The Tottenham boss claims the legendary Scot is an “encyclopedia of football” and that he’s an inspiration to the Argentine Click Here: NRL league Jerseys Mauricio Pochettino has spoken glowingly about Sir Alex Ferguson, praising Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s decision to have the legendary Scot involved again at Manchester United. Solskjaer was appointed interim boss at Old…
Reece Robinson has always preferred running rugby and it’s that which saw him land at the Waratahs for 2016. Robinson last played rugby at a schoolboy level, for Randwick Boys’ High School, where he said the philosophy was not much different to the Waratahs’ today. “It was always running rugby at Randwick. That’s the good…
The Brumbies have secured a replacement for Wallabies captain Stephen Moore with Reds hooker Saia Faingaa signing a one-year deal for the 2017 season. The veteran of 36 Wallaby caps will return to Canberra after eight seasons in Queensland, a stint that included the Super Rugby title in 2011. It will be a welcome return…
London: England pacer Jofra Archer and former batsman Kevin Pietersen engaged in some social media banter in which both said they are ready to take the field against each other. ### Archer, who was awarded a Test and white-ball contract by the England Cricket Board (ECB) after his sensational debut international season in the World…
Dubai: Dubai’s first floating Smart Police Station (SPS), completely free from any human intervention will be opened in the middle of the sea on the World Islands. ### Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Interior inaugurated the new automated station in Dubai during Gitex Technology week on Wednesday in presence of Major General…
Dubai: A sex racket has been uncovered where Shiite clerics are marrying girls off for a few hours in Mut’ah or pleasure marriages. ### A team of journalists went undercover in Iraq to investigate allegations that some clerics are acting as pimps and sending women into prostitution while exploiting a marriage contract called Mut’ah. ### What…
Dubai: The 24-hour ‘Big Bad Wolf Books’ sale, said to be the world’s biggest, starts on Thursday at Dubai Studio City, offering over 3 million books at up to 80 per discount until October 20. ### On Wednesday, scores of registered shoppers visited the event’s VIP Day. The general public can shop from Thursday till…
New York: Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion (Dh29.4 billion) in punitive damages to a man who previously won $680,000 over his claims that it failed to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts, a Philadelphia jury said on Tuesday. ### The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury’s verdict…
Dubai: Hazzaa AlMansoori, the UAE’s first Emirati astronaut, who has recently returned from his mission to the International Space Station, shared a precious few images he had taken from space of the city that inspires him. ### In non-touched-up photographs, AlMansoori shared photographs of the shoreline of Dubai, complete with the Palm, and The World – an archipelago…
STOCKHOLM (AP): The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to 3 scientists for the development of lithium-ion batteries. ###### The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced Wednesday, a day after the Physics award was given to a Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists. ### They created a rechargeable world ### Statement from Nobel: The…