The final day of a women's exhibition tournament in Florida featuring several WTA players was washed out by rainstorms, organizers announced.
"It's disappointing, but overall the team at UTR are so excited to bring back tennis and live sports across the world," said tournament director Stephen Amritraj.
"We've gotten so much interest globally from people who love what we're doing." Heavy downpours in the West Palm Beach area wiped out the final portion of a match between Danielle Collins and Ajla Tomljanovic.
The winner was scheduled to meet Alison Riske in Sunday's UTR Pro Match Series final.
Sunday's third place consolation match was also called off. All matchers were played in a shortened format in which the first player to four games with a two-game lead wins the set.
The three-day, four player exhibition tournament was billed by organizers as the first professional women's tournament in the US since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in mid-March.
Riske, at 19th in the world, .

Rain wipes out Florida women's exhibition event

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Around Europe, football is waking up from the coronavirus shutdown, but it is different to before for players and supporters and it is changing behind the scenes too.
While the German Bundesliga returns in stadiums devoid of fans, the sport is preparing for an economic crisis which will impact all levels of the game.
That will be particularly visible in the transfer market, where it has become the norm to see leading clubs splash out 100 million-euro fees.
Damien Comolli has observed events from afar having left his role at Turkish club Fenerbahce in January.
The ex-Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur sporting director told AFP he foresees fees dropping by "between 30 and 50 percent compared to the usual prices, and a reduction of 70-75 percent in terms of activity."
In particular, the loss to clubs from matchday revenue as a result of games being played behind closed doors will impact budgets.
When it comes to signing players, those in charge of recruitment at clubs have also simply not .

Football clubs forced to rethink recruitment strategy as virus impacts transfer market

Sweet-toothed striker Timo Werner bagged a hat-trick as RB Leipzig thrashed Mainz 5-0 to climb back to third in the Bundesliga and keep their dwindling title hopes just about alive.
When asked how he would celebrate, Werner, 24, told reporters "there will definitely be some sweets involved".
Julian Nagelsmann's side sit seven points behind leaders Bayern Munich ahead of the reigning champions' top-of-the-table clash against second-placed Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday.
Leipzig bounced back from their draw with Freiburg last weekend in their first match since the coronavirus lockdown in style, with Werner moving to within three goals of Bayern's Robert Lewandowski at the top of the league scoring charts.
Werner, who has been linked with several of Europe's biggest clubs, has scored 24 Bundesliga goals this season including two trebles.
Lewandowski scored his 27th league goal this term in Bayern's 5-2 win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday.
Leipzig's victory was the 10th win for a ...

Sweet-toothed Werner bags hat-trick as Leipzig trounce Mainz

President Donald Trump on Sunday further limited travel from the world's coronavirus hotspots by denying entry to foreigners coming from Brazil, which is second to the US in the number of confirmed cases.
Trump had already banned certain travelers from China, Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland and, to a lesser extent, Iran. He has not moved to ban travel from Russia, which has the world's third-highest caseload.
Trump had said last week that he was considering limiting travel from Brazil.  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany cast the step announced Sunday as another decisive action to protect our country by Trump, whose management of the crisis has come under sharp scrutiny.
The US leads the world with more than 1.6 million confirmed coronavirus cases and a death toll that is expected to surpass 100,000 later this week, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Brazil, now Latin America's hardest-hit country, is second, with more than 347,000 cases and more than ..

White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil

La Liga president Javier Tebas has said he hopes the resumed season will start on June 11 with the Seville derby, "one game for all of Spain".
"It is possible that on Thursday, June 11, we could have the first Liga game," Tebas told Movistar Plus television.
"We would like it to be the Seville derby -- Real Betis v Sevilla -- at 2200 (2000 GMT).
"It would be our hope to have a single league game" that day so that the teams "play exclusively for all of Spain, almost as a tribute and to what has happened."
Tebas confirmed that in the next few days there will be an official announcement concerning the restart date of the championship which was shelved in March because of the coronavirus.
"But what is certain is that it will be the weekend of the 12th."
On Saturday, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that La Liga could resume from its lockdown in the week beginning June 8.
All matches will be behind closed doors.
"The resumption of major professional sporting competitions and .

