Sport offered both history and high drama today, led by France’s emphatic 4-1 win over Norway as Ousmane Dembélé tore through Group I with a blistering first-half hat-trick, sealing top spot and underlining France’s status as a World Cup favorite. Norway still advanced as runners...
Sport offered both history and high drama today, led by France’s emphatic 4-1 win over Norway as Ousmane Dembélé tore through Group I with a blistering first-half hat-trick, sealing top spot and underlining France’s status as a World Cup favorite. Norway still advanced as runners-up, while Senegal’s 5-0 demolition of Iraq kept faint knockout hopes alive through the best third-place route. The tournament’s most captivating underdog story, though, belongs to Cape Verde: a 0-0 draw with Saudi Arabia sent the island nation into the last 32, making it the smallest country ever to reach the World Cup knockout stage. Away from the pitch, a far more unsettling story unfolded in Beijing, where a small aircraft crashed into the CITIC Tower, triggering evacuations, a major emergency response, and an urgent investigation into how a plane struck the capital’s tallest skyscraper.
Top Sport stories
- U.S. strikes Iran targets after drone attack on cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz (44 sources)
- Ousmane Dembélé hat-trick helps France beat Norway 4-1 to top Group I (21 sources)
- Small plane crashes into Beijing’s tallest building, leaving debris and damaged upper floors (15 sources)
- Ousmane Dembélé scores historic first-half hat-trick as France beat Norway 4-1 (11 sources)
- Belgium beat New Zealand 5-1 to win Group G and reach World Cup last 32 (10 sources)
- Belgium beat New Zealand 5-1 as Trossard doubles to top Group G (9 sources)
- Israel and Lebanon sign US-brokered security framework as first step toward peace (8 sources)
- VAR disallows Iran’s stoppage-time winner as Egypt reach World Cup last 32 (8 sources)
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