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Inventor denies killing reporterStockholm

An eccentric Danish inventor who is being

held over the grisly death of a Swedish reporter whose headless torso was found at sea has denied killing her and mutilating her body, police said Friday.

“The suspect denies homicide and desecration of a human body,” Copenhagen police said in a statement, referring to Peter Madsen, 46, who is being held on suspicion of killing 30-year-old Kim Wall. 

Madsen, held in formal custody since August 12 on suspicion of “negligent manslaughter”, says Wall died in an accident on board a submarine he built, claiming that he subsequently dumped

her body in the sea south of Copenhagen.

And he denies cutting off her legs and limbs. 

Investigators say Wall’s body was “deliberately” mutilated and weighed down with a metal object to try and avoid detection. 

She was last seen on board Madsen’s 60-foot (18-metre) Nautilus submarine on August 10 when she went to interview him. Investigators found traces of her blood inside the vessel. 

Danish prosecutors are seeking to charge him with murder and have until September 5 to request an extension of his custody.

Psychiatric evaluationKnown for his foul temper and fallouts with former colleagues,

Madsen, who describes himself as an “inventepreneur” on his website, is to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Wall was a freelance journalist who had reported for The New York Times and The Guardian.  Her boyfriend

reported her missing a day after the interview with Madsen.

That same day, Madsen was rescued from waters between Denmark and Sweden shortly before his submarine sank.

Investigators recovered and searched the sunken vessel, which police believe Madsen sank intentionally.

Madsen, who is reportedly married, has a reputation for histrionics and has angered many along his way. 

The Nautilus was the biggest private sub ever made when Madsen built it in 2008 with help from a group of volunteers. 

The volunteers were engaged in a dispute over the Nautilus between 2014 and 2015 before members of the

board decided to transfer the vessel’s ownership to Madsen, according to the website. 

‘Cursed’In 2015, Madsen had sent a text message to two members of the board claiming: “there is a curse on Nautilus”. 

“That curse is me. There will never be peace on Nautilus as long as I exist,” Madsen wrote, according to a post written by the volunteers in Danish on the website.

Danish police are still searching for the clothes Wall wore on the submarine: an orange fleece, a skirt and white sneakers.

According to her former class mate and close friend Yan Cong, the sneakers had sentimental value.

A file photo shows Peter Madsen (R), builder and captain of the private submarine “UC3 Nautilus” as he talks to a police officer in Dragoer Harbor south of Copenhagen

Clashes kill 32 as court Panchkula

At least 32 people were

killed Friday when clashes broke out in northern India after a court convicted a controversial

re l ig ious leader of

raping two of h i s

followers, sparking fury among tens of thousands of supporters who had gathered for the verdict.

Authorities rushed hundreds of troops to the city of Panchkula after followers of guru Ram Rahim Singh torched cars went on a rampage throwing rocks and attacking television vans and setting fire to dozens of private vehicles.

More than 100,000 were estimated to have gone to the city in Haryana state, where India’s federal investigations agency had set up a special court to rule on the charge that he had raped two female devotees.

Authorities said 32 people had been killed and around 180 injured after rioting broke out in Haryana, where many areas were now under curfew.

“The situation continues to be grim but we are gaining some ground. Hopefully we will mobilise more forces in the night to take control,” a senior state official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

He said the large crowd went berserk soon after the verdict was pronounced and attacked police and set vehicles afire before the police took action.

Most of the fatalities were caused by gunshots, the officer said.

Ram Rahim Singh has a vast following in many states of northern India, including in Haryana, where he runs a spiritual movement that claims to have millions of devotees around the world.

Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in Panchkula, where mobile internet services had earlier been cut off.

“I don’t understand what the government and the police are doing. We have been feeling unsafe since yesterday and all our fears came true today,” local resident Sandeep Singh told AFP.

“Why did the police not act swiftly and forcefully against these followers?”

As news of Singh’s conviction spread there were reports of violence in several districts of neighbouring Punjab state and on the outskirts of the capital Delhi, which borders Haryana.

Authorities imposed curfew in at least four districts of Punjab to curb spread of violence.

“Two train stations have been burnt in Punjab and two empty (train) coaches have been set on fire in Delhi’s Anand Vihar station,” said Neeraj Sharma, a spokesman for Indian Railways.

Hundreds of trains passing through Punjab and Haryana have been cancelled, he said.

convicts guru of rape

Indian security forces walk next to burning vehicles set alight by rioting followers of a religious leader convicted of rape in Panchkula

This file photo shows Indian chief of the reli-gious sect Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh at a news conference to launch the score for his film ‘MSG-2 The Messenger’ in Mumbai.

Stokes, Root rescueEngland

Leeds

England’s Ben Stokes made the most of

being dropped twice to score a hundred that took the shine off an improved bowling display by the West Indies on the first day of the second Test at Headingley

yesterday.Stokes’s score of exactly 100

was the cornerstone of England’s modest 258 all out.

Yet a good day for the West Indies, 19 for one in reply at stumps, could have been so much better.

Both Stokes and England captain Joe Root, who made 59 after winning the toss, were dropped in the slips in single figures.

Stokes was missed again on 98, with the three errors effectively costing the West Indies some 142

runs.Recalled fast bowler Shannon

Gabriel led the attack with four wickets for 51 runs in 17 overs and new-ball partner Kemar Roach took four for 71 in 19.5.

This was still an encouraging display by the West Indies given their utterly inept performance in the field during an innings and 209-run defeat inside three days in the inaugural day/night Test in Britain at Edgbaston last week that saw them go 1-0 down in this three-match series.

Conditions in what was a standard red-ball clash looked set fair for batting when Root won the toss on a straw-coloured pitch beneath blue skies. Yet England still slumped to 71 for four shortly after lunch.

