Johnny Sexton is adamant his side can break Ireland's quarter-final curse and beat the All Blacks at Tokyo Stadium on Saturday, if they get their game plan and execution exactly right.
Joe Schmidt's team entered the World Cup as the top-ranked side (...)
Ireland played with 14 men for 50 minutes but still eased into the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals with a seven-try 47-5 demolition of ragged Samoa in their final Pool A match on Saturday.
Center Bundee Aki became the seventh player to be shown a red (...)
Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies wrapped up a meeting in Japan on Sunday with a pledge to use all the policies they can to protect global growth from disruptions due to trade and other tensions.
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Group of 20 finance leaders said on Sunday that trade and geopolitical tensions have "intensified", raising risks to improving global growth, but they stopped short of calling for a resolution of a deepening US-China trade conflict.
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Group of 20 finance ministers agreed on Sunday to compile common rules to close loopholes used by global tech giants such as Facebook to reduce their corporate taxes, a final version of the bloc's communiqué obtained by Reuters showed.
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Finance leaders from the world's top economies on Sunday adopted new principles to ensure countries that lend and borrow for infrastructure spending do so in a sustainable manner, a move seen as addressing concerns that China's lending practices (...)
time world champion Jaouad Gharib of Morocco kept his own pace in a long solo run despite a surprise challenge by Kenya's Eliud Kiptanui for an easy victory in the Fukuoka marathon Sunday. The Beijing Olympic silver medalist took the lead when the (...)
Japan, China and South Korea agreed at a North Asia summit on Saturday to bolster cooperation to tackle the global financial crisis, putting aside decades of animosity.
The North Asian leaders also agreed on the need to act together to push forward (...)
