United News of Bangladesh

Karolina Pliskova advanced to the semifinals of the WTA Finals for the third straight year, beating Simona Halep 6-0, 2-6, 6-4 Friday shortly after defending champion Elina Svitolina completed a near-perfect group stage.

President Donald Trump will welcome the come-from-behind Washington Nationals baseball team who will celebrate their World Series victory Monday on the South Lawn of the White House.

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic sped into the Paris Masters semifinals by demolishing seventh-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-1, 6-2 on Friday.

World champion Nathan Chen took the lead in the short program at the Internationaux de France on Friday, while Olympic silver medalist Shoma Uno fell twice.

The Athletics Integrity Unit says Belarusian high jumper Dzmitry Nabokau has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a diuretic that helps hide the use of other drugs.

An eighth place finish or higher is all Lewis Hamilton requires at this weekend's Formula One United States Grand Prix to secure a sixth world title that he reckons would be "pretty unreal".

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Britain's Royal Family is getting excited about England's appearance in the Rugby World Cup final — even its most recent arrival.

Five Bangladeshi athletes, including a woman, left the capital for India on Thursday to take part in the 35th Indian National Junior (U-20) Athletics Championships’2019 scheduled for November 2-6 at Acharya Nagarjuna University in Andhra Pradesh. The athletes are Mahfuzur Rahman, Zahir Raihan, Saiful Islam Khan, Rakibul Islam of Bangladesh Navy, and Umme Hafsa Rumki of Bangladesh Jail (Prison Directorate). The Bangladeshi athletes will participate in the Indian meet under the banner of Dhaka Team to prepare themselves for the ensuing South Asian Games, General Secretary of Bangladesh Athletics Federation (BAF) Advocate Abdur Rakib Montu told UNB on Thursday. “We are bearing partial expenses of the athletes while Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Jail are sponsoring the air tickets of their respective athletes,” Montufurther said. Among them, four athletes- Mahfuzur Rahman, Saiful Islam Khan, Zahir Raihan and Umme Hafsa Rumki will represent Bangladesh in the upcoming South Asian (SA) Games scheduled to be held in Nepal from December 1-10. In the last National Summer Athletics Competition’2019, UmmeHafsaRumki created a new national record in the women’s high jump, jumping 1.68 metres to improvethe previous record of 1.66 metres while MahfuzurRahmanset a new national mark in the men’s high jump,jumping 2.15 metres. ZahirRaihan clinched the gold medal in men’s 400-m run, Saiful Islam in the men’s 200-m sprint and Rakibul Islam in men’s 800-m run in the summer meet

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