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Mexico City: Mexicans celebrated ​their win against South Africa on Thursday, with ‌an 80,000-full ​Azteca stadium erupting in a deafening roar as Mexico won the first match of the World Cup, overcoming a curse in which the national team had failed to win on the opening day of the tournament on ⁠se

Mexico City: Mexico's Julian Quinones ​unleashed a spectacular strike and Raul ‌Jimenez ​scored a header as the co-hosts beat nine-man South Africa 2-0 in their World Cup Group A opener at Estadio Azteca on Thursday, in ⁠a match where three players were sent off. Quinones opened the scoring early a

Dubai/Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will strike Iran “very hard tonight” following a new round of tit-for-tat attacks that have intensified tensions in the Gulf and undermined a fragile ceasefire. In a social media post, Trump said the United States would

Indian investigators are expected ​to delay issuing a final report into a deadly Air India Boeing 787 crash ‌by the one-year ​anniversary on Friday, citing the need to complete an analysis of the plane's engines, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. The airline has come under intense

OTTAWA: The Canadian government introduced a digital safety bill on Wednesday that would ban social media for children under 16 with exemptions for platforms that meet certain safety standards, months after Australia enacted the world's first social media ban for young people. The bill also aims to

NEW DELHI: Indian investigators are expected to delay issuing a final report into a deadly Air India Boeing 787 crash by the one-year anniversary ​on Friday, citing the need to complete an analysis of the plane's engines, according to a source with knowledge of the ‌matter. A cockpit recording of d

Indian investigators are expected to delay issuing a final ​report into a deadly Air India Boeing 787 crash by the one-year anniversary ‌on Friday, citing the ​need to complete an analysis of the plane's engines, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Here is the sequence of events - b

There is a raft of tweaks to the rules at ​the World Cup, which FIFA has brought in weeks ahead of the ‌tournament, designed in ​particular to reduce time-wasting and expand the use of VAR. "These amendments are aimed at combating discrimination, reducing time-wasting, improving the tempo of matche

Toronto: Canada will carry immense pressure into their World Cup opener when, in perhaps the most seminal moment in the country's soccer history, they face Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday in front of a partisan home crowd with both teams seeking a first-ever knockout stage berth. Canada's quest fo

Austria coach ​Ralf Rangnick has ‌called ​up Dejan Ljubicic as a late replacement for Christoph Baumgartner, the ⁠Austrian Football Association said on Wednesday. Baumgartner was ruled ‌out of the tournament after sustaining ‌a thigh injury before ‌a 1-0 friendly ‌win over ‌Tunisia this month. Rang

Mexico City: Coach Javier Aguirre drew on memories ​of Mexico's last home World Cup on Wednesday as he prepared ‌to lead the ​hosts into the tournament opener against South Africa, four decades after taking the field as a player at the Estadio Azteca. Mexico launch the World Cup on Thursday carryin

SpaceX's much-anticipated $75 billion initial public offering, set to be the largest ever, will likely keep cryptocurrency prices in the doldrums as retail investors attracted to new and risky artificial intelligence stocks scramble to get a slice of the action. Celebrity billionaire Elon Musk's ro