Liga boss wants June 11 Seville derby to restart season

Efforts must be made to significantly increase the number of uniformed women personnel in the UN peacekeeping missions, an Indian woman commander stationed in Congo has said, underlining that they serve as role models for girls and women everywhere.
Women represent only four per cent of the total UN military peacekeepers, Captain Preeti Sharma, Commander of the Indian Female Engagement Team (FET) with the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), told PTI in a video interview from Sake town.
Currently, there are very less female peacekeepers in the UN. If you have to address 50 per cent of the world's population, then it is very important that the number of women uniformed peacekeepers is increased to enable UN peacekeeping missions to effectively address challenges faced by women and girls, she said.
A bird cannot fly with a single wing. If women are not empowered and uplifted, it is not possible for any society to progress, .

Number of uniformed women personnel in UN peacekeeping must be raised: Indian commander

One of New Zealand's largest media organizations will be sold for a single dollar to its chief executive, the owners announced Monday.
The organization Stuff prints many of the nation's daily newspapers and runs a popular news website of the same name. It employs about 900 staff, including 400 journalists.
Owned by Australia's Nine Entertainment, Stuff faced financial challenges before the coronavirus pandemic struck and has since seen advertising revenues plunge.
In a statement to the Australian stock market, Nine said Stuff would be sold to CEO Sinead Boucher in a management buyout deal that will be completed by the end of the month.
We have always said that we believe it is important for Stuff to have local ownership and it is our firm view that this is the best outcome for competition and consumers in New Zealand, said Hugh Marks, the CEO of Nine.
Boucher said her plan is to transition the ownership by giving staff a direct stake as shareholders in the company.
Local ownership ...

CEO buys struggling New Zealand media company for $1

Experts on a special government panel have approved a plan to remove a coronavirus state of emergency from Tokyo and four other remaining prefectures, paving the way for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to declare entirely ending the measure to allow businesses to gradually resume.
Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura told reporters that experts on a government-commissioned panel approved the plan to end the state of emergency that has lasted for more than a month and a half.
Abe is to officially declare the end of the state of emergency later Monday after endorsement from parliamentary committees.
Nishimura said lifting of the emergency does not mean the end of the pandemic. He said the goal is to minimize next possible recurrences of infections while balancing preventive measures and the economy.
Abe declared the state of emergency on April 7, first in parts of Japan including Tokyo, expanded it to the entire nation later in the month and extended it until the end of May.
Unlike a ...

Japan set to end Tokyo's state of emergency

Millions of children in Australia have returned to schools in the states of New South Wales and Queensland as numbers of COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the country fall.
The two states on Monday joined the less populous Western Australia and South Australia states and the Northern Territory in resuming face-to-face learning, instead of studying from home online.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said on Monday students and teachers had to observe one key message: Stay home if sick.
We're not out of the woods yet. We have to take each day as it comes, each week as it comes and we keep our fingers crossed that Queenslanders will continue to flatten that curve, Palaszczuk said.
The remaining jurisdictions -- Victoria and Tasmania states and the Australian Capital Territory -- plan to send students back to school in stages through early June.
While New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, and Queensland, the third-most populous state, agree on reopening schools, ...

Millions of kids in Australia return to schools

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern barely skipped a beat when an earthquake struck during a live television interview Monday morning.
She interrupted Newshub host Ryan Bridge to tell him what was happening at the parliament complex in the capital, Wellington.
"We're just having a bit of an earthquake here Ryan, quite a decent shake here, she said, looking up and around the room. But, um, if you see things moving behind me.
New Zealand sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and is sometimes called the Shaky Isles for its frequent quakes.
Monday's magnitude 5.6 quake struck in the ocean about 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Wellington, according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake hit just before 8 am and was felt by thousands of New Zealanders who were getting ready to start their work weeks. It was strong enough to rattle food from shelves and stop train services.
But there were no reports of major damage or injuries.
Ardern continued on with her interview, telling the host 

New Zealand leader carries on with TV interview during quake

South Africa will further ease restrictions in its graded lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus allowing conditional sale of alcohol and certain economic activities from June 1, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday evening in a national broadcast.
But most of the country's metropolitan cities, including three in the economic hub of Gauteng province, have been identified as COVID-19 hotspots which will receive special attention.
Ramaphosa said the first 10 weeks of the national lockdown have left South Africa in a much better state than most other countries that were similarly poised.
There are now 22,583 confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa, and around half of those infected have recovered. A total of 429 people have died due to COVID-19 so far.
"We have known all along that the lockdown would only delay the spread of the virus, but that it would not be able to stop it. Until there is a vaccine available to all, the coronavirus will continue to spread in our ...

