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Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.The prize, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last of this year's crop of Nobels and s...
Sports,Football
World champions France won the Nations League final with goals from Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappe earning them a 2-1 win over Spain at the San Siro stadium on Sunday.Didier Deschamps side had struggled to get a foothold in the game during a first half dominated by Spain but after going a goal down...
Colombia held Brazil to a 0-0 draw in an engrossing game at home on Sunday, ending Brazil's nine-match winning run in the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup Finals.Brazil had never lost to Colombia in 12 previous World Cup qualifiers but Colombia came into the game unbeaten in...
Two goals in the minutes before half time, one of them an unusually fortunate counter from Lionel Messi, helped Argentina on their way to a comfortable 3-0 win over Uruguay in a World Cup qualifier on Sunday.Eight minutes before the break Messi floated a 35-meter pass into the area but it was m...
Premier League clubs have reached out to the league with complaints about Newcastle United's takeover by a Saudi Arabia-led consortium and are pushing for an emergency meeting next week, the Guardian newspaper.The piracy dispute involved Qatari-owned beIN Sports, the league's broadcast right...
Davy Klaassen scored the only goal as the Netherlands beat Latvia 1-0 away in Riga on Friday to keep themselves ahead in a tightly contested World Cup qualifying group.Klaassen was unmarked at the back post to tuck away Memphis Depay's corner after 19 minutes for the lone goal of the game, altho...
Substitute Thomas Mueller scored an 81st minute winner to complete Germany's 2-1 comeback win over visitors Romania in their 2022 World Cup qualifier on Friday that kept them on course for a spot in next year's tournament.The Germans, who have now won all four matches under new coach Ha...
Business & Commerce
A global deal to ensure big companies pay a minimum tax rate of at least 15 percent and make it harder for them to avoid taxation was set to be finalised on Friday after Ireland, Estonia and Hungary agreed to sign up, leaving a few holdouts isolated.The agreement aims to end a four-decade-long "...
World champions France recovered from two goals down to beat Belgium 3-2 in a thrilling Nations League semi-final on Thursday with a last-minute strike from Theo Hernandez securing a place in Sunday’s showpiece match against Spain.In a crazy end to the game, Belgium thought they had won the pu...
Brazil fought back from a goal down to score three times in the second half for a 3-1 win over Venezuela that maintained their 100% record in 2022 World Cup qualifiers.Venezuela had never beaten Brazil in a World Cup qualifier in 17 previous attempts but their hopes rose after taking an early lead t...
World
T he European Union on Wednesday (Oct 6) agreed to back five-year climate targets at the COP26 climate change conference, where countries will attempt to finalise the rules needed to put the Paris Agreement into effect.At the COP26 summit, to be held in Glasgow from Oct 31 to Nov 12, countries will ...
F inland will pause the use of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for men born in 1991 and later due to reports of a rare cardiovascular side effect, the institute for health and welfare said on Thursday (Oct 7).Swedish and Danish health officials had announced on Wednesday afternoon they would pause ...
A t least 20 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan in the early hours of Thursday as people slept, the Disaster Management Authority said.Rescue workers said most of those killed were women and children.The earthquake struck at...
N ATO has expelled eight members of Russia’s mission to the alliance it said were “undeclared Russian intelligence officers”, a NATO official said, in a further deterioration of ties between western countries and Russia reminiscent of the Cold War.The expulsion of the Russians was ...
The Russian government has drafted a new decarbonisation strategy that sets a 2060 net-zero emissions target and provides for more aggressive measures to tackle emissions than previous versions of the document.The European Union, Britain and Italy last week urged Russia to commit to reach net-zero c...
Watford have appointed former Chelsea and Leicester City boss Claudio Ranieri as their new manager on a two-year contract, the Premier League club said on Monday.Italian Ranieri, who famously led Leicester to a shock league title in the 2015-16 season, will replace Xisco Munoz after the Spaniard lef...
France striker Kylian Mbappe on Tuesday fell short of saying he would leave Paris St Germain when his contract expires at the end of the season.The 22-year-old told the Ligue 1 club he wanted to join Real Madrid during the close season, only for PSG to turn down the Spanish club's offers.Asked i...
Sports,Cricket
England will be well prepared for the Twenty20 World Cup because half of the squad are getting used to conditions in the United Arab Emirates by playing in the Indian Premier League, bowler Tymal Mills said.The IPL was suspended near its halfway stage in May as India grappled with a surge of COVID-1...
Real Madrid's 2-1 La Liga defeat at Espanyol on Sunday was the Spanish league leaders' worst game this season, coach Carlo Ancelotti said.Real's stuttering form continued as they suffered a second consecutive loss in all competitions following last Wednesday's Champions League stunni...
Bayern Munich suffered their first defeat of the season and their first Bundesliga home loss to Eintracht Frankfurt in 21 years when Filip Kostic drilled home an 83rd-minute goal to earn the visitors a shock 2-1 victory on Sunday.Kostic picked up the ball on the edge of the box, charged forward and ...
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