COLOMBO (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka stepped up security Wednesday as political parties staged low-key May Day commemorations after calling off scheduled rallies following fears of Islamist bomb attacks. Officials said more police were deployed for cordon-and-search operations in many parts of the country, while the military also reinforced road blocks
MANILA (Philippines): Thousands of Philippine protesters marched in Labour Day rallies on Wednesday, torching a giant effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte as they attacked his economic policies’ impact on the nation’s poor. Rows of marchers flew red banners and chanted near the presidential palace in Manila, where they set fire
Surrounded by mottled brown-and-white cows basking in the Normandy spring sunshine, Patrick Mercier admits his prized raw-milk camembert doesn’t come cheap, but suggests not everyone should have to make the cheese this way. Few foods are more emblematic of France than the pungent white pucks of camembert. But camembert lovers
Looking for something to toast the final run of “Game of Thrones”? A French winemaker and fan of the epic fantasy series has developed his own version of Dornish wine, the favoured tipple of Tyrion Lannister. “Dark as blood and sweet as vengeance” — such is the wine favoured by
BARCELONA (Spain): It was ten years ago Alex Ferguson dubbed them the best team he had ever faced but those left from Barcelona’s iconic generation still have work to do. Three remain and when Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets and Gerard Pique line up against Liverpool today, they may wonder if
SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE (France): Thomas Tuchel on Monday blasted Neymar for hitting a fan who insulted Paris Saint-Germain players as they filed up to collect their French Cup losers’ medals. A 28-year-old delivery driver from Nantes had been filming the PSG players and making less than flattering comments about them when a
LONDON:Neither Trent Alexander-Arnold nor Andrew Robertson have Lionel Messi’s star power, but the buccaneering Liverpool defenders could play just as vital a role as the Barcelona captain in their mouth-watering Champions League semi-final. Virgil van Dijk has hogged the spotlight among Liverpool’s defenders with a superb campaign that earned the
MILAN (Italy): Midfielders Marten de Roon and Mario Pasalic scored late as Atalanta beat Udinese 2-0 to surge back into the top four in Serie A on Monday. The side from Bergamo move ahead of Roma into the final Champions League spot days after booking their ticket to the Coppa
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest smartphone and memory chip maker, reported a slump in first-quarter net profits Tuesday, in the face of a weakening chip market and rising competition. The result is the latest bad news for the tech titan, which last week was forced to delay the release
CHICAGO: Boeing executives successfully beat back shareholder challenges to their authority on Monday as the company signalled it expects regulators to take a key step next week in the effort to get the 737 MAX back in the air following two deadly crashes. The aerospace giant, under scrutiny following the
