Sports,Football
Cole Palmer scored two goals and made another as Chelsea stunned Paris Saint-Germain in the final of the Club World Cup on Sunday, beating the European champions 3-0 at the MetLife Stadium to win the first edition of FIFA's new competition.PSG were the favourites for a game attended by Donald Tr...
World
At least 89 people were killed in the southern Syrian province of Sweida as clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze fighters raged for a second day Monday, a monitor said.As the violence escalated, Israel -- which had previously warned that it would intervene in Syria to protect the Druze -- ...
Business & Commerce
Germany's economy minister on Saturday called for pragmaticism in European Union tariff negotiations with the United States.US President Donald Trump on Saturday warned that Mexico and the EU would be slapped with 30-percent tariffs starting on August 1, raising the stakes in already tense negot...
European countries are not all equally exposed to the US market and so will not suffer the same consequences should President Donald Trump go ahead with his threats to impose 30-percent tariffs on the European Union.Ireland, with a major pharmaceutical industry, is in the front line along with Germa...
President Emmanuel Macron is on Sunday to set new French defence targets in the face of a menacing Russia and a potential United States disengagement from Europe, his office said."Defence efforts" must be made in the face of mounting threats and a disintegrating world order, Elysee officia...
Israel on Sunday said it had launched a new national communications satellite on board a SpaceX rocket from the United States.The Dror 1 satellite was blasted into orbit on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the foreign ministry said."This $200 mill...
Syria's civil defence agency on Sunday said wildfires in the country's west, which have burned vast tracts of forest and farmland and forced evacuations, had been brought under control after 10 days.In a statement on Facebook, the agency said that "with the spread of the fires halted an...
To the music of conch shell trumpets, a 3,800-year-old citadel of the Caral civilization -- one of the oldest in the world -- opened its doors to visitors in Peru on Saturday, after eight years of study and restoration work.The archaeological site, known as Penico, was a meeting point for trade betw...
Sports,Tennis
Iga Swiatek pleaded with the Polish media to "leave me alone", saying she knows what she is doing after crushing Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to win her first Wimbledon title on Saturday.The 24-year-old was seeded eighth at the All England Club after a disappointing first half of the season, ...
Argentine superstar Lionel Messi continued his historic Major League Soccer scoring run Saturday, netting two goals to lift Inter Miami to a 2-1 victory over Nashville.Four days after he became the first player ever to score multiple goals in four straight MLS matches, Messi delivered his fifth brac...
Wall Street stocks retreated from records Friday as markets digested President Donald Trump's latest tariff threats while looking ahead to major earnings reports later this month.In his latest broadsides on trade, Trump warned of 35 percent tariffs on Canada and said his administration was on tr...
Growth in oil demand is anaemic globally, with several countries in the crosshairs of US President Donald Trump tariff threats suffering drops, the IEA said Friday.Annual growth in oil demand fell from 1.1 million barrels per day (mbd) in the first quarter of the year to just 0.5 mbd in the second, ...
Liverpool are to retire Diogo Jota's number 20 shirt in honour of the Portugal forward who was killed with his brother Andre Silva in a car crash this month."After consultation with his wife, Rute, and family, the club can announce the squad number will be retired in honour and memory of Di...
Chelsea must somehow try to stop an irresistible Paris Saint-Germain side from adding the Club World Cup trophy to their UEFA Champions League title as the final of the first edition of FIFA's expanded competition takes place on Sunday. PSG travelled to the United States fresh from becoming...
China said Thursday that "arbitrary" tariffs such as the 50 percent levy on copper announced by US President Donald Trump on national security grounds "serve no party's interests"."We have always opposed the overstretching of the concept of national security," forei...
Asian markets mostly rose Thursday on optimism that governments will hammer out deals to avoid the worst of US President Donald Trump's tariffs even after he broadened his range of measures.Negotiators from around the world have tried to reach agreements with Washington since Trump in April unve...
The OPEC oil cartel said Thursday that demand for crude will continue to expand through at least 2050, calling efforts to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels an unworkable fantasy.In its latest annual report on the outlook for oil demand, OPEC sees global oil demand rising by 18.6 percent from 103....
Palestinian authorities said Israeli troops killed a 55-year-old man in the north of the occupied West Bank on Thursday -- an incident the Israeli army said involved a stabbing attack.The Ramallah-based health ministry said the body in charge of coordination with Israel informed it that soldiers &qu...
Flash floods that killed at least nine people in a mountainous region between China and Nepal and swept away a key bridge linking the two countries, were caused by the release of water from a glacial lake, experts said Wednesday.About 30 people are still missing after Tuesday's floods, including...
Lionel Messi scored twice in the first half of Inter Miami's 2-1 victory over the New England Revolution on Wednesday, continuing a run of form unprecedented in Major League Soccer.The 38-year-old Argentine star has scored two goals in each of his last four MLS games to become the first MLS play...
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