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Augustus Kargbo scored his first goal for Blackburn to rescue a 1-1 draw against Stoke.Valerien Ismael’s struggling side looked set for a defeat after Million Manhoef grabbed the opener for Stoke in the second half. But Blackburn rallied and Kargbo, who faced heavy criticism for his role in Swansea’s winner in midweek, lashed in a late leveller from close range.Kargbo struck the woodwork before the end as Rovers almost forced an improbable winner, but Blackburn will be relieved to have gained a deserved point. By contrast, Mark Robins will wonder how his Stoke side squandered their control of the game,…

Harrison Burrows missed a late penalty for struggling Sheffield United as Hull secured their third win of the Sky Bet Championship season, winning 1-0 at the MKM Stadium.David Akintola gave the Tigers a first-half lead after 30 minutes before the Blades’ Gustavo Hamer shot against the post. Hull sat on their lead for large periods of the second half and Hamer was denied a leveller on more than one occasion before goalkeeper Ivor Pandur came to his side’s rescue when he saved substitute Burrows’ weak spot-kick.Hamer curled an early free-kick wide of the target from 25 yards before the hosts…

Iman Beney’s late strike secured a fourth straight WSL victory for Manchester City with a thrilling 3-2 win over Arsenal.Khadija Shaw put City ahead before Mariona Caldentey levelled and, in an end-to-end encounter, Kerstin Casparij sent the hosts back in front.Chloe Kelly returned to haunt her former club with a stunning equaliser which looked to have earnt Arsenal a point seven minutes from time but 19-year-old Beney had the final say with a cool strike in the 88th minute.Victory means second-placed City have four wins from five league games, while Arsenal slipped to their first defeat of the season following…

Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan’s ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), attends a press conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025.Yuichi Yamazaki | Pool Photo via APJapan’s ruling party picked hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country’s first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbors.The Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for almost all of the postwar era, elected Takaichi, 64, to regain trust from a public angered by rising prices and drawn to…

Israel continued military operations in Gaza on Saturday even after US President Donald Trump ordered them to “immediately” stop their assault on the enclave. Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israel carried out dozens of air strikes and artillery shelling on Gaza City and other areas in the strip. Spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 20 homes were destroyed in the overnight bombardments. “The situation is very serious in Gaza City,” he said, adding that his teams were not able to reach all the casualties due to the “presence of tanks and the ongoing bombardment”. Gaza City’s Baptist Hospital said it received at least…

The UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) returns on Tuesday with a new format, mirroring the men’s competition, and all 18 clubs playing six league-phase games each in one single table before the knockout rounds.Europe’s top club tournament features three clubs from England (including debutants Manchester United), Spain and France, while, as ever, it will provide a platform for the stars of both the present and future to shine.With that in mind, here are the players to watch from every team in this year’s UWCL.- UWCL preview: Team-by-team, talking points, predictions- Women’s Champions League 2025-26 kits: Ranking every jersey- Thakur: OL…

It is impossible to understand Monday’s joint news conference held by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the American 20-point plan to end the genocide in Gaza outside of the general context in which the event took place.  It came a week after the UN summit in New York, which discussed a French-Saudi proposal to recognise a Palestinian state, and amid intensified international criticism and boycotts targeting Israel.  This, in turn, has fuelled Israeli criticisms of the war amid fears of the economic consequences – a shift from cultural isolation to economic isolation, which has coalesced with EU discussions on…

Wolves gambled this summer bringing in six players new to the Premier League. So far, that gamble has not paid off. Vitor Pereira thinks they just need time. “Without time, it is like buying a lottery ticket,” he tells Sky Sports. “You don’t know what will happen.”Having seen standout performers Matheus Cunha, Rayan Ait Nouri and Nelson Semedo depart, Wolves invested north of £100m on new players. They recruited them from Celta Vigo and Girona, from AZ Alkmaar and Genk, from Hellas Verona and Fluminense. But five consecutive defeats underlined the point that the Premier League is not prepared to…

The top stories and transfer rumours from Saturday’s newspapers…THE TELEGRAPH Ruben Amorim could be sacked if Manchester United lose to Sunderland on Saturday.Ange Postecoglou is fighting for his Nottingham Forest future and facing a potentially pivotal game at Newcastle United on Sunday.England are in talks with Sale Sharks to bring highly rated Byron McGuigan on board in time for the autumn internationals. The R360 rebel breakaway league has been dealt a major blow after the world rugby players’ union refused to endorse the competition or any contracts offered to its members. DAILY MAIL The mood among the Manchester United hierarchy…

NEW YORK (AP) — If the U.S. government’s latest shutdown can’t stop the stock market, what can? Stock prices keep rising, even as the shutdown delays important economic reports that usually steer trading. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average set all-time highs Friday. It’s not just Big Tech driving the market, which has often been the case in recent years. Sure, Nvidia and other darlings of the artificial-intelligence frenzy are still climbing, but almost everything on Wall Street is coming up a winner. The Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks has set a record after taking nearly four…