Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho, centre, instructs his players Javier Zanetti, left, and Esteban Cambiasso during the match at Stamford Bridge.
Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho, centre, instructs his players Javier Zanetti, left, and Esteban Cambiasso during the match at Stamford Bridge.

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Mourinho comes back to haunt Chelsea

His Inter Milan side knock Chelsea and his former players out of the Champions League.

Jose Mourinho insisted it had nothing to do with revenge after his Inter Milan side knocked Chelsea and his former players out of the Champions League. Samuel Eto'o scored the second-half goal which clinched a 1-0 victory at Stamford Bridge and handed the Italians an emphatic 3-1 triumph on aggregate. To complete Chelsea's misery, striker Didier Drogba was sent off for kicking out at Inter defender Thiago Motta as tempers frayed in a tense second half.

Mourinho, who spent three and a half years and won back-to-back Premier League titles at Stamford Bridge before being axed by owner Roman Abramovich, said: "I'm very happy. Very, very happy because we won and because we were the best team." He added: "Sometimes in football you win because you're lucky. Sometimes you win because you are the best team. Sometimes you win because you were the best team from the first to the last minute. That team was my team and my players. "I'm not very happy because they (Chelsea) lost. I'm very happy because my players are happy, my supporters are happy, my president is happy and because I worked so much for this game. "As a professional, that's the best feeling you can have. I'm not happy because my ex-players or Roman (Abramovich) lost, or that Chelsea supporters go home sad. I'm not happy about their unhappiness."

Mourinho claimed his team had put doubt into the minds of the Chelsea players by playing three strikers in Eto'o, Diego Milito and Goran Pandev with Dutch playmaker Wesley Sneijder in the hole just behind them. Mourinho said: "I planned. I believed (Branislav) Ivanovic and (Yuri) Zhirkov didn't play well either in attack or defence and that created some doubts in them. "They felt even in the first half that it wasn't their match. We didn't play a defensive game, we controlled the match and we deserved to win. "I'm not saying Inter are better than them. I'm saying that, Inter were much better than Chelsea and that brought frustration to the Chelsea players."

CSKA Moscow reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time with a spirited away victory over Sevilla last night. Neither side had previously managed to progress from the last 16 heading into the second leg and after a 1-1 draw in the first match in Moscow, Sevilla were regarded as favourites having secured an away goal. However Tomas Necid stole the lead for CSKA late in the first half to cancel out the hosts' away goal, only for Diego Perotti to drag Sevilla level almost immediately. Keisuke Honda's powerful free-kick saw CSKA through as Sevilla goalkeeper Andres Palop made a mess of what should have been a straightforward save in the 55th minute.

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The White Lotus: Season three

Creator: Mike White

Starring: Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Natasha Rothwell

Rating: 4.5/5

Results

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 3.85 per cent

Rahmatullah Nabil 1.8 per cent

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Stars: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham

Rating: 3.5/5

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Director: S Sashikanth

Cast: Nayanthara, Siddharth, Meera Jasmine, R Madhavan

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In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe

Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010

Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille

Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm

Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year

Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”

Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners

TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013 

How much sugar is in chocolate Easter eggs?
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  • The Milky Bar white chocolate Egg Hunt Pack contains eight eggs at 7.7g of sugar per egg
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'Munich: The Edge of War'

Director: Christian Schwochow

Starring: George MacKay, Jannis Niewohner, Jeremy Irons

Rating: 3/5

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Roll of honour: Who won what in 2018/19?

West Asia Premiership: Winners – Bahrain; Runners-up – Dubai Exiles

UAE Premiership: Winners – Abu Dhabi Harlequins; Runners-up – Jebel Ali Dragons

Dubai Rugby Sevens: Winners – Dubai Hurricanes; Runners-up – Abu Dhabi Harlequins

UAE Conference: Winners – Dubai Tigers; Runners-up – Al Ain Amblers

 

Company: Instabug

Founded: 2013

Based: Egypt, Cairo

Sector: IT

Employees: 100

Stage: Series A

Investors: Flat6Labs, Accel, Y Combinator and angel investors

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  2. Cinematography, shots and movement.
  3. All aspects of post-production.
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  5. Understanding of marketing objectives and audience engagement.
  6. Tourism industry knowledge.
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Real Betis v Valencia (7pm)

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Sunday

Real Madrid v Real Sociedad (12am)

Espanyol v Getafe (3pm)

Osasuna v Athletic Bilbao (5pm)

Eibar v Alaves (7pm)

Villarreal v Celta Vigo (9.30pm)

Monday

Real Valladolid v Sevilla (12am)

 

Real estate tokenisation project

Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.

The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.

Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.

Skewed figures

In the village of Mevagissey in southwest England the housing stock has doubled in the last century while the number of residents is half the historic high. The village's Neighbourhood Development Plan states that 26% of homes are holiday retreats. Prices are high, averaging around £300,000, £50,000 more than the Cornish average of £250,000. The local average wage is £15,458. 

COMPANY PROFILE
Name: Kumulus Water
 
Started: 2021
 
Founders: Iheb Triki and Mohamed Ali Abid
 
Based: Tunisia 
 
Sector: Water technology 
 
Number of staff: 22 
 
Investment raised: $4 million 
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Started: 2013

Founder: Ulugbek Yuldashev

Sector: e-commerce

Size: 600 plus

Stage: still in talks with VCs

Principal Investors: self-financed by founder