21 h. ago No games, no league and now no City Football Group: Indian football faces up to ‘global embarrassment’

CFG have ditched Mumbai City and losing the glamour will hurt the game in the world’s most populated nationThe world’s biggest multiclub network shrank from 13 to 12 in the last week of 2025 but few blame the City Football Group for walking away from Mumbai City and India after six years. The reason for divesting their shares which gave them 65% ownership was addressed, not that anyone needed enlightening in a statement. “CFG has made this decision after a comprehensive commercial review and in light of the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the future of the Indian Super League (ISL).”Uncertainty is an underestimation. The 2025-26 ISL season was supposed to kick off in September. However, with a 15-year Masters Right Agreement between the All India Football Federation (AIFF) and its commercial partner ending in December and no new agreement or partner in place, it never started. Most assumed that it would be a short-lived delay but here we are, in 2026, and there is still no football....

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1 week ago Hou Yifan, women’s world No 1, stars in rare appearance at Global Chess League

The four-time women’s world champion, ranked the No 2 all-time woman after the retired Judit Polgar, showed that she retains her skillsHou Yifan, the all-time No 2 woman grandmaster after the retired Judit Polgar and currently ranked women’s world No 1, showed that she retained her brilliant skills when she made a rare appearance in the Global Chess League for Alpine SG Pipers, who defeated the reigning league champions, Triveni Continental Kings, 8.5-3.5 in the 2025 final at Mumbai on Tuesday. The Global Chess League, now in its third season, is planned as the chess equivalent of cricket’s Indian Premier League.The final qualifying match, in which Alpine barely secured the six game points needed to edge their opponents, proved a triumph for Hou, who studied at Oxford and is semi-retired from chess in favour of a professorship at Peking University. She scored four wins in a row, including a 20-move miniature which took her team into the final. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Britain slips down wealth rankings as Reeves' tax hikes hold back economy

The UK will slip from 19th to 21st in a league table of gross domestic product (GDP) per head in 2026.

Economics

2 w. ago Head of workplace rights agency urges white men to report discrimination

The head of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has urged white men to report workplace discrimination based on race or sex

Events

3 w. ago Susan Boyle's life today after Timothee Chalamet's fan confession

The Marty Supreme star let slip how much he adores the Britain's Got Talent songstress

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3 w. ago Employers likely added 40,000 jobs in November as government releases report delayed by shutdown

The U.S. job market is sluggish and confusing this fall

Politics

3 w. ago Huge spike in wildlife smuggling sees 2,000 tarantulas slipped into Britain in the back of a car

The seizures this autumn were part of an annual international operation to combat illegal wildlife smuggling - representing a 73 per cent increase on the previous year.

Politics

4 w. ago Britain slipping down global league table for youth employment, says report

PwC warns that future of a generation is at risk and that jobs crisis is costing UK economy up to £26bn a yearBritain is slipping down the global league table for youth employment amid a dramatic rise in worklessness that is putting a generation’s future at risk, research has warned.Sounding the alarm over a worsening youth jobs crisis, the report from the accountancy firm PwC said Britain’s economy was missing out on £26bn a year because of sharp regional divisions in youth joblessness. Continue reading...

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