How Shaun Wright-Phillips wanted both teams to win when Manchester City won the Premier League

How Shaun Wright-Phillips wanted both teams to win when Manchester City won the Premier League

How Shaun Wright-Phillips wanted both teams to win when Manchester City won the Premier League

 

How Shaun Wright-Phillips wanted both teams to win when Manchester City won the Premier League. These days the holy grail for Manchester City is arguably winning the Champions League for the first time in its history.

It’s a sign of the club’s remarkable development since the 2008 takeover by Emirati royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan’s investment company Abu Dhabi United Group that seven years ago City’s focus was very much on securing its first top-flight title in 44 years.

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Boxing’s ‘Clash on the Dunes’ overshadowed by ‘sportswashing’ concerns

Boxing’s ‘Clash on the Dunes’ overshadowed by ‘sportswashing’ concerns

Boxing’s ‘Clash on the Dunes’ overshadowed by ‘sportswashing’ concerns

 

 

Boxing’s ‘Clash on the Dunes’ overshadowed by ‘sportswashing’ concerns. In the 1970s, the “Rumble in the Jungle” and the “Thrilla in Manila” — two legendary boxing bouts involving Muhammad Ali — helped define the sport’s heavyweight division.

Fast forward to Saturday and the “Clash on the Dunes” — the rematch between Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr.
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Paulo Dybala steals show from Cristiano Ronaldo in Champions League with thunderbolt strike

Paulo Dybala steals show from Cristiano Ronaldo in Champions League with thunderbolt strike

Paulo Dybala steals show from Cristiano Ronaldo in Champions League with thunderbolt strike

 

Paulo Dybala steals show from Cristiano Ronaldo in Champions League with thunderbolt strike. Paulo Dybala’s venomous strike saw the Argentine upstage Cristiano Ronaldo as Juventus beat Atlético Madrid 1-0 Tuesday in a night of Champions League drama.

For the second time in the Champions League this month, Ronaldo had the headlines ripped away from him after being usurped by the actions of a teammate.
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Ash Barty’s star shines brightly at WTA Finals as she reaches semis

Ash Barty’s star shines brightly at WTA Finals as she reaches semis

Ash Barty’s star shines brightly at WTA Finals as she reaches semis

 

 

Ash Barty’s star shines brightly at WTA Finals as she reaches semis. An already stellar season for Ashleigh Barty got even better when the Australian advanced to the semifinals at the women’s year-end tennis championships by downing familiar foe Petra Kvitova in straight sets.

Barty started the year 15th but rocketed up the rankings after making a maiden grand slam quarterfinal on home soil,
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MMA star Mei Yamaguchi fights for memory of her mother

MMA star Mei Yamaguchi fights for memory of her mother

MMA star Mei Yamaguchi fights for memory of her mother

 

 

MMA star Mei Yamaguchi fights for memory of her mother. Mei Yamaguchi has been fighting all her life. Born in Tokyo, Japan, she was whisked away as a five-year-old with her mother to Los Angeles, where she developed a love for the movies of Jackie Chan and helped foster an early desire to replicate her martial arts hero.

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Greek police arrest 1985 TWA aircraft hijacking suspect

Greek police arrest 1985 TWA aircraft hijacking suspect

Greek police arrest 1985 TWA aircraft hijacking suspect

 

 

Greek police say they have arrested a 65-year-old Lebanese man on the island of Mykonos over the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985 in which a US Navy diver was killed.

The suspect, named by Lebanon’s foreign ministry as Mohammad Saleh, was stopped on Thursday during a routine security check when his description matched those on a German warrant for his arrest,
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‘I don’t see this as a personal issue’ says Seb Coe on Caster Semenya case

‘I don’t see this as a personal issue’ says Seb Coe on Caster Semenya case

‘I don’t see this as a personal issue,’ says Seb Coe on Caster Semenya case

 

 

‘I don’t see this as a personal issue’ says Seb Coe on Caster Semenya case. He was a double Olympic gold medalist, but Sebastian Coe’s legacy in athletics will perhaps be defined by his handling of the two great modern issues in the sport — the case involving Caster Semenya and doping.

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The world’s largest amphibian is this newly discovered giant salamander

The world’s largest amphibian is this newly discovered giant salamander

The world’s largest amphibian is this newly discovered giant salamander

 

 

The world’s largest amphibian is this newly discovered giant salamander. A giant salamander that once lived in the London Zoo and was later on display at the Natural History Museum represents a new species that may be the world’s largest amphibian.

This finding is part of a larger discovery about the diversity of Chinese giant salamanders,
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Asteroid as powerful as 10 billion WWII atomic bombs may have wiped out the dinosaurs

Asteroid as powerful as 10 billion WWII atomic bombs may have wiped out the dinosaurs

Asteroid as powerful as 10 billion WWII atomic bombs may have wiped out the dinosaurs

 

 

Scientists have discovered evidence that the impact of an asteroid as powerful as 10 billion World War II-era atomic bombs caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The 7.5-mile (12-km) wide asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago and caused 75% of life on the planet to become extinct,

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China says its drone can hunt like Spiderman

China says its drone can hunt like Spiderman

China says its drone can hunt like Spiderman

 

China says it has developed a new hunter drone that can disable other drones — or even small aircraft — by firing a 16-square-meter (172 square feet) web at them. “Caught by the web, the hostile drone should lose power and fall to ground,” said a report on the Chinese military’s English-language website. Developed by the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation,
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