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German coach Roger Schmidt is close to joining Portuguese record champions Benfica, the club announced in a statement to the Portuguese financial regulator on Wednesday. An agreement though has “not yet been formalized,” the statement said. Schmidt ann…

Alexander Zverev’s poor season continued on Wednesday when the German number one lost to Danish teenager Holger Rune 3-6, 2-6 at the ATP tournament in Munich. He received a bye in the first round as the top seed but the world number three had no answer…

Eintracht Frankfurt president Peter Fischer has suggested his side’s famous travelling fans will hold a party outside Buckingham Palace if they beat West Ham United in their Europa League semi-final first leg on Thursday. Frankfurt stunned Barcelona in…

Manchester City were two goals up on three occasions as they beat record winners Real Madrid 4-3 in a Champions League semi-final first leg thriller on Tuesday which leaves the tie wide open. Karim Benzema kept Real’s chances intact as the France strik…

Manchester City beat record winners Real Madrid 4-3 in a Champions League semi-final first leg thriller on Tuesday which leaves the tie wide open. City led by two goals on three occasions but Karim Benzema’s brace helped Real stay in the game. The host…

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed sharp criticism on Tuesday of a warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regarding a pending World War III and the possible use of nuclear weapons. “You’ve heard us say a number of times that that …

Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund have raised €400,000 ($426,000) for Ukraine in a match Tuesday against the nation’s top club Dynamo Kiev. Some 35,000 fans attended the game Kiev won 3-2, with all proceeds going to victims of the Russian invasion of U…

French actor Vincent Lindon, 62, is to become jury president of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. He is the first Frenchman to hold this position since Isabelle Huppert in 2009, the festival announced on Tuesday. Lindon is one of the regulars at Cannes…

Former world number one player Angelique Kerber will miss the upcoming Madrid Masters tournament due to a bout of flu, her management told dpa on Tuesday. Germany’s Kerber, 34, had planned to compete at the Madrid event which starts on Thursday but wil…

Germany’s Commerzbank posted preliminary figures for the first quarter on Tuesday that exceeded analysts’ expectations, despite making additional provisions for possible setbacks resulting from the war in Ukraine. “We have made a good start to the new …