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A power-packed performance by Hazratullah Zazai led Afghanistan to an easy victory over Ireland in the second T20 International here on Saturday.Much to the credit of the 20-year-old's jaw-dropping score of 162 not out in 62 balls, Afghanistan registered a series-sealing 84-run victory over Ireland.At 162, the left-handed opener has also become the second-highest T20I scorer after Aaron Finch's 172 against Zimbabwe last year.The match also witnessed many other records being shattered including Afghanistan... Читать дальше...

HANOI — The Vietnamese capital once trembled as waves of American bombers unleashed their payloads, but when Kim Jong Un arrives in Hanoi for his summit with President Trump he won’t find rancor toward a former enemy. Instead the North Korean leader will get a glimpse at the potential rewards of reconciliation. By the time the Vietnam War ended in 1975, tens of thousands of tons of explosives had been dropped on Hanoi and nearly two decades of fighting had killed 3 million Vietnamese and more than 58,000 Americans. Читать дальше...

Dylan Hartley will miss the rest of the Six Nations with a knee injury that may keep him out for 12 weeks. The hooker is booked in for surgery on Tuesday - as England head coach Eddie Jones revealed.

There's more evidence that just ignoring your eccentric boss' bad ideas is the best way to deal with them.

Crystal Palace's 4-1 victory over Leicester City gave Roy Hodgson a win on the day he became the Premier League's oldest manager.

Liverpool managing director Billy Hogan says supporting Jurgen Klopp in the transfer market will not change.

1. US-backed Syrian forces hand over 150 IS militants to Iraq  Fox News
2. No regrets for woman who stuck by Islamic State through defeats  Reuters
3. US-backed troops close in on final stronghold of ISIS in Syria  New York Post
4. Told to leave, ISIS ‘caliphate’ holdouts in Syria stay devoted  USA TODAY
5. SDF looks to clear more civilians from last ISIL pocket in Syria  Al Jazeera English
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SEOUL — As President Trump seeks a nuclear deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week in Vietnam, some in Seoul are wondering if the fate of Washington’s decades-long military alliance with South Korea could be at stake. Much of this worry is linked to Trump’s repeated assertions that the U.S. military deployment in South Korea is too costly, and to his surprise suspension of some U.S. military exercises with South Korea — including a major summertime drill — as a concession to Kim after their first summit in Singapore last year. Читать дальше...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Zane Najdawi had 24 points, eight rebounds and seven blocks as The Citadel narrowly defeated Samford 87-83 in overtime on Saturday. Lew Stallworth added 23 points for The Citadel. Stallworth also had eight assists and five steals for The Citadel.

Lorenzo Pellegrini said the wild Roma celebrations showed the last-gasp win at Frosinone was “fundamental” and had a special dedication.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Authorities in New Jersey say one person died in a fire at a senior living apartment complex in Newark.

Watching the Academy Awards telecast, then grousing about it the next day, has become a hipster parlor game — it’s what the Complete Oscar Experience now is. The complaints are legion, and we all know what they are, because we’ve all made them. The show was too long. The host bombed. His or her opening […]

Manafort is set to be sentenced on March 13 in Washington, where he pleaded guilty to two conspiracy counts and faces as much as a decade in prison

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Eight University of Mississippi men's basketball players kneeled during the national anthem Saturday in response to a Confederacy rally near the arena.

Get your club to play this over your Tannoy system at Sundays game against Toronto.
Better still get all the Leigh fans to sing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIOSOlqMaj8

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Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes Into Texas' Trinity Bay Near Houston, Killing 3  The Weather Channel

An Amazon Prime Air cargo plane crashed Saturday afternoon into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, as it approached Houston's George Bush Intercontinental ...

Participants wearing cosplay costumes attend the Japan Expo in Marseille, France, on Saturday.

In medieval literature boars made teh perfect enemies that the hero must conquer in order to complete their quest.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have arrived in Morocco for an official trip scheduled to be their last international journey before she gives birth to their first child

A pro-Confederate rally Saturday at the University of Mississippi, or “Ole Miss,” in the town of Oxford, claimed to be a defense of Southern heritage instead of racism. It also began with a prayer of thanks to Southern plantation owners for teaching “heathen” Africans about Christianity. The protest, organized by two groups, The Highwaymen and […]

A cargo jetliner crashed Saturday in Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.