REUTERS: Manchester City’s struggle to prevent the best teams from scoring against them and their central defenders could be targeted in Friday’s (Aug 7) Champions League clash against Spanish champions Real Madrid, former England skipper Wayne Rooney said. Pep Guardiola’s City lead Real after they won the away leg of […]
Year: 2020
VfB Stuttgart are ready to part ways with their top scorer Nicolas Gonzalez as long as the price is right, the club’s sports director Sven Mislintat said on Sunday. BERLIN: VfB Stuttgart are ready to part ways with their top scorer Nicolas Gonzalez as long as the price is right, […]
World 200 metres champion Noah Lyles has said fellow American sprinter Christian Coleman must show more responsibility after he was provisionally suspended for breaching whereabouts rules. REUTERS: World 200 metres champion Noah Lyles has said fellow American sprinter Christian Coleman must show more responsibility after he was provisionally suspended for […]
England’s Stuart Broad said he considered retiring after being omitted for last month’s series opener against West Indies at Southampton. LONDON: England’s Stuart Broad said he considered retiring after being omitted for last month’s series opener against West Indies at Southampton. England’s decision to go with James Anderson, Jofra Archer […]
LONDON: Britain is considering minting a coin to commemorate India’s independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, amid growing interest in recognizing the contributions of people from the black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities. British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak asked the Royal Mint Advisory Committee (RMAC) in a letter to pursue recognition […]
ZHENGZHOU: Biology student Ma Jingjing wandered the hall of a job fair in central China among other young Chinese hoping to find work in an economy crushed by the coronavirus pandemic. Ma, 26, is one of almost 9 million people graduating and entering the job market this year at a […]
LONDON: Two-thirds of British businesses say they are now “fully operational” after the coronavirus lockdown, up from half in June, according to a survey on Sunday (Aug 2). A further 21 per cent of the firms, polled in the first half of July by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), […]
SYDNEY: Five alleged members of an Australia-based organised crime ring have been charged after hundreds of kilos of cocaine were discovered in a plane that crashed after takeoff in Papua New Guinea, police said on Saturday (Aug 1). Australian Federal Police allege that “greed played a significant part in the […]
WASHINGTON: Connie Culp, the first US recipient of a partial face transplant, has died at age 57, according to Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic, where she underwent the delicate operation nearly 12 years ago. The health centre listed no cause of death in its tweet on Friday (Jul 31), quoting one of […]
WASHINGTON: The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday (Aug 1) with two US astronauts on board, beginning their journey back to Earth despite a storm threatening Florida. NASA footage showed the capsule drifting slowly away from the ISS in the darkness of space, closing […]