Those three nations can join co-hosts the United States and Mexico who are already through. Germany thrashed debutants Curacao 7-1 in their opener and would be confirmed as Group E winners if they defeat Ivory Coast in Toronto and Ecuador fail to b...

Former Newcastle player Almiron was given his marching orders in first half stoppage time after covering his mouth while he appeared to direct a comment at Turkey's Mert Muldur during the two teams' World Cup Group D game in Santa Clara, California....

The five-time World Cup winners bounced back from an underwhelming 1-1 draw with Morocco, as Matheus Cunha scored twice in Philadelphia and Vinicius Junior struck for the second game running at the tournament. Brazil's win lifted them to the top of...

Ayari overshadowed his better-known teammates Alexander Isak and Viktor Gyokeres in the 5-1 win on Sunday and is expected to start against the Netherlands on Saturday. Born in Solna in Sweden to a Tunisian father and a Moroccan mother, the 22-year-...

A brilliant second-minute strike by Ismael Saibari settled the Group C game in Morocco's favour at the Gillette Stadium near Boston, leaving the Atlas Lions on four points and Scotland on three with one match still to play. Steve Clarke's team beat...

After a much-criticised display in their opening 1-1 draw with Morocco, the five-time world champions underlined the gulf in class with outsiders Haiti, who became the first country to exit this World Cup. Cunha's scruffy goal in Philadelphia gave ...

On the same day, he got a call from authorities asking him to turn in his official documents and those of his infant. In the next days, Ali, 31, his daughter and his wife were forced to leave for Iran, never to return. He tried to fly to the United...

Under the US-Iran agreement announced earlier this week to end the Middle East war, fighting is also supposed to cease between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. In Israel, the agreement is widely viewed as undermining ...

World number one Scheffler fired a two-under par 68 on Friday to stand on level par 140 for 36 holes, his day highlighted by a 40-foot birdie putt at the par-five 15th. "I did a good job of keeping a pretty clean card. That's always nice when you'r...

Hedayat Mombeyni, the secretary general of the Iranian football federation, was speaking to reporters the day after his organization said it would lodge a complaint with FIFA, claiming the team was being subjected to travel restrictions that were je...

World number two McIlroy fired a one-over par 71 to finish 36 holes on level par 140, seven behind leader Wyndham Clark entering the weekend at windy Shinnecock Hills. "If there's a course where you feel like you still have a chance if you're seven...

The West African side is likely to pose a much stiffer test for Germany in their match at Toronto Stadium on Saturday, but Nagelsmann said he was confident about his team's readiness. "There's no obvious reason to change anything," he told reporter...

Saibari scored in Morocco's opening 1-1 draw with Brazil last weekend and his clinical finish with just over a minute gone settled a hard-fought, physical contest watched by a crowd of 64,146 at the Gillette Stadium near Boston. The 25-year-old, wh...

Thanks to an own goal and an Alex Freeman header, the US have reached the last-32 of the tournament they are co-hosting with a game to spare, winning two group matches for the first time since 1930. The already-surging hype surrounding the US team'...

The versatile Douglass, the 200m breaststroke gold medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, sliced two-hundredths of a second off the previous world record of 23.61 set by Sweden's Sjostrom at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, on July 29, 2023...