LONDON — Michael Phelps won a record 19th Olympic medal Tuesday when he joined forces with his US teammates to win the 4x200m freestyle relay at London's Aquatic Centre.
Following his shock defeat in the 200 butterfly final an hour earlier, Phelps (...)
JEDDAH: Under Elaf Aviation wing (GSA Division), Elaf Group of Companies signed a new general sales agent (GSA) agreement with Sudan Airways, the national carrier of Sudan for passengers in Saudi Arabia.
The GSA agreement was signed by Al Obaid (...)
DUBAI: Spain's Mireia Belmonte Garcia matched American star Ryan Lochte with her third gold medal at the Short-Course World Swimming Championships Saturday.
The 20-year-old Catalan swimmer clocked a championship-record 2 minutes, 5.73 seconds in (...)
Ryan Lochte earned his sixth gold medal at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, just missing to lower his own world record in the 200-meter individual medley Saturday night.
The American's time of 1 minute, 54.43 seconds erased compatriot (...)
World and Olympic champion Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly at the US Swimming National Championships Thursday night with the fastest time in the world this year.
Phelps led all the way and touched in 50.65 seconds, easily topping the (...)
Pirates attacked a Greek tanker in the Indian Ocean
with small arms, taking its crew hostage and directing the vessel
towards Somalia, dpa cited the Merchant Marine Ministry as saying today.
The hijacking comes days after another Greek-owned (...)
After serious negotiations over the past four days, the Ariana is free after the payment of $3.7 million. The owners of the ship were joking for a while without understanding the seriousness of the situation
— Pirate Ahmed Abdullahi Mohamoud (...)
year-old Sarah Sjostrom broke the world record for the second time in two days to snatch gold in the 100 meters butterfly at an increasingly bizarre world swimming championships on Monday.
New all-polyurethane swimsuits, which are due to be banned (...)
term experiment with hi-tech suits prompted the expected flood of records at the world championships on Sunday with Federica Pellegrini among those setting new marks which might stand for years to come.
Despite most versions only being approved (...)
A French naval vessel intercepted 11
suspected pirates traveling off the Somali coast on Sunday
in two assault vessels and a so-called «mothership»
loaded with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers, the French
Defense Ministry said, AP reported.
It (...)
Somali pirates hijacked a Greek and a Ukrainian ship on Saturday and a NATO warship briefly detained 19 pirates armed with high explosives after foiling an attack on a Norwegian tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
Pirates said they were taking the (...)
A NATO spokesman says Somali pirates have hijacked a British-owned cargo ship crewed by
Ukrainians.
Lt-Cmdr. Alexandre Santos Fernandes says the
Maltese-flagged Ariana was hijacked northwest of the
Seychelles islands about 1,000 miles (1,600 (...)
Special forces on a Portuguese
warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates
after thwarting an attack on an oil tanker, but later freed
the 19 men. Hours later and hundreds of miles away, another
band of pirates hijacked a cargo ship, (...)
DEMOCRAT Barack Obama's presidential campaign is signaling more flexibility on his pledge to quickly pull US troops out of Iraq if elected as part of a move toward the political center.
Obama's emerging shift of nuance on Iraq, the signature issue (...)
AFGHAN BORDER. TO INCREASE COMMUNICATION LEVEL BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES, IT HAS BEEN DECIDED THAT FOREIGN SECRETARIES OF THE TWO COUNTRIES SHOULD MEET ONCE EVERY THREE MONTHS. HOWEVER, HE SAID THAT SECURITY FORCES OF THE TWO SIDES NEED TO HAVE A (...)
A suicide attacker on a motorbike blew himself up next to highway police guarding a road construction project in the Afghan capital Wednesday, killing one policeman and a civilian, officials said.
An SUV carrying foreigners that had its window (...)
An Afghan plane skidded off the runway at Istanbul's Ataturk airport on Friday and came to a halt resting on its right wing, a news agency reported. All passengers and crew members were safely evacuated through emergency slides.
The Ariana Afghan (...)
