Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc celebrated a boyhood dream come true on Sunday as the first home winner of Formula One’s showcase Monaco Grand Prix since Louis Chiron triumphed in 1931. It was also the first time the 26-year-old had stood on the Monaco podium in six attempts and came after two standing starts from pole position in a race halted when …

ISLAMABAD: The Australian volleyball team arrived here on Sunday for a three-match series against Pakistan. The series will commence on May 28 here at the Pakistan Sports Complex with subsequent matches on May 29 and 30. All matches will start at 6:30pm. Led by Nehemiah Mote, the Australian squad includes Luke Perry, Arshdeep Dosanjh, Jackson Holland, Trent O’dea, Matthew Aubrey, …

ROME: Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar emphatically won the Giro d’Italia on his debut when he retained his unassailable overall lead after Sunday’s 21st and final stage in Rome, winning by the biggest overall margin since 1965. The 25-year-old UAE Team Emirates rider had been in the leader’s pink jersey since winning stage two, the first of his six stage successes, and finished Sunday’s …

BERLIN: Granit Xhaka scored the only goal as a 10-man Bayer Leverkusen battled past second division Kaiserslautern 1-0 on Saturday to win the German Cup and secure the club’s first ever domestic double. Leverkusen missed out on a treble after losing 3-0 to Atalanta in the Europa League final on Wednesday in their first defeat of the season after a European record …

PARIS: Carlos Alcaraz eased into the second round of the French Open after shrugging off pre-tournament concerns about his forearm while fellow seeds Andrey Rublev and Hubert Hurkacz advanced with hard-fought wins as the Grand Slam began on Sunday. Much of the focus was on title contender Alcaraz’s recently injured right forearm in the build-up to the year’s second major, with the …

VILLENEUVE D’ASCQ: Paris St-Germain beat Olympique Lyonnais 2-1 in the French Cup final on Saturday courtesy of first-half strikes from Ousmane Dembele and Fabian Ruiz to end the season with a domestic treble in Kylian Mbappe’s farewell match. The Ligue 1 and French Super Cup champions dominated the first half at Lille’s Stade Pierre-Mauroy to secure their record-extending 15th Cup …

Today, freelance professionals are highly valued, and they are well aware of this. They understand their importance, and it’s time for businesses to establish fresh engagement standards. With more top-tier professionals, such as myself, opting for freelance roles instead of traditional in-house positions engaged in a nine-to-five schedule for networking purposes, businesses are finding it challenging to attract and keep …

LAHORE: New cotton ginning season has started in the country, though partially, as one ginning unit each has become operational in Sindh and Punjab, while more are to come on line in the next few days. Reports say partial picking of cotton has started in some coastal areas of Sindh and in southern Punjab and arrival of raw cotton in …

As budget makers in Pakistan grapple with demands, possibilities and public aspirations, the business community, aware of the government’s limitations, holds low expectations. However, this hasn’t stopped them from inundating policymakers with their own proposals that project their priorities as national interest. “With limited flexibility in national accounts [high expenditure demand and low resource mobilisation], and keen donor’s oversight, the …