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LONDON (Reuters) -A late goal by Joel Ward rescued a 2-2 draw for Crystal Palace at Fulham on Saturday, after the hosts’ striker Aleksandar Mitrovic bagged two goals on his first start since serving an eight-match ban. Fulham have 52 points from 37 games – four behind ninth-placed Brentford – and remain 10th in the Premier League standings. The draw has snuffed out the west Londoners’ faint hopes of securing […]

By Lori Ewing LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – Roberto Firmino scored a dramatic late equaliser in his final appearance at Anfield for Liverpool to keep the Merseyside squad’s slim chances of a top-four finish in the Premier League alive with a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa on Saturday. Firmino, who is one of four players leaving when his contract runs out at the end of the season, scored in the 89th […]

By Lori Ewing LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – Roberto Firmino scored a dramatic late equaliser in his final appearance at Anfield for Liverpool to keep the Merseyside squad’s slim chances of a top-four finish in the Premier League alive with a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa on Saturday. Firmino, who is one of four players leaving when his contract runs out at the end of the season, scored in the 89th […]

By Andrew Cawthorne NOTTINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Arsenal’s last-flickering hopes of winning the Premier League were extinguished on Saturday by Nottingham Forest, whose 1-0 win courtesy of Taiwo Awoniyi secured their top-flight status. Eight points clear at the top just two months ago, Mikel Arteta’s team have had a dismal end to the season, with their latest defeat ensuring what had become an inevitable-looking consecutive title for Manchester City. “I […]

(Reuters) -National Treasure won the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Saturday, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert a record-breaking eighth win in the middle jewel of U.S. thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown. With John Velazquez aboard, National Treasure held off a late charge from Blazing Sevens. Kentucky Derby winner Mage finished third, meaning the chestnut colt will not have a shot at becoming U.S. thoroughbred racing’s […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s words resonated with many South Koreans when earlier this month he said that “his heart hurts” for those who suffered from forced labour under Japan’s colonial rule. Yoon made the remark at a meeting with Kishida on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima in Japan (Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing […]

DUBLIN (Reuters) – England’s Chantelle Cameron scored the biggest win of her career by handing Irish fighter Katie Taylor her first professional defeat to retain her undisputed super-lightweight world championship title at the Three Arena on Saturday. The majority decision win on the judges’ scorecards moves Cameron to 18-0 as a professional while Taylor, the undisputed lightweight champion and one of the most influential figures in women’s boxing, drops to […]

ROME (Reuters) – World number six Elena Rybakina warmed up for the French Open by capturing the Italian Open title on Saturday after her Ukrainian opponent Anhelina Kalinina was forced to retire with an apparent left leg injury while trailing 6-4 1-0. Moscow-born Kazakh Rybakina got off to an edgy start in the rain-delayed contest by dropping her opening service game before the Wimbledon champion levelled at 3-3 and then […]

(Reuters) – Russia claimed on Saturday to have fully captured the smashed eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which would mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15-month war. The assault on the largely levelled city was led by troops from the Wagner Group of mercenaries, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said earlier in the day that his troops had finally pushed the Ukrainians out of the last […]