There was never a chance that a Washington man at FIFA, the world soccer governing body, would do the right thing and postpone the World Cup. Nor that he would deprive the United States and Canada of the right to…
The Australian went down in three sets to Japanese qualifier Sho Shimabukuro in the Wimbledon warm-up event in Stuttgart. Source link
“Buy Canadian” is led by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), the department responsible for central procurement, but the Treasury Board Secretariat, the department that holds the government’s purse strings, has extended the policy to also apply to grants and…
The technocratic government is “a front to remove the Social Democratic Party from the role it has in the situation it has reached,” party leader Ilie Bolojan said. Social Democratic Party launched a vote of no confidence in him in…
Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world: Ateneo de Manila University is finally speaking out about the incident that killed two of its basketball players. The activist group Nullsec Philippines claims responsibility…
In the nearly century-long history of soccer’s greatest spectacle, the World Cup has remained the preserve of dictators, juntas, and autocrats who wanted to use the tournament for self-aggrandizement. Benito Mussolini turned the 1934 tournament in Italy into a fascist…
For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands podcast which advertised illegal online pharmacies. A report released Thursday by Senator Maggie Hassan, the ranking member of the Joint Economic Committee, criticizes the company for acting only…
the more it changes; this is a World Cup a few years removed from the edition held in Mexico 40 years ago but Javier Aguirre and Hugo Broos are ready to pull it off in the home opener. Back in…
El Nino has arrived, the US weather agency said on Thursday, and scientists expect the phenomenon, which is characterized by drought, floods and rising temperatures, to intensify by the end of the year, which could be historic. El Nino is…
Twice a year, every January and June, certain corners of the internet are filled with pictures of scantily clad men on the streets of Florence. These are the peacocks of Pitti Uomo, the Tuscan menswear trade show, resplendent in their…
