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Erling Haaland must be doing something right this season if he has forced Roy Keane to admit he was wrong.The Manchester City striker was once described as being like “a League Two player” by the former Manchester United midfielder and current Sky Sports pundit. But after Haaland scored twice in the Manchester derby earlier this month, Keane said — perhaps through gritted teeth — that Haaland had been excellent.”He’s a Championship player now,” Keane added with a smile.Given the history between Keane and Haaland’s family — the feud between Keane and Alf-Inge Haaland, Erling Haaland’s father, stretches back to their…

Sep 26, 2025, 03:41 AM ETOL Lyonnes (formerly known as Olympique Lyonnais) are the most successful team in women’s football history. The French side have won a record eight UEFA Women’s Champions League [UWCL] and 18 French Première Ligue titles, along with 10 Coupe de France Féminine trophies.American billionaire Michele Kang — who also owns NWSL side Washington Spirit and newly promoted Women’s Super League team London City Lionesses — has been the majority stakeholder in OL Lyonnes since 2023 and under her reign, the club underwent a rebrand of name and badge this summer in a bid to reclaim…

The champions travel to Selhurst Park on Saturday (3pm BST kick-off) looking to extend their winning start to their title defence to six games.Here are a selection of the best pre-match facts and figures, from LFC statistician Ged Rea and Opta…This match will see the Premier League’s only two unbeaten sides so far this season facing off, with Liverpool winning all five of their matches and Crystal Palace winning two and drawing three so far. Both teams are yet to trail in a league contest.The next point Liverpool gain will be their 100th in the league under Arne Slot. This…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown is still “avoidable” despite sharp divisions ahead of Wednesday’s funding deadline. “I’m a big believer that there’s always a way out,” the South Dakota Republican said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. “And I think there are off-ramps here, but I don’t think that the negotiating position, at least at the moment, that the Democrats are trying to exert here is going to get you there.” Thune said Democrats are going to have to “dial…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The front line on the battlefield in Ukraine has grown in length to nearly 1,250 kilometers (800 miles), stretching Kyiv’s defenses, while Russian forces employ a new tactic of sending swarms of small assault groups to infiltrate Ukrainian lines, Ukraine’s top military commander says.The line of contact has grown by roughly 200 kilometers (120 miles) over the past year, and Ukrainian forces are averaging between 160 and 190 combat engagements every day with Russia’s bigger army, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a review of the battlefield situation.At the same time, Russian tactics have switched since the…

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Friday that at least nine people were killed by Israeli strikes on the country’s rebel-held capital of Sanaa the previous day, the latest in an increase in exchanges between Israel and the Iranian-backed rebels over the war in Gaza.The strikes on Thursday afternoon came a day after a drone launched by the Houthis wounded 22 people in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, a rare breach of Israel’s air defenses. According to the health ministry in the Houthi-controlled northern half of Yemen, which includes Sanaa, four children, two women and three older…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It pays less and less to buy and flip a home these days.From April through June, the typical home flipped by an investor resulted in a 25.1% return on investment, before expenses. That’s the lowest profit margin for such transactions since 2008, according to an analysis by Attom, a real estate data company.Gross profits — the difference between what an investor paid for a property and what it sold for — fell 13.6% in the second quarter from a year earlier to $65,300, the firm said. Attom’s analysis defines a flipped home as a property that…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a commission ruled that they were removed in the colonial era “against the will of the people,” the education ministry announced Friday.The historically significant trove known as the Dubois Collection includes a piece of skull uncovered from the Solo River on the island of Java that is regarded as the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, which is generally considered to be an ancestor of our species, Homo sapiens. The fossils are often referred to as “Java Man.”The…

Japan’s biggest revolving door is spinning again, and odds are it’s about to spit out Shinjiro Koizumi as the nation’s next prime minister. It’s not that a critical mass of Japan’s 125 million people seem enthusiastic about the 44-year-old son of 2001–2006 leader Junichiro Koizumi taking a turn running Asia’s No 2 economy. It’s more that the politically moderate, generally inoffensive scion of a family dynasty looks like the least worst option to replace Shigeru Ishiba. Luckily for Koizumi, he steps into some rather small shoes. One has to get extremely creative to argue that Ishiba achieved much during his…

Sep 26, 2025, 12:02 AM ETBrazil’s Flamengo and Ecuador’s Liga de Quito defeated Estudiantes de La Plata and São Paulo, respectively, on Thursday to qualify for the Copa Libertadores semifinals.Three-time Copa Libertadores champions Flamingo lost the second leg 1-0 for a final 2-2 on aggregate but prevailed on penalty kicks with goalkeeper Agustin Rossi deflecting shots from Gaston Benedetti and Santiago Ascacibar in the shootout.Flamengo, in the semifinals for the first time since 2022, will play another Argentine club in the next round where they are set to play against Racing Club, which advanced to the final four after beating…