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Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019.Aly Song | ReutersBEIJING — The flare-up in tensions between the U.S. and China over the weekend highlights the deepening mistrust dividing the world’s two biggest economies.In the two days after Beijing ended its Golden Week holiday on Wednesday, the country announced a new framework for restricting rare earths exports, placed more U.S. companies on a blacklist and charged U.S.-linked ships with fees for docking at Chinese ports.U.S. President Donald Trump then threatened 100% more tariffs on…
“It is not the end of my story.”For Matt Taylor, the old line about football being more important than life and death was exposed for the lie it is when tragedy struck last winter. After six years as a Football League manager with Exeter, Rotherham and Bristol Rovers his career had to take a backseat.Here, as told to Adam Bate, he shares that story. It is one of profound loss and the challenge of rebuilding after it, revealing much about football’s relationship with grief as he looks to return to the game with a different perspective on life…–I was delighted…
Coventry City are the only unbeaten team left in the top four leagues in England and look imperious at the top of the Championship table.Frank Lampard’s side have scored 27 goals this season, which is at least 12 more than any other in the second tier. They also look rock solid at the back, with only two sides in the league conceding more than their total of seven. There were four draws in their opening six games, but in the last three before the international break they put three past Birmingham, four past Millwall and five past Sheffield Wednesday.Beaten in…
Jack Wilshere has been announced as the new Luton Town first-team manager. The appointment marks an entry point into full-time senior management for the former Arsenal and England midfielder, who left Norwich at the end of last season. Chris Powell will be Wilshere’s assistant.The former Arsenal and England midfielder wanted someone with obvious experience alongside him in the new role, and so had persuaded Powell to join him.Powell has previously been in charge of Charlton, Huddersfield, Leicester and Derby. “It’s a huge honour and a privilege to be named Luton Town manager,” Wilshere said. “It feels like a full-circle moment…
In a career that spanned the best part of two decades, Mark Phillips played in seven of the top eight divisions of English football.He achieved his dream of making his debut for boyhood club Millwall, won the League Two title with Brentford in 2008/09, finished as an EFL Trophy runner-up at Wembley and played almost 400 times in all. In March, he found out he had done so with an undiagnosed neurodivergence.Seven months on from what the 43-year-old calls a “life-changing” ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) diagnosis, he speaks to Sky Sports about how it has impacted his life, how…
Oct 13, 2025, 05:12 AM ETGermany manager Julian Nagelsmann and former Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp both defended Florian Wirtz’s underwhelming start to Premier League life.Wirtz joined Liverpool from Bayer Leverkusen in a then-club record £116 million ($154m) deal in the summer.Since moving to Anfield, Wirtz has struggled to command games in the same way he did at Leverkusen, where he starred during an unbeaten Bundesliga-winning season under Xabi Alonso.The German midfielder was dropped to the bench by Arne Slot for Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat to Chelsea before the international break.Julian Nagelsmann has moved to defend Florian Wirtz after the Germany star’s…
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he disembarks from Air Force One upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport on the outskirts of Lod near Tel Aviv on October 13, 2025, as he travels to Israel and Egypt. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump on Monday declared the war in the Middle East is over, as he began a momentous trip to the region to finalize a peace deal for Gaza.Trump arrived in Tel Aviv earlier Monday to mark the release of Israeli hostages by Hamas after more than two years in captivity.As he arrived at the…
ROME (AP) — The Vatican took the unusual step on Monday of announcing that it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist accused of sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing women.The case of the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik badly tarnished the legacy of Pope Francis, given suggestions that the Jesuit pope and the Jesuit-headed Vatican sex abuse office had protected one of their own.The Vatican office that regulates clergy sex abuse cases, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that the five judges named to hear the Rupnik case include women and priests who…
Oct 13, 2025, 04:07 AM ETFaroe Islands shocked Czechia with a 2-1 win on Sunday that to give them a faint hope of qualifying for next summer’s World Cup.Ranked No. 136 in the world, Faroe Islands won their third match on the spin to overcome the Czechs and apply pressure for qualification in Group L.They took the lead through Hanus Sorensen’s well-taken goal after 67 minutes but when Adam Karabec equalised 11 minutes later it seemed they would have to settle for a point.It took Faroe Islands just three minutes to change the dynamic of the match, and Group L,…
Robbie Fowler dragged a long-ranger narrowly wide of the right post before, with the game still only 16 minutes old, Steven Gerrard nearly ripped the net out of the goal at the Anfield Road end.Controlling Fowler’s lay-off fully 30 yards from the target, Gerrard unleashed a beautiful and pure strike that soared and swirled past a helpless Fabian Barthez and into the top left corner.“Not for the first time, and probably not the last, Gerrard was the driving influence of this Liverpool triumph, an indomitable presence on the right of midfield,” wrote The Guardian.“His 16th-minute haymaker, a sure-fire contender for…