BANGKOK: Three years after his teenage son was struck by lightning and died, Marco Petrovski has filed lawsuits against Malaysian club Melaka United and the Football Association of Malaysia (Fam), claiming safety failures. On April 5, 2016, Australian goalkeeper Stefan Petrovski was hit by lightning while training with Melaka United.
Spain’s Prado unveiled Wednesday the restoration of “The Annunciation”, a 15th-century altarpiece by Renaissance painter Fra Angelico ahead of the museum’s bicentenary celebrations. Experts worked for nearly a year at the Madrid museum to enhance the colours of the altarpiece, one of the best known works by the Italian painter
Leonardo da Vinci may have suffered traumatic nerve damage that left him with a “claw hand”, impairing his ability to paint in later life, a new study said. The damage could have been the result of a fainting episode, according to Italian research published Friday in the British Royal Society
MIAMI: Along with the venomous lionfish, the Burmese python is perhaps the least welcome invasive species in Florida: lacking any natural predators, it has happily chomped its way through the state’s wildlife. And that is why Tom Rahill spends his nights stalking through the Everglades trying to kill the snakes.
SINGAPORE: Singapore has reported its first ever case of monkeypox, brought in by a Nigerian man thought to have contracted the rare virus by eating bushmeat at a wedding. Symptoms in humans of monkeypox – which is endemic in parts of Central and Western Africa – include lesions, fever, muscle
TOKYO: Japanese electronics giant Panasonic reported a boost in yearly net profits on Thursday but offered a pessimistic forecast for the year ahead thanks to slower sales of industrial systems and reform costs. The firm said annual net profit was up 20.4 percent on-year at 284.1 billion yen, with asset
HONG KONG: Asian markets once again fell into the red on Thursday as investors anxiously await the start of high-stakes trade talks between China and the United States. After several rounds of negotiations, the two-day meeting in Washington, which kicks off later in the day, has taken on huge significance
WASHINGTON: China rejected US accusations of backtracking in trade talks and warned it would not “capitulate to any pressure” as the two sides head into make-or-break negotiations on Thursday. After months of seemingly collegial talks, Chinese trade envoy Liu He returns to the bargaining table in the US capital under
TOKYO: Japan’s SoftBank Group on Thursday reported annual net profit jumped more than a third, helped by gains from its investment fund which has ploughed billions into some of the hottest names in the tech sector. Net profits for the financial year ending March at the telecoms and investment group
AMSTERDAM: An emotional Mauricio Pochettino called his Tottenham Hotspur players “super-heroes” after they reached the Champions League final for the first time in their history as a Lucas Moura hat-trick saw them come back from the dead to beat Ajax on Wednesday and leave the Dutch side heartbroken. Ajax’s improbable