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Sep 23, 2025, 04:45 AM ETAitana Bonmatí is hungry for more titles after winning her third Ballon d’Or Féminin on Monday.The Barcelona and Spain star became the first woman to take the award three times while she joined Michel Platini and Lionel Messi as the third player to have won three consecutively.”There are still things left to achieve,” Bonmatí told reporters after Monday’s gala in Paris.”I think ambition and a [winning] mentality is what drives me. I’m going to continue adding to football and to my club.”Bonmatí, 27, helped Barcelona to a domestic treble last season and came close to…

“In terms of the game itself, we go into it on the back of a victory over our neighbours Everton in the Merseyside derby. That win maintained a start to the season which has definitely been promising, even though we know there is still room for improvement.”This victory gave me a great deal of pleasure, not only because it came in a derby, but mainly because it followed a demanding schedule of Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday fixtures. Inevitably, our energy levels weren’t the same at the end of such a testing week as they were at the start.”I need to stress…

Ousmane Dembélé knew the tears would come, inevitably. In the last few days, he thought long and hard about what would happen if his dream of winning the 2025 Ballon d’Or became reality. He talked about it many times with his best friend Moustapha Diatta, who was sat next to Fatoumata, his mum, and Moussa Sissoko, his agent at the ceremony on Monday night.Diatta knew the tears would come for him as well, and they did. Dembélé on the stage; Diatta in the audience. In his acceptance speech, Dembélé mentioned his BFF and how they grew up inseparable in the…

Sep 23, 2025, 03:59 AM ETLamine Yamal’s father, Mounir Nasraou, considers his son missing out on the Ballon d’Or award as “the biggest moral damage done to a human being.”The Barcelona winger came second to Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembélé in the Ballon d’Or voting.”I think this is the biggest, I won’t say theft, but moral damage done to a human being because I believe Lamine Yamal is the best player in the world by far, by a huge margin,” Nasraou, who attended Monday’s Ballon d’Or gala in Paris, told El Chiringuito TV after the event.”It’s not because he’s my…

France joined a wave of countries in recognising a Palestinian state on Monday, as global outrage continues to mount over Israel’s nearly two-year genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip and settlement building in the occupied West Bank. Alongside France, which co-convened the summit in New York with Saudi Arabia ahead of the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Luxembourg, Malta and Monaco also said they were recognising a Palestinian state. Three other European countries said they would recognise Palestine at a future date once certain criteria had been established. Belgium said recognition hinged on Hamas releasing Israeli captives and the Palestinian movement being removed from…

After Champions League disasters and fan protests, both sides of the Old Firm are looking for Europa League progression. Celtic and Rangers get their league-phase campaigns under way this week, with so much at stake at both clubs. The Hoops supporters remain frustrated with the club’s board and their perceived failure to spend in the summer, with many believing not adding enough to the squad played a part in their play-off exit to Kairat Almaty. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has defended under-fire Rangers head coach Russell Martin amid criticism from…

Sep 23, 2025, 02:54 AM ETChelsea manager Enzo Maresca fears it could be “impossible” for any team to stop Liverpool from retaining their Premier League crown.Arne Slot’s champions have already established a five-point cushion at the top of the table following an unblemished start to their title defence.After a 2-2 draw at Brentford, and then a 2-1 defeat at Manchester United, Chelsea are already seven points off the championship pace.Liverpool secured the title last season with four matches to spare and then broke their transfer record twice this summer to sign Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen, in a deal which…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said that it shot down three dozen Ukrainian drones heading toward Moscow while Ukraine said that Russian missiles, drones and bombs killed at least two civilians, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy persevered with efforts to bolster international support for his country at a U.N. gathering of world leaders on Tuesday.With his troops under strain on the front line after more than three years of fighting Russia’s bigger invading army, Zelensky was due to begin meetings with leaders gathered in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly.Peace efforts set in motion by U.S. President…

LONDON (AP) — Jaguar Land Rover said Tuesday that its production lines, shut down after a cyberattack in August, will remain at a halt until at least Oct. 1.Britain’s biggest automaker sent workers home from its factories in central and northwest England on Aug. 31.The shutdown has rippled through the U.K. auto industry. JLR, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, employs more than 30,000 people, with its supply chain supporting tens of thousands more jobs.The company has disclosed limited information about the nature of the attack and says it’s investigating.JLR said in a statement that it had extended the…

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Ruling military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger say the three countries are withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, accusing the global tribunal of what they say is selective justice.The pullout was not unexpected in the wake of the coups that brought the juntas to power in the three western African countries. The ICC, based in The Hague, is the world’s permanent global tribunal for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.Since the coups, the three countries’ military leaders abandoned longtime partners, including the West and the West Africa regional bloc. They have established new…