South Korea’s Kim Kyung-tae won the Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup Open by three shots on Sunday to capture his fourth title of the year. The 29-year-old Kim drained a 10-foot birdie putt on the last hole for a final round two-under-par 68 and a winning total of nine-under-par 271 in the event co-sanctioned by the Asian and Japan golf tours. Japan’s Toshinori Muto, who briefly joined Kim in the lead finished
Tokyo (AFP) – K.T. Kim shot a final round two-under 68 at Otone Country Club near Tokyo Sunday to secure a three-shot victory in the Asia-Pacific Open Mitsubishi Diamond Cup.
(Reuters) – The New York Mets are back in the Major League Baseball playoffs for the first time since 2006, after clinching the National League East division championship on Saturday. A first-inning grand slam by first baseman Lucas Duda set them on the path to a 10-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds and took their 2015 record to 88-67 with seven regular season games remaining. “We’ve waited a long time
(The Sports Xchange) – The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 10-8 on Saturday, bolstered by two home runs from Jose Bautista. Russell Martin also homered for the Blue Jays (89-65), who won their third in a row after entering Saturday with a four-game lead over the second-place New York Yankees in the American League East. The Blue Jays learned Saturday that they had clinched the second American
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour Party has decided to leave the country’s nuclear weapons alone.
The extremist Islamic State group has closed playgrounds in a Syrian city because they were being used as a meeting place for unrelated men and women, a monitor said Sunday. “IS has shut down playgrounds in the city of Mayadeen in the eastern Deir Ezzor province… under the pretext that there was mixing between men and women bringing their children to play,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The
NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh from successes on Iran and with the pope, President Barack Obama still carried heavy burdens into critical meetings this week at the U.N. General Assembly.
Palestinians and Israeli security forces clashed at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday, with further trouble feared in the week ahead as Jews celebrate the Sukkot holiday. The Sukkot holiday which started at sunset is expected to lead to an increase in Jewish visitors to the Al-Aqsa compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount. In Sunday’s disturbances, young masked Palestinians “threw stones and fireworks at police and border
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of people marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students by marching down Mexico City’s premier avenue in an atmosphere of defiant hope Saturday.
