Month: January 2024

[ad_1] Doha – Japan was tipped as the favorites to win the Asian Cup but a shock defeat to Iraq has exposed cracks in coach Hajime Moriyasu's previously well-oiled machine.The 2-1 loss leaves Samurai Blue facing a potential last-16 match with South Korea, assuming Japan still qualifies from its group.Even a draw on Wednesday against Indonesia would allow Japan to progress, but after Friday's reality check against a side ranked […]

[ad_1] Former ozeki Asanoyama held onto the outright lead with his seventh straight win, while lone yokozuna Terunofuji suffered his second loss, at the hands of rank-and-file opponent Shodai, Saturday at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament.Asanoyama, currently ranked as a No. 7 maegashira, defeated No. 9 Meisei to remain the only unbeaten competitor through seven days at Ryogoku Kokugikan. He has a one-win buffer over four wrestlers including ozeki […]

[ad_1] MELBOURNE – Top seed Iga Swiatek tumbled out of the Australian Open on Saturday, losing 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to Czech teenager Linda Noskova in the third round as her bid for a maiden title at Melbourne Park and fifth Grand Slam trophy fell apart.The Pole, more accustomed to breezing past opponents with the odd "bagel" 6-0 scoreline thrown in, had struggled in Melbourne, enduring a first-set tiebreak in her […]

[ad_1] A week of Tory rebellions and cataclysmic polls has left members of U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing party plumbing new depths of despair over their prospects of staying in power at a general election in the next year.The Conservatives have trailed far behind the opposition Labour Party in polling for more than a year, leading to internal debates about whether they are headed for defeat on the scale […]

[ad_1] The record-low public support rate for the Liberal Democratic Party in recent polls has shocked the ruling party.According to a survey released Thursday by Jiji Press, support for the LDP dropped 3.7 percentage points from the previous month to 14.6%, the lowest rate since the news agency started the monthly survey in 1960, excluding periods when the LDP was an opposition party.The falling support for the LDP is primarily […]

[ad_1] Doha – The stands of the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium rocked to the beat of Indian drums as the country's often overlooked soccer fans lit up the Asian Cup in Qatar.About 750,000 of the Gulf state's three million people are Indian, according to the latest figures, many of them migrant workers who form the backbone of the economy."It looks like it's not Qatar, it looks like it's India," said […]