NEW YORK (Reuters) – Television “upfront” advertiser presentations this week in New York City were hardly about TV at all. The annual week-long affair where media executives have traditionally pre-sold TV advertising featured many familiar trappings: pop stars Alicia Keys and Billie Eilish dazzled packed auditoriums with live performances; celebrities …

MILAN (Reuters) -Juventus sacked coach Massimiliano Allegri over his behaviour during and after this week’s Coppa Italia final in which he was sent off, the Italian Serie A club said on Friday. Juventus beat Atalanta 1-0 to win a record-extending 15th Coppa Italia on Wednesday, their first trophy in three …

(Reuters) – Retail darling GameStop slumped 26% on Friday after the struggling videogame retailer said it would sell up to 45 million shares, taking advantage of the meme-stocks frenzy this week. The company’s shares logged their highest trading volume in three years so far this week, following a series of …

LONDON (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou said he suffered cold sweats before Tuesday’s 2-0 defeat by Manchester City for fear of having his integrity questioned. The build-up to the game was dominated by talk of Tottenham fans wanting their team to lose in order to put a huge …

TASHKENT: Malaysia and Uzbekistan have agreed to activate the work of the Intergovernmental Joint Committee on trade and transform the committee into the Intergovernmental Joint Commission. In a joint statement on Friday (May 17), Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said it will be continuing …

HANDLOVA, Slovakia/BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovak opposition party leader Michal Simecka, who described an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico this week as an attack on democracy, said on Friday he that his wife and child had received death threats. His experience is not uncommon, a measure of the extreme …