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Chile’s Cristobal Del Solar set a Korn Ferry Tour record with a 13-under 57 at the Astara Golf Championship on Thursday, a PGA The lowest score in a Tour-sanctioned event, matching the Tour record in the Official World Golf Rankings.The 30-year-old, ranked 259th in the world, had a perfect round on the Pacos Course at Bogotá Country Club, playing his final three holes in par to still shoot 57. He had two eagles, one of which was an eagle. They shot 8-under 27 on the 330-yard ninth hole, tying the Korn Ferry Tour nine-hole record.Del Solar’s development benefited from these…

The Finnish presidential candidate Pekka Haavisto has questioned why his sexuality has come under such strong focus in the final days of campaigning before Sunday’s election as polls narrow with his rival, Alexander Stubb.The 65-year-old former foreign minister, who if he wins would become Finland’s first Green and first gay president, said he had been surprised by the way his sexuality had become an issue of public interest in the second and final round.International security and defence are a high priority in the Nordic country after it joined Nato last year as it borders Russia. The Finnish president is head…

The Los Angeles Lakers unveiled a 19-foot-tall Kobe Bryant statue outside their downtown arena on Thursday to honor their late superstar.The 4,000-pound statue depicts Kobe wearing his white No. 8 jersey and walking off the court with his right index finger raised after scoring 81 points against the Toronto Raptors in January 2006.Bryant’s widow, Vanessa, said at the dedication ceremony that the statue is the first of three to be built in honor of the five-time NBA champion and the Lakers’ all-time leading scorer. Another statue will feature the No. 24 jersey Bryant wore during the second half of his…

Donald Trump was anointed the victor of Nevada Republican caucuses, after staunch loyalists in the state helped maneuver the election process to assure his success.Shortly after the caucuses concluded, the AP confirmed Trump, who was the only major candidate participating, as the winner, capping off a perplexing election week in a key battleground state. Ryan Binkley, a little-known pastor and businessman from Texas, was the only other candidate running.With Joe Biden having easily secured victory in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, the current and former president are one step closer to a rematch in the November general election. Trump’s victory…

Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh beat Katie Ledecky in the 800m freestyle in Florida on Thursday night, ending the American star’s 13-year lead in the long-distance event Years of undefeated record.The 17-year-old McIntosh hit the wall with a national record time of 8 minutes, 11.39 seconds, beating Ledecky’s time of 8 minutes, 17.12 seconds set at the Southern Sectional Championships in Orlando. The previous Canadian record was 8 minutes, 20.19 seconds, set by Brittany MacLean at the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships.Ledecky, the three-time defending Olympic 800-meter champion and one of the most dominant swimmers in the history of the sport, had…

The president is not a crook. But there may be something more unforgivable in the court of public opinion. The president is old.That is what will linger from Joe Biden’s pyrrhic victory at the hands of the justice department on Thursday. True, he will not face criminal charges over his handling of highly classified documents when a private citizen, despite an awkward photo revealing papers stashed in a broken cardboard box in his garage, according to special counsel Robert Hur.But most striking among the reasons that Hur gave for his decision was that 81-year-old Biden “would likely present himself to…

British pair Tom Daley and Noah Williams secured their place at the Paris Olympics by winning silver in the men’s 10m synchronized event at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha.The pair secured their qualification for this year’s Olympic Games with a score of 84.48 points in their first international competition.Chinese players Lian Junjie/Yang Hao won the gold medal, and Ukrainian players Oleksiy Sereda/Kiril Bollyukh won the third place.Daley and Williams’ silver medal also set a new British diving record, becoming Britain’s seventh championship title, beating their best of six in Budapest in 2022, with Daley insisting the “real work” now…

Pakistan’s vote count following a national election has been hit by unusual delays, leading the country’s election panel to issue a late-night warning to polling officers, 10 hours after polls closed, to release results immediately.An “internet issue” was the reason behind the delay, said Zafar Iqbal, special secretary at the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), after he announced the first official results for a constituency, more than 10 hours after the polling process ended on Thursday.Pakistan’s electoral body announced results from four national parliamentary seats on Friday, more than 12 hours after polling ended, data from the Election Commission of…

The coronation would have to wait. Michael van Gerwen grabbed the spoils on night two of the Premier League when he beat Luke Littler in a decisive tie that felt like an epic in itself. Both started with 57 visits. When they returned, both had 180 visits. Both men missed the dart of the match. Littler, 80, lost two darts in his favorite double ten to win.Perhaps it was just too perfect for Littler to win his first Premier League title in the city that gave the world kebabs. But here again is evidence that the emergence of precocious 17-year-olds…

Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin were in the spotlight on Thursday night, as the divisive, Trump-supporting rightwing commentator interviewed the reclusive Russian autocrat.The interview, filmed in Moscow, was Putin’s first with a western media outlet since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.It marked a new level of infamy for Carlson, who has frequently criticized US support for Ukraine and has referred to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, as a “Ukrainian pimp” and “rat-like”.Carlson’s trip to Moscow had been widely criticised ahead of the interview. But the opening of the two-hour conversation between the former Fox News host and Putin…