Local professional football teams whose players are implicated in match-fixing in the future will face expulsion from their league, a senior sports official said Thursday.“If players in (the first-division) K-League are caught trying to throw matches from this July and on, their teams will be forced out of the league,” said Park Sun-kyoo, vice minister of culture, sports and tourism. “We will also

NEW YORK (AP) ― Citigroup Inc. has become the latest victim in a string of high-profile data thefts by hackers targeting some of the world’s best-known companies.The New York bank said Thursday that about 200,000 Citibank credit card customers in North America had their names, account numbers and email addresses stolen by hackers who broke into Citi’s online account site.The breach comes after dat

DALLAS (AP) ― Dirk Nowitzki scored 29 points, driving for the go-ahead dunk with 2:45 remaining, as the Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat 112-103 on Thursday to take a 3-2 lead in the NBA finals.Five years after going up 2-0 on the Heat, the Mavs finally got that elusive third victory, and can wrap up their first championship in Game 6 at Miami on Sunday.“We’re a very resilient team, you know t

WASHINGTON (AP) ― So much could have gone wrong as SEAL Team Six swept over Pakistan’s dark landscape, dropped down ropes into a compound lined by wall after wall, exchanged gunfire and confronted face to face the most dangerous terrorist in the world. The vital things went right.Just about every contingency the 25 commandos trained for came at them, rapidly, chaotically and dangerously, in their

SYDNEY (AFP) ― Protests by angry asylum seekers escalated at an Australian detention centre with rioters setting fire to buildings and police responding with tear gas and bean-bag bullets, officials said Friday.A group of around 250-300 detainees on Christmas Island ran amok, hurling bricks and lighting fires late Thursday, forcing the Australian Federal Police to intervene, the Department of Immi

SINGAPORE (AFP) ― Crude rose in Asian trade Friday, pushed up by ongoing tensions in the oil-rich Gulf region and impact from Japan’s nuclear crisis, analysts said.New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, gained $1.65 to $103.07 per barrel while Brent North Sea crude for May was up $1.56 to $116.46.“The initial reaction to Japan is a sharp drop in oil demand in the short-