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September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Spaniard Sergio Garcia, Irishman Shane Lowry and Britain’s Ian Poulter made up the three captain’s picks named to the European Ryder Cup team by Padraig Harrington on Sunday. Harrington announced his picks after Tyrrell Hatton, Bernd Wiesberger, Matt Fitzpatrick and Lee Westwood secured the final four qualifying spots to the […]

September 12, 2021 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Diede de Groot became the first player to complete the golden slam in wheelchair tennis after winning all four majors and the Paralympic gold medal, completing the feat by winning the U.S. Open final on Sunday. The Dutch top seed beat Japan’s second seed Yui Kamiji 6-3 6-2 […]

September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – “Fortnite” game maker Epic Games said on Sunday it was appealing a ruling in its antitrust case against Apple Inc after a federal judge on Friday gave a mixed decision. [L4N2QC2ZR] The judge on Friday said Apple would have to loosen some rules on developers. But the ruling favored Apple […]

September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Two world records tumbled on Saturday when Kenya’s Agnes Tirop surged to victory in the 10 km race and Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi triumphed in the 5 km distance at an event in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Tirop, a twice world 10,000m bronze medallist, won the 10 km event with a time of […]

September 12, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris stayed up late to watch British teenager Emma Raducanu’s U.S. Open triumph on Saturday night and her success proved contagious. The McLaren pair finished one-two in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix with Ricciardo ending the team’s nearly nine year wait for a win. […]

September 12, 2021 By Peter Hall LEEDS, England (Reuters) – Mohamed Salah’s 100th Premier League goal helped Liverpool cruise to a 3-0 victory at 10-man Leeds United on Sunday in a match that was marred by a nasty injury to teenager Harvey Elliott. After a lightning-fast start to the game, Salah became the 30th player […]

September 12, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Seven times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said he was grateful to be alive after being hit on the head by title rival Max Verstappen’s car at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday. The ‘halo’ head protection device took most of the blow as the Red […]

September 12, 2021 (Reuters) -Kansas City Southern said on Sunday it has received a revised proposal from Canadian Pacific, which the board determined was superior to the offer from Canadian National Railway. Under the terms of Canadian Pacific’s revised proposal, each share of Kansas City Southern common stock would be exchanged for 2.884 common shares […]

September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Formula One world championship leader Max Verstappen will have a three-place grid drop at the Russian Grand Prix after stewards ruled he was mainly to blame for a collision with title rival Lewis Hamilton at Monza on Sunday. The collision put both men out of the Italian Grand Prix, with […]

September 12, 2021 By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) -Energy stocks are becoming a popular bellwether for concerns over how deeply the Delta variant of the coronavirus is expected to impact the U.S. economy, as the so-called reopening trade that boosted some parts of the market earlier this year continues to stumble. The S&P 500 […]

September 12, 2021 By Charlotte Greenfield ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – As international donors gather in Geneva on Monday to discuss humanitarian relief for Afghanistan under Taliban rule, neighbours China and Pakistan have already reached out with aid and discussions of future assistance. The economy in the war-torn country is in crisis and a humanitarian crisis is […]

September 12, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – American Billy Horschel birdied the 18th hole to claim the BMW PGA Championship title in a tense finish on Sunday in a tournament with huge implications for Europe’s Ryder Cup team. Horschel was tied for first in a group on -18 as he stood over his third shot at […]

September 12, 2021 By Rebecca Rubin LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” ruled the domestic box office again, collecting $35.8 million in its second weekend in theaters. Ticket sales for the superhero movie, led by Simu Liu and Awkwafina, fell 53% from its debut, a decline on par […]

September 12, 2021 By Steve Scherer CANDIAC, Quebec (Reuters) – Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, who was pelted with gravel at a rally last week, said the leader of the right-wing People’s Party of Canada (PPC) was using irresponsible rhetoric. The 49-year-old Trudeau was campaigning in London, Ontario, last week ahead of the […]

September 12, 2021 By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and other personnel who fled to Uzbekistan and were held in an Uzbek camp for about a month started departing the country on Sunday, a pilot told Reuters. They left under a U.S. deal that came despite Taliban pressure for the return of […]

September 12, 2021 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa won the Vienna City marathon on Sunday but was disqualified soon after when the soles of his shoes were found to be one centimetre too thick and in violation of the rules. Hurisa crossed the line with a time of 2:09:22 but less than 45 minutes later, […]

September 12, 2021 By Nicolás Misculin and Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentines lined up to vote on Sunday in midterm primaries that represent a litmus test for the center-left Peronist government of President Alberto Fernandez as the COVID-19 pandemic and rising poverty have weakened its popularity. Voting stations around the South American nation opened […]

September 12, 2021 CAIRO (Reuters) – Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani visited Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday and met Taliban-appointed Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund, Doha-based news channel Al Jazeera reported. Qatar is considered one of the countries with the most influence over the Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan last […]

September 12, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – British teenager Emma Raducanu’s staggering U.S. Open final victory had a nation glued to their screens on Saturday night with Channel 4 saying the audience for their broadcast peaked at 9.2 million viewers. Such was the hype around Raducanu’s fairytale run to the final in New York against Canadian […]

September 12, 2021 By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece would seek to block a potential wave of Afghan asylum-seekers fleeing Taliban rule and needs more European Union help on migrant issues, the prime minister said on Sunday. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has brought fears of a replay of 2015 when nearly a million […]