“My phone kept buzzing with messages, but I was so tired, I went straight to sleep — I hadn’t realised I’d set the record!” For Linfield captain Jamie Mulgrew, last Tuesday night was just like any other. The 38-year-old midfielder spent the evening coaching the club’s under-18s. Once home, he watched the football, then went […]
Christal Hayes BBC News, Los Angeles Getty Images Migrants from Venezuela viewing a map of the US at a Welcome Center in El Paso, Texas in 2022 US President Donald Trump’s administration has said it will revoke the temporary legal status of more than half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Those […]
Mar 23, 2025, 03:25 PM ET James Rodriguez and León have been barred from participating in this summer’s Club World Cup. Luis Cano/Jam Media/Getty Images FIFA announced on Friday that León will be barred from participating in this summer’s FIFA Club World Cup, which will be held in the United States. The global soccer governing body […]
SCOTT DETROW, HOST: This past week, President Trump’s administration took unprecedented actions in its effort to ramp up deportations. It sent more than 100 Venezuelan immigrants to a third country, El Salvador, where they were imprisoned – all of this without due process. And then the administration seemingly ignored a federal judge’s order to stop […]
One of the most exciting aspects of every MLB season is when young up-and-coming players have breakouts that make pretenders into contenders, or contenders into champions, or simply just give their team’s fan bases new hope. This is my annual roster of the players I think are most likely to have “breakout” seasons. My definition […]
UK taxes on big tech firms may be changed as part of a deal to avoid US President Donald Trump’s next raft of tariffs, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested. She said talks are “ongoing” about tweaks to the Digital Services Tax (DST), which affects global tech giants like Amazon and Meta. The 2% levy introduced […]
The main rival to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been formally arrested and charged with corruption. Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of the Turkish city of Istanbul, is expected to be selected as the opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) 2028 presidential candidate in a ballot on Sunday. He denies the allegations and says they are […]
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 […]