Seven out of seven: Haaland double keeps Maresca’s City perfect against Ipswich
Manchester City still have not dropped a point. A 3-2 win over Ipswich Town at the Etihad on Saturday made it seven victories from seven Premier League games and wrote…
Diaz hat-trick, Kane milestone: Bayern hit Leipzig for six and go top
Two draws in a row had raised a few eyebrows in Munich. Bayern’s answer on Saturday evening was emphatic: a 6-0 demolition of RB Leipzig at a sold-out Allianz Arena…
Tears over onions: Philippine watchdog hands “onion cartel” a record $28m fine
Four years ago, onions in the Philippines briefly cost more than meat. At the peak of the crisis in late 2022 a kilo sold for up to 800 pesos –…
Cosmos 2612 closes in: Russian satellite shadows a radar spacecraft that helps Ukraine
Some 550 kilometres above the Earth, a quiet chase is reaching its climax. Russia’s Cosmos 2612 has steered itself to within a few kilometres of ICEYE-X36, a US-registered commercial radar…
Olive harvest turns violent: masked settlers target European diplomats in Taybeh
A solidarity visit to an olive grove ended with a French mayor beaten and a Belgian car damaged. On Saturday, masked Israeli settlers went after a group near Taybeh, a…
158 years each: Mexican court jails three men for killing surfers on Baja trip
More than two years after three young surfers vanished from a remote stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast, a judge in Baja California has sent each of the men convicted of…
Neto double sinks Everton, but Chelsea’s win is overshadowed by Martinez scare
Chelsea’s afternoon on Merseyside will be remembered less for the scoreline than for the long, uneasy pause in the second half. Pedro Neto struck twice to give Xabi Alonso’s side…
Handshakes at the hospital door: Pope Leo heads home four days after lung surgery
Pope Leo XIV is back behind the Vatican walls. The 71-year-old left Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Saturday afternoon, just four days after surgeons removed part of his right lung to…
Old allies, new deal: UAE reportedly returns to Yemen’s war at Saudi Arabia’s side
Less than a year after walking out of Yemen in anger, the United Arab Emirates is preparing to step back in. According to sources in Yemen cited by the Guardian,…
Fuel, schools and fury: France’s day of protest ends with hundreds detained
Saturday was supposed to show that French anger over prices reaches far beyond the capital. By evening the interior ministry was counting 272 detentions nationwide and talking of an “escalation…