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Oct 24, 2025, 03:00 AM ETThere is nothing quite like El Clásico. Whenever Real Madrid and Barcelona play each other, there is no bigger match happening anywhere else in the soccer world.Sunday’s clash at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (stream LIVE at on ESPN+ in the U.S.) will be no different. Defending LaLiga champions Barcelona arrive in the Spanish capital sitting two points behind their bitter rivals at the top of the table.Madrid coach Xabi Alonso, a legendary midfielder who won the LaLiga title and the UEFA Champions League during his five years as a player for Los Blancos, will be…

U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping.Jim Watson and Peter Klaunzer | Pool, AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping this week as part of his trip to Asia, as the world’s top two economies seek to dial down tensions in search of a trade deal that has so far been elusive.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters last Thursday that Trump will meet his Chinese counterpart on Oct. 30 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, Summit.”I think we are going to come out very well…

Doom is turning into a crowded profession. Over the weekend, another wave of financial commentary washed ashore. Again, the tone was apocalyptic. Again, the references were antique: the South Sea Bubble, the Railway Mania, the Dot-Com Bust. Again, the conclusion was inevitable collapse. In fact, it is now a cacophony of collapse. There is a palpable one-upmanship in pessimism. Merely predicting a standard market correction is passé. Absolute doomerism is the new currency. Analysts compete to name the largest number. $35 trillion in wealth, gone. A 1929-style crash, around the corner. One has to be squeamish or young to only…

Jeff KassoufOct 23, 2025, 11:29 PM 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.CHESTER, Pa. — U.S. women’s national team head coach Emma Hayes slapped the table repeatedly at Subaru Park on Thursday as she described how she felt watching her team lose to Portugal 2-1 moments earlier.”I was frustrated this evening because I felt like a game of a Whac-A-Mole,” Hayes said, hitting different parts of the table to illustrate the…

Jeff KassoufOct 23, 2025, 10:15 PM 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.CHESTER, Pa. — A frustrated United States women’s national team coach Emma Hayes said her group was unrecognizable in its 2-1 loss to Portugal on Thursday at Subaru Park.”I didn’t recognize us,” Hayes said. “We just rushed everything; we went direct. We didn’t look like the team that we’d been working on, but that’s what happens when you’ve got…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Conservationists and students cheered as three rescued sea turtles, endangered in this part of the world, made their way back into the ocean at a private beach in Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Weeks after the turtles were rescued from fishermen, they were released back into the ocean becoming the latest of dozens of sea turtles saved by the Greenfingers Wildlife Conservation Initiative in recent years. This batch was released last weekend.“For fishermen, they are just food,” Chinedu Mogbo, founder of the Greenfingers group told The Associated Press. “There is no knowledge out there of wildlife.”…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s military buildup and spending and complete an early upgrade of the country’s security strategy as tensions rise with China, North Korea and Russia.Takaichi took office Tuesday after being elected Japan’s first female leader. That ended months of a political vacuum amid power struggles within her party following consecutive election defeats that led to the ruling coalition’s loss of a majority in both houses of parliament.Takaichi said Friday her government will hit an annual military spending target of 2% of…

ISTANBUL (AP) — On the streets of Istanbul, porters hauling massive sacks wrapped in white plastic — on their backs or in handcarts — are a ubiquitous yet often overlooked part of the city’s fabric. Known as hamallık in Turkish, porterage is a profession that has endured from the Ottoman Empire to the present day.It remains especially common in Istanbul’s historic trade quarters — the Egyptian Bazaar, the Grand Bazaar, and the Eminönü district — where traditional commercial buildings known as hans contain workshops and businesses that produce jewelry, textiles and other goods. Porters haul loads up the stairway in…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — World shares were mixed on Friday after the White House confirmed plans for President Donald Trump to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week.The confirmation reduced some of the uncertainty surrounding trade tensions between the two biggest economies, though prospects for a significant trade deal remain unclear. The future for the S&P 500 rose 0.2% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up nearly 0.1%. Oil prices have declined after surging a day earlierIn early European trading, Germany’s DAX rose 0.1% to 24,235.73, while Britain’s FTSE 100 edged less than 0.1% higher to…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of the Middle East’s most delicate moments in years.While the ceasefire in Gaza may have tamped down regional tensions, fears remain of another round of conflict between Israel and Iraq’s neighbor, Iran. Iraq managed to stay on the sidelines during the brief Israel-Iran war in June.Meanwhile, Baghdad faces increasing pressure from Washington over the presence of Iran-linked armed groups in Iraq.Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani came to power in 2022 with the backing of a group of pro-Iran parties but has…