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
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president has decided to move the capital of the world’s fourth most populous country away from the crowded main island of Java, but has yet to finalise a new location, the planning minister said yesterday. President Joko Widodo’s decision comes less than two weeks after private pollsters said
BENGKULU (Indonesia): Floods sparked by torrential rains have killed 29 people in Indonesia with a dozen more still missing, officials said yesterday, marking the latest calamity for a disaster-prone nation. Landslides and floods are common, especially during the monsoon season between October and April, when rains lash the vast Southeast
OUAGADOUGOU (Burkina Faso): Gunmen killed four worshippers and a pastor in the first jihadist attack on a church in Burkina Faso, security and local sources said yesterday. Sunday’s attack took place in the small northern town of Silgadji near Djibo, the capital of Soum province, and two others were reported
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean activist was yesterday fined for questioning the independence of the judiciary on Facebook, the latest case to highlight what critics say is the country’s heavy-handed approach towards dissent. While it is wealthy and modern in many ways, tightly-controlled Singapore is regularly criticised by rights groups for restricting
The Central Intelligence Agency opened its own account on Instagram Thursday with a picture of a desk of mysteries teased by the children’s game prompt “I spy with my little eye.” The photo tempts with intrigues and adventure: a wig suggesting disguises, maps of China and the Gulf, foreign banknotes,