Gabriel had bowled 24 no-balls in a pink-ball warm-up fixture against

Derbyshire prior to the first Test. But he soon found his range in Leeds.

Early collapse Alastair Cook, who made 243 at

Edgbaston, fell for 11 yesterday when England’s all-time leading Test run-scorer edged Gabriel low to Kyle Hope at third slip.

Both Tom Westley and Mark Stoneman, each looking to cement their Test places, were dismissed cheaply by Roach to leave England struggling at 37 for three.

They should have been 44 for four when Root nicked Gabriel only for Kieran Powell to drop the routine chance at first slip.

When Dawid Malan, fresh from a maiden Test fifty at Edgbaston, played onto West Indies captain Jason Holder for eight, England were,

however, 71 for four.But with England on 100 for

four, second slip Kraigg Brathwaite dropped Stokes off Roach.

To make matters worse for the West Indies, the edge went for four and left-handed batsman Stokes then drove Roach to the extra-cover rope.(AFP)

Saturday, August 26, 2017 21SPORTS

ScoreboardEngland 1st InningsA. Cook c K Hope b Gabriel 11M. Stoneman c Dowrich b Roach 19T. Westley lbw b Roach 3J. Root c Blackwood b Bishoo 59D. Malan b Holder 8B. Stokes c Dowrich b Gabriel 100J. Bairstow c Holder b Gabriel 2M. Ali c Chase b Roach 22C. Woakes c Dowrich b Roach 23S. Broad b Gabriel 0J. Anderson not out 0Extras (b2, lb3, w4, nb2) 11Total (all out, 70.5 overs, 319 mins) 258West Indies 1st InningsK. Brathwaite not out 13K. Powell c Cook b Anderson 5D. Bishoo not out 1Extras 0Total (1 wkt, 12 overs, 48 mins) 19

Group stage

2017 / 2018Champions League

PSG

CSKA Moscow

Spartak Moscow

Qarabag

Benfica

Napoli

Shakhtar Donetsk

Besiktas

Barcelona

Manchester City

RB Leipzig

Celtic

Bayern Munich

Atletico Madrid

Feyenoord

Basel

Chelsea

Roma

Tottenham

Monaco Real Madrid

Borussia Dortmund

Sporting Lisbon

Olympiakos

Manchester United

Porto

Liverpool

APOEL

Juventus

Sevilla

Anderlecht

Maribor

Source: UEFA

Group A Group B Group C Group D

Group E Group F Group G Group H

US Open : Federer could face Nadal in semisNew York

World number one Rafael Nadal

could face third-ranked Roger Federer in the semi-finals of the US Open under the draw unveiled yesterday.

Swiss star Federer, a 19-time Grand

Slam champion who won this year’s Wimbledon and Australian Open titles, has never faced Spanish legend Nadal on the New York hardcourts in the year’s final Grand Slam tournament.

Nadal, a 15-time major champion who this year won his 10th French Open title, owns a 23-14 edge in his career rivalry with Federer, but the Swiss has won their past four meetings, including at this year’s Australian Open final.

Nadal begins his quest for a third US Open crown after 2010 and 2013 against Serbian Dusan Lajovic. He could face Frenchman Richard Gasquet in the third round, a foe he has defeated in all 15 of their previous meetings.

The 31-year-old Spaniard

could meet Czech Tomas Berdych in the fourth round and Bulgarian seventh seed Grigor Dimitrov in the quarter-finals.

Federer, 36, opens his run in the Flushing Meadows fortnight against American Frances Tiafoe and could meet Australian Nick Kyrgios in the fourth round as well as Austrian seventh seed Dominic Thiem in the quarter-finals. Tiafoe upset Germany’s Alexander Zverev in the second round at Cincinnati last week.

British second seed Andy

Murray plays American Tennys Sandgren in his first match with French 16th seed Lucas Pouille a possible round of 16 opponent and French eighth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga potentially awaiting him in the quarter-finals.

Tsonga’s first match will be against Romanian Marius Copil.

Fourth seed Zverev and Croatian fifth seed Marin Cilic are also possible last-eight opponents. Zverev opens against a qualifier while Cilic begins against Frenchman Gilles Simon. (AFP)

BTC Classification Tournament today DT News NetworkManama

The third Bahrain Tennis Club (BTC) Classification Tournament gets

underway today with six doubles matches scheduled at the BTC premises in Juffair.

“The organizing committee rank the players involved in two categories, men’s doubles and super doubles. The players compete in each category and matches will be concluded on Wednesday with the final,” Khalid Nass, head of the sports activity committee at BTC said.

Today the top match is the pairing of Nasser Khanji and Yousef Qaed against Yousef Fakhro and Khaled Qayoom, among other matches are the meeting between Khalid Janahi and Khalid Nass against Abdul Rahman Janahi and Ali Khonji.

Manama beat Al Malkiya to lift Bahrain Super CupAidan Payne/DTNNaidan@dt.bh

Manama

Manama Club defeated Al Malkiya 4-2 on penalties to win the Bahrain Super Cup after

the match was tied at 1-1 last night at the Khalifa Sports City Stadium in Isa Town. Manama took the lead through Mohammed Sayed Adnan after 75 minutes, then in the 89th minute Israa Hamwiah equalised to force the penalty shootout.

Both sides recorded maiden trophy victories in Bahrain’s top flight football last season, with Al Malkiya clinching its first league with 33 points ahead of Riffa (31) and defending champions Al Hidd (31), while Al Malkiya won the Kings Cup following a 2-1 victory over Muharraq.

England’s Ben Stokes celebrates reaching his century

Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot while practicing prior to the start of the 2017 US Open