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CNN  —  Teenage sprinting sensation Gout Gout continued his record-breaking streak on Tuesday when he surpassed his own 200m Australian national mark. The 17-year-old finished first with a time of 20.02 seconds – shaving two hundredths of a second off the previous record he broke in December last year – at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Gout entered the straight slightly behind Cuba’s Reynier Mena but produced a remarkable burst as the pair approached the finish line to get himself ahead. In what was Gout’s first senior race abroad, he finished 0.17 seconds ahead of Mena while…

CNN  —  Taylor Swift has won numerous awards, but she probably deserves one for most supportive girlfriend of a football player. The pop star thrilled folks with a recent surprise performance in Nashville, where Tight End University is taking place. Swift’s beau, Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelcie, was at the annual event that brings together the best tight ends in the National Football League to train and hang out. Social media posts that captured Swift performing her hit “Shake It Off” at the “Tight Ends & Friends” concert. The NFL even posted a photo country star Kane Brown…

CNN  —  She’s set to marry Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. But who is the pilot and Emmy Award-winning journalist Lauren Sánchez – and how did she go from local news to the edge of space? Born in New Mexico in 1969 and raised in California, Sánchez studied at El Camino College and later the University of Southern California. According to her alma mater’s website, at the time she was known as Wendy Sánchez. She launched her broadcasting career at KTVK-TV in Phoenix, and went on to appear on the “Extra” news magazine show, co-hosted “Good Day LA,” and served as…

Sky Bet League One and League Two teams have been placed into groups for the 2025/26 Vertu Trophy.The competition is regionalised at the opening stage of the competition – and up until the quarter-finals – with eight groups in the northern section and eight in the southern section. Each group currently contains three teams, with 16 Premier League teams to be find out their opponents at 2.30pm on Thursday, when the draw is made live on Sky Sports.The Premier League U21 teams in the northern section are Everton, Leeds, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and Wolves.The Premier…

Former England midfielder Jordan Nobbs believes England still have a “great chance” to win Euro 2025 despite a raft of pre-tournament issues affecting their preparations.Three major withdrawals from Sarina Wiegman’s squad rocked the England coach days ahead of naming her final squad, with Fran Kirby and Mary Earps both retiring from international football and Chelsea captain Millie Bright stepping back from the tournament. That came in the same week England were deservedly beaten 2-1 by Spain to miss out on a Nations League finals spot, and they have lost two of their last three games ahead of facing Jamaica in…

Former CIA Director George Tenet thought him “at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden” and former Mossad Chief Shabtai Shavit regretted not killing him. But to almost 250 million Pakistanis, Abdul Qadeer Khan – the godfather of Pakistan’s nuclear programme – is a legend and national hero. The nuclear scientist, who was born in 1936 and died in 2021 aged 85, was more responsible than anyone else for the South Asian nation developing a nuclear bomb. He ran a sophisticated and clandestine international network assisting Iran, Libya and North Korea with their nuclear programmes. One of those nations, North…

Ruben Selles is not your average Championship manager.His coaching journey has already taken him to all four corners of the European continent, and now the newly-appointed Sheffield United boss is entirely focused on returning last season’s beaten play-off finalists to the Premier League. Let go by Hull City after only keeping them up on the final day, the call to replace Chris Wilder may have surprised a few, especially after previous struggles at Southampton and Reading. However, Selles is excited by the opportunity to compete at the right end of the table for a change.”We have been in the last…

Jeff KassoufJun 25, 2025, 07:00 AM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.Since last year’s Olympic gold medal triumph, U.S. women’s national team head coach Emma Hayes has been handing out international debuts like Oprah Winfrey’s Ultimate Car Giveaway: “You get a cap! You get a cap!”Four players joined their first senior USWNT training camp this week, bringing Hayes’ tally to 27 first-time call-ups since arriving on the sidelines just over…

CNN  —  For over than three decades, Iran built a web of proxy networks to push its battles far beyond its borders – keeping enemies at bay, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tightened his grip on power. Direct strikes on Iran remained inconceivable. That image of invincibility crumbled in the space of hours on June 13, when Israel launched a surprise, unprecedented attack deep inside Iran, shattering Tehran’s sense of security and unraveling its carefully cultivated aura of strength. Its strikes took out top military leaders and some of Iran’s most prominent nuclear scientists, including a few as they…

London CNN  —  The United Kingdom will host Donald Trump for a state visit this year, but King Charles and the US president won’t be able to meet informally over the summer due to their busy diaries, CNN understands. The “Manu Regia” – a formal invitation signed by the British monarch – was hand delivered to the White House by representatives of the British embassy in Washington last week. Charles, 76, had initially suggested in a letter delivered to Trump in the Oval Office in February by the UK prime minister that the pair could first meet in Scotland at…