U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to revive his “51st state” rhetoric early Sunday as he made his first comments on the collapse of trade talks between Canada and the United States. “Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!!” Trump wrote in a post on his social platform Truth Social. “They have…
Pakistani athletes participate within the closing ceremony of the thirteenth South Asian Video games (SAG) in Kathmandu on December 10, 2019. Picture: AFP ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will host the 14th South Asian Video games from April 3-11 subsequent yr, with Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar chosen as host cities. The choice was taken on the Govt Committee…
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember ads and newspaper inserts from the Columbia House Record Club promising an unbelievable deal on records and tapes. We were told we could have seven/eight/11/12/13 albums from a long list of them for just a penny. One cent! That used to be the price of a single piece…
Bellingham scored before Carlos Espi’s late winner gave Mourinho a 2-1 victory over Espanyol Jude Bellingham opened the scoring in Los Blancos’ opening fixture of the season. Photo: AFP SPAIN: Jose Mourinho’s second spell in charge of Real Madrid began with a last-gasp 2-1 victory at Espanyol in La Liga on Saturday, with substitute Carlos…
OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada is carefully watching the rise of an alternative credit model that has Canadian investors and banks exposed to half a trillion dollars of loans held largely beyond the public eye. The concern revolves around private credit, which doesn’t have a universal definition but broadly involves businesses taking out loans…
Bellingham scored earlier than Carlos Espi’s late winner gave Mourinho a 2-1 victory over Espanyol Jude Bellingham opened the scoring in Los Blancos’ opening fixture of the season. Photograph: AFP SPAIN: Jose Mourinho’s second spell in command of Actual Madrid started with a last-gasp 2-1 victory at Espanyol in La Liga on Saturday, with substitute…
Asian Cricket Council (ACC) President Mohsin Naqvi speaks during the ACC Annual General Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, August 23, 2026. — Reporter BCCI VP Rajeev Shukla represents India at meeting. Victory major achievement for Mohsin Naqvi: sources. ACC meeting reviews preparations for next Asia Cup. Pakistan-backed candidates have secured all three Asian Cricket Council (ACC) board seats, defeating an…
Frontier open-weight models are shipping faster than the hardware assumptions around them. Kimi-K3, GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash are closing the capability gap with proprietary systems, but releasing parameters only determines who can obtain a model — not who can afford to run it. Serving them still assumes datacenter-class GPU clusters, and as agentic workloads push inference…
Sri Lanka’s Asitha Fernando (C) celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of India’s captain Shubman Gill during the first day of the second Test at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on August 23, 2026. Photo: AFP COLOMBO: India built a solid platform on the opening day of the second Test against Sri Lanka…
Arthur Fils of France defeated Flavio Cobolli of Italy within the Cincinnati Open semi-finals. Picture: AFP CINCINNATI: Arthur Fils charged into the boys’s closing of the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters on Saturday as he dispatched Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 6-4 in a match delayed for 45 minutes by rain and lightning. In his first ever Masters 1000…
