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Pacquiao on the mend after scratched cornea

LOS ANGELES: The eye injury Manny Pacquiao suffered in a unanimous-decision win over Adrian Broner is a scratched cornea, and the Filipino ring icon is already on the mend, a spokesman for Pacquiao’s camp said Monday. The New York Daily News had reported that some in Pacquiao’s camp feared he

Ronaldo faces multi-million fine

MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo is returning to Madrid for a court date yesterday in which he could be fined 18.8 million euros (US$21.4 million) for tax fraud as part of a deal reached with the Spanish taxman. As part of an agreement arranged in June with the former Real Madrid hero’s

Penalty rescues UAE, Ryan saves Aussies

ABU DHABI: Hosts United Arab Emirates ended Kyrgyzstan’s fairytale with a controversial extra-time penalty to reach the Asian Cup quarter-finals on Monday as holders Australia and Japan also advanced. A knee-wobbling, chest-thumping Mathew Ryan saved two spot kicks as the Socceroos beat Uzbekistan’s White Wolves in a shootout, while the

Russian plane emergency lands after passenger demands diversion

MOSCOW:  A Russian domestic flight made an emergency landing in Siberia Tuesday after a passenger demanded the plane change course, authorities said. Russia’s Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement the Aeroflot plane, travelling from Surgut in western Siberia to Moscow, “changed course at the demand of one of the passengers”.

Cardiff striker Sala feared missing in plane crash: French police

NANTES, France: Premier League club Cardiff City’s record new signing, Argentina-born striker Emiliano Sala, was on board a light aircraft that disappeared over the English Channel on Monday night, police sources told AFP. Sala, signed by Cardiff on Saturday from French club Nantes for a reported 17 million euro ($19.3 million) fee, was flying

Aussie businesses complain Google sending outback tourists off the map

Tourism operators in Australia’s vast outback say wild inaccuracies in Google Maps are making remote hot spots appear out of reach, deterring people from visiting the region. A number of businesses promoting their small towns as remote tourist destinations in the northeastern state of Queensland complain of cases where a

Philippines seeks peace with Muslim self-rule vote

COTABATO (Philippines): A decades-long push to halt the violence that has claimed some 150,000 lives in the southern Philippines culminated yesterday with a vote on giving the nation’s Muslim minority greater control over the region. The poll is the final step in a peace deal with the Catholic-majority country’s largest

Police bust Australia-China baby formula crime ring

SYDNEY: Six people have been charged after Australian authorities uncovered a multi-million-dollar crime syndicate stealing baby formula and vitamins from major retailers across Sydney for shipment to China, police said yesterday. Four members of one family and two other men have been arrested and charged over the “organised criminal group”

Japan’s Tomiyasu sends Saudis spinning out

SHARJAH: Takehiro Tomiyasu’s lone strike sent Saudi Arabia crashing out of the Asian Cup as Japan beat the three-time champions 1-0 to reach the quarter-finals yesterday. Tomiyasu’s first-half header was enough to seal it for Japan as the last-16 game between two teams with seven titles between them failed to

‘Hugely excited’ England boss Southgate cools Man Utd talk

LONDON: Gareth Southgate insisted on Sunday his work as England manager was far from done as he indicated he had no interest in taking charge at Manchester United any time soon. A recent report in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph said Southgate was on a shortlist being drawn up by Old Trafford