NEW YORK: Pinterest got off to a flying start on Wall Street Thursday in the market debut for the San Francisco-based visual discovery service, a positive sign for the wave of Silicon Valley firms planning stock listings. Pinterest shares leapt 28 percent to close at $24.40 after its initial public
NAPLES: Out of Europe and without a trophy, Carlo Ancelotti’s first season at Napoli has fallen short of expectations. Alexandre Lacazette’s superb curling 36th-minute free-kick from 25 metres out crushed the dream, throwing the Stadio San Paolo into despair. Napoli never gave the impression of a fightback with Unai Emery’s
MILAN: Juventus turn the page on yet another Champions League disappointment as they focus on sealing an eighth consecutive Serie A title at home on Saturday. Massimiliano Allegri’s side host Fiorentina needing just one more point to lift the Scudetto for a 35th time, days after a shock 2-1 defeat
LONDON: The third act of Manchester City and Tottenham’s trilogy has some living up to do after a Champions League classic saw Spurs prevail on away goals to reach the semi-finals. However, their Premier League meeting on Saturday has huge implications for both City’s bid to win the title and Spurs’
SHANGHAI: China has banned for life three runners who broke the rules at the recent Boston Marathon, accusing them of giving the country a bad name and vowing to root out cheats. Marathon running is growing fast in China but there have been numerous instances of cheating, including a woman
LOS ANGELES: Michael Jordan described Tiger Woods’ Masters comeback as the “greatest ever” and added he called the golfing icon to personally congratulate him. “To me it is the greatest comeback I have ever seen,” Jordan told The Athletic. “I never thought he’d get back physically. He didn’t think he’d
PARIS: Pedro Rodriguez starred as Chelsea withstood a spirited Slavia Prague fightback in a wild 4-3 victory to qualify for the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday, while Arsenal knocked out Napoli after an assured display in Italy. Leading 1-0 from last week’s first leg in the Czech capital, Chelsea appeared
NEW DELHI: Voters across India cast ballots yesterday in the second round of the country’s mega elections amid more deadly violence including a poll worker gunned down by Maoist rebels. More than 157 million of India’s 900 million voters are eligible to cast ballots on the second of seven days
LOS ANGELES: An American teenager whose obsession with the Columbine High School massacre set off school closures and a manhunt in the Denver area has been found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said Wednesday. Media reports said 18-year-old Sol Pais’s body was discovered near the base of
LIMA : Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in hospital on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head at his home as police were about to arrest him in a sprawling corruption case. He was 69. The health ministry said Garcia died at 10AM of “a massive cerebral haemorrhage from a
