PASS THE PORTO: FALCAO STRIKE SECURES EUROPA LEAGUE VICTORY May 18, 2011 PORTO manager Andre Villas-Boas followed one of his illustrious predecessors, Jose Mourinho, in leading Porto to glory with a 1-0 victory over Braga in the Europa League final in Dublin. A header from Colombia striker Falcao, his 38th goal of a prolific season, just before the end of the first half was enough to give [...]
Wood to miss Heineken Cup final May 18, 2011 RUGBY UNION: England flanker Tom Wood has been ruled out of Saturday’s Heineken Cup final against Leinster in Cardiff. The Premiership player of the year will not be fit in time, despite sleeping in an oxygen tent in hope of speeding up his recovery from a hairline leg fracture sustained against Gloucester on 19 April. [...]
Fans line the street for Sir Henry May 18, 2011 BOXING: Mourners lined the streets of Oxted, Surrey, yesterday for heavyweight legend Sir Henry Cooper’s funeral. Hundreds of fans from across the country paid their last respects to Sir Henry, who died earlier this month, aged 76.
Warren: Cleverly deserves belt May 18, 2011 BOXING: Promoter Frank Warren expects Nathan Cleverly to be awarded Juergen Braehmer’s WBO light-heavyweight title after Saturday’s fight was called off. The pair had been due to meet at London’s O2 Arena but the German pulled out with an eye injury. Warren believes Braehmer will be stripped of the title and Welshman Cleverly will defend [...]
Double crisis rocks cabinet May 18, 2011 THE CABINET was close to a full-blown crisis last night as pressure mounted on two of its most high-profile members to step down. There were calls for Ken Clarke, the justice secretary, to be sacked after he made insensitive and controversial remarks about rape. And the police launched a probe into claims that Chris Huhne, [...]
BROWN’S IMF HOPES FADE May 18, 2011 THE SWEDISH finance minister dealt another blow to Gordon Brown’s already slim chances of becoming the next leader of the IMF yesterday, saying he is “not right” for the job. Anders Borg believes Brown’s financial record should count against him. French finance minister Christine Lagarde is seen as the early favourite to take the job, [...]
ECB slams EU’s Greece stance May 18, 2011 THE EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) has rejected a softening of the EU’s stance towards Greece, saying that Athens’ problems cannot be solved by restructuring. In a sign of the divisions at the heart of the Eurozone, ECB board member Juergen Stark said yesterday: “It is an illusion to think that a debt restructuring, haircut or [...]
We are not facing a jobless recovery May 18, 2011 IT is the story the doom-mongers don’t want you to hear. There are now 416,000 more people in work in the UK than there were a year ago. So much for a jobless recovery: it is a complete myth. The total number of people in work rose by 0.4 per cent in the first-quarter and [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 18, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES IRAN SETS STAGE FOR TENSE OPEC MEETING Iran’s president, who has declared himself “acting” oil minister, might chair next month’s meeting of Opec, according to a senior aide, setting the stage for a highly politicised gathering of the cartel. Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, who is locked in a power struggle with rivals in Iran’s conservative [...]
Fed seen as more hawkish May 18, 2011 THE FEDERAL Reserve should begin to normalise interest rates at the end of this year, according to several members of the Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) as revealed by minutes of the Fed’s 26-27 April meeting released last night. However, the committee is split, with others believing that “underlying inflation remained subdued” and “longer-term inflation [...]
