The revenue will be significantly higher than the 2022 edition, partly because the quadrennial football fiesta has been enlarged to 48 teams from the 32 in Qatar. Another factor according to Small, Managing Director of Managed Trading Services at S...

Rayasi was a big part of Saturday's Champions Cup defence, providing an assist as the holders hammered four-time winners Leinster 41-19 in Bilbao, Spain. After three days of celebrating, which included a bus tour of Bordeaux and a reception in fro...

Luis Enrique's French champions are favourites to defend the trophy and establish an era of dominance in their post-superstar age, with heavyweight attackers Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe departed. Homing in on a career third Champions Lea...

Only two teams – Italy in 1934 and 1938, and Brazil in 1958 and 1962 – have won back-to-back World Cup crowns, underscoring the difficulty of the task facing Lionel Messi and his team-mates. Yet while history suggests the odds are stacked again...

Despite a tough draw alongside one of the tournament favourites France, African powerhouses Senegal and Iraq, a Norway side also containing Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard is confident of progressing beyond the last 16 for the first time. Odegaard'...

Les Bleus travel to the United States on top of the world rankings and are clearly one of the leading contenders for final victory. They are bidding to reach a third consecutive World Cup final after winning the trophy in 2018 and losing an epic co...

The Barcelona legend somehow found another level three and a half years ago as he scored seven goals and set up three more in seven games, including a brace in the epic final in Doha against France -- when he also converted his penalty in the shoot-...

Les Bleus have won the World Cup twice and lost two further finals on penalties in the last seven editions, including last time in Qatar when they were beaten by Argentina in a shoot-out after Kylian Mbappe scored a hat-trick in an epic contest. Fr...

Djokovic has been stuck on 24 majors since the 2023 US Open but may not get a better chance to add to that haul with Sinner out and Carlos Alcaraz absent in Paris. Standing in his way on Friday in the third round is Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca,...

When the United States hosted the World Cup for the first time, Rothenberg says, soccer was regarded by a broad swathe of the American media landscape with "disdain, if not contempt." A familiar laundry list of criticisms would be trotted out: bori...

Footage shows the towering rocket erupt in an inferno, followed by a mushroom cloud of smoke as bystanders gathered to watch the launch gasp "Oh no!" and "Oh my God!" Bezos's space company Blue Origin said in a brief statement posted to X that it h...

Beijing's defence minister is to skip the three-day Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore for the second year running, which analysts viewed as a sign of China's rising power. Yet, the forum that brings together top officials from around 45 nations has ...

That changed when a Russian missile hit an apartment block 300 metres from her home in eastern Ukraine, killing 45 people. Choking back tears when recalling the attack, she said that was the moment she decided to go into art full-time. "I realised...

UFC fighter Angela Hill has packed plenty into her 41 years, but the veteran trailblazer from the United States is not done yet. Speaking to AFP ahead of her latest bout, on Saturday in the Chinese casino hub of Macau, Hill described her colourful ...