The first legs of this season’s UEFA Champions League round-of-16 ties are done and dusted. Arsenal already have one foot in the quarterfinals thanks to their 7-1 demolition of PSV Eindhoven, but the rest of the matchups are mostly delicately poised. How on earth did Paris Saint-Germain lose 1-0 to Liverpool? Which teams need to […]
Nine major banks and building societies operating in the UK accumulated at least 803 hours – the equivalent of 33 days – of tech outages in the past two years, figures published by a group of MPs show. The Treasury Committee – which has been investigating the impact of banking IT failures – compelled Barclays, […]
A formerly “puny” man could not find anyone tall enough to guard him. A few years into his professional career, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander needed to add post-up drills to his summer routine. His trainers, far from the typical troop that surrounds an NBA superstar, couldn’t meet the criteria. Gilgeous-Alexander spends his summers in Hamilton, Ontario, near […]
MUNICH — Xabi Alonso and Bayer Leverkusen need to write another remarkable chapter in their recent history if they are to salvage the seemingly lost cause of their UEFA Champions League round-of-16 tie against Bayern Munich after a brutal 3-0 first-leg defeat at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday. The only good news for the reigning […]
Annabelle Liang Business reporter Getty Images US prosecutors have charged 12 Chinese nationals for being part of an alleged hacking scheme, which sold data of US-based dissidents to the Chinese government. The “state-sponsored” operation also targeted government agencies including the Treasury, according to the Justice Department (DOJ). Hackers also allegedly targeted an American religious organisation, […]
GLASTONBURY, Conn. — It’s mid-afternoon on a Sunday and, from the front of Dan Hurley’s house, you can turn around and look clear across Connecticut. Over Manchester, over South Windsor, over Enfield, all the way to Massachusetts. Hundreds of miles. In the distance, the horizon line is cut by national parks in Vermont. Hurley once […]
Real Madrid are interested in Liverpool centre-back Ibrahima Konaté, while three Premier League clubs are lining up a move for Eintracht Frankfurt striker Hugo Ekitike. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors, and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s January grades | Women’s January grades TOP STORIES – […]
Jorn Madslien Business reporter Saab The boss of Sweden’s Saab, which makes the Gripen fighter, says it is now easier for it to win Nato deals War, cross-border conflict and geopolitical upheaval are rarely deemed good for business. Yet that appears to have been the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on two of the […]
President Trump said on Wednesday that he would pause tariffs on cars coming into the United States from Canada and Mexico for one month, after a 25 percent tariff that he placed on America’s closest trading partners a day earlier roiled stock markets and prompted stiff resistance from industry. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press […]
BBC The UK was once ranked the best country in the world for end-of-life care – but that’s not the case any longer. And according to experts, the problem runs far deeper than money The people closest to Terry Leader remember him as a man who was always laughing. He emigrated to the UK from […]