BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund coach Lucien Favre says his side have “nothing to lose” as they look to inflict more woe on crisis-hit Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena today. Niko Kovac was sacked last Sunday as Bayern coach after a 5-1 drubbing at Eintracht Frankfurt, with Hansi Flick
HONG KONG: Chinese online retail titan Alibaba is hoping to raise up to $15 billion in a Hong Kong IPO, a report said yesterday, which would be the city’s biggest listing for nine years. The share sale by Asia’s biggest company would also come as Hong Kong authorities battle months
SAN FRANCISCO: Walt Disney Co. on Thursday reported better-than-expected quarterly results, fuelled by the release of blockbuster films ‘Aladdin’ and ‘The Lion King’ as it prepared for its new streaming television service. Disney profit in the recently ended quarter was $1.05 billion, down from $2.3 billion a year ago, on
BY THOMAS CABRAL & JULES BONNARD Whistleblowers and digital pioneers have long been sounding the alarm about abuses of our privacy online. Now, a slew of tech entrepreneurs are bidding to turn growing consciousness about the problem into a money-making industry and many showcased their skills at this week’s Web
The sweet smell of candies wafts through downtown Cairo’s historic Bab al-Bahr street as the Muslim Prophet Mohammed’s birthday, known as “Al Mawlid Al Nabawi”, draws near. Decorated sugar dolls, horse-shaped candies and nut-filled treats are on display in shops lining the busy street near Islamic Cairo, a historic district
A French celebrity chef who is suing the Michelin guide for suggesting he used cheddar cheese in a souffle was named as one of the 10 immortals of haute cuisine Monday by the rival Gault & Millau guide. Marc Veyrat was given a permanent place in the new academy of the
French foie gras producers on Thursday shrugged off the decision by the city of New York to ban the controversial delicacy, saying their access to the US market was already barred by sanitary rules. New York city council voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to ban from 2022 the sale of the
XINGTAI (China): China yesterday jailed nine people for selling fentanyl to Americans, the result of a landmark joint probe, following Donald Trump’s fury at Beijing for its perceived inaction against Chinese suppliers fuelling the deadly opioid crisis in the United States. The United States has long accused China of being
SAN FRANCISCO: Two former Twitter employees and a third man were charged in San Francisco Federal Court Wednesday with spying on Twitter users critical of the Saudi royal family, the US Justice Department announced. The two Saudis and one US citizen allegedly worked together to unmask the ownership details behind
BEIRUT: Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon yesterday to demand a better future as an unprecedented anti-government protest movement entered its fourth week and continued to spread. Waving Lebanese flags, students and high school pupils massed in front of the education ministry in Beirut to voice their
