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Chelsea are the first WSL team to complete an unbeaten 22-game season after Aggie Beever-Jones’ late goal secured a 1-0 victory over Liverpool on the final day of the season.Despite already being crowned champions with two games to spare, there was still plenty to play for as Sonia Bompastor’s side chased records. However, Liverpool frustrated the champions, keeping clear-cut chances to a minimum in west London.That was until Beever-Jones fired past goalkeeper Rachel Laws in stoppage time to cap an incredible season for the Blues, who went on to lift the WSL title in front of their home fans at…
Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action.In 2016, ancient cave paintings of giant, horned beasts shed new light on the mysterious origins of the European bison.These depictions showed a marked change in bison appearance between about 22,000 and 17,000 years ago – horns, humps and forequarters all diminished in size. This added weight to the genetic evidence suggesting that the European…
MOSCOW — President Donald Trump’s special envoy broke with long-standing protocol by not employing his own interpreter during three high-level meetings with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, opting instead to rely on translators from the Kremlin, a U.S. official and two Western officials with knowledge of the talks told NBC News.Steve Witkoff, who has been tasked with negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, met with Putin in Moscow for several hours on Feb. 11, on March 13, and in St. Petersburg on April 11, and “used their translators,” one of the Western officials said. “If they speak to each other in…
Rangers and Scotland striker Jane Ross has announced she will retire at the end of this season.The former Manchester City, Manchester United, West Ham and Glasgow City player has played through 19 seasons, winning several major honours. Ross has won four Scottish Women’s Premier League titles, three with Glasgow City and one with Rangers plus three Scottish Women’s Cups.The 35-year-old also clinched a Women’s Super League title, Women’s League Cup and FA Women’s Cup, all with Manchester City.Ross earned 151 international caps since making her senior debut in March 2009 and scored 62 goals. Upon announcing her plans to retire,…
May 10, 2025, 05:10 AM ETLiverpool forward Mohamed Salah has admitted the impact of Arne Slot at the club following Jurgen Klopp’s exit surprised him.Klopp left Liverpool at the end of the 2023/24 season, before Slot arrived from Feyenoord in the summer. The Dutchman won the title in his first season at the club after after beating Tottenham Hotspur 5-1 at the end of April.Salah, who was voted the Football Writers’ Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year this past week, revealed in an interview with France Football that Slot’s impact took him by surprise.”I didn’t expect us to win so…
The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which has created significant challenges for Turkey-Iraq relations, is on the verge of disbanding. As Middle East Eye reported on Friday, the PKK is expected to imminently announce the end of its armed struggle against Turkey, as requested by jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan. All eyes are on how the process will unfold from here. The group’s disbanding will cast uncertainty on the future of its members in the Qandil Mountains, an area that has served as the PKK’s headquarters in northern Iraq for decades. Ocalan’s appeal, which marks a turning point in the decades-long conflict between the…
On what differences he has seen between Slot and Jürgen Klopp…I think there is difference with the ball and when we are in possession. I think we are more calm and try not to be as direct as we were before and be more patient. But the principal ideas are the same. It didn’t change much. I think Arne was really smart with that because we have many players that were a long time under Jürgen and it’s not easy to change that quick. Arne was really smart and I don’t see many differences now, but I think in the…
Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action.Every spring and autumn, rivers of saiga antelope once flowed across the steppes of central Asia. In herds of 200,000 the nomadic animals migrated thousands of miles in search of fresh grass and fairer weather.Dating back to the Ice Age, saiga once roamed from Britain all the way to Canada, alongside woolly rhinos and mammoths.…
Rome CNN — On most days, the Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s busiest tourist destinations, but this week it served as the world’s most secretive polling station as 133 cardinals voted for the 267th pope. On Friday, the chapel was restored to its central purpose: A place of worship. There, the newly elected pontiff, Leo XIV, held a private service for the cardinals, marking his first Mass as the leader of the Catholic Church and its 1.4 billion members. Leo, a 69-year-old from Chicago – who was until Thursday known as Cardinal Robert Prevost – made history on…
May 10, 2025, 04:00 AM ETEl Clásico is always a huge deal, one of the most-viewed matches around the world in any season. But with Barcelona and Real Madrid meeting so late in the season with the LaLiga title still on the line, this is one of the biggest in years.When these two giants meet at Barcelona’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday (stream LIVE at 10:15 a.m. ET on ESPN+), they do so as the only two teams left who can become champions of Spain for 2024-25. If winning the title itself is not sufficient motivation for stars such as Lamine…