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Phil Foden is pushing for an international recall when Thomas Tuchel names his latest squad next week.Foden is more prolific now than at any stage since January. The stats show he is currently in the best form of any of England’s No 10 options, hence why Tuchel has sat up and taken notice. There are signs that, after a very difficult time last season, the 2024 PFA Players’ Player of the Year is getting back to his best.Two goals and two assists in his first five games of the season for Manchester City represent his best return for eight months,…

It is easy to forget Ryan Mason is still just 34 years old.He has already, seemingly, lived a life in coaching and management. Two spells already as interim Tottenham boss, he also worked under Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte, Nuno and Ange Postecoglou. There was also the Carabao Cup final in 2021, taking charge a week after the sacking of Mourinho – they lost 1-0 to Manchester City – in just his second game at the helm. At that time he was just 29.He had, of course, been forced to retire at the age of 26, after suffering a…

Sep 25, 2025, 09:11 AM ETEuropean soccer body UEFA is moving toward a vote to suspend its member federation Israel over the war in Gaza, people familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Thursday.A majority of the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) 20-member executive committee is expected to support any vote in favor of suspending Israeli teams from international play, two sources told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.Such a step would prevent Israeli national and clubs teams from playing in international competitions including next year’s World Cup. Israel’s…

Kylian Mbappé stood off to one side, smiling and waiting as Xabi Alonso sang his praises.Mbappé had scored twice — and been named player of the match — as Real Madrid beat Marseille 2-1 in the Champions League. In the flash interview zone at the Santiago Bernabéu, the coach had a somewhat awkward task: publicly assessing his star forward’s contribution, within earshot of the man himself.”He wasn’t bad,” Alonso told Movistar reporter Ricardo Sierra, laughing and glancing off-screen towards Mbappé. “As usual. Two goals. He has an incredible impact. We’re happy to have him, but there’s a long way to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen and other former top economic officials appointed by presidents of both parties urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to preserve the Federal Reserve’s political independence and allow Lisa Cook to remain as a central bank governor for now.The justices are weighing an emergency appeal from the administration to remove Cook while her lawsuit challenging her firing by Republican President Donald Trump proceeds through the courts.The White House campaign to unseat Cook marks an unprecedented bid to reshape the Fed board, which was designed to be largely independent from day-to-day politics. No…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican appeals tribunal put an end to prosecutors’ efforts to salvage their claims of massive fraud in the Holy See’s “Trial of the Century,” in which a once-powerful cardinal and nine others were accused of fleecing tens of millions of euros from the church before being acquitted on many charges.The tribunal declared inadmissable the prosecutor’s requests to overturn acquittals on dozens of charges, saying they had failed to provide specific reasons for their appeal within the right timeframe. The court agreed with the defense that prosecutors had cut and pasted the same arguments they used…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — United Nations judges and lawyers met on Thursday to discuss the fate of a man accused of bankrolling genocide in Rwanda who remains stranded in legal limbo two years after judges ruled that he was not fit to stand trial.The case of Félicien Kabuga, who is about 90 years old and has dementia, echoes those of several men who have been ordered released from an international court but effectively have nowhere to go.Kabuga was one of the last fugitives charged in connection with the 1994 Rwanda genocide. After years of evading international efforts to track…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite show the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland in incredible detail.The pictures, released Thursday, are from a spacecraft that rocketed into orbit from India two months ago. The joint U.S.-Indian mission, worth $1.3 billion, will survey virtually all of the world’s land and ice masses multiple times. By tracking even the slightest shifts in land and ice, the satellite will give forecasters and first responders a leg up in dealing with floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and other disasters. In this image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech captured on…

In the message to employees Thursday, Niccol said the company had reviewed and identified stores where the company would be “unable to to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect, or where we don’t see a path to financial performance.” TD Cowen analyst Andrew Charles wrote in a note to clients that the store closures are “more than we anticipated.”Starbucks executives had previously said that the company would be slowing new openings in favor of remodeling existing locations this year. The renovated cafes are meant to encourage customers to linger, taking the coffee chain back to its roots…

MIAMI (AP) — A fast-moving Hurricane Gabrielle was expected to bring heavy rain, storm surge and large, destructive waves to the Azores islands starting Thursday night and into early Friday, forecasters said.A hurricane warning was in effect for the all of the islands in the volcanic archipelago, which could experience dangerous conditions from Gabrielle, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters warned midday Thursday that preparations for the storm should be rushed to completion.In the Northern Atlantic, Gabrielle was about 385 miles (620 kilometers) west of the Azores on Thursday afternoon. It had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120…