The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund are racing to reshape their plans to combine their rival golf circuits, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump’s eagerness to play peacemaker for a fractured sport, according to four people familiar with the matter. Since the start of secret talks in April 2023, PGA Tour executives […]
Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News Supplied Asha Roy was due to take part in a football tournament that Islamists protested against recently Asha Roy, 17, was excited to take part in a women’s football tournament, but her hopes were dashed as Islamists forced the organisers to cancel the match in northern Bangladesh. Shortly before the game […]
The Senate on Tuesday voted 51 to 45 to confirm Howard Lutnick to be President Trump’s commerce secretary, putting in place one of the administration’s top economic officials who will help oversee an agenda around tariffs and protectionism. Mr. Lutnick, who was the chief executive of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, became a central […]
Brooks, at the time, was the ONE Strawweight MMA world champion but a mistimed slam inside the first two minutes of their clash resulted in a disqualification, a stripped title – and Pacio having to be helped from the cage. While Pacio was fortunate to escape serious injury after being spiked on the top of […]
Mira Murati, the former chief technology of OpenAI who unexpectedly left the company in September, has helped found a new artificial intelligence start-up called Thinking Machines Lab, adding to the wave of young companies that have been formed in the race to lead A.I. Thinking Machines Lab aims to “make A.I. systems more widely understood, […]
Turo, a car rental start-up in San Francisco, has been trying to go public since 2021. But a volatile stock market in early 2022 delayed its listing. Since then, the company has waited for the right moment. Last week, Turo pulled its listing entirely. “Now is not the right time,” Andre Haddad, the company’s chief […]
Just over two weeks ago, a stunning trade launched an NBA executive relatively unknown outside basketball circles into the wider public consciousness. Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison’s decision to send 25-year-old Luka Dončić to the league’s glitziest franchise on Feb. 2 was largely unprecedented in sports history, and reaction was swift and deafening: crowds […]
Southwest Airlines on Monday announced plans to cut 1,750 jobs, the first broad layoffs in the airline’s 53-year history. The company said the cuts would mostly focus on corporate positions, accounting to about 15 percent of that work force. The layoffs will include 11 senior leaders with titles of vice president or higher, the airline […]
Dricus du Plessis may be on an 11-fight win streak, nine of which have come in the UFC and have seen him rise to the pinnacle of their middleweight division – but the name Roberto Soldic will still likely send shivers down the South African. Germany’s Soldic downed du Plessis when they were fighting in […]
Naqoura, southern Lebanon – Dressed in an olive green jacket and jeans, municipal head Abbas Awada stood next to the remains of the family home where he lived with his wife and two children for the last 15 years. The soft-spoken, charismatic, 40-something Awada used to welcome town residents in the family home and host […]