KUWAIT - State-run Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) appointed a new chief executive and suspended other top officials after the country paid $2.2 billion in damages to Dow Chemical Co over a scrapped plastics joint venture.Nizar Mohammad al-Asani replaced Farouk Zanki as CEO at the oil firm and the ...

  JOHANNESBURG     Test opening batsman Alviro Petersen will replace Graeme Smith inSouth Africa's squad for the ICC Champions Trophy inEnglandandWalesnext month. Petersen, 32, has not appeared in a one-day international since January 2012 but Andrew Hudson, convener of the South ...

islamabad - The caretaker government has appointed Riaz Ahmad Khan as new managing director of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL). Khan took charge on Tuesday.Following removal of Masood Siddiqui over different corruption charges, the interim government has given acting charge of OGDCL ...

MELBOURNEJames Faulkner has replaced fellow allrounder Moises Henriques in the Australia squad for the first two ODIs against West Indies. Henriques was ruled out for those games after undergoing surgery on his right index finger on Saturday. Faulkner, 22, who plays for Tasmania, has played one T20 ...

A senior Taliban commander has been appointed to succeed warlord Mullah Nazir, who orchestrated attacks in Afghanistan until his death in a US drone strike, officials said Friday.Nazir, killed late Wednesday and buried Thursday, was the main militant commander in the tribal district of South ...