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There was more offside controversy in the Premier League this weekend. Former Premier League referees Dermot Gallagher and Jay Bothroyd have analyzed the similarities between offside incidents involving Virgil van Dijk, Murillo and Ebele Eze that resulted in different outcomes. Read the latest from Ref Watch…Liverpool 0-3 Nottingham Forest: Should Murillo’s goal at Anfield have been scored?THE INCIDENT: Just 13 days after Virgil van Dijk’s goal at the Etihad was controversially canceled, there was a sense of déjà vu for Liverpool over Nottingham Forest’s first goal. Murillo’s shot survived a VAR check despite Dan Ndoye being placed in an offside…

Restaurants and bars in Singapore’s Boat Quay area on Wednesday, May 17, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSingapore’s inflation rate rose for the second consecutive month compared to the same month last year, with October’s price increase rate hitting its highest level in about a year and exceeding analysts’ expectations. After hitting a four-year low in August, consumer prices rose 1.2% to the highest level since August 2024. That compares with the average estimate of a 0.9% rise in economists polled by Reuters and a 0.7% rise in September.The city-state’s core inflation rate, which deducts the prices of accommodation and…

Foreign investors remain net sellers of Indian stocks this year, but global companies are rushing to list local units in one of the world’s busiest IPO markets, lured by valuation premiums. Coca-Cola’s Indian bottling division is reportedly weighing a $1 billion float next year. The Indian arm of South Korea’s CJ Darcl Logistics has already submitted a draft, and analysts expect more global companies to bring Indian operations to the market. “Right now, multinationals are going through all the valuation upgrade stages,” said Akshay Gupta of Prime Securities, pointing to German multinational Siemens, which listed its energy unit in March…

President Donald Trump’s Office of Government Efficiency is disbanding with eight months remaining in his term, ending a program launched with much fanfare as a symbol of his pledge to shrink the size of government, but with few measurable savings, critics say.”That doesn’t exist,” Office of Personnel Management Secretary Scott Cooper told Reuters earlier this month when asked about the DOGE situation.In the Trump administration’s first public comments on the termination of DOGE, Kupol added that it is no longer a “centralized organization.”The agency, created in January, made dramatic inroads across Washington during the early months of President Trump’s second…

A British patrol vessel captured a Russian corvette and tanker after tracking them through the English Channel, the Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday, adding that Russian naval activity around British waters had increased by 30% in the past two years. According to the ministry, in the past two weeks the patrol ship Severn has captured the Russian corvette RFN Stoiky and the tanker Yernya while they were sailing through the English Channel. The Severn eventually handed over its surveillance mission off the coast of Brittany to an unidentified NATO ally. In addition to the ships stationed off the UK…

Beau Greaves beat Luke Littler to reach the World Youth Championship final, only to see his dreams shattered by Jan van Veen at Minehead.Defending champion Van Veen, who lost to Krzysztof Ratajski in the main draw of the Players Championship on Saturday afternoon, averaged 96.55 points and hit six of her 10 doubles to defeat women’s series champion Greaves 6-3 at Butlins Resort. The Dutchman became only the second player to defend her title, ending Greaves’ hopes of becoming the first female winner of the tournament. PDC World Youth Championship Final 6️⃣ Jan van Veen (96.55)3️⃣ Borgreaves (90.42)🎙One 180🎯55% doubles…

When a “ceasefire” was declared in Gaza on October 10, many Palestinians breathed a sigh of relief. They had just endured two years of continuous bombing, estimated to be about six times the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, concentrated on an area less than half the size of a Japanese city.The misery was all-encompassing. All hospitals and universities were bombed, most homes and schools were destroyed, and critical infrastructure such as sewage systems and power lines were damaged beyond repair. An estimated 50 million tons of rubble littered the area, with the bodies of…

Global stock prices have fluctuated wildly over the past week as concerns about the valuation of AI have floated through stock markets. Nvidia’s earnings release on Wednesday provided some respite from a four-day slide, but the company’s own gains quickly reversed during Thursday’s trading as the New York-listed stock fell further. On Friday, while U.S. stocks returned to positive territory, Asian semiconductor stocks plummeted and European stock market declines reignited. ‘Everything is a bubble’ The possibility that the stock market is in an AI bubble has been a hot topic in recent months, with investors scrambling to see if companies…

In June, city workers from the Mexican city of Tulum, armed with shovels and wheelbarrows, descended on the resort’s famous beach and were tasked with clearing the massive pile of sargassum that covered the crystal-clear waters. By that point this year, officials said they had collected 1,900 tons of the troublesome seaweed, more than the 1,300 tons collected in all of 2024. Local officials and hotel owners told CNN this year’s sargassum volume is the highest since 2018, contributing to this year’s drop in tourism. But seaweed is not the only problem facing Tulum, a Yucatan town known for its…

Gary Neville said the “severity and immediacy” of Liverpool’s recent downturn was a major concern for head coach Arne Slott and said it was “unacceptable”. Liverpool lost 3-0 to Nottingham Forest at Anfield on Saturday, their sixth defeat in seven Premier League games and their worst start to the season since 2014. Captain Virgil van Dijk implored his team-mates to “look in the mirror”, but Slott himself insisted they “look at themselves” as his side have lost 50 per cent of their league games this season and are 13 points worse off than at this stage last season. “What’s unusual…