The Hundred men’s competition, Old Trafford Welsh Fire 155-4 (100 balls): Short 71 (47), Salt 48 (37); Atkinson 2-12 Manchester Super Giants 161-1 (69 balls): Seifert 62* (36), Buttler 51* (20); Cook 1-20 Manchester Super Giants won by nine wickets Scorecard. Table Jos Buttler became the all-time leading run-scorer in T20 cricket as Manchester Super
Paramount Skydance chief executive David Ellison has broken his silence, defending his company’s $110bn (£86bn) takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Opposition to the mega-merger relies on a vision of Hollywood that “no longer exists,” he wrote in an op-ed published by The New York Times. In his first public comments on the transaction, Ellison rejected
Australian gymnast Jesse Moore won the country’s first men’s individual medal in 16 years, after taking bronze at the Glasgow International Arena with a total of 79,000. It wasn’t easy for Moore, who dismounted on the pommel horse, her first apparatus of the night, but she fought back with an impressive 13.850 on vault and
Spain’s victory over Argentina in Sunday’s 2026 FIFA World Cup final broke records in the United States: an average of 38,937,000 viewers watched it on Fox, making it the most-watched soccer broadcast in American television history and the most-watched FIFA World Cup final ever in the U.S., according to Nielsen. Meanwhile, on the Spanish side,
The UK and Ireland box office saw a huge shift when Universal’s “The Odyssey” captured the top spot, storming the market with a spectacular £12.5 million ($16.8 million) debut weekend. The performance recorded as Nolan’s second-largest opening frame on the market, far ahead of “Oppenheimer.” Driven by unprecedented screening across premium large formats, “The Odyssey”
Bangkok– Oil prices rose early Tuesday as fighting intensified in the Middle East, while Asian stocks were mixed as markets in Tokyo and Seoul recovered from early losses. The price of Brent crude oil rose more than 2.3% to $85.18 a barrel after soaring nearly 10% on Monday. U.S. benchmark crude oil rose 2.5% to