Sports,Football
Defending champions Canada defeated New Zealand 2-1 in their Paris Olympics opening game on Thursday overshadowed by a spying scandal that has engulfed the women's tournament.Cloe Lacasse and Evelyne Viens scored on a night that might have been a routine group win for Canada before it was thrust...
Sports
Every Olympics has its defining sporting moment such as Usain Bolt in the 100 metres at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games or Sydney Crosby's golden goal for Canada on home ice in Vancouver in 2010.Some appear as if out of thin air. Others can be scheduled, as in Paris where on the opening night of c...
Sports,Cricket
Pakistan registered the first 10-wicket victory at the Women's Asia Cup since it switched to a Twenty20 format on Tuesday, with the comfortable win over the United Arab Emirates (UAE) securing a place in the semi-finals.Gull Feroza scored an unbeaten 62 as Pakistan chased down their target with ...
With a pair of baristas churning out coffees and a rooftop terrace for social gatherings, Australia's quarters at the Olympic village embody the social spirit of a Paris Games unencumbered by COVID-19 restrictions.Strict health protocols sucked the fun out of the summer Games in Tokyo and Beijin...
World
Islamist militants attacked a military base in northwestern Pakistan, killing eight security personnel, the military said on Tuesday, after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into a perimeter wall.The attack, which occurred on Monday, coincides with a resurgence of Islamist mil...
Waving flags and dressed in Spain's red and yellow colours, tens of thousands of people jubilantly greeted the country's triumphant Euro 2024 men's football team on Monday during a parade in Madrid."Champions, champions!" fans shouted out to the players and coach, who celebrate...
Reuters, Buenos AiresArgentines took to the streets to celebrate their 1-0 victory over Colombia in the Copa America final on Sunday after Lautaro Martinez scored an extra-time winner in Miami.After a tense 90 minutes finished 0-0, Martinez latched onto a through ball before lifting his shot over Co...
Sports,Tennis
Barbora Krejcikova held off Italian crowd favourite Jasmine Paolini to win the Wimbledon singles title on Saturday, coming through 6-2 2-6 and 6-4 on a sunlit Centre Court.As a precocious 12-year-old tennis novice, Barbora Krejcikova had scribbled into her notebook that her ambition was to win the F...
Uruguay needed a late equaliser and penalties to beat Canada in Saturday's Copa America third-place playoff match, with coach Marcelo Bielsa saying the South American side had performed well below their level.Canada made several changes to their lineup for the match and looked the fresher side a...
The United States on Thursday announced a new security package for Ukraine worth $225 million, which includes a Patriot missile battery, additional ammunition for high-mobility artillery rocket systems and missiles, among other items.Why It's ImportantWashington, Ukraine's biggest supp...
Colombia beat Uruguay 1-0 in their Copa America semi-final on Thursday despite being reduced to 10 men for 45 minutes to book a title decider against defending champions Argentina thanks to a first-half header from Jefferson Lerma.Uruguay's Darwin Nunez missed several chances in the first half a...
Spain fought back to beat France 2-1 in an entertaining Euro 2024 semi-final on Tuesday with a stunning Lamine Yamal strike and a Dani Olmo goal booking their spot in Sunday's final in Berlin.France struck early when Kylian Mbappe, not wearing a mask after breaking his nose earlier in the tourna...
World,Back Page
Russia blasted the main children's hospital in Kyiv with a missile in broad daylight on Monday and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of airstrikes for months.Parents holding babies walked in the street outside the hospital, d...
The route to the last four of Euro 2024 has been a rocky one for the Netherlands and England, and a few flashes of their best quality in their semi-final showdown on Wednesday might be enough for either side to make the final.England's shootout win over Switzerland brought momentary euphori...
Goal-shy France will be looking to silence the critics when they take on Spain in their Euro 2024 semi-final clash on Tuesday in Munich, while their opponents hope to keep their impressive campaign going even without key players.With Kylian Mbappe leading their talented squad, France were well among...
Uruguay beat Brazil 4-2 in a penalty shootout on Sunday after a bruising 0-0 draw to march into the semi-finals of the Copa America where they will face Colombia.Sergio Rochet saved Brazil's first penalty in the shootout from Eder Militao while his teammate Douglas Luiz hit the post. Brazil keep...
Portugal manager Roberto Martinez said there was no blame to cast after Joao Felix missed the penalty that resulted in their exit from the European Championship and likely brought the curtain down on Cristiano Ronaldo's international career.Felix fired his penalty against the post -- the only mi...
Business
Germany's coalition government is set to overhaul the way renewable energy is subsidised so that power producers would get one-off support for their investment costs instead of a guaranteed price for power they produce, a finance ministry document showed on Friday.A shift to investment subsidies...
Around 39 people at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur international airport fell ill on Thursday after a gas leak at an aircraft engineering facility, but no passengers were affected and there were no flight disruptions, the fire department said.The Selangor state fire department said it received an emerg...
The UK financial sector is warming to Labour's pro-business overtures and pledges to provide stability and support, but many in the City remain wary it could be targeted to prop up Britain's stretched public finances further down the line.Under leader Keir Starmer, the Labour Party - expecte...
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