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Most Valuable Player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets were unanimous selections to the All-NBA first team, announced Sunday night. Both players received all 100 first-team votes from a media panel for 500 total points. Victor Wembanyama (498) of the San Antonio Spurs had one second-place vote to fall short of being a unanimous choice. Luka Doncic (91 first-place votes, 482 points) […]

KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 (Reuters) – Three people were killed and one was injured in an accident during lifeboat maintenance work at a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel operated by Malaysian state energy firm Petronas on Sunday, the firm said. Petronas, or Petroliam Nasional Berhad, said in a statement on Monday the incident occurred around 12:50 p.m. (0450 GMT) at FSO Sepat off Terengganu state on the east coast […]

By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, May 25 (Reuters) – The dollar slipped at the start of Asian trading on Monday as hopes of a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz pushed oil prices below $100 per barrel, even as the Trump administration played down the chances of reaching an agreement with Iran soon. Against the yen, the U.S. dollar was down 0.2% at 158.87 yen, while the euro rose […]

Standout forward Wilfried Zaha has played his final match for Charlotte FC, the player and team confirmed Sunday. Zaha’s loan expires June 30 and the World Cup pause leaves Charlotte’s next match on July 22 against Atlanta United. “The moment has come to say goodbye, but I just wanted to thank Charlotte, the city, for welcoming me and my family with open arms and allowing me to fall in love […]

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients at the heart of the latest outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo on Sunday evening, forcing the medical staff to scramble to evacuate the patients as gunfire rang out in the area. It was not immediately known if anyone was hurt in the attack on the Monbgwalu General Hospital but Dr. Richard Lokudu, the hospital’s medical […]

On the biggest racing day of the year in the United States, the country’s two most prominent racing series staged several tributes for Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR champion who died unexpectedly Thursday. Busch, who was 41, died following a bout with severe pneumonia and sepsis, three days before the Indianapolis 500 and the NASCAR Cup Series’ Coca-Cola 600. Busch was meant to drive in the latter. NASCAR held a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nasire Best, 21, fired shots toward a White House security checkpoint Saturday evening and Secret Service officers returned fire, according to the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department. A bystander was struck by gunfire. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

The WNBA on Sunday rescinded a technical foul given to Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers two nights earlier. Bueckers was driving toward the basket in the third quarter and drew a foul from Indya Nivar. Bueckers clapped three times after the whistle and was given the tech. “I was hyped and showing passion and joy and I got penalized for that,” the second-year guard told reporters Saturday. The WNBA’s decision […]

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, May 24 (Reuters) – Colombia’s presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigns on Sunday with rallies that drew massive crowds, ahead of a May 31 vote that analysts predict will result in weeks of heated and deeply polarizing debate ahead of a June 21 runoff. Leftist politician Ivan Cepeda, 63, was a narrow front-runner in the final poll before the May 31 vote. The poll, however, […]