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PORTO: Chelsea's Spanish defender Cesar Azpilicueta (center) celebrates with the trophy after winning the UEFA Champions League final football match at the Dragao stadium in Porto on Saturday. - AFPnn
Chelsea shatter dream of Guardiola's Man City to win Champions League final
PORTO: Chelsea's Spanish defender Cesar Azpilicueta (center) celebrates with the trophy after winning the UEFA Champions League final football match at the Dragao stadium in Porto on Saturday. - AFPPORTO: Chelsea won the Champions League for the second time as a Kai Havertz goal secured a tense 1-0 victory over Manchester City in Saturday's final in Porto, shattering Pep Guardiola's dream of lifting the trophy for the third time. Havertz rounded...
PORTO: Chelsea's German coach Thomas Tuchel celebrates with the trophy after winning the UEFA Champions League final football match at the Dragao stadium in Porto on Saturday. - AFPnn
Tuchel set for new deal and hungry for more after Chelsea Champions League triumph
PORTO: Chelsea's German coach Thomas Tuchel celebrates with the trophy after winning the UEFA Champions League final football match at the Dragao stadium in Porto on Saturday. - AFPPORTO: While Manchester City had been building towards what they thought was their moment in the Champions League for five years under Pep Guardiola, Chelsea showed with their victory in Saturday's final in Porto what can be achieved in just four months.That is how...
MUGELLO: Riders observe a minute of silence in tribute to Swiss Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier who died aged 19 from injuries sustained in a crash in qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix, before the start of the moto world championship Italian Grand Prix MotoGP race at the Mugello racetrack yesterday. - AFPnn
Fabio Quartararo wins Italian MotoGP shaken by Jason Dupasquier's death
MUGELLO: Riders observe a minute of silence in tribute to Swiss Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier who died aged 19 from injuries sustained in a crash in qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix, before the start of the moto world championship Italian Grand Prix MotoGP race at the Mugello racetrack yesterday. - AFPMUGELLO: Fabio Quartararo dominated the Italian MotoGP yesterday at a Mugello circuit shaken by the death hours earlier of Moto3 rider Jason...
Hong Kong mountaineer Tsang Yin-hung (center), who recorded the world's fastest ascent of Mount Everest (8,848.86-metre) by a woman in 25 hours and 50 minutes, gestures while posing for pictures along with mountaineers Pemba Dorje Sherpa (second left), Phurba Thiley Sherpa (left), Nima Lhamu Sherpa (second right) and Phurba Tenjing Sherpa (right) as they arrive at an airport in Kathmandu yesterday. — AFP photosn
Hong Kong mountaineer on a high after fastest Everest climb by a woman
Hong Kong mountaineer Tsang Yin-hung (center), who recorded the world's fastest ascent of Mount Everest (8,848.86-metre) by a woman in 25 hours and 50 minutes, gestures while posing for pictures along with mountaineers Pemba Dorje Sherpa (second left), Phurba Thiley Sherpa (left), Nima Lhamu Sherpa (second right) and Phurba Tenjing Sherpa (right) as they arrive at an airport in Kathmandu yesterday. — AFP photosFormer Hong Kong schoolteacher...
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Hunting for mini artworks on New York's streets
Filmmaker Zack Obid trembles with excitement: he has just found a miniature work of art during a treasure hunt that an American artist organizes every week in his Brooklyn neighborhood. Steve Wasterval estimates that in the last three years he has painted and hidden about 80 tiny landscape drawings of Greenpoint, an area with a large Polish community seen as increasingly hip in recent times with young creatives moving in."I really wanted to give...
Tourists walk on the waterfront of the resort of Krk, on the northern island of Krk.n
'Beautiful gift': How Croatia is luring digital nomads
Tourists walk on the waterfront of the resort of Krk, on the northern island of Krk.Melissa Paul described it as a "beautiful gift" when she became Croatia's first official digital nomad earlier this year, benefiting from a visa scheme that the country hopes will help promote its pandemic-hit travel industry. "Croatia is gorgeous, it's beautiful living here, affordable compared to other places, has a great climate, good internet access," says...
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US concert offers $980 'discount' for vaccinated fans
US authorities eager to get people vaccinated against COVID-19 have offered inducements ranging from free beer to million-dollar lottery prizes, and now rock concert promoters have their own twist: whopping ticket discounts. Fans of punk bands Teenage BottleRocket, MakeWar and Rutterkin can get into the June 26 concert in coastal Saint Petersburg, Florida for a "discounted" $18 if they can produce proof they have been fully vaccinated. For those...
In this file photo French band Indochine members (from left) guitarist Boris Jardel, singer Nicola Sirkis and guitarist Oli de Sat pose in Paris, after being awarded by a double platinium disc.—AFP photosn
French rock group Indochine plays COVID trial gig in Paris
In this file photo French band Indochine members (from left) guitarist Boris Jardel, singer Nicola Sirkis and guitarist Oli de Sat pose in Paris, after being awarded by a double platinium disc. — AFP photosStarved of live music for the past year, fans of veteran French rock band Indochine on Saturday got a chance to see their idols in concert, all in the name of COVID-19 research. Around 5,000 concert goers took part in the experimental event...
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'Love Boat' captain Gavin MacLeod dies at 90
In this file photo Gavin Macleod attends a ceremony honoring the "The Love Boat" with the Hollywood Walk Of Fame Honorary Star Plaque on May 10, 2018 in Hollywood, California. — AFPGavin MacLeod, a veteran supporting actor best known for his role as an ever-smiling cruise ship captain on the 1970s-80s sitcom "The Love Boat," died Saturday at the age of 90. His death was confirmed to the showbiz publication Variety by his nephew Mark See. No...
PARIS: People raise their hands before the start of a test concert of French rock band Indochine and French DJ Etienne de Crecy, aimed to investigate how such events can take place safely amidst the COVID-19 pandemic at the AccorHotels Arena yesterday. - AFP n
WHO: Pandemic won't be over until 70% vaccinated
PARIS: People raise their hands before the start of a test concert of French rock band Indochine and French DJ Etienne de Crecy, aimed to investigate how such events can take place safely amidst the COVID-19 pandemic at the AccorHotels Arena yesterday. - AFPCOPENHAGEN/WASHINGTON: The WHO's European director warned that the COVID-19 pandemic won't end until at least 70 percent of people are vaccinated, and criticized Europe's vaccine rollout as...
HANOI: In this file photo taken on March 30, 2020, a health worker conducts a swab test on a woman in her house. – AFP n
Vietnam discovers new hybrid COVID-19 variant
HANOI: In this file photo taken on March 30, 2020, a health worker conducts a swab test on a woman in her house. – AFPHANOI: Vietnam has discovered a new COVID-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the Indian and British strains, health officials confirmed yesterday. The country is struggling to deal with fresh outbreaks across more than half of its territory, including industrial zones and big cities such as Hanoi...
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the opening ceremony of Taksim Mosque in Taksim Square on Friday. - AFP n
Erdogan opens first mosque in Taksim Square
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the opening ceremony of Taksim Mosque in Taksim Square on Friday. - AFPISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday inaugurated the first mosque in Istanbul's Taksim Square, transforming the landscape of the area, eight years to the day after protests began there that shook his government. The mosque is Erdogan's mark on the square, the most famous area in Turkey's...