Sports,Football
Champions Napoli came back from two goals down to rescue a 2-2 draw at home against AC Milan in Serie A on Sunday and preserve their top-four spot in the standings.Napoli winger Matteo Politano and forward Giacomo Raspadori both scored after the break to cancel out two first-half headers by Olivier ...
Sports,Cricket
England's World Cup title defence may be in tatters after four defeats in five matches but assistant coach Marcus Trescothick said on Saturday their sagging fortunes won't stop them from relishing their blockbuster clash with hosts India.England won the title on home soil in 2019 and came in...
Brentford snatched a 2-0 win away at Chelsea on Saturday thanks to a header by defender Ethan Pinnock and a last-minute breakaway goal by Bryan Mbeumo as the expensively assembled Blues failed to turn possession into goals once again.Pinnock, undetected by Chelsea's defence, connected powerfully...
England's hopes of retaining their World Cup crown are over and they will be playing for pride in the rest of the tournament, coach Matthew Mott said after Thursday's humbling eight-wicket defeat by Sri Lanka left the holders ninth in the standings.England are staring at a group stage exit a...
Entertainment & Glomour
Negotiations between media companies and the union representing striking U.S. actors will restart on Tuesday, the two sides said in a joint statement on Saturday. Talks broke down last week as the sides clashed over streaming revenue and the use of artificial intelligence. The strike has disrupted f...
A late header from captain Dani Carvajal secured Real Madrid a 1-1 draw at Sevilla on Saturday as the LaLiga leaders battled back after David Alaba's own goal had given the hosts the lead.Real moved on to 25 points from 10 games, three ahead of Girona, the surprise package of the season who host...
Business & Commerce
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is looking for a strong budget and narrower deficit from Sri Lanka as it seeks funding to bridge the gap between government revenue and expenditure, the IMF mission chief for the country said on Friday.Sri Lanka plunged into its worst financial crisis in seven d...
Elon Musk said on Friday social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, will soon launch two new tiers of premium subscriptions."One is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in ads, and the other is more expensive, but has no ads," Musk said on a post on X.Musk did not provid...
World
Arab leaders condemned Israel’s two-week-old bombardment of Gaza on Saturday and demanded renewed efforts to reach a Middle East peace settlement to end a decades-long cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.Speaking at a hastily convened gathering dubbed the Cairo Peace Summit, Sa...
Veteran character actor Burt Young, best known and Oscar-nominated for his role as the brother-in-law and meat-cutting friend to Sylvester Stallone's prize-fighting protagonist in the "Rocky" films has died at age 83, his manager said on Wednesday.Young's death on 8 Oct. in Los Ang...
England manager Gareth Southgate hailed an incredible Jude Bellingham after the midfielder inspired his side to a 3-1 win over Italy at Wembley Tuesday and a place at the Euro 2024 finals.The 20-year old did not make it on the scoresheet but his influence and confidence in driving the team forward w...
In-form India do not fancy becoming one of the victims of an upset in the 50-overs World Cup and have decided against rotating their bowlers in Thursday's match against Bangladesh.Two days after Afghanistan stunned defending champions England in New Delhi, the Netherlands, the only non-test play...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday that the Israeli government had yet to take a stance that allowed the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to open.Egypt has aimed since the conflict broke out to keep the Rafah crossing operational, Shoukry said, calling the s...
Pakistan could not break their India jinx in the 50-overs World Cup on Saturday but more than their seven-wicket defeat by the arch-rivals, it was the manner in which they lost that is troubling the 1992 champions. Hosts India, egged on by a 100,000-plus crowd at a heaving Narendra Modi Stadium...
Police cordoned off Warsaw’s Pilsudski Square and the surrounding area of the Polish capital on Saturday, with local media reporting that a man had climbed onto a monument in the square and threatened to blow himself up.Private broadcaster Polsat News reported that at around 1130 GMT the man s...
Taylor Swift, the cultural juggernaut known for shattering records, said on Wednesday that the documentary film from her billion-dollar Eras concert tour will offer one-day early-access showings in the U.S. and Canada."Look what you genuinely made me do," the "Anti-Hero" singer w...
The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations on Tuesday described Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip and vow to impose a complete siege on the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave as “nothing less than genocidal.”Hamas militants carried out their deadliest attack in Israel&rsquo...
World,Back Page
More than 2,000 people were killed in earthquakes in Afghanistan and more than 9,000 injured, the Taliban administration said on Sunday, in the deadliest tremors to rock the quake-prone mountainous country in years.The Saturday quakes in the west of the country hit 35 km (20 miles) northwest of the ...
Two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide were shot dead on Sunday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, the Israeli foreign ministry said.A policeman alleged to have carried out the shooting in the Sawari district of Alexandria was in custody, two Egyptian security sources said, speaking on condi...
It took Aiden Markram only a couple of deliveries to realise it was going to be his day on a belter of a track, the South African power-hitter said after smashing the fastest ever century in men's World Cup against Sri Lanka on Saturday.Three of South Africa's top four batters smashed rapid ...
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