Former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova has been banned for four years for refusing an anti-doping test. Vondrousova, 26, was charged by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after denying a doping control officer entry to her home to conduct the…
Aryna Sabalenka lost another deciding set without winning a game as an impressive Jessica Pegula beat the world number one to reach the Berlin Open final. Belarusian Sabalenka never looked settled against Pegula, who recovered from losing a tight second…
The 2026 World Cup may only be 10 days old, but the tournament has already rewritten football history. Not wanting to be outdone by the others, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland all came out of the…
Video assistant referee (VAR) official Shaun Evans will return to duty for New Zealand’s game against Egypt on Sunday (Monday, 02:00 BST). The Australian will act as the assistant VAR official to Mohammed Khamid for the Group G match in…
Liverpool have rejected a verbal offer of 25m euros (£21.7m) from Inter Milan for Curtis Jones. The offer is well short of the £35m which Liverpool value Jones at, and they are unwilling to sanction a cut-price exit for the midfielder. Jones, 25,…
Goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand made a string of impressive saves to keep alive Iran’s hopes of reaching the World Cup knockout stage for the first time, as they earned a hard-fought point against 10-man Belgium in Los Angeles. The 33-year-old produced…
The 2026 World Cup has become the fastest edition of the tournament to hit 100 goals since 1958 – with the landmark reached in the 33rd game. Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo brought up the century with the Netherlands’ third goal…
The Netherlands have stormed to the summit of Group F after braces from Brian Brobbey and Cody Gakpo secured a thrilling victory over Sweden in Houston. The Swedes contributed throughout to this enthralling encounter, but were playing catch-up from the…
“My brother was murdered for not paying an extortion payment…in front of his children,” Edilma Martinez Flores said at a support centre for displaced people in Bogotá. She fled her home on the outskirts of Cali, in the south-west, after…
Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least six people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman and at least one child, according to health officials and rescuers. Al Jazeera said it “strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing” of…