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NEW YORK : Money flowed into athletics in 2024 and even bigger paychecks will soon be up for grabs, with the sport’s governing body shelling out and start-up meets offering major prizes, an encouraging sign for athletes. World Athletics sent…

Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions said in a statement Monday that recent speculation that Paul’s Nov. 15 record-breaking match against Mike Tyson was rigged or scripted is “incorrect and baseless.” The company, which partnered with Netflix for what was the…

BANGKOK : Thailand’s headline consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.83 per cent in October from a year earlier, the commerce ministry said on Wednesday, remaining below the central bank’s target range for inflation of 1 per cent to 3 per…

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas was “surprised” by a lawsuit from media baron Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and the New York Post against the search startup, he said at the WSJ Tech Live conference on Wednesday. Media conglomerate News Corp-owned publishers…

Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen signed off a record-breaking week at the UCI track cycling world championships as he rode to gold in the men’s sprint in Ballerup, Denmark on Sunday. Powerhouse Lavreysen, who swept to three Olympic golds in Paris this…

MANCHESTER, England : When Sofie Lundgaard went down with a torn anterior cruciate ligament earlier this month, the Liverpool midfielder joined an alarming list of Women’s Super League players to suffer the devastating knee injury – barely four weeks into…

SINGAPORE: Former Singapore transport minister S Iswaran is not appealing his 12-month jail sentence after being convicted of five offences, he said in a statement on Facebook on Monday (Oct 7). “I will not be appealing the sentence handed down…

:Thomson Reuters said on Thursday that it was selling its FindLaw business to Internet Brands. FindLaw provides online legal information and resources such as legal news, blogs, and state and federal laws. Thomson Reuters, which owns Reuters News, and Internet…

BRASILIA : Brazil’s Social Development Ministry said on Friday that a working group will propose measures by next week to stop people using their social benefit payments for online gambling. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s Bolsa Familia, a more…

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s consumer price inflation slowed to 1.1 per cent year-on-year in August from 2.5 per cent in July, official data showed on Tuesday (Sep 24) after the country voted in a new president hoping to strengthen its economic…