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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature80 min: Maybe a bit risky there for Alyssa Naeher. The US keeper slides to grab a ball near the edge of the penalty area. In this weather, she could easily slide all the way out past the line, where she would have to relinquish the ball or concede a dangerous free kick.Share78 min: US free kick. Sheridan collects and is bumped to the ground for her troubles. Free kick Canada.I’ll be surprised if this doesn’t end 1-0.Share76 min: 15,245 is the announced attendance. Probably a bit less than…

IIt takes a lot to earn the right to make seven changes in the knockout stages of the Champions League, but City and Guardiola’s record allows for such a turnaround after a brutal derby win. Leading 3-1 in the first leg also helped.For a team that is currently unbeaten in 30 Champions League home games, bringing in seven complete internationals is naturally a useful option. Guardiola may claim that Sunday’s game against Liverpool is not his top priority, but overhauling his squad against Copenhagen suggests this month’s results could determine how many trophies he celebrates in June. When United were…

Jim Beard, a keyboardist for Steely Dan, has died at 63, according to multiple reports.Beard, a musician also known for his collaborations with jazz legends including Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin and Wayne Shorter, died in a New York City hospital on Saturday, Deadline reports, citing a representative of Beard.According to the representative, Beard died from complications due to a sudden illness, the outlet reported.Born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, in 1960, Beard moved to New York in 1985 to pursue his musical career. Since then, he had toured globally with various musicians and recorded with artists in a wide range of…

One of the great challenges facing professional tennis is the speed at which the sport advances. No matter how great an achievement or how good a player is, a new week brings new games, conditions and, most importantly, new opponents with even more incentive to knock you off the pitch.Katie Boulter faced off against the odds three days after winning her first WTA 500 title in San Diego and breaking into the world’s top 30, the greatest achievement of her career so far. A challenge. In the first round of Indian Wells, she was quickly knocked down by Camila Giorgi…

Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may offer the oldest known evidence of the presence of humans in Europe, according to new research.The chipped stones, deliberately fashioned from volcanic rock, were excavated from a quarry in Korolevo in the 1970s. Archaeologists used new methods to date the layers of sedimentary rock surrounding the tools to more than 1m years old.“This is the earliest evidence of any type of human in Europe that is dated,” said Mads Faurschou Knudsen, a geophysicist at Aarhus University in Denmark and co-author of the study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.He said it…

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the gunmaker behind the movie “Rust,” has been found guilty of fatally shooting cinematographer Halina Hutchins on a New Mexico film set.Hutchins was shot and killed by Alec Baldwin while rehearsing a scene for his new Western. Baldwin, who also co-produced the film, pointed a prop gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal in October 2021, when the weapon suddenly opened fire, hitting Hutchins, 42, and injuring the film director Joel Souza.A New Mexico jury found Gutierrez-Reed, who was responsible for ensuring the safety of all guns on the set, guilty of manslaughter. Prosecutors allege the 25-year-old loaded a…

Modern Life is Rubbish, Blur once famously pronounced. Well, after the band’s drummer was selected as a Labour candidate at the next general election, they may hope to change the situation.Dave Rowntree will stand in Mid Sussex, the party announced on Wednesday evening. The constituency includes Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath and the Mid Sussex villages.After spending the 1990s battling Oasis, Rowntree will now have to do battle against the Conservatives who currently hold the seat. However, Mims Davies, the incumbent MP, announced in May that she would stand in the new seat of East Grinstead and Uckfield, which will contain…

DDespite the furore surrounding the sport and the controversy over how it is handled, Formula 1, far away from center stage, will continue its efforts to promote diversity and inclusion this weekend as the all-female F1 Academy series takes a step forward in its second season. A groundbreaking step.The first race will be held at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Friday, International Women’s Day, as the series aims to finally help women return to F1 for the first time in 40 years and try to maintain a positive direction for F1. The Christian Horner dispute and recent allegations against…

Two sailors have died and six more have been injured after a Houthi missile attack on a ship in the Gulf of Aden, US officials have said – the first fatalities of crew of commercial shipping since the Houthis began launching strikes at ships in waters off Yemen last year.The officials told US news agencies that the crew of the MV True Confidence had abandoned ship after the attack, which was claimed by the Houthis.The British embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, posted on X: “At least two innocent sailors have died. This was the sad but inevitable consequence of…

IOC President Thomas Bach directly criticized Russian leaders, telling them that their “blatant violation” of the Olympic Charter was the reason Russia was banned from the Paris Games.Bach also used unusually strong language to describe growing tensions with Moscow, and he also attacked Russia’s “shameful manipulation” of the anti-doping system at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. He insisted that the decision to allow only Russians who opposed the war to compete in Paris as neutral athletes – without flags, anthems or emblems – was the right one.Expectations are growing that Russia will boycott the Olympics outright by refusing to send…