Coronavirus lockdown: S African president announces further easing of curbs from June 1

Turkey's health minister on Sunday announced 32 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the death toll in the country to 4,340.
Fahrettin Koca also tweeted there were 1,141 new infections confirmed in the past 24 hours. The total number of infections has reached 156,827.
Turkey ranks ninth in a global tally by Johns Hopkins University but experts believe the number of infections could be much higher than reported.More than 118,000 people have recovered, according to the he alth ministry statistics.
The Muslim holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, traditionally a time of gathering, was marked by a nationwide lockdown, the first of its kind in Turkey to combat the coronavirus. Previous weekend and holiday lockdowns affected a maximum of 31 out of 81 provinces.
Senior citizens above 65 were allowed out for a few hours for a third Sunday. People under 20 and above 65 have been under full lockdown, but days and times outside have been allotted according to age groups as part .

Turkey confirms 32 deaths, 1,141 new COVID-19 cases

The number of confirmed new infections in Italy rose by just 531 in the past 24 hours, with half in the populous northern region of Lombardy that has borne the brunt of Italy's epidemic.
The civil protection agency on Sunday reported just 50 deaths but officials said that Lombardy had not updated its toll.
More than half of Italy's regions reported new cases in the single digits - with the caveat that tests are being administered only to those who are hospitalized, have symptoms or have been in close contact with someone who is positive for the virus.
The number of people in intensive care dropped to 553. Italy is in the first full week of loosened restrictions, with bars and restaurants open as well as beaches and parks. Mayors in many cities have complained about nightlife spilling out into streets and piazzas with many showing a casual attitude toward physical distancing and lax mask habits.

Italy has 531 infections in the past 24 hours

President Donald Trump says he's doing fine after taking a two-week course of an unproven malaria drug for COVID-19, declaring, I'm still here.
Trump was addressing his disclosure last week that he was taking hydroxychloroquine and a zinc supplement.
He said the regimen was meant to help prevent infection after two White House staffers tested positive for the coronavirus.
Trump has spent weeks pushing the drug as a potential treatment or prophylaxis for COVID-19 against the cautionary advice of many of his administration's top medical professionals.
The drug has the potential to cause significant side effects in some patients and has not been shown to combat the new coronavirus.
Speaking in an interview aired on the Sunday news program Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, Trump said he just finished the course of drug treatments and to the best of my knowledge, here I am. He added that if it's something that helps, that's all I want.

Trump says he has finished taking hydroxychloroquine as coronavirus therapy

Joel Johnson hadn't owned a bicycle since he was 15, but the pandemic changed all that.
Johnson first bought a multipurpose bike to avoid the germs on crowded buses and trains but then discovered a passion for pedaling around San Francisco, where some streets are now closed to traffic. He has been taking regular morning rides to stay fit and weekend excursions in leafy Golden Gate Park or along the Pacific Ocean. He has since upgraded to a new road bike.
It's addictive, he said.
Johnson, 25, is among thousands of cooped-up Americans snapping up new bicycles or dusting off decades-old bikes to stay fit, keep their sanity or have a safe alternative to public transportation. The pandemic is proving to be a boon for bike shops, which have seen a surge in demand, with people waiting in line at still-open shops and mechanics struggling to meet the demand.
All around the country and the world, bicycles are selling out and officials are trying to take advantage of the growing momentum by ...

