The Isle of Man were bowled out by Spain for 10 runs in an international match on Sunday, limping to the lowest total in men’s Twenty20 cricket. Six players in the Isle of Man’s line-up were dismissed for a duck, while Joseph Burrows was their highest scorer with four runs. The team were routed in 8.4 overs. Spain chased the …

EMPOLI: A goal by striker Victor Osimhen and an own goal by Empoli defender Ardian Ismajli earned 10-man Napoli a 2-0 away win in Serie A on Saturday, extending their lead over second-placed Inter Milan to a staggering 18 points. Napoli, who have kept a clean sheet in their last four league matches for a second time under coach Luciano …

LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur bolstered their hopes for a top-four finish and extended Chelsea’s miserable run under coach Graham Potter with a 2-0 win over the Blues in the Premier League on Sunday, thanks to second-half goals from Oliver Skipp and Harry Kane. Seconds after the break, Skipp picked up a poor clearance by Chelsea’s British record signing Enzo Fernandez and …

LAHORE: As the HBL Pakistan Super League returned to Lahore on Sunday, the Qalandars ensured the occasion was celebrated to its fullest. Fakhar Zaman took care of the fireworks while Shaheen Shah Afridi had the stumps flickering to light up the night. After the swashbuckling southpaw had boosted the hosts to a mammoth 241-3 against Peshawar Zalmi with a 45-ball …

SWAT: A three-day snow and sports festival started in the Gabin Jabba tourist resort here on Sunday. Caretaker minister for communications and works Mohammad Ali Shah inaugurated the festival. According to the organisers, a large number of tourists, artists, sportsmen, officials, mediapersons and locals participated in the inauguration ceremony. Addressing the opening ceremony, minister Ali Shah said despite the damage …

LAHORE: The row over the cost of security lights that might have dampened the glitz of Pakistan Super League (PSL) is ‘apparently’ settled as the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced that all nine matches at Gaddafi Stadium will go on as scheduled. A standoff persisted between the caretaker Punjab government and the PCB for the past couple of days after …

An Australian archaeologist and two Papua New Guinea researchers held for a week by 20 armed men in a remote part of the Pacific Island nation were released on Sunday, while their captors remain at large, a local official told Reuters. Professor Bryce Barker and doctoral student Teppsy Beni from the University of Southern Queensland, and Papua New Guinea National Museum …

Pakistan has been suffering from chronic governance issues for the past several decades. Inheriting the post-colonial bureaucracy and with its manageable population of 30 million (West Pakistan, 1947), the country managed to get by in the early days. The population continued to grow to 70m in 1971 and to 130m in 1998, but it remained unfashionable and politically incorrect to …

Hong Kong police said on Sunday they had arrested three people in connection with the murder of 28-year old model Abby Choi, whose legs were found in a refrigerator in a house on the city’s outskirts, along with tools used in dismembering bodies. Police found Choi’s body on Friday but have yet to locate her head, torso and hands. They …