300 block of Dallas Drive, near Teasley Lane. Two people, a man and a woman, were found with gunshot wounds in a vehicle, police said Friday evening. They were pronounced …

SIX days after a state-wide manhunt was launched for his arrest in the Indian state of Punjab, controversial Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh continued to evade the authorities, Indian media reported on Friday. The search has been expanded to the states bordering Punjab after Mr Singh’s last location was traced to the Kurukshetra district of Haryana state, south of Punjab, according …

The Indian Army misfired three missiles during an exercise in the Pokharan ranges in the western Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, causing alarm in the surrounding areas, according to the Indian media. India Today reported that the firing exercise was being held at the Pokhran field when the three surface-to-air missiles were misfired. The missiles struck fields in different villages, causing loud explosions, …

Former US President Donald Trump warned of potential “death and destruction” if he faces criminal charges, hours after New York prosecutors probing his hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels said they would not be intimidated. The early Friday post on Trump’s Truth Social media site was the latest in a string of verbal attacks on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg since …