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Rome: Italy has announced that it would jointly bid to host the 2032 UEFA European Football Championship with Turkey. Pending approval of the joint bid, which is very likely by all indications, it means the two countries would be virtually assured to host the 2032...

Monaco: Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz has been provisionally suspended from all competitions after a positive doping test, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said Friday night. The 29-year-old Brazilian was found to have traces of the performance-enhancing drug ostarine in his urine following a...

Geneva: Juventus was removed from European competition next season and Chelsea was fined USD 11 million in separate UEFA rulings over financial rules breaches. The expulsion of Juventus from the third-tier Europa Conference League Friday was expected because of a false accounting case that already...

Barbados: The Indian team will be expected to return to its set batting order as it aims to put up a much-improved show with the willow and take an unassailable lead in the three-match series when it faces a below-par West Indies in the second...

Washington: Ferrari's Charles Leclerc urged his fellow F1 drivers not to complain if wet conditions affect racing at this weekend's Belgium Grand Prix. With rain expected at Spa-Francorchamps, Leclerc says impatience should never influence safety on a circuit where two drivers from other racing series...

Barcelona: The Indian men's hockey team came up with a spirited performance to hold England 1-1 in their third match at the ongoing 100th Anniversary Spanish Hockey Federation - International Tournament here Friday. While Sam Ward scored an early goal for England in the fifth...

Manchester: Riyad Mahrez is the latest Premier League player to head to Saudi Arabia after signing with Al-Ahli. The Algeria international was a key player in Leicester's shocking title win in 2016 and then won the league four more times with Manchester City. He leaves...

Adelaide: Despite playing with 10 players for more than an hour, China defied the odds to secure a 1-0 victory over Haiti Friday in its second game of the FIFA Women's World Cup. Forward Wang Shuang scored her first-ever goal at a World Cup in...

New Delhi: Temperamental Indian women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur will only be able to play in the Hangzhou Asian Games if her team reaches the final of the mega event starting September 23. Four teams in both men's and women's events -- India, Pakistan,...

Geneva: Italy and Turkey have asked to co-host soccer's 2032 European Championship for which they are the only bidders, UEFA said Friday. The two soccer federations had been competing in the bidding contest that is scheduled for an October 10 vote by UEFA executive committee...