Lewandowski double as Barca shred Madrid in La Liga Clasico on October 27, 2024Robert Lewandowski struck twice in two minutes as Barcelona crushed rivals Real Madrid 4-0 on Saturday, inflicting the Spanish champions’ first La Liga defeat in over a year. Teenage winger Lamine Yamal and Raphinha completed the rout, while Madrid superstar Kylian Mbappe had two goals ruled out for offside on a frustrating first Clasico appearance […]
Qinwen Zheng wins in Tokyo and clinches WTA Finals berth on October 27, 2024Top-seeded Qinwen Zheng of China claimed the Toray Pan Pacific Open with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over American wild card Sofia Kenin in Sunday´s final and clinch her place in the WTA finals next month. The No. 7-ranked Zheng, who won gold at the Paris Olympics, fired 16 aces and only faced a single […]
Left-field thought and patio heaters: How Pakistan turned series on head on October 27, 2024When Pakistan slumped to a sixth Test defeat in a row, by an innings as England piled up 823-7 in Multan just over two weeks ago, it sparked some soul-searching and a radical rethink. A revamped Pakistan selection committee dropped out-of-form batsman Babar Azam, pace spearheads Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah and instead turned […]
New Zealand hands India its first home test series loss since 2012 on October 27, 2024Mitchell Santner picked 13 wickets as New Zealand beat India by 113 runs in the second test Saturday, claiming its first test series win on Indian soil. Following his 7-53 in the first Indian innings, Santner was once again wrecker-in-chief, picking up 6-104 in the second innings as New Zealand took an insurmountable 2-0 lead […]
Bastianini wins Thai MotoGP sprint race ahead of Martin on October 27, 2024Ducati’s Enea Bastianini won the Thai MotoGP sprint race on Saturday, with the two world title rivals Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia second and third respectively. Ducati Pramac’s Martin extended his championship lead over Bagnaia by two points to 22, ahead of the grand prix at Buriram on Sunday. Two-time defending world champion Bagnaia started […]
Iran warns will defend itself after Israeli strikes on October 27, 2024Iran warned on Saturday it would defend itself after Israeli air strikes killed at least two soldiers and further stoked fears of a full-scale war in the Middle East. Israel warned Iran would “pay a heavy price” if it responded to the strikes, and the United States, Germany and Britain demanded Tehran not escalate the […]
At least 126 dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides in Philippines on October 27, 2024The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines has reached nearly 130 and the president said Saturday that many areas remained isolated with people in need of rescue. Trami blew away from the northwestern Philippines on Friday, leaving at least 85 people dead and […]
‘Terrorist attack’ kills 10 police in southeast Iran: media on October 27, 2024At least 10 police officers were killed in a “terrorist attack” in an area of southeastern Iran long plagued by unrest, local media reported on Saturday. They were killed during an attack on “police vehicles” in Sistan-Baluchistan province’s Taftan county, the Mehr and Tasnim news agencies reported, without saying how it was carried out. No […]
With podcasts, Trump and Harris play to changing US media landscape on October 27, 2024On Friday, former president Donald Trump sat down for what could be one of the most consequential interviews of this US election cycle: not with the New York Times or the Washington Post, but with Joe Rogan, host of the world’s top podcast. Locked in a too-close-to-call race for the White House, both Trump and […]
Harris, Trump barnstorm battlegrounds seeking to break deadlock on October 27, 2024Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are battling for holdout votes on a penultimate weekend of campaigning across US swing states, with Michelle Obama joining the Democrat onstage before the Republican nominee hosts an eyebrow-raising rally in New York City. With just 10 days left in a bitterly contested presidential race, the rivals converge Saturday on […]