BARCELONA: Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona crushed Getafe 5-2 today to stay in the hunt for the La Liga title. Messi gave Barca an early lead with the help of a pin-point pass from Sergio Busquets but Getafe pulled level with an own goal by Clement Lenglet. The visitors […]
Month: April 2021
SAO PAULO: Brazil’s Olympic football coach, Andre Jardine, said yesterday he wants to pick star forward Neymar for the Games in Tokyo later this year, but admitted it would be “difficult.” Neymar inspired Brazil to their first Olympic gold medal in football on home soil in 2016, ending a six-decade […]
NEW YORK: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday (Apr 22) offered inventors US$100 million in prize money to develop ways to fight global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean. “Right now we’ve only got one planet,” said Musk, CEO of electric carmaker Tesla. “Even a 0.1 […]
TOKYO: Tokyo will not host its motor show this year because of the global pandemic, organizers said on Thursday (Apr 22), underscoring Japan’s struggle to contain both a resurgent outbreak and the widening economic fall-out. The cancellation comes as the government is expected to issue a third state of emergency […]
DUBLIN: Irish authorities expect new restrictions on the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine should have a “fairly minimal” impact on the country’s vaccine rollout in the coming months, the country’s acting chief medical officer said. Ireland said yesterday it would limit AstraZeneca’s vaccine to those over 60, but Ronan Glynn […]
WASHINGTON: US federal health agencies today recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine after six recipients developed a rare disorder involving blood clots, in a fresh setback to global efforts to tackle the pandemic. The move comes a week after European regulators said they had found a […]
DUBAI: Iran on Monday (Apr 12) blamed Israel for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged the centrifuges it uses to enrich uranium there, warning that it would take revenge for the assault. The comments by Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh represent the first official accusation […]
LONDON: Chelsea forward Tammy Abraham will not be handed game time just to boost his chances of making England’s squad for the European Championship as manager Thomas Tuchel told his players their personal ambitions won’t sway his choices. Abraham, 23, is Chelsea’s top scorer this season with 12 goals in […]
PARIS: Europe’s stuttering vaccine rollout faced multiple shocks today as EU regulators said they were reviewing side effects of the Johnson & Johnson shot and France further limited its use of the AstraZeneca jab. Much of the world is still in the clutches of the pandemic that has killed 2.9 […]
ISTANBUL: The United States will send two warships through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea next week, the Turkish foreign ministry said today, as tensions simmer between Russia and Ukraine. The ships will pass through the Bosphorus and enter the increasingly restless region on April 14 and 15 and leave […]