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Tom HamiltonAug 15, 2025, 03:31 AM ETClose• Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018Manchester United are closing in on the signing of free agent Fridolina Rolfö, sources have told ESPN, following the termination of her Barcelona contract.Barça and Rolfö agreed to end the player’s contract one year early in June.Rolfö, 31, has played a major role in Barca’s dominance of European football since her arrival at the club from German side Wolfsburg four years ago.She won 13 trophies, including four Liga…

Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo says his “unbalanced” side have a “major problem” as the Premier League returns, warning they are “very, very far” from where they should be.With Forest preparing for Europa League football this season, the club have signed three outifled players in Dan Ndoye, Igor Jesus and Jair Cunha – while the major outgoing was the £55m sale of Anthony Elanga to Newcastle. The club have agreed a deal worth up to £30m with Manchester City for James McAtee and are working on three more signings in Ipswich winger Omari Hutchinson, Juventus midfielder Douglas Luiz and…

PARIS (AP) — Authorities in France are vowing to track down and prosecute unknown attackers who chopped down an olive tree planted in homage to a French Jew murdered in 2006.The commemorative tree for Ilan Halimi, planted 14 years ago in the northern Paris suburb of Épinay-sur-Seine, was attacked Wednesday night, seemingly with a chainsaw. The town posted a photo on its Facebook page showing the tree’s leafy, bushy top completely severed from its base, leaving just the stump poking from the ground.Halimi was found naked, handcuffed and covered with burn marks near railroad tracks in the Essonne region south…

CHOSITI, India (AP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 120 people and left scores others missing in India and Pakistan over the past 24 hours, officials said Friday, as rescuers brought to safety some 1,600 people from two mountainous districts in the neighboring countries.Sudden, intense downpours over small areas known as cloudbursts are increasingly common in India’s Himalayan regions and Pakistan’s northern areas, which are prone to flash floods and landslides. Cloudbursts have the potential to wreak havoc by causing intense flooding and landslides, impacting thousands of people in the mountainous regions. Experts say cloudbursts…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities detained the mayor of a key Istanbul district along with some 40 other officials on Friday, intensifying a sweeping crackdown on the country’s opposition.Inan Guney, mayor of Istanbul’s Beyoglu district, was taken into custody as part of an investigation into alleged corruption, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Guney’s bodyguard, his advisor and other aides were among those detained, the Birgun newspaper and other media reported.Beyoglu district is held by the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP. Municipalities controlled by the CHP have faced waves of arrests this year, beginning with the targeting of…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Flash floods triggered by heavy rains killed at least 49 people in northwestern Pakistan and elsewhere in the country over the past 24 hours, officials said Friday, as rescuers evacuated 1,300 stranded tourists from a mountainous district hit by landslides.More than 360 people, mostly women and children, have died in rain-related incidents across Pakistan since June 26. Most of the latest deaths were reported in northern and northwestern Pakistan, according to local officials. At least 10 people were killed Thursday after being swept away by flash floods in Ghazar district in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, said regional…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for filing submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments generated by artificial intelligence.The blunder in the Supreme Court of Victoria state is another in a litany of mishaps AI has caused in justice systems around the world.Defense lawyer Rishi Nathwani, who holds the prestigious legal title of King’s Counsel, took “full responsibility” for filing incorrect information in submissions in the case of a teenager charged with murder, according to court documents seen by The Associated Press on Friday.“We are deeply…

What happens when a convicted felon and a man under indictment for alleged war crimes get together? What sounds like the opening line of a great joke, sadly, is probably the defining meeting of the second term of Donald Trump as US president. As with any meetings involving Trump, expectations are low and anxieties are high in the run-up to the US-Russia summit in Alaska on August 15. The White House, and Trump himself, have played down expectations of an imminent breakthrough towards peace in Ukraine, claiming that this would be “a feel-out meeting” to determine whether a ceasefire is…

SHANGHAI, CHINA – AUGUST 14, 2025 – Tourists are visiting the Bund in Shanghai, China on August 14, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesChina’s economy lost momentum in July, with growth faltering across the board, as weak domestic demand persisted and Beijing intensified efforts to curb excess capacity.Retail sales last month rose 3.7% from a year earlier, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed Friday, sharply missing analysts’ estimates for a 4.6% growth in a Reuters poll and slowing from June’s 4.8% growth.Industrial output rose 5.7% from a year ago in July, its weakest level since November…

A shopper carries a bag with promotional merchandise while visiting fashion retailer Shein’s Christmas bus tour, in Manchester, Britain, December 13, 2024. Temilade Adelaja | ReutersShein’s U.K. arm generated £2.05 billion ($2.77 billion) in sales in 2024, up 32.3% from 2023, according to a filing released on Friday.The online fast-fashion retailer’s pre-tax profit rose to £38.25 million in 2024 from £24.43 million in 2023.The company highlighted several milestones during the year, including the opening of new offices in King’s Cross and Manchester, a pop-up shop in Liverpool and a Christmas bus tour across 12 U.K. cities.Shein flagged risks such as potential…