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Women’s top seed Aryna Sabalenka and men’s defending champion Carlos Alcaraz both survived tough tests to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals and Cameron Norrie kept alive British singles hopes after surviving a five-set thriller on Sunday. Sabalenka ruined home favourite Emma Raducanu’s dream in the previous round but had the Centre Court crowd cheering her on as she beat Elise Mertens 6-4 7-6(4) in a high-quality duel. Wimbledon’s new automated line-calling technology came under fire after an embarrassing malfunction robbed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of a point during her last-16 victory over Britain’s Sonay Kartal on Centre Court. Spaniard Alcaraz came through a…
The International Cricket Council on Monday named Sanjog Gupta as its new chief executive officer, a senior official at India’s key broadcaster of the game. Gupta, the ICC’s seventh CEO, succeeds Geoff Allardice, who resigned from the post in January after four years in office. Gupta was broadcaster JioStar’s chief executive for sports and live experiences. ICC chairman Jay Shah said Gupta “brings extensive experience in sports strategy and commercialisation, which will be invaluable for the ICC”. The role attracted more than 2,500 applications from candidates across 25 countries, the ICC said. “These are exciting times for the sport as…
Listen to article The death toll from catastrophic floods in Texas reached 67 on Sunday, including 21 children, law enforcement said, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp entered a third day. Larry Leitha, the Kerr County Sheriff in Texas Hill Country, the epicenter of the flooding, said 11 girls and a counselor remained missing from a camp near the Guadalupe River, which broke its banks after torrential rain fell in the central Texas area on Friday, the US Independence Day holiday. The search for over two dozen children missing from a girls’ summer camp hit by flash floods…
Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. David Paul | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence semiconductor startup Groq announced Monday it has established its first data center in Europe as it steps up its international expansion.Groq, which is backed by investment arms of Samsung and Cisco, said the data center will be located in Helsinki, Finland and is in partnership with Equinix.Groq is looking to take advantage of rising demand for AI services in Europe following other U.S. firms which have also ramped up investment…
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) opened on a bullish note on Monday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 1,187.99 points, or 0.9%, current index of 133,137.05 during intra-day trading. The index recorded a high of 133,156.63 and a low of 132,467.12. Trading volume stood at over 41 million shares, with the total traded value reaching Rs 3.39 billion. This builds on last week’s strong opening to the new fiscal year, when the index had hit a then-record high of 131,949.06 points. Analysts attributed the positive momentum to investor optimism surrounding potential policy clarity and improving macroeconomic indicators. Earlier in the week,…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump at the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025.Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump lashed out against Elon Musk after he formed a new political party, calling the move “ridiculous,” and saying the tech billionaire had gone “completely off the rails.””I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely ‘off the rails,’ essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social late Sunday stateside. “The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of complete…
Listen to article At least 32 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn today (Sunday), said hospital sources while Israel signalled readiness to resume indirect ceasefire discussions with Hamas in Doha. Medical sources in Gaza told Al Jazeera that 29 of the deceased were killed in Gaza City, which has faced some of the heaviest bombardment in recent days. The latest attacks came as Israel’s cabinet, after five hours of heated debate, agreed to send negotiators to Doha for renewed ceasefire talks with Hamas. The decision followed mounting international pressure and growing concerns over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.…
An aerial drone photo taken on July 3, 2025 shows a solar power station for agricultural use in the Yi-Hui-Miao Autonomous County of Weining, southwest China’s Guizhou Province. In recent years, Guizhou has made significant progress in ecological construction, striving to transform ecological advantages into developmental strengths.While actively developing green energy sources such as wind and solar power, Guizhou makes full use of the land beneath photovoltaic panels to cultivate crops, and meanwhile encourages farmers to engage in agricultural planting by leveraging diverse terrain and varied climate, an effort to enhance farmers’ income.Currently, Guizhou’s forest coverage rate stands at 63.3…
At least five people, including two women and two children, were killed and four children were injured in separate rain-related incidents as flash floods swept across Khyber-Paktunkhwa, according to the provincial disaster management authority (PDMA). District authorities and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) have issued a fresh alert warning of flash and riverine flooding in parts of the country due to moderate to heavy monsoon rains forecast between July 6 and 10. Heavy rain and flash flooding have claimed at least 21 lives — including 10 children — in K-P since the monsoon season began last month. According to…
Staff members work at the main control room at the Barkol converter station, the sending end of the Hami-Chongqing ±800 kV ultra-high voltage direct current power transmission project, in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 10, 2025.Xinjiang is a key sending hub in China’s west-to-east power transmission program.Once considered economic obstacles, Xinjiang’s vast deserts and arid landscapes have been transformed into a renewable energy goldmine, blessed with strong wind and long hours of sunshine.Since 2010, Xinjiang has cumulatively transmitted over 900 billion kilowatt-hours of power outside the region, with renewable energy accounting for approximately 30 percent of the…