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LONDON: Everton kept alive their hopes of Premier League survival by shocking Chelsea 1-0 on Sunday, as Arsenal maintained their two-point lead over Tottenham Hotspur in the battle to qualify for next season’s Champions League. Arsenal were 2-1 winners at West Ham to move back above Spurs, who earlier beat Leicester City 3-1 thanks to a Son Heung-min double. Everton’s …

China’s Suzhou Abogen Biosciences said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate using the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and targeting the Omicron variant has obtained clinical trial approval in the United Arab Emirates. With Friday’s announcement, Abogen joins Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna in trialing candidates modified specifically against Omicron, a highly transmissible variant with increased resistance to antibodies elicited by existing shots. Mainland China …

Real Madrid secured a 35th La Liga title on Saturday with four games to spare after a 4-0 home win over Espanyol fuelled by two goals from Rodrygo. Needing just one point to clinch the trophy, Madrid struck twice through the Brazilian in the first half at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium before goals from Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema. Madrid …

LONDON: England fast bowler, James Anderson, said he would like to return to the Test team under new captain Ben Stokes after being controversially dropped from the squad. Anderson and Stuart Broad, England’s all-time leading Test wicket takers with 1,177 wickets between them, were left out of the 16-man squad for the three-Test tour of the West Indies in March, …

LONDON: Liverpool beat Newcastle United 1-0 to leapfrog Manchester City at the top of the Premier League on Saturday, heaping pressure on Pep Guardiola’s men ahead of their evening kick-off against struggling Leeds. Naby Keita scored the only goal of the game at a boisterous St James’ Park as Jurgen Klopp’s men remained on track for an unprecedented quadruple of …

Mino Raiola, the influential and often controversial sports agent to some of football’s biggest players, has died. He was 54. Raiola died after a long illness, his family confirmed on Saturday. He had been undergoing treatment at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, where he was visited by Zlatan Ibrahimović this week. Raiola underwent surgery in January but it was said at …

Indian superstar cricketer Virat Kohli struck form with his first half-century of this Indian Premier League season for Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday. Kohli hit 58 off 53 deliveries against Gujarat Titans at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium after a string of low scores, including two golden ducks in the ongoing Twenty20 tournament. The former captain opened Bangalore’s innings for the second …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has marked two windows in 2023 to hold the inaugural Pakistan Super League (PSL) for Women. According to the proposed draft, the PCB as its top priority has proposed to hold the PSL for Women alongside the PSL for Men in March next year, and in case it is not possible then the Board …

KYOTO: When Japanese sumo wrestler Takuya Saito retired from the sport at 32 and began jobhunting, he had no professional experience and didn’t even know how to use a computer. Athletes in many sports can struggle to reinvent themselves after retirement, but the challenge is particularly acute for those in the ancient world of sumo. Wrestlers are often recruited early, …

LAHORE: The inaugural Pakistan Junior League will be held at the Gaddafi Stadium here from October 1-15, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Friday. The 19-match competition will feature six city-based franchise teams, which will pick players through a draft system. Each team will be mentored by an “iconic” player. In a “soft launch” of the PJL earlier this month, …