Erling Haaland helped Norway make a positive start to its World Cup qualifying campaign by scoring in a 5-0 rout at Moldova on Saturday. Norway’s third and last World Cup appearance was back in 1998, two years before Haaland was born. Now, Haaland leads a team featuring Arsenal midfielder Martin Ødegaard that bears high expectations […]
A foul cell in a Moscow detention center was about the last place an American businessman named Michael Calvey expected to find himself after spending 25 years building a flourishing venture capital firm in Russia that transformed some tech startups into global brands. First, beefy agents from the F.S.B., the federal security service, ransacked his […]
New Zealand record a 115-run win in fourth T20 as all but two Pakistan batters score in double figures in chase of 221. New Zealand’s ruthless pace attack carved up the Pakistani batting line-up to deliver a crushing 115-run win in the fourth Twenty20 and clinch the five-match series 3-1. The home side posted 220-6 […]
Times are tough on Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit responsible for Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and the rest of the stars of “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems. The organization is losing its lucrative contract with HBO, which has paid $30 million to $35 million […]
Disney’s latest remake, “Snow White,” arrived in theaters on Thursday night as one of the most snakebit projects in the company’s 102-year history. Almost everything that could have went wrong did, resulting in a torrent of negative prerelease publicity. Did the tumult have an impact on the box office? It certainly didn’t help: Based on […]
Wrexham made progress in their hunt for automatic promotion from League One on Saturday as they moved into second place with a 1-0 win over 10-man Stockport County. Wrexham are bidding for a remarkable third straight promotion this season, and Jay Rodríguez’s first-half strike was enough to earn all three points and keep up the fight […]
With the addition of 2024, yet another record-hot year, the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, the World Meteorological Organization reports. “That’s never happened before,” said Chris Hewitt, the director of the W.M.O.’s climate services division. It marks the first time since record keeping began that all […]
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Maddie Molloy BBC Climate & Science Marcin_Kopij The 300-year-old winner is a beloved symbol of its local community The Heart of the Dalkowskie Hills, a breathtaking 300-year-old beech, has won Poland the European Tree of the Year award for the fourth consecutive time. Standing tall in Dalków’s historic park, the deep-red beauty is a beloved […]
Mar 21, 2025, 11:59 AM ET Grupo Pachuca confirmed that the FIFA appeals committee on Friday ruled Club León out of participation in the 2025 Club World Cup due to the tournament’s multi-ownership rules. The two clubs, pertaining to Grupo Pachuca, originally qualified to the competition by winning separate editions of the Concacaf Champions Cup. […]