LONDON: Jordan Henderson says England are ready to fulfil the growing expectations around their vibrant young team as the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign starts with the Czech Republic’s visit to Wembley today. Gareth Southgate’s squad are back together for the first time in 2019, with the Czechs their first test
BERLIN: Leon Goretzka spared coach Joachim Loew a humiliating defeat with a second-half equaliser as a new-look Germany side were held to a 1-1 draw in Wednesday’s friendly against Serbia. Having controversially dropped veterans Jerome Boateng, Mats Hummels and Thomas Mueller from the national squad two weeks ago, coach Loew
LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo signing for Juventus last year was a shot in the arm for Serie A and bolstered the impression that the league is undergoing a renaissance Italy and AC Milan legend Franco Baresi told AFP. Baresi, widely considered to be one of the greatest ever defenders, said that
Old foes, millennials stand in way of Thai junta polls victory CHAIYAPHUM (Thailand): Thailand holds its first election in eight years tomorrow under rules concocted by a junta to keep it in power, but with the appeal of both old foes and the new millennial vote posing an unpredictable challenge.
SEOUL: More than 800 South Korean couples were livestreamed having sex in love motels, Seoul police said yesterday in one of the largest-scale and most intrusive examples yet of the country’s spycam epidemic. The hyper-wired South has been battling the increasingly widespread proliferation of so-called “molka”, or spycam videos, which
HANOI: Vietnam police busted a massive meth ring in a Ho Chi Minh City mansion allegedly run by a Chinese national who used a textile company as a cover for the operation, police and state media reported yesterday. Police on Wednesday stormed the luxury property in Vietnam’s largest city, guarded
OSLO: Norway’s central bank raised its key interest rate on Thursday and said it would continue to tighten its monetary policy due to the strength of the Scandinavian country’s economy, in contrast to a slowdown in much of the rest of the world. The key rate was hiked by 0.25
ROME: Italian police on Wednesday rescued 51 children taken hostage by their school bus driver, who doused the vehicle in petrol and set it alight apparently in protest at migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. Some of the children were tied up during the 30-minute ordeal, which saw the bus slam
SYDNEY: A boulder-sized fish of a kind known to “sink yachts” has washed up on an Australian beach. The 1.8 metre specimen – believed to be a Mola Mola, or ocean sunfish – came ashore near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia at the weekend. The enormous
PARIS: Reigning champions Lyon beat two-time former winners Wolfsburg 2-1 in the Champions League quarter-finals first leg on Wednesday. France forward Eugenie Le Sommer and club captain Wendie Renard scored in the first half for the home side at the Groupama Stadium before Nilla Fischer clawed one back for the