LONDON: Ruben Amorim credited set-piece routines as key to Manchester United’s 2-1 comeback win at Crystal Palace on Sunday. Palace took the lead in the 36th minute when Jean-Philippe Mateta converted a retaken penalty, extending pressure on United after Monday’s 1-0 home defeat to 10-man Everton. United responded early in
SALÉ: Morocco’s Mohammed VI Football Academy is strengthening its role as the country’s premier talent pipeline as the kingdom looks ahead to co-hosting the 2030 World Cup. Founded in 2010 in Salé and spread across 17 hectares, the academy hosts 121 boys aged 12 to 18, drawn from cities, rural
LIVERPOOL: Arne Slot vowed to “keep fighting” as Liverpool’s alarming slump continued, insisting his conversations with the club’s owners remain unchanged despite mounting pressure. Liverpool were thrashed 4-1 by PSV Eindhoven at Anfield in Wednesday’s Champions League clash — their ninth defeat in 12 matches across all competitions. Large sections
MEXICO CITY: The Mexican government will build a supercomputer with a processing capacity seven times greater than the current most powerful computer in Latin America, officials responsible for the project said Wednesday. Named Coatlicue, after a goddess in Aztec mythology representing the source of power and life, the computer will
MOSCOW: Russia said Wednesday that ongoing talks to end the war in Ukraine were “serious”, after earlier welcoming parts of a new US plan to halt the deadliest fighting in Europe since World War II. A deal was still a long way off, Russian officials warned, with US President Donald
BANGKOK: Eleven pink painted elephants marched through Bangkok yesterday, bowing in unison outside the Grand Palace in a lumbering tribute to the late queen mother. Sirikit, the mother of current King Maha Vajiralongkorn and wife of the longest-reigning Thai monarch, died in October at the age of 93. The royal
TOKYO: US President Donald Trump advised Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi not to provoke China over Taiwan’s sovereignty, the Wall Street Journal reported after a diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing. The row between Asia’s two biggest economies began after Takaichi said that Tokyo could intervene militarily in any attack
COLOMBO (Sri Lanka): Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 31 people across Sri Lanka this week with 14 others missing, authorities said yesterday. Most of the deaths occurred in the central teagrowing district of Badulla, where 16 people were buried alive when mountain slopes crashed onto
SINGAPORE: The World Robot Olympiad opened in Singapore on Wednesday with hundreds of international students, some as young as eight, set to compete using automatons to solve real-world problems. The annual competition, which began in 2004 in Singapore and was held in Turkey last year, highlights the importance of technology and
BEIJING: A train hit railway workers in southwest China yesterday, killing 11, local railway authorities said after the crash in Yunnan province. The train “used for seismic equipment testing” collided with construction workers at Kunming’s Luoyang Town station in the early morning, killing 11 and injuring two, the Kunming Railway