UNs New Year resolution: put peace first on January 1, 2017NEW YORK: In a message on Sunday marking his first day as the world body’s chief, the newly appointed United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres said that he would like to make 2017 a year to ‘put peace first’. The 67-year-old former Portuguese prime minister took over as UN Secretary-general from South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon, inheriting […]
Premier League roundup on December 26, 2016LONDON: Spanish forward Pedro Rodriguez scored twice in the 3-0 win over Bournemouth on Monday as red-hot leaders Chelsea register a club-record 12th consecutive Premier League victory. Pedro leads Chelsea to 12 successive victories Eden Hazard scored his 50th English league goal at Stamford Bridge as Antonio Conte’s side gained a provisional nine-point lead at […]
Mkhitaryans elegance spoils Moyes return to OT on December 26, 2016Manchester United record a fourth successive league win for the first time under manager Jose Mourinho. The Red Devils enjoyed a less complicated afternoon, sinking Sunderland due to goals by Blind, Ibrahimovic and a special goal by Mkhitaryan. Daley Blind opened the scoring in the 39th minute, taking a neat first touch on Ibrahimovic’s lay-off […]
Woes of the champions on December 26, 2016Last season’s Premier League Champions Leicester City fell short of the huge expectations they left for their fans again as the Foxes lost for a ninth team this campaign. Leicester have been in a constant state of despair as they sit just three points above the relegation zone. The foxes were condemned to a ninth […]
Giroud sinks stubborn West Brom on December 26, 2016Arsenal were forced to dig deep to defeat the stubborn West Brom, with a frustrating afternoon for the Gunner ending with a sigh of relief. The gunner avoided going three league games without winning, which would have happened for the first time since January 2012. Beaten 2-1 by Everton and then by City in their […]
Trump intends to dissolve his charitable foundation on December 25, 2016WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday said he intends to dissolve his controversial philanthropic foundation to avoid any conflicts of interest with his presidency. Trump’s sprawling portfolio of US and overseas business interests and holdings as well as his Donald J Trump Foundation, have come under increased scrutiny in the weeks since his election. “The […]
Hijabi woman attacked in London on December 17, 2016A Muslim woman was pushed to the ground and dragged by her headscarf in a busy London shopping quarter in what is being probed as a hate crime. The woman, in her 20s, was walking unaccompanied in east London when two men dressed in black advanced towards her. They tried to take off her scarf […]
Isolated Buddhist kingdom loses its last king on December 16, 2016KATHMANDU: Eight years after losing his royal title when the centuries-old Buddhist monarchy was abolished, the last king of the isolated Himalayan region of Upper Mustang died in Kathmandu on Friday. 86-year-old Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista reigned over the arid kingdom, high on the Tibetan plateau, for more than half a century before stepping down […]
Iron Lady shut down due to strike on December 13, 2016PARIS: Concerned over an upcoming paint job at the famous landmark, workers at the Eiffel Tower went on strike on Tuesday, the third protest at the monument in six months. The unions representing the 300 workers said that the strike was called over the ‘deliberate absence of transparency’ on key decisions on the the tower […]
Relationship with Tillerson good: Kremlin on December 13, 2016MOSCOW: The Kremlin claimed that President Vladimir Putin had ‘good’ ties with United States (US) President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson. “He is a very solid figure and the Russian representatives – not just the president – have good relations with Tillerson,” Putin’s top foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov […]