LONDON: Kirtesh Patel’s market stall in north London has everything a royal fan could want, from Charles III keyrings and spoons to thimbles with the king’s face on them. The only thing missing is customers, with just a week to go until Charles’s set-piece coronation at Westminster Abbey on May
KHARTOUM: Heavy fighting again rocked Sudan’s capital Sunday as tens of thousands have fled the bloody turmoil and a former prime minister warned of the “nightmare” risk of a descent into full-scale civil war. Army forces clashed with paramilitaries in downtown Khartoum as deadly hostilities have entered a third week
LONDON: Brighton crushed Wolves 6-0 to improve their prospects of qualifying for Europe, while Crystal Palace effectively sealed their Premier League survival with a 4-3 win against struggling West Ham on Saturday. Beaten on penalties by Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals last weekend, Brighton can erase that painful
MADRID: Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz survived a major scare before beating Emil Ruusuvuori in three sets to reach the Madrid Open third round on Friday but admitted he “didn’t know what to do” at key parts of the match. World number two and US Open champion Alcaraz fought back to
LONDON: Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani and British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe made their third and final offers to buy Manchester United on Friday. Sheikh Jassim is in a bidding war with Ratcliffe after the pair emerged as the main contenders to buy the Premier League club from
BAKU: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc grabbed his third consecutive pole for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a nerve-jangling red-flag interrupted qualifying at Baku on Friday. Leclerc and Red Bull’s world champion Max Verstappen had posted identical times in the top 10 shoot-out before Leclerc produced a magical flying last lap to
NEW YORK: US oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron reported another quarter of heady profits Friday as both companies continued to direct large cash payments to shareholders. Strong refining results offset the effect of lower crude prices in the first quarter compared with the year-ago period, lifting profits and enabling ExxonMobil
PARIS: Credit ratings agency Fitch downgraded France’s debt worthiness a notch to “AA-” from “AA” on Friday, claiming the country’s “fiscal metrics are weaker than peers”. “Public finances, and in particular the high level of government debt, are a rating weakness,” Fitch said in a commentary on its rating action
COPENHAGEN: Greenland’s lawmakers on Friday got their first look at a draft constitution which the autonomous territory could rely on if it comes to negotiating independence from Denmark. Developed in secrecy over four years, the 49-paragraph document written in Greenlandic was presented by a constitutional commission to the territory’s parliament,
BRASÍLIA: Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday decreed six new Indigenous reserves, including a vast Amazon territory, after a freeze in such expansion under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Under the decrees, Indigenous people are guaranteed exclusive use of natural resources on these lands, viewed by scientists
