Japan became the first team to secure their place in the knockout phase of the AFC U-23 Championship yesterday when goals from Musashi Suzuki, Shinya Yajima and a late Yuya Kubo brace secured a 4-0 Group B win over Thailand for Makoto Teguramori’s side.
Pushed from their forest home by encroaching farm land, wild elephants are driving fearful villagers in a Myanmar township to seek refuge in tree houses while the animals storm their rice paddies looking for food.
The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index shed 582.1 points, or 5.96%, during the week to close at 9,185.12.
The $100bn Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will boost infrastructure investment in Asia and improve integration, China’s President Xi Jinping said yesterday at the opening ceremony for the China-backed lender.
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane labelled a one-year transfer ban imposed on the club by FIFA as ‘absurd’ and insists Real’s appeal against the ban will be upheld.
Brandt Snedeker maintained the turnaround in form he produced at Kapalua last week and delivered a short game master-class to move a stroke clear in the second round of the Sony Open in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Friday.
Qatar strongly condemned the explosion which took place in Istanbul yesterday, killing and injuring many people.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker poses with Jordan’s Queen Rania ahead of a meeting at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels yesterday.
Argentina will tell the mediator brokering debt negotiations with US investment firms suing the country over unpaid debt that it wants to resolve the decade-long legal battle, President Mauricio Macri said yesterday.
HE Minister of State for Defence Affairs Major General Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah held separate meetings with ambassadors of Algeria and Niger to Qatar,
At least three suicides were reported from among the Indian and Nepalese expatriate communities in Qatar during the last 20 days, sources told Gulf Times.
Handicapped by the absence of key strike bowler Dale Steyn, South Africa will need to dig deep into their reserves if they are to beat England in the third Test and bring parity to the series.
