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(Reuters) – Leicester City have parted ways with manager Brendan Rodgers by mutual agreement, the Premier League club said on Sunday, with the team 18th in the table and facing potential relegation. “Performances and results during the current season have been below our shared expectations. It had been our belief that continuity and stability would be key to correcting our course,” Leicester chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha said. (Reporting by Rohith Nair […]

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer famed for his scores for “The Last Emperor”, “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” and other films, has died aged 71, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported on Sunday. Sakamoto was also known for his work with the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) which he co-founded. Introduced to the piano as a toddler, Sakamoto lived for music. As […]

By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning Japanese composer famed for his scores for “The Last Emperor”, “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” and other films, has died aged 71, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported on Sunday. Sakamoto was also known for his work with the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) which he co-founded. Introduced to the piano as a toddler, Sakamoto lived for music. As […]

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Stewards dismissed a protest by the Haas Formula One team against the provisional results of Saturday’s Australian Grand Prix. Haas’s Nico Hulkenberg ended up seventh in the race at Albert Park despite being fourth when it was stopped for the third and final time. After lengthy deliberations, stewards decided the race would finish according to grid positions at the restart with a lap behind a safety car […]

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Stewards dismissed a protest by the Haas Formula One team against the provisional results of Saturday’s Australian Grand Prix. Haas’s Nico Hulkenberg ended up seventh in the race at Albert Park despite being fourth when it was stopped for the third and final time. After lengthy deliberations, stewards decided the race would finish according to grid positions at the restart with a lap behind a safety car […]

By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska and Kuba Stezycki WARSAW (Reuters) – Thousands of Poles marched through Warsaw and other cities on Sunday to show their support for the late Pope John Paul II in the face of what they said were false allegations that he concealed child abuse in the Catholic Church. The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which faces a tough election later this year, and other religious conservatives have […]

By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska and Kuba Stezycki WARSAW (Reuters) – Thousands of Poles marched through Warsaw and other cities on Sunday to show their support for the late Pope John Paul II in the face of what they said were false allegations that he concealed child abuse in the Catholic Church. The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which faces a tough election later this year, and other religious conservatives have […]

By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska and Kuba Stezycki WARSAW (Reuters) – Hundreds of Poles marched through Warsaw and other cities in Poland on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the death of John Paul II 18 years ago, as allegations the late pope concealed child abuse deepen rifts in the predominantly Catholic country. The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which faces a tough election later this year, and other religious conservatives […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman said she was convinced Rwanda was a safe country to resettle migrants who had arrived in Britain illegally but she declined to set any deadline for the first deportations to the country. The British government is hoping to send thousands of migrants more than 4,000 miles away to the East African country as part of a 120 million pound ($148 million) deal […]