Sports,Football
Carlo Ancelotti said he wanted to remain at Real Madrid beyond 2026 after the Italian inked a two-year contract extension at the Spanish club last week.The 64-year-old, whose previous contract was due to expire at the end of June, has been at Real since 2021, having previously managed the club from ...
Manchester City could have an advantage in the Premier League title race through January as their rivals face up to losing key players to the African Cup of Nations and Asia Cup.As the Premier League emerges from a frantic set of festive fixtures with only six points separating the top five, manager...
Sports,Cricket
Australia will go for the tried and tested as they look to sweep Pakistan in their three-match series and send veteran opener David Warner out a winner at his home ground in his final test this week.Pat Cummins confirmed on Tuesday that the same team that won the first test in Perth by 360 runs and ...
Sports,Tennis
Novak Djokovic received treatment for a wrist issue during his United Cup match against Jiri Lehecka on Tuesday but the world number one battled to a 6-1 6-7(3) 6-1 win that put Serbia on track to pip Czech Republic 2-1 and make the quarter-finals.Djokovic drew Serbia level at 1-1 in the $10 million...
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...
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 & Commerce
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...
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...
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