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READ MORE LYON (Reuters) – Alex Morgan said she has adapted to being targeted by opposition defenders who are determined to throw the usually prolific United States striker off stride at the women’s World Cup. Morgan began the tournament with five goals in the 13-0 mauling of Thailand and looked well set to win the golden boot. However, since that opening Group F match, the goals have dried up for her. Instead Morgan has had to cope with a number of bruising tackles while team mates such as Megan Rapinoe have flourished instead. Rapinoe has scored four times in the knockout stages, helping the defending champions reach a semi-final showdown with England on Tuesday. Morgan, who played in Lyon in 2017 when on loan at Olympique Lyonnais from Orlando Pride, said that it was no surprise that she was being targeted. “I think each team does tactics differently,” she told a news conference. “Naturally, as a number nine I’m going to be plowed through quite oft...

READ MORE SPIELBERG, Austria (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix, and ended Formula One champions Mercedes’s streak of success, after beating Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in a wheel-banging battle of the 21-year-olds on Sunday. The Dutchman’s victory, confirmed by stewards some three hours after the race following an investigation, was his second successive triumph at Spielberg. Verstappen seized the lead from Leclerc, who had led from pole position, two laps from the end with the dueling pair making contact into the tight uphill turn three as the crowd roared. He crossed the line, acclaimed by thousands of orange-shirted Dutch fans at a circuit owned by Red Bull, 2.7 seconds ahead of the Monegasque but with stewards summoning both to an enquiry. The decision, after a review of video evidence, was to take no further action and confirm the sport’s youngest ever top-two finish. Valtteri Bottas was third for Mercedes, who were ...

READ MORE NEW YORK (Reuters) – A black transgender woman wanted to be heard, but the white men wanted to celebrate. The scene at New York City’s Stonewall Inn on Saturday, as reported by multiple witnesses on social media, showed how long-simmering tensions between transgender women of color and white gay men have boiled over during the celebration of World Pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. The unidentified woman wanted to address the crowd inside the Greenwich Village gay bar where patrons fought back against police harassment 50 years ago, birthing the LGBTQ movement. She arrived unannounced and disrupted a drag show, drawing an unfriendly response at first. The crowd eventually warmed and she was given the microphone and spoke for 12 minutes. “She read the names of the black trans women who died. Facts about them. Their obituaries. She called on everyone in the bar to help. I would like to say the audience was respectful, but there was quite ...

READ MORE NEW YORK (Reuters) – The world’s marquee gay pride parade was preempted by thousands of anti-corporate dissidents who staged their own protest on Sunday, rejecting a uniformed police presence and commercial sponsorship while also demanding LGBTQ equality. Hours before New York was set to launch what organizers are calling the largest gay pride parade in history for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, the Queer Liberation March proceeded in the opposite direction, starting at the historic Stonewall Inn and heading north to Central Park. Meanwhile the city was expecting 150,000 parade marchers and millions of spectators to line streets for the main event running north-to-south toward the Stonewall, the gay bar in Greenwich Village where resistance to police harassment on June 28, 1969, triggered the modern LGBTQ liberation movement. Similar parades were being held around the world. North Macedonia held its first Gay Pride march on Saturday. In Singapore, ...

READ MORE LA HACHADURA, El Salvador (Reuters) – The corpses of a Salvadoran father and his 23-month-old daughter, whose bodies lying face down in the Rio Grande became symbols of the perils of illegal immigration to the United States, were returned to their homeland on Sunday. A stark photo of the dead Oscar Martinez, 25, and his daughter Angie Valeria floating near the bank of the river ignited fresh criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tough policies on undocumented migrants entering the United States via Mexico. Martinez and his family had left El Salvador in April, hoping to find work in the United States. But their dream unraveled last Sunday when they tried to cross the river that separates northeast Mexico from the United States. Traveling in a convoy of government vehicles and white vans from a funeral home, the bodies of the drowned migrants left Mexico for El Salvador, where they are due to be buried on Monday. Interior Minister Mario Duran accompanied the re...

READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump’s latest overture to North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, saying the leaders’ meeting lacked substance and elevated a ruthless dictator. The Republican Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to step into North Korea on Sunday, drawing on his penchant for showmanship and surprise to pull off talks with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas. The meeting, at Trump’s last-minute invitation, drew praise from some including Pope Francis as a step toward peace. Critics called it a publicity stunt and said Trump wasted an important symbolic move when there has been little sign that North Korea has taken meaningful steps toward denuclearization. A number of Democrats vying to replace Trump in the White House in the 2020 election said there was nothing wrong with talking to U.S. adversaries including Kim...

READ MORE In Match 38 of ICC cricket World Cup 2019 (CWC), England cricket team survived to live for another day as they outbatted India cricket team for a 31-run win in a high-scoring World Cup encounter, keeping their semi-final hopes alive at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Sunday. Opener Jonny Bairstow’s hundred (111 off 109 balls) set the platform and a cavalier 54-ball 79 by all-rounder Ben Stokes took England to an imposing 337 for 7 in 50 overs after batting first, neutralising the spin duo of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav with some heavy duty hitting. The total proved to be good enough as Rohit Sharma’s (102) 25th ODI hundred and skipper Virat Kohli’s (66) fifth consecutive half-century could only take India to 306 for 5 as England captain Eoin Morgan rotated his bowlers effectively at the death. England, now on 10 points, will need to beat New Zealand in their last game to qualify for the semifinals while India (11 points from 7 games) will need t...