MANCHESTER: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted on Saturday that Manchester United will have to improve significantly on their performance against West Ham if they are to knock Barcelona out of the Champions League. A much-changed United were unconvincing as they beat Manuel Pellegrini’s side 2-1 at Old Trafford to maintain their
AUGUSTA (United States): Francesco Molinari fired a flawless six-under par 66 on Saturday, seizing a two stroke lead over Tiger Woods and Tony Finau in a thrilling Masters third round at Augusta National. Italy’s Molinari, the reigning British Open champion, stayed patient through five opening pars as birdies broke out
AUGUSTA (United States): Phil Mickelson said he must flirt with Augusta National’s course record yesterday for any hope of winning the Masters but the five-time major champion says the round is in him. The 48-year-old American left-hander, who would become the oldest major winner in golf history with a victory
LOS ANGELES: World champion Marc Marquez maintained his domination at the Grand Prix of the Americas on Saturday, sweeping to yet another pole position as he chases a seventh straight victory in Texas. The Spanish MotoGP star bagged his seventh consecutive pole at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas after posting
WASHINGTON: The battle is on. Walt Disney Co. is bringing its biggest weapons to a new streaming service, including “Star Wars” and Marvel superheroes, in what is expected to be bruising war with Netflix and others for television dominance. The media-entertainment colossus announced its Disney+ streaming service would launch in
SAN FRANCISCO: Security researchers this week confirmed that they spotted new activity by hackers using “Triton” malware capable of doing real-world damage to oil, gas or water plants. The security firm FireEye said in a blog post that it had identified and was “responding to an additional intrusion by the attacker
NEW YORK: The Justice Department announced Friday that General Electric has agreed to pay $1.5 billion over subprime mortgages, finalizing a settlement on conduct prior to the 2008 financial crisis. GE had announced a preliminary agreement on the subprime case in January, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) said the matter
Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning though that unequal income and access to healthcare translates into far shorter lives for many. The UN health agency also stressed significant gender differences in life expectancy worldwide. On average, a child
A coalition of researchers, health organisations and patient groups on Wednesday launched an ambitious campaign to cure hepatitis B, a disease that kills twice as many people as malaria but gets far less attention. “Inexplicably, despite the huge human and economic toll of chronic hepatitis B (HBV), research remains largely underfunded,”
Canada said Thursday it aims to soon suspend the sales in this country a type of breast implant that has been linked to a rare form of cancer. The announcement comes after France banned the types of implants with a textured surface or polyurethane coating, and after the US Food