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Saudi Arabia failed to follow up their famous win over Argentina with another scalp as they unluckily lost 2-0 to Poland in Group C on Saturday, with Robert Lewandowski scoring his first World Cup goal. Piotr Zielinski blasted into the roof of the net …

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes Germany is prepared for the winter thanks to the course his government has set vis-a-vis the energy crisis. “With all the decisions we have made, we can now say at this point before winter – we will probably get t…

Johannes Hösflot Kläbo maintained his perfect start into the cross-country skiing World Cup season on Saturday while fellow Norwegian Jarl Magnus Riiber moved within three wins of the Nordic combined all-time record at the same Finnish venue. Kläbo fol…

Ebba Andersson led a Swedish one-two on Saturday in the first distance race of the cross country skiing World Cup season in Finland. Andersson won the 10-kilometres classic style race in Ruka 5.7 seconds ahead of Frida Karlsson for her second career wi…

Qatar coach Felix Sánchez believes football in the host nation of this year’s World Cup is still on the right track, even though his squad have been dumped out of the competition after just two Group A games – the earliest ever elimination for a host n…

Hosts Qatar have been dumped out of the World Cup after just two Group A games – the earliest ever elimination for a host nation – after they lost 3-1 to Senegal and Ecuador drew 1-1 with the Netherlands on Friday. Qatar join South Africa in 2010 as th…

Qatar are on the brink of becoming the second host nation to go out in the group stage of a World Cup when a late fightback was not enough to avoid a 3-1 defeat against Senegal on Friday. Boulaye Dia opened the scoring in the 41st minute for the Africa…

Brazil will be without their star forward Neymar for the second World Cup group stage match against Switzerland owing to an ankle injury, the Brazilian federation (CBF) said on Friday. Neymar suffered the right ankle injury during Thursday’s opening 2-…

Formula One team Ferrari said they would not comment on speculation following various media reports in Italy on Friday saying they were parting ways with team boss Mattia Binotto. Some reports said he was going to leave the whole firm not just his posi…

Superstar Johannes Hösflot Kläbo led a Norwegian 1-4 finish while Sweden’s Emma Ribom delighted in a first career victory as the cross-country skiing World Cup season opened with sprint races in Finland on Friday. Multiple world and Olympic champion Kl…