Aguero sparks comeback as win keeps pressure on Blues December 3, 2014 REIGNING champions Manchester City exorcised their Stadium of Light demons by recording a third straight Premier League win courtesy of a Sergio Aguero-inspired comeback against Sunderland last night. City have lost 1-0 on each of their last four visits to Sunderland and, buoyed by their stalemate with top of the table Chelsea at the weekend, [...]
Bianchi did not slow sufficiently, F1 report finds December 3, 2014 FORMULA One driver Jules Bianchi did not slow down enough in the moments before the crash that left him fighting for his life, according to an investigation by motorsport chiefs the FIA. Bianchi, 25, is still to regain consciousness after suffering severe head injuries at the Japanese Grand Prix in October but is now breathing [...]
Premier League: Prolific Sanchez earns Arsenal last-gasp win December 3, 2014 ARSENAL 1 SOUTHAMPTON 0 ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger admitted his side have benefitted from the harsh realities of past mistakes after scraping a last-gasp victory over a stubborn Southampton at Emirates Stadium last night. England goalkeeper Fraser Forster heroically kept Arsenal at bay until the visitors’ stoic resistance buckled late on when talismanic forward Alexis [...]
Coe reveals his plan to secure IAAF presidency December 3, 2014 LORD Coe has promised to “increase the reach and appeal of athletics” after unveiling his manifesto for election to the presidency of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) yesterday. Double Olympic gold medallist Coe, a current vice president of the world governing body, is bidding to succeed Lamine Diack who is stepping down next [...]
Cook’s England revive hopes with nervy win December 3, 2014 ENGLAND skipper Alastair Cook insisted his side made heavy-weather of the run-chase after resurrecting their Sri Lanka tour with a five-wicket win in the third one-day international (ODI) in Hambantota yesterday. The tourists were wobbling at 152-5 despite a fluent 58 from opener Moeen Ali, during which he clobbered five sixes, before half-centurion Jos Buttler [...]
Australia unites in Hughes grief December 3, 2014 AUSTRALIA captain Michael Clarke delivered a moving tribute to Phillip Hughes yesterday at the funeral of his Test team-mate, who died after being hit by a cricket ball during a match last week. Clarke struggled to contain his emotions as he addressed around a thousand mourners including Australian prime minster Tony Abbott at the service [...]
Peaty breaks British record December 3, 2014 ENGLAND’S Adam Peaty set a new British 100m breaststroke record during the opening session of the World Short Course Championships in Doha, Qatar yesterday. The 19-year-old posted a time of 57.02 seconds in his heat to shave half a second off the previous best time set by Michael Jamieson. Peaty won double gold at this [...]
Dead glam: Anja Niemi is both subject and photographer in her new exhibition December 3, 2014 The only thing Anja Niemi likes more than taking photographs is being photographed herself. The Norwegian photographer combined the two to great effect in her series Do Not Disturb and Starlets and has done so again in Darlene and Me, her latest show opening at Fulham’s Little Black Gallery next month. In the dramatically staged [...]
Super stars: Award-winning landscape photographer Murray Fredericks exhibits recent works December 3, 2014 William Wordsworth wrote of a “sense sublime, something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky.” A “sense sublime” is a good way of describing the feelings induced by the work of Australian photographer Murray Fredericks, whose stunning landscapes [...]
Beautiful things: Glen Grant’s single-malt, Stella McCartney’s Linda Bag and Tiffany’s T range December 3, 2014 For the past half-century, Glen Grant 50 Year Old has been maturing into a single-malt of unrivalled richness and intensity For Dennis Malcolm, master distiller at Scotland’s Glen Grant, patience isn’t just a virtue, it’s a way of life. “Only time measures our pursuit of perfection,” he says, “Maturation cannot be rushed.” Malcolm was just [...]