PORTO ALEGRE: Gabriel Jesus scored the winning spot-kick in a tense penalty shoot-out as Brazil exorcised their demons to beat Paraguay on Thursday and reach the Copa America semi-finals. Twice before in 2011 and 2015 Paraguay had beaten Brazil at this same stage on penalties at the South American extravaganza.
SPIELBERG: Lewis Hamilton made clear Thursday that his personal focus at this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix did not include Mercedes’ bid to equal McLaren’s record run of 11 successive victories. McLaren set their long-standing record in 1988 when the team was led by Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna and together
PORTO ALEGRE: Fuming Brazil coach Tite raged at the state of the Gremio Arena pitch after the Copa America hosts squeezed past dogged Paraguay on penalties to reach the semi-finals. Brazil played more than 40 minutes with a numerical advantage following the sending off of Fabian Balbuena but couldn’t find
PARIS: Stina Blackstenius ended one drought in the women’s World Cup last 16 and now she, and Sweden, need to end another on Saturday and beat Germany at a major tournament for the first time in almost three decades. “We are tired of hearing about this damn German ghost,” said
MELBOURNE: Experienced Frenchman Erick Mombaerts, who had stints at Paris Saint-Germain and Toulouse, has been appointed head coach of Melbourne City in Australia’s A-League. City’s cross-town rivals Melbourne Victory also unveiled a new coach Friday in German Marco Kurtz, who won a Bundesliga title as a player with Borussia Dortmund.
SPIELBERG: A plan to revert to 2018 tyres to enliven the racing failed to gain approval at a meeting of Formula One teams yesterday. The teams met tyre suppliers Pirelli, representatives of the sport’s organisers and ruling body and several drivers ahead of this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix. The meeting
A painting thought to be a “lost masterpiece” by Italian painter Caravaggio has been bought two days before it was due to go under the hammer in France. “Judith and Holofernes”, which was found under an old mattress in the attic of a house in the French city of Toulouse, was
STOCKHOLM: Shares in Hennes and Mauritz surged on Thursday, boosted by quarterly results pointing to a budding recovery in the Swedish fashion retailer’s earnings. About an hour into trading on the Stockholm stock exchange they stood 9.4 percent higher at 158.84 kronor. H&M, which has been lagging in a relentless
LONDON: British group Kingfisher, Europe’s biggest home-improvements retailer, on Thursday announced it has appointed the head of Carrefour’s Asia operations, as its chief executive. Frenchman Thierry Garnier will take the reins from Veronique Laury in the autumn and will be based in London, Kingfisher said in a brief statement. Laury,
HONG KONG: The 22-year-old son of a business tycoon has dropped US$117 million on a luxury home in Hong Kong, the latest purchase to highlight the huge wealth gap in a city currently rocked by political protests. The crammed financial hub regularly tops various rankings of cities with the least