Sports,Football
The crammed soccer schedule may force players to take legal action, the Professional Footballers' Association's chief executive officer Maheta Molango said as he highlighted growing concerns about player welfare.Under the new format from the 2024-25 season, the Champions League group stage w...
Serie A leaders Inter Milan were held to a 1-1 draw away to Genoa on Friday as Marko Arnautovic's first league goal for the club was cancelled out by a header from Radu Dragusin.Inter are top with 45 points but the result gives second-placed Juventus, on 40, an opportunity to close the gap as th...
Business
Oil prices dropped nearly 2% on Wednesday, eating into the previous day's gains as investors monitored developments in the Red Sea, where shippers are returning despite further attacks on Tuesday.Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled down $1.42, or 1.8%, at $79.65 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediat...
Misfiring Arsenal spurned the opportunity to reclaim first place in the Premier League as they lost 2-0 to spirited fellow Londoners West Ham United at the Emirates on Thursday.West Ham only had three efforts on target but Tomas Soucek gave them a halftime lead before former Arsenal defender Konstan...
Sports,Tennis
Rafael Nadal said it is still "impossible" for him to think about winning tournaments as he prepares for his much-awaited comeback at the Brisbane International after spending almost a year on the sidelines with a hip injury.The 22-times Grand Slam champion, who is gearing up for next mont...
Tottenham Hotspur's top-four ambitions suffered a blow as they lost 4-2 at Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League on Thursday with only a late rally saving them from their heaviest defeat since Ange Postecoglou became manager this season.Victory would have put injury-hit Spurs above Ma...
An 89th-minute penalty from substitute Noni Madueke earned Chelsea a laboured 2-1 home victory over Crystal Palace in the Premier League London derby on Wednesday.Madueke was brought down by Eberechi Eze who caught the Chelsea midfielder’s trailing leg and, after initially waving play on, refe...
A seismic year for soccer in Saudi Arabia witnessed the turbo-charging of its domestic league with expensive foreign superstars, an audacious bid to host the 2034 World Cup and the staging of FIFA's inter-continental club tournament.And 2024 will only be a few weeks old before Lionel Messi and C...
Manchester City climbed back into the Premier League's top four as second-half goals by Phil Foden, Julian Alvarez and Bernardo Silva sealed a comeback 3-1 victory at Everton on Wednesday.Pep Guardiola's newly-crowned FIFA World Club champions had lost ground in the title race after a run of...
Sports,Cricket
Pakistan threatened to take charge of the second Test after dismissing Australia for 318 and were making a good start to their reply on Wednesday but were reduced to 194 for six at stumps after the intervention of home skipper Pat Cummins.The tourists looked in fine shape at 124-1 an hour after tea ...
Liverpool returned to the top of the Premier League as Darwin Nunez's first league goal for almost two months helped them to a 2-0 victory at struggling Burnley on Tuesday.Nunez's precision finish after six minutes gave Liverpool a flying start at Turf Moor but Juergen Klopp's side were ...
Novak Djokovic has no plans to hang up his racket any time soon and is hoping he might be able to emulate American football great Tom Brady by extending his career well past his 40th birthday, the 36-year-old Serbian said on Tuesday.Quarterback Brady played 23 seasons in the National Football League...
Rasmus Hojlund's first Premier League goal secured a 3-2 win for Manchester United over Aston Villa after Alejandro Garnacho had scored a brace to claw their way back from two goals down in a breathless encounter on Tuesday.“Keep believing. I think our fans they deserved it. They are alway...
It took 34 penalty kicks before Modern Future finally beat Pyramids 14-13 in a nerve-shredding shootout in the Egyptian Super Cup semi-final on Monday after the contest had ended in a 0-0 draw.Modern Future, who will face either Al Ahly or Ceramica Cleopatra in the final, squandered three spot kicks...
Australia made a solid start to the Boxing Day Test against Pakistan on Tuesday but rain washed out a chunk of play and tight bowling restricted them to 187 for three at the end of the opening day.Marnus Labuschagne, who had made 44 not out, and Travis Head, who was unbeaten on 10, will resume on We...
Global wheat, corn and soybean prices - after several years of strong gains - are headed for losses in 2023 on easing Black Sea bottlenecks and fears of a global recession, although prices remain vulnerable to supply shocks and food inflation in the New Year, analysts and traders said."The supp...
The dollar index edged down on Friday, hitting a near five-month low as data showed annual US inflation slowed further below 3% in November, cementing market expectations for a US interest rate cut next March.In the 12 months through November, inflation, as measured by the personal consumption expen...
KL Rahul is likely to don the wicketkeeper gloves for India in the first Test against South Africa that begins in Pretoria on Tuesday, despite having started only one first class match in the role in the past.Rahul has been keeper for India numerous times in white-ball cricket, but never in the long...
Some of the world's largest shipping firms, including Maersk and CMA CGM, will impose extra charges after they re-routed ships in response to attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, as worries about disruption to global trade grow.The surcharges, designed to cover longer voyages around Africa compare...
Wolverhampton Wanderers continued their stellar home form to heap misery on Chelsea on Christmas eve with a 2-1 win in the Premier League on Sunday, thanks to second-half strikes from Mario Lemina and Matt Doherty. After a goalless first half, Lemina headed in a Pablo Sarabia corner six minutes afte...
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