Canada’s only team in the National Hockey League playoffs, the Montreal Canadiens, became the first team to reach the second round, thanks to a first-round sweep of Tampa Bay. No club from Canada has won the Stanley Cup since Montreal in 1993 and the…
Browsing: National
The Boston Bruins beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-1 Saturday to clinch the Presidents’ Trophy which gives them home-ice advantage throughout the National Hockey League playoffs. David Krejci scored twice and Tuukka Rask made 24 saves for the Bruins who finished…
Bubba Watson was the man to catch on Saturday for the 50 other golfers who made it through to Masters weekend at Augusta National. The 35-year-old champion from two years ago blasted clear of the field on Friday with a five-in-a-row, back nine birdie…
Australian Oliver Goss celebrated his last day as a teenager by firing a one-under 71 to make the cut at the Masters and capture the low amateur’s Silver Cup. Goss opened with a 76 but battled back with a one-under 71 at Augusta National to make the…
7 April 2014 – The United Nations independent expert on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, expressed concern today…
Winning the Masters has been a family affair for Bill Haas and his ancestors since his great-uncle, Bob Goalby, captured the green jacket in 1968. “It has been a special place in our family since then,” Haas said of Augusta National. So it’s no wonder…
Favorites Adam Scott and Rory McIlroy both made strong starts to the 78th Masters at Augusta National on Thursday. Scott, the defending champion from Australia, was three under at the turn and joint leader out on the course after opening with a birdie…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on wednesday approved a new National Tobacco Control Bill 2014, which among others, prescribes six…
Justin Rose will start his ninth campaign at Augusta National on Thursday with newfound confidence in his abilities to compete in the majors having won the US Open last year. The 33-year-old Englishman’s emotional triumph in Philadelphia last June was…
Villagers and experts warily eyed an Ecuador volcano Saturday that spewed a 10-kilometer (six-mile) high column of ash a day earlier in a spectacular eruption. “For now, the ash fall is mild,” Ecuador’s National Secretariat for Risk Management said…
Katie Walsh picked up a last minute ride in the world’s greatest steeplechase the Grand National on Saturday at Aintree racecourse, Liverpool, when she came in for the injured Michael Fogarty on outsider Vesper Bell. Walsh, part of an Irish racing family…
Delegates at the on-going National Conference have been taken to the cleaners for complaining about the feeding arrangement provided by…
Seven players from English lower-league clubs have been arrested over alleged spot-fixing, with six others re-arrested, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on Thursday. The 13 men, aged between 18 and 30, were being interviewed at police…
Britons should eat seven portions of fresh fruit and vegetables a day, according to new research into healthy eating, published on Tuesday. The state-run National Health Service currently recommends each person eats five 80-gramme (three-ounce) helpings…
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai…
Fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Tuesday he sees a “turning point” in the surveillance reform plans unveiled by the White House and Congress. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents which…
Australian rugby chief Bill Pulver said Monday he is confident the relaunched National Rugby Championship can prove the doubters wrong and make a financial profit in its first year. The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) Monday announced nine teams to compete…
French voters went to the polls on Sunday in the first round of local elections set to represent a landmark for women in politics and, possibly, for the far-right National Front. The first nationwide vote since Francois Hollande’s 2012 election as president…
The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a 2-0 opening day Major League Baseball sweep over National League rivals Arizona Diamondbacks with a 7-5 win in the second match in Sydney on Sunday. The Dodgers, who downed the D-backs 3-1 in Saturday’s first game…
The Management of National Hospital, Abuja, has released five more bodies of those who died during Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment…