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Barclays Premier League table-top­pers Manchester United play hosts to Ever­ton at Old Traf­ford this Sunday, looking to stretch their nine point lead over second placed rivals Manchester City. The Man­cuni­ans defeated Ful­ham 1–0 at Craven Cot­tage in their last Premier League match, while Ever­ton drew 3–3 with Aston Villa at Good­ison Park. Manchester United and Eng­land flank-­man Ash­ley Young will return to first team action for the Red Dev­ils this upcoming weekend after a five-match absence....

It seems like the ongoing West Indies series is an audition for the much sterner test in Australia. Ashwin, Kuldeep and Jadeja are under the microscope. Both Ashwin and Kuldeep have bowled well in the first test, and Jadeja has done very well with the bat, and not so shabbily with the ball, either. So, who among these three should be entrusted with the role of being India’s lone spinner in at least three out of the four tests in Australia?...

Virat Kohli always tries to surprise the opposition by having some surprise picks in the squad, especially ahead of big matches. However, when the Indian squad was announced for the first test match against England at Trent Bridge, there was a huge rue and cry for picking Ravindra Jadeja over Ravichandran Ashwin. With all due respect to the Indian captain, the fans were not completely wrong this time. It was pretty simple, if India had to pick one spinner, it would have to be Ashwin....

Wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim was the star of the show as he scored 144 and with Mohammad Mithun’s 63, he helped Bangladesh reach 262 in their innings after they were reduced to 1/2 after the first over having also lost their star opener Tamim Iqbal due to an injury by the end of the second over. Mushfiqur’s fighting knock overshadowed Lasith Malinga’s inspiring performance with the ball in his return to international cricket after one year....

The 24-year-old Narender (65kg) saw off Phillipines’ Clemente Jr Tabugara 2-1 in men’s sanda round of 16 to set up a clash with Uzbekistan’s Rakhimov Akmal tomorrow. Besides Narender, Surya Bhanu Partap Singh beat Indonesia’s Abdul Haris Sofyan 2-1 in another match. He will face Phillipines’ Jean Claude Saclag tomorrow. Santosh Kumar also registered a 2-0 win over Zaid Ali Wazea of Yemen to set up a last eight meeting against Thailand’s Phithak Paokrathok....

In an exclusive interview, he opens up at length about his struggle as a kid, scoring goals in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, the UAE challenge and much more. Talk us through your journey in football. I had a really difficult time when I was a kid. I had to struggle a lot back then. But it gives me immense satisfaction where I have reached now, after all the hard work....

Amidst all of the analysis by all of India’s opponents, Sunil Chhetri has made it look so easy, no matter who he faces. A day after the prolific striker surpassed Lionel Messi in the highest scoring active player’s list, courtesy his brace against Thailand in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 opener, Chhetri spoke at a length about the victory, the team, his fitness mantra, debut, getting past Messi and much more....

In the Asiad, the neighbours last faced each other in 1978 Bangkok. Exposure to back-to-back major tournaments gives India the edge with the amount of experience they have in their side. But the Sardar Singh-led team is not taking any team lightly. With vice-captain and goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh having his faith on forward S.V. Sunil being their trump card for keeping the pressure on the opponents defence, Sunil on the other hand feels that Sreejesh will ensure that he keeps the opponents forwards at bay while the forwards are fighting it out at the other end....

In case you didn’t know… The 2018 Asian Games are set to take place next month in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. The Games will commence on August 18 and will run through until September 2. India has selected a very strong contingent for participation in the Games. A Five Hundred and Twenty Four member contingent has been chosen provisionally for the games. However, a lot of cuts and additions are expected before the start of the games....

With 38 days to go, India’s athletes now enter the final stage of preparation. Having honed their technical skill and sports craft through hours of practice and different levels of competition, India’s athletes should be well prepared for the impending challenges ahead. After all, the Asian Games is the second largest multi-discipline sports platform in the world. INDIA IS MOVING BEYOND CRICKET It has taken India many decades to move beyond cricket....

They ran out 103-25 winners against the Afghan team, recording a comfortable win and setting the tone for the India vs Pakistan match, scheduled for later in the day. It was a walk in the park for the Indian side, who were playing in their white kits, while Afghanistan were playing in a bright yellow kit. Another match that also took place alongside the India match was between South Korea and Thailand, which featured a number of familiar Pro Kabaddi star names....

A recent study found that posts relating to non-suicidal self-injury might be increasing among social media users, especially on Instagram. Posts containing hashtags like #Cutting, #SelfHarm, and #HateMyself in the captions increased in 2018 from around 60,000 posts in January and February to 112,000 in December of that year. Although now three years old, the data suggests that self-harm-related content has been increasing. It also showed that the posts containing self-harm-related hashtags frequently contained other tags related to suicide, depression, general mental distress, anxiety/panic, and eating disorders....

COVID-19 is the largest global crisis the world has witnessed in generations. But despite the immense deaths and debilitating health impacts brought on by the pandemic, there are still disagreements regarding the virus’s threat. This back-to-school season sees this playing out in real-time, as mask wars rage on. Unfortunately, kids are caught in the middle. Society’s youngest are also at the center of a tricky conversation when it comes to climate change....

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U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data from Tuesday showed that the seven-day moving average of new COVID cases had increased from 24,141 on July 13, up from 21,379 the day before. But with 160.1 million people in the U.S. now fully vaccinated, the country as a whole is no longer in the situation it was in January when a smaller proportion of the population had received shots, and it surpassed 300,000 daily COVID cases, and recorded more than 4,000 deaths in one day....

Major U.S. media outlets reported Friday that the last U.S. troops left Bagram Air Base, a central hub of U.S. and allied operations in the country for nearly two decades since shortly after their 2001 invasion. The pullout has been part of an ongoing process to ensure what the Pentagon has deemed a “safe and orderly exit” of the U.S. and coalition partners from the country, but regional countries have expressed concern as violence continues to ravage Afghanistan....

Since then, Kaepernick has been widely praised by sports media, which compared the 28-year-old 49ers quarterback to pioneers including Muhammad Ali, John Carlos, Tommie Smith and Jim Brown. Instead, most of the vitriol has been aimed at sports figures who’ve criticized Kaepernick’s protest as disrespectful and divisive, including Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa, Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. MORE: A quick look at politics in sports...

To celebrate the upcoming film Pokemon the Movie: Coco, Pokemon Sword and Shield players will soon be able to earn Ash Ketchum’s iconic hat. The hat will be part of the upcoming Isle of Armor DLC, one of the Switch’s most significant expansions to date. RELATED: Pokémon: 5 Reasons We Want To See Ash Ketchum Grow Up (& 5 Why We Don’t) To earn the hat, players will need to have the new mythical Pokemon Zarude in their party and visit an attendant at the Taxi Station....

The 27-page document–entitled “A Decade of Deception and Defiance”–made no mention of any Iraqi ties to Osama bin Laden. But it did highlight Saddam’s backing of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), an obscure Iranian dissident group that has gathered surprising support among members of Congress in past years. One of those supporters, the documents show, is a top commander in President Bush’s war on terrorism: Attorney General John Ashcroft, who became involved with the MKO while a Republican senator from Missouri....