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Published 35 minutes ago By Liverpool FCHere are the best statistics to know before Liverpool’s Carabao Cup fourth-round tie with Crystal Palace.Anfield is the venue for the all-Premier League affair on Wednesday night, the third meeting between the clubs already this season.Ahead of this latest encounter, read the following facts and figures provided by club statistician Ged Rea…The teams are meeting in the League Cup for the first time since October 2005, when Palace won 2-1 at Selhurst Park in the third round. Liverpool have won five of their last eight Anfield meetings with Wednesday’s opposition, losing only once –…
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV urged Catholic teachers on Tuesday to focus less on pre-professional outcomes and more on educating students to have rich spiritual lives and use technology in ways that keep human dignity front and center.Leo issued a set of marching orders to Catholic educators during a special Holy Year celebration that has brought thousands of teachers, students and administrators to Rome.The brief text, which Leo signed Monday at a Mass for the Jubilee pilgrims, is an update to a 1965 Vatican document laying out the priorities for Catholic educators that was adopted during the Second Vatican…
MIAMI (AP) — A longtime U.S. law enforcement agent secretly tried to recruit Nicolas Maduro’s pilot to join a plot to capture the Venezuelan leader and deliver him into U.S. custody to face drug trafficking charges. Details of the plot are emerging as the Trump administration exerts increasing pressure on Maduro. Trump has deployed a U.S. naval strike force to the Caribbean and doubled the bounty for Maduro’s arrest to $50 million. The untold saga of how the agent tried to flip the pilot has all the elements of a Cold War spy thriller — luxury private jets, a secret…
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — In a stretch of Northern California known for farming, ranching and a rural way of life, residents worry a ballot measure to redraw U.S. House maps is all but certain to dilute what little political power they possess in the heavily Democratic state.If Proposition 50 passes, voters in three northern counties that went strongly for President Donald Trump in the last three elections would share a representative with some of the state’s wealthiest and most liberal coastal communities. Rural voters would be outnumbered, making it unlikely for a Republican candidate to prevail.“Most of us see it…
This photograph taken on October 30, 2022, shows the logo of the Swiss pharmaceutical and drug maker Novartis on a building in Basel. Gabriel Monnet | Afp | Getty ImagesNovartis “can never be done” when it comes to major acquisitions in its sector as it always needs to look for the next “great asset,” CEO Vas Narasimhan told CNBC.In order to offset the hit from generics competition Novartis has been on a buying spree, acquiring more than 35 companies over the last year. The Swiss drugmaker announced its biggest deal in a decade on Sunday, when it announced it has…
NEW YORK (AP) — Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts Fund that will distribute a minimum of $50 million over the next five years. The idea for the fund was initiated by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the country’s largest philanthropic supporter of the arts. Mellon President Elizabeth Alexander cited literature as a vital source of expression.“Novelists, poets, and all manner of creative writers have shaped and driven our collective discourse and capacity for invention since the nation’s…
Brighton do not normally get it wrong with young players. After all, the quintet of Moises Caicedo, Marc Cucurella, Joao Pedro, Ben White and Alexis Mac Allister have brought in £300m in transfer fees in the last four years.But the Seagulls had Viktor Gyokeres on their books and sold him for just £1m to Coventry in 2021. He has since become a £20m player at Sporting CP – then a £63.5m marquee signing for Arsenal. And now he is the Gerd Muller Trophy holder after scoring more goals than any player in 2025. “We knew there was a top talent…
PARIS (AP) — A delegation of French senators visited the Louvre on Tuesday and acknowledged that the museum’s security was “not in line” with modern standards, calling for improved measures at the Paris landmark that was the scene of a stunning heist earlier this month.Thieves took less than eight minutes on Oct. 19 to steal jewels valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) from the world’s most-visited museum. French officials described how the intruders used a basket lift to scale the Louvre’s façade, forced open a window, opened a breach in display cases and fled.Two suspects were arrested on Sunday…
Oct 28, 2025, 03:49 AM ETBrendan Rodgers has left Celtic amid a wave of criticism from principal shareholder Dermot Desmond.Rodgers resigned as manager on Tuesday after Celtic’s poor start to the season. The club have put Martin O’Neill and former midfielder Shaun Maloney in temporary charge.A statement from Desmond, after Rodgers’ exit, read: “Brendan Rodgers has today tendered his resignation as manager of Celtic Football Club.”I want to acknowledge Brendan’s contribution across his two spells as manager, during which he helped deliver success that forms part of the club’s modern history. However, I must also express my deep disappointment at…
Brendan Rodgers’ broken relationship with the Celtic board was laid bare after his surprise resignation in an extraordinary statement from major shareholder Dermot Desmond.Rodgers was accused of misleading fans over his contract talks and the club’s transfer business as Desmond claimed the manager’s “divisive” actions “fuelled hostility” toward the board and executive team. Desmond put Celtic’s recent struggles down to “one individual’s desire for self-preservation” with the Scottish champions already eight points adrift of league leaders Hearts after failing to qualify for the Champions League.Amid the backdrop of fan protests, which have called for the board to be sacked, Desmond…