European stocks rebounded Thursday on news that Beijing and Washington will hold trade talks, while the Turkish lira rose after Qatar offered to invest $15 billion in Turkey.Asian indices fell Wednesday on concerns over Turkey’s crisis, but losses were capped by hopes of an end to the tit-for-tat trade war between China and the United States.Frankfurt, London and Paris shares bounced higher, having shed more than 1.5 percent the previous day on Turkey fears and Chinese growth concerns.“Investor risk sentiment...
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Chelsea shattered the world-record fee for a goalkeeper with an 80-million euro swoop for Athletic Bilbao’s Kepa Arrizabalaga on Wednesday as the Premier League transfer window prepared to slam shut.While the rest of Europe’s leading leagues don’t close the window until later in August, England’s top-flight clubs have until 1600GMT on Thursday to wrap up their business. That set the stage for a dramatic day of wheeling and dealing across the country, with Chelsea getting the ball rolling on Wednesday...
Manchester United need Alexis Sanchez to fire when they kick off their Premier League campaign against Leicester City on Friday as they seek to put a troubled pre-season behind them.United’s build-up to the new campaign has been dominated by manager Jose Mourinho’s persistent grumbles over the strength of his squad.Unlike most of Mourinho’s stars, Sanchez had a first full summer off in nine years as Chile failed to qualify for the World Cup, ensuring he should be fresh enough to...
Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke on Tuesday announced an offer to buy the entire British football club, valuing it at o1.8 billion ($2.3 billion, 2 billion euros).The American sports mogul, who already owns 67 percent of Arsenal through his company KSE, has reached a deal with Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov for the sale of his 30 percent stake, according to a statement to the London Stock Exchange.“KSE believes moving to private ownership will bring the benefits of a single owner...
India may be the world’s top-ranked Test side but they still face accusations they are lions at home and lambs abroad.But a series win in England, where Virat Kohli’s men begin a five-Test campaign at Edgbaston on Wednesday, would go some way to ridding India of that unwanted tag.In the past five years, India have won just one of their six Test series outside of Asia, against a struggling West Indies.Their overall Test record in England is uninspiring – six...
England captain Joe Root starred with the ball rather than the bat as his career-best figures helped Yorkshire defeat arch-rivals Lancashire by 118 runs at Old Trafford on Tuesday. Root, one of the world’s leading batsmen, took three of the four wickets to fall before lunch on the third morning with his occasional off-spin. This victory eased White Rose Yorkshire’s fears of relegation from the First Division of the County Championship.But the result pushed Lancashire, beaten with more than a...
Scottish Premiership side Aberdeen have secured the services of Manchester United striker James Wilson on a season-long loan, both clubs confirmed on Monday.Wilson, 22, has scored four goals in 20 appearances for United, but has spent the past couple of seasons on loan at Brighton, Derby and Sheffield United.“I am absolutely delighted to secure James on a season long loan as he is a player I feel will very quickly become an important member of the squad for us,” said...
England will be without Ben Stokes while India could make changes too for the second Test at Lord’s on Thursday.Stokes played a starring role in England’s 31-run win in the first Test of a five-match series at Edgbaston last week, including taking the wicket of India captain Virat Kohli, who had been anchoring the tourists’ run-chase.But Stokes was omitted by England because he is in court this week on a criminal charge of affray.Fellow pace-bowling all-rounder Chris Woakes has been...
Global cricket boss David Richardson declared that ball tampering and bad behaviour threatened “cricket’s DNA” and would not be tolerated by fans in the wake of the Australia cheating scandal.The International Cricket Council chief executive said the “public has spoken” on bad behaviour in the game as he delivered the annual MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s on Monday night.Richardson referred to events during the ill-tempered South Africa-Australia Test series earlier this year when Australia captain Steve Smith,...
Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan, the world’s top ranked Twenty20 bowler, has boosted Sussex’s chances of reaching the knockout stages of the...
England central defender Harry Maguire’s impressive performances at the World Cup has made him a prime target for Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho, according to British media reports on Saturday.The 25-year-old is believed to want to secure the move although Leicester’s Thai owners are reluctant to sell after another of their stars Algerian forward Riyad Mahrez moved to champions Manchester City last month for a club record fee of œ60million ($79million). Maguire, who impressed alongside John Stones in England’s run...
As the dust settles at Wimbledon, the real tennis action is under way: the world’s best players of the original sport are duelling it out at the game’s spiritual home.Real tennis, the historic forerunner of the modern sport, is still played on a few dozen courts across the globe, including at Hampton Court Palace in London.On a court originally built in 1530 for king Henry VIII, the top players are laying chases and hitting boomerangs, giraffes and railroads – some...
