GLASGOW: Celtic manager Neil Lennon is relishing the tougher challenge being posed by Rangers this season as the Scottish champions thrashed Livingston 4-0 on Saturday to edge ahead by three points in the title race. Steven Gerrard´s men can move back on level terms at the top of the Scottish Premiership with victory at Hamilton on Sunday. “You either relish …

NAZARE: Big wave surfers have been flocking to a formerly sleepy Portuguese fishing town, chasing monster waves that are some of the highest ever surfed. Earlier this month the news broke that a set of fearsome 20-metre (65-feet) waves were coming to the small town of Nazare on Portugal´s Atlantic coast. The message spread like wildfire and soon extreme surfers …

Star batsman Babar Azam on Sunday added a feather to his cap  when the 25-year-old smashed his second Test century during the fourth day of the first Test against Australia in Brisbane. The 25-year-old batsman bought up his century in style, hitting a four through cover and taking 160 balls as he continued to lead the resistance against the kangaroos. …

DUBAI: After insisting for 15 years that the superjumbo is the future, Emirates airline has been forced by the demise of the A380 to embrace smaller wide-body jets, resulting in a flurry of manoeuvres between planemakers at this week’s Dubai Airshow. The 555-seat A380 is near the end of production, setting off a series of interlocking deals as top buyer …

KARACHI: Stocks lost some mojo in the outgoing week with the KSE-100 index advancing at a slower pace by 342 points (0.91 per cent) with closing at 37,926. Investors saw choppy trade with the first two sessions lifting the index up by 980 points, followed by the last two sessions that dragged it down by 1,463 points due to rising …

ISLAMABAD: The government has requested the World Bank to extend deadline for utilisation of funds for land acquisition and resettlement for the construction of Dasu hydropower project until May 2021 as the time allowed under the financing agreement to utilise IDA loan for land acquisition and resettlement has been lost, it was learnt here. The task team, which evaluated the …

ISLAMABAD: In a major tax documentation drive, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to go after approximately 17,000 big retailers located in luxurious shopping malls, retail chains and stores having 1,000 square feet size across the country to raise due taxes. The drive for installation of automated ‘Point of Sale’ (POS) system at these outlets will be initiated …

OTTAWA: Pressure mounted on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to end a strike that has effectively shut down Canada’s largest rail network, dragging on an already slowing economy. The Teamsters union representing more than 3,000 train operators and railyard workers said there had been “no substantive progress” in talks aimed at ending the walkout at Canadian National Railway, which is …

WASHINGTON: The former CIA officer who may have devastated US intelligence collection in China by giving up its network of informants to Beijing agents was sentenced on Friday to 19 years in prison. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a naturalised US citizen who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1997 to 2004, was arrested in January 2018 for illegally possessing …

NAIROBI: Heavy rains lashing East Africa have caused of dozens of deaths, with 29 buried by landslides in Kenya, and 10 people drowned in a river in Tanzania, officials said on Saturday. The landslides and floods come amid weeks of destructive rains and flooding across the wider East African region. At least 29 people were killed in Kenya when their homes …