Pandemic a boon for the bicycle as thousands snap them up

The US on Sunday announced that it will provide USD 6 million aid to Pakistan to support its effort in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
US ambassador to Pakistan, Paul Jones, in a video message said that the aid money will strengthen Pakistan's response by expanding training for healthcare workers who take care of patients in hospitals with severe cases of coronavirus; preventing the spread of coronavirus in healthcare facilities and providing a fourth mobile lab to test and treat Pakistanis living in virus hotspots.
Jones in the message also expressed good wished for Pakistan on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
"I would like to congratulate all Pakistanis on the completion of Ramazan, said Jones.
Jones also thanked Islamabad for its recent delivery of medical supplies as a gesture of friendship and partnership between the two countries.
The embassy said that the US government has now committed a total of USD 21 million since it declared Pakistan a priority country for ...

US to provide USD 6 million to Pakistan to fight coronavirus

The US government is expected to announce a ban on travel from Brazil due to the spread of coronavirus in Latin America's hardest-hit country.
National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien says the US wants to take every step necessary to protect the American people.  President Donald Trump already has banned travel from the United Kingdom, Europe and China, all of which have been hit hard by the virus. On Wednesday, Trump said he was considering barring entry to flights from Brazil.
O'Brien said Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation that he expects any ban would be temporary.
Brazil reported more than 347,000 COVID-19 cases as of Friday, second behind the US in the number of infections, according to a Johns Hopkins University count.
Brazil also has recorded more than 22,000 deaths, fifth-most in the world. There have been more than 96,000 US deaths.

US likely to ban travel from hard-hit Brazil

Two men died and 10 other people were injured in multiple shootings Sunday in St. Louis.
One man was shot several times inside his car in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood and later died at a hospital, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Another man was killed in separate shooting downtown that also left a man in critical condition.
Police did not provide additional details on that shooting.  Some of the other Sunday shootings include a man shot in the head who was in stable condition and four people who sought hospital treatment after yet another shooting.
Sunday's deaths come after two people were killed in separate shootings in the city within an hour on Saturday night. One of those shootings involved an adolescent boy who was shot in the chest by an acquaintance, according to police.

2 dead, 10 injured in multiple St. Louis shootings

A German state governor's proposal to end blanket coronavirus restrictions in his region, which would be a first for the country after a comparatively successful response to the pandemic, drew mounting criticism Sunday from other officials.
Bodo Ramelow, the governor of the eastern state of Thuringia, said Saturday that he hopes to lift the remaining statewide lockdown rules on June 6 and replace them with a concept of recommendations and fighting COVID-19 locally if infection figures rise.
It's not clear yet exactly how that would work, but Ramelow's idea centers on taking action in individual cities or counties if they report 35 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week. That's a lower threshold than the 50 that is currently the national standard.
In Germany, state governments are responsible for imposing and lifting lockdown restrictions. All 16 states currently have coronavirus rules, including physical distancing requirements and an obligation to wear masks in public ..

German governor's plan to end blanket virus rules criticized

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday that his country will give "a befitting response" to India in case of "any misadventure" against it.
"Pakistan wants peace and its policy of restraint should not be taken as weakness, Qureshi told the media in his native town of Multan after offering Eid prayers.
"A befitting response will be given to India if it goes for any misadventure against Pakistan," he was quoted as saying by the state-run Radio Pakistan.
Qureshi said he has contacted General Secretaries of the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, drawing their attention towards the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir.
The minister said he has also informed the chiefs of the two world bodies that India may launch a false flag operation against Pakistan to divert world attention from its own internal situation.

Qureshi says Pak will give 'befitting response' to India in case of 'any misadventure'

Australia's limited overs captain Aaron Finch feels compromises will have to be made for the cricketing world to get back on its feet in the post COVID-19 world, indicating that bilateral series could gain more precedence.
The health crisis has thrown international cricketing calendar haywire, making rescheduling of various bilateral series a major challenge.
"It will get to a point, not just for IPL but for all cricket, there'll be a compromise from a lot of different stakeholders - organisations, countries, players, the ICC - to get cricket back and countries thriving again," Finch was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz.
The ICC Board Meeting on Friday could set the tone for coming months, feels Finch.
"I think the ICC are meeting next week to start discussing the FTP (Future Tours Program) again. The next couple of weeks we'll have more idea what that looks like, what compromises will be made for different tournaments and countries.
"Everyone working together to get the best result for ..

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