PORTIMAO: Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez made a remarkable comeback Friday in his first competitive ride since crashing nine months ago when he was third fastest in the opening free practice for the Portuguese Grand Prix. “Difficult to find a single word to describe the first training session, but I felt a lot of HAPPINESS!!” Marquez wrote in Spanish on …

Twitter said late on Friday that it was working on fixing an access issue after thousands of users reported problems with the platform. “Tweets may not be loading for some of you. We’re working on fixing a problem and you’ll be back on the timeline soon,” the company said in a tweet. Twitter grants academics full access to public data, …

The Dogecoin cryptocurrency surged more than 90% to a record high on Friday, putting its gain for the week at almost 300%. The latest rally in Dogecoin came two days after billionaire Elon Musk tweeted, “Doge Barking at the Moon”, accompanied by an image of Spanish artist Joan Miró’s painting, “Dog Barking at the Moon.” The Tesla chief executive has …

LONDON: England all-rounder Ben Stokes will be sidelined for up to 12 weeks after fracturing a finger while on Indian Premier League duty, cricket chiefs announced on Friday. “England all-rounder Ben Stokes will be out for up to 12 weeks after a repeat X-ray and CT scan on Thursday revealed that he has a fracture of his left index finger,” …

LAHORE: In the third phase of the restructuring of the domestic set-up, the Pak­istan Cricket Board (PCB) is starting the process of appointing head coaches of 90 city associations from Sat­u­rday through advertisement. After keeping shut the domestic structure for the last 18 months for apparently no solid reason, the PCB in the first phase formed the First Board of …

TOKYO: Tokyo’s Olympics chief said on Friday that Japan was committed to holding a safe Games this summer, as a surge in Covid-19 cases prompted an expansion of contagion controls and with fresh calls for the Games to again be postponed or cancelled. The government expanded quasi-emergency measures to 10 regions as a fourth wave of infections spread, casting more …

Two Pakistan mountaineers did on Friday what no Pakistani has done before — they scaled Nepal’s Annapurna Mountain, one of the world’s 14 8,000+ metre peaks, and the 10th tallest mountain. Sirbaz Khan and Abdul Joshi announced their feat yesterday through Kamran On Bike, the man who bikes to Pakistan’s mountains and brings back heart-touching stories, and stunning photographs. Kamran, who …

Pakistan beat South Africa by three wickets with one ball to spare in the fourth and final Twenty20 international at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Friday. It clinched a 3-1 series win for the tourists. Pakistan seemed to be cruising when they reached 92 for one in the 10th over after bowling out South Africa for 144 on what is …

ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation for the combined group in the period ended on April 15 slightly increased by 0.54 per cent on the back of an uptick in prices of essential food items, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Friday. The week-on-week incre­ase in inflation was noticed for a second consecutive week. Since January, an upward …

KARACHI: Stock market on Friday showed some bullish signs as the KSE-100 index added 75.45 points, or 0.17 per cent, to close at 45,305.63 amid expectations of better corporate earning reports next week. However, the volume plunged due to short trading hours in the weekend session, but index managed to close in the green despite profit-selling as investor sentiments remained …