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China and North Korea are celebrating the 65th anniversary of a friendship treaty, but relations between the two countries remain complicated.SaveShareChinese leaders often describe Beijing’s relationship with North Korea as close “as lips and teeth”, but as warm as bilateral ties appear, this is a relationship underscored above all by strategic necessity.On July 11, 1961, […]

Hundreds of people across 18 states have been stricken with explosive diarrhea caused by a parasite often found on fresh produce, and the case count is growing. The intestinal infection is called cyclosporiasis and can persist for weeks or even longer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Among the culprits could be salad kits, […]

World CupFIFA WorldCup 2026 Getty ImagesErling Haaland has seven goals in four World Cup matches.Harry Kane has six goals in five World Cup matches.It’s hard not to bill this quarter-final today (Saturday) as a clash between two superstar strikers, given their huge influence on Norway and England’s progress so far.Only Argentina’s Lionel Messi (eight goals […]

You have reached ESPN’s UK edition. Stay on current site or go to US version.We’re halfway through the World Cup quarterfinals and, after Mikel Merino struck another late winner to send Spain through, you can follow all the latest updates across the day right here, with ESPN.England are hoping to join Spain and France in […]

There is just one week to go until the winner of the World Cup is crowned, and it has been a memorable tournament, not least due to the extraordinary intervention by Donald Trump this week that shocked the football world. Lucy Hough speaks to global sports business correspondent Matt Hughes source