PARIS: Defending champions Canada reached the quarter-finals of the women’s Olympic football tournament on Wednesday thanks to a 1-0 win over Colombia in Nice hours after they had an appeal against their six-point deduction dismissed.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA: Greece: The torch for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was lit in ancient Olympia in a traditional ceremony today, marking the final stretch of the seven-year preparations for the Games’ start on July 26.

Olympia, Greece: The sacred flame for the Paris 2024 Olympics is to be lit Tuesday in ancient Olympia, birthplace of the ancient Games, for an epic torch relay stretching from the Acropolis to the South Pacific.

PARIS: The Olympic flame will stay within the Paris City Hall on the night of July 14 when France celebrates Bastille Day ahead of the 2024 Summer Games, mayor Anne Hidalgo said today.

JEDDAH: Kim Kyong Yong hit the crossbar 17 minutes from time to miss out on giving North Korea a first-leg lead in their Olympic Games women’s football playoff against Japan in Jeddah on Saturday, as the teams shared a 0-0 draw.

MONTREAL: Iga Swiatek, unfazed by two lengthy rain delays, held off Karolina Muchova 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of the WTA Montreal Open on Thursday.

MELBOURNE: Co-hosts Australia surged into the Women's World Cup last 16 on Monday with Hayley Raso scoring twice in a 4-0 battering of Canada as Nigeria joined them in the knockout phase.

MIAMI: A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father in Florida after his parents left a loaded gun unattended, local authorities said Monday.

CAIRO: A gunman killed at least 11 people on Friday in attacks on a Coptic Orthodox church and a Christian-owned shop near Cairo before he was wounded and arrested, the Egyptian interior ministry and church officials said.

KUALA LUMPUR: Following is the official results of 11th Sarawak State Election.

KUCHING: Barisan Nasional has surpassed the 55-seat benchmark to attain a two-third majority in the 11th Sarawak Election.