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Golf: Ko misses cut as Kerr seizes solo lead at Kia Classic

  • LOS ANGELES, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – World number one Lydia Ko missed the cut for only the second time in her career as veteran Cristie Kerr opened a one-shot lead at the Kia Classic on Friday. New Zealand’s Ko, 19, fired a level-par 72 at the Aviara Golf Club in Carlsbad, California, but it was not enough […]

  • Cricket: Rain stops play with South Africa 123-4

    HAMILTON, New Zealand, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – South Africa were 123 for four when rain brought an early end to the middle session of play on day one of the third Test against New Zealand in Hamilton on Saturday. Faf du Plessis was not out 33 and Hashim Amla made 50. Only 14.2 overs were bowled after […]

  • Chinese President congratulates opening of Boao Forum for Asia

    BEIJING (China) (MILLAT/APP): Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated the opening ceremony of the 2017 annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia, held in south China’s Hainan Province Saturday morning. In his congratulatory letter, he said, since its establishment 16 years ago, the Boao Forum for Asia has played an important role in building Asian […]

  • Cricket: India’s Manohar to stay on as ICC chairman

    DHARAMSALA, India, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – India’s Shashank Manohar has deferred his resignation as the chairman of the International Cricket Council to see through a reform programme, the game’s world governing body said Friday. Manohar quit earlier this month in the middle of an overhaul of the ICC’s governance designed to reduce the power of cricket’s most […]

  • Govt utilizing resources to protect wild life in GB

    ASTORE, (MILLAT/APP): District Forest Officer Wild Life, Ghulam Muhammad said that the department was utilizing all the available resources to preserve wild life of Gilgit Baltistan (GB). Talking to media here on Friday said that wild life are the precious assets of Gilgit Baltistan and all the objectives to preserve wild life in the area […]

  • European stocks grind lower before key US healthcare vote

    LONDON, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – European equities churned lower Friday in tentative trade, after fragile gains in Asia, as investors looked to a key vote on US healthcare reform whose passage is seen as crucial to the future of Donald Trump’s growth agenda. The four-month rally in global stocks came to a juddering halt this week as […]