Sports,Cricket
Former Australia captain Steve Waugh said South Africa’s decision to send a shadow side to New Zealand for a test tour while their top players take part in a domestic T20 tournament shows the longest format of the game is under threat.Cricket South Africa (CSA) named seven uncapped players, in...
Sports,Football
Mohamed Salah’s second-half brace made up for a missed penalty as Liverpool kicked off the new year three points clear atop the Premier League standings with a 4-2 victory over Newcastle United at a rain-drenched Anfield on Monday.Juergen Klopp's team, who began the day level with Aston Vi...
Business
Vietnam's economic growth slowed to 5.05 per cent this year from an expansion of 8.02 per cent last year, official data showed on Friday, weighed by weak global demand while public investment stalled amid an intensified anti-graft crackdown, reports Reuters. This year's gross domestic p...
David Warner has been given the hometown farewell from test cricket he craved after the opening batsman was named in an unchanged Australia line-up for the third and final test against Pakistan in Sydney next week.Warner said in June he wanted to call time on his 12-year test career at the Sydney Cr...
Sports,Tennis
Rafael Nadal returned to action for the first time since January at the Brisbane International on Sunday, losing his doubles match but overall showing no obvious after-effects of the hip injury that ruined his year.The 22-time Grand Slam champion, who is gearing up for the Jan. 14-28 Australian Open...
Mohamed Salah will lead Egypt at the African Cup of Nations in the Ivory Coast, skippering a 27-man squad named by coach Rui Vitoria.The group includes all but two of the starting line-up for the last Cup of Nations final two years ago, when Egypt lost on penalties to Senegal in Yaounde.But there is...
Manchester United suffered a 2-1 defeat at Nottingham Forest on Saturday as the home side piled more misery on their beleaguered visitors with goals from Nicolas Dominguez and Morgan Gibbs-White securing the points at a rocking City Ground.Erik ten Hag's United are struggling in seventh place on...
The Turkish Super Cup final between Galatasaray and Fenerbahce scheduled to be played in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Friday was postponed over what the clubs described as “some problems” in the event’s organisation.At the heart of those issues, according to media reports...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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