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LONDON: Two of the four Olympic sprint titles may have evaded the United States in Paris last year but the sport’s superpower is targeting a clean sweep at the Athletics World Championships, with Noah Lyles and Melissa Jeffe­rson-Wooden leading the charge. The US dominated global sprinting for decades but endured an uncomfortable period in the shadows as Jamaica took command on the men’s and women’s sides. Now, as the Caribbean island’s depth has fallen away, the Americans are reasserting their dominance and are hoping for their first world championship sweep for 20 years. Lyles, of course, is the leading light…

LAHORE: The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) on Monday announced the squad for the AFC Futsal Asian Cup 2026 qualifiers, which will be played later this month in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, marking the country’s first-ever appearance in a major international futsal competition. The national team has begun a training camp here at the Liaquat Gymnasium within the Jinnah Sports Complex, led by head coach Sakhawat Ali. Pakistan were drawn into Group ‘D’ of the qualifiers alongside Iraq, Chinese Taipei and host nation Saudi Arabia. The team will begin their campaign against Iraq on Sept 20, followed by a match against Saudi…

It was not until the end of July that the Asian Cricket Council announced the schedule for this month’s men’s T20 Asia Cup. The tournament had remained under a cloud of uncertainty following a four-day aerial war between Pakistan and India in May, and it was only after a conclave of the heads of the ACC that the organisation’s president, Mohsin Naqvi, who is also Pakistan Cricket Board chairperson, announced that the continental championship would be played. Despite the announcement of a detailed schedule the next day, doubts remained. There had been calls in India to boycott matches against Pakistan…

There are two big winners for the $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot — and one could face a bigger tax bill.Winning tickets sold in Missouri and Texas matched all six numbers from Saturday night’s drawing, and those individuals will split the second-largest lottery jackpot, according to Powerball.Each ticket holder can pick between two pretax options: a lump sum of $410.3 million or an annuitized prize of $893.5 million. The annuity consists of one upfront payment, followed by 29 annual payments that increase by 5% each year.   More from Personal Finance:What to know about putting student loan payments on pauseHow to invest…

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage notched its biggest one-day drop in more than a year on Friday. Although mortgage rates are now at their lowest level since October, the average rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage is still just around 6.29%, according to Mortgage News Daily — a big leap from the under 3% levels near the start of the pandemic.But there are ways to get even better terms on a home loan, experts say.Where mortgage rates standMore signs point to an interest rate cut when the Federal Reserve meets on Sept. 17, which may offer a little more…

Srdjanns74 | Istock | Getty ImagesIf you’ve recently lost your job or are struggling to find a new one, your student loans are probably causing you more stress than usual.The job market is flashing warning signs, with the U.S. economy adding just 22,000 positions in August, which was below expectations, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report on Sept. 5. At the same time, the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%, its highest level in almost four years.”The slowdown in job creation might make some recent college graduates and borrowers worried,” said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.More than 40 million Americans hold student…

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – JANUARY 30: Matt Comyn, Commonwealth Bank CEO (left) and Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna Group (right) on January 30, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Commonwealth Bank customers will be able to benefit immediately from using one of the world’s largest and most innovative buy now pay later online shopping services following today’s launch of Klarna Australia. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images for CBA)Getty Images for CBA Klarna, a buy now, pay later service provider, hopes to be valued at $14 billion after its initial public offering next week, according to the Wall Street Journal. Klarna’s valuation peaked…

Pakistan is set to host Sri Lanka for a series of one day international (ODI) matches in Rawalpindi from Novermber 11-15, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Monday. A day earlier, the PCB announced that it was set to host Sri Lanka and Afghanistan for a T20 International (T20I) tri-series for the first time from November 17 to 29 in Lahore and Rawalpindi. In a press release, the PCB noted that this would be Sri Lanka’s first bilateral ODI series in Pakistan since 2019, when they last visited for a three-match series that the Green Shirts won 2-0, with…

BartekSzewczyk | Getty ImagesWhile artificial intelligence has caused turbulence in the labor market, the recent decline in job opportunities has more to do with economic uncertainty, experts say.”As we look across the broader labor market, we see that AI’s impact on the labor market has still been fairly small,” said Cory Stahle, a senior economist at Indeed, a job search site. “The important asterisk is that that doesn’t mean that it has been zero,” he said. Mandi Woodruff-Santos, a career coach, agrees: “I don’t think AI is to blame, I think the economic uncertainty is to blame.”The state of the job marketThe…

After crushing Afghanistan in the tri-nation series final on Sunday, Pakistan’s T20I captain, Salman Ali Agha, took to X and announced he will be donating his earnings from the tournament to flood victims back home. He said he is joined by star bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi, who will be doing the same. The green shirts pummelled the Afghan side on Sunday, when Pakistan’s second-inning bowling attack saw Muhammad Nawaz take five wickets, pushing the team to a comfortable 75-run triumph. Shaheen, who bowled two overs, also took a wicket while only conceding seven runs. On August 30, Peshawar’s Imran Khan…