LONDON: Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has blasted some of his troubled club’s stars as “not good enough” and “probably overpaid”. Ratcliffe made his scathing assessment after enduring a dismal start to his reign at Old Trafford since taking charge of football operations in February last year. The British
LONDON: Newcastle boosted their Champions League qualification hopes with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over West Ham on Monday. Bruno Guimaraes scored the decisive goal in the second half, though the Hammers were left frustrated as their appeals for a foul in the build-up were ignored. The win lifts Eddie Howe’s
MADRID (Spain): Atletico Madrid face a daunting task as they prepare to overturn a 2-1 deficit against Real Madrid in their Champions League last-16 second-leg clash on Wednesday. Historically, Atletico have never eliminated their city rivals in the competition, suffering heartbreak in multiple encounters, including the 2014 and 2016 finals.
OTTAWA: Mark Carney, a former Goldman Sachs banker and central banker for two major economies, is set to become Canada’s next prime minister — despite never holding elected office. Carney, 59, won the Liberal Party leadership with 85.9 per cent of the vote, replacing Justin Trudeau. His tenure may be
PARIS (France): Lyon kept themselves in the running for Champions League football next season with a 2-0 win at Nice on Sunday that denied their opponents the chance to go second in Ligue 1. Substitutes Rayan Cherki and Ernest Nuamah scored for Lyon, who were playing their first game without
ROME (Italy): Atalanta hammered Juventus 4-0 in Turin to stay within three points of Inter and snap the hosts’ five-game winning streak on Sunday. It was just a second defeat of the season for Thiago Motta’s side. Mateo Retegui notched his league-leading 22nd goal of the season from the penalty
LONDON: The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai is urgently seeking a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, fearing his father may not survive prison. Sebastien Lai said fresh diplomatic pressure was needed to free the 77-year-old British citizen, who has been behind bars in Hong
SEOUL (South Korea): South Korea’s Air Force said on Thursday that one of its fighter jets had accidentally dropped eight bombs in the wrong place during a training exercise, resulting in civilian injuries. “Eight MK-82 general-purpose bombs were abnormally released from an Air Force KF-16 aircraft, landing outside the designated firing
FRANCFORT (Germany): A German court found on Wednesday that American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German firm BioNTech violated a patent to make their COVID-19 vaccine. Siding with Moderna, an American pharmaceutical firm that brought the case, the court in Duesseldorf said BioNTech and Pfizer would have to provide estimates of
VATICAN CITY (Holy See): Pope Francis was in stable condition on Wednesday with no new respiratory attacks, the Vatican said as the 88-year-old spent his 20th day in hospital with pneumonia. “He spent the day in an armchair,” did some work and called the parish priest of Gaza, the Holy