#close-range

#close-range

MILAN, May 16 (Reuters) - A second-half goal by forward Lautaro Martinez earned Inter Milan a 1-0 victory over rivals AC Milan in their Champions League semi-final second leg on Tuesday, sealing a 3-0 aggregate win to book their ticket to the showpiece in Istanbul.Inter went into the game holding a 2-0 advantage after Edin Dzeko and Henrikh Mkhitaryan had struck early in a flying start to the first leg.

The Vegas Golden Knights used their experience in the third period and put Game 1 to rest with a 5-2 win over the Florida Panthers.The game was close until the third period when the Panthers had too many turnovers that cost them.The Golden Knights would love to win both games at home to begin the series but the Panthers may have other plans.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Tuesday charged a Queens man with murder in the 2002 killing of the pioneering hip-hop D.J. Jam Master Jay, bringing to three the number of people accused of taking part in the slaying.The man charged on Tuesday, Jay Bryant, 49, was already being held while awaiting trial on a separate drug-related indictment, prosecutors said in a court filing.

W hile the final day of the Women's Super League threatened to throw up a dramatic end to the campaign, the relentless winning machine is that Chelsea rather spoiled the party for the neutral.For the fourth time in a row, Emma Hayes and her side reign over English football as champions.They needed to lose to now-relegated Reading and see Manchester United beat Liverpool in order to give up their grip on the trophy and those thrill-seekers looking for some title excitement may have been convincing themselves that could indeed happen.

Manchester United bounced back from consecutive Premier League defeats by beating Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford to strengthen their bid for a top-four finish.Erik ten Hag's side had lost to Brighton and West Ham to give Liverpool - who were one point behind in fourth at the start of the day - hope of snatching a Champions League spot at their expense.

Federico Gatti scored a 97th-minute equaliser to earn Juventus a draw against Sevilla in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final.Gatti headed in from two yards after Paul Pogba superbly kept the ball in as a Danilo header was set to drift wide.It cancelled out Youssef En-Nesyri's 26th-minute goal, with the striker stroking in Lucas Ocampos' cross.

Kylian Mbappe's France captaincy could hardly have started better as the World Cup finalists brushed aside the Netherlands in their Euro 2024 qualifier, winning 4-0 at the Stade de France, with three goals coming in the first 21 minutes.The opener came after two minutes when Antoine Griezmann, said to be upset at being passed over for the armband, was teed up by Mbappe.

Bayern Munich struck twice in the second half to beat bottom club Hertha Berlin 2-0 on Sunday and retake the lead in the Bundesliga with four matches remaining.Goals from Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman helped the Bavarians take advantage of Borussia Dortmund's draw at VfL Bochum on Friday to leapfrog them into top spot on 62 points.

Glasgow City secured their 16th Scottish title in the most dramatic fashion after beating reigning champions Rangers at Ibrox thanks to Lauren Davidson's stoppage-time winner.City had arrived with a two-point lead and required just a win to lift the trophy ahead of Rangers and Celtic.Celtic looked likely to snatch their first title on goal difference as they led Hearts 2-0.

After Saul Alvarez won a lopsided decision over John Ryder on Saturday night, he made some small wardrobe adjustments before being interviewed about remaining the undisputed super-middleweight champion.The gold crown he wore on his walk to the ring at Estadio Akron in Zapopan, Mexico, near Guadalajara, was gone, replaced by a gold-colored laurel wreath.

A female Anopheles gambiae mosquito, one of the species that carries malaria.(Andrew Hammond)To unravel the age-old question of why mosquitoes eat some people alive but spare others, scientists built a large, open-air arena in Zambia and piped in the smells of a half-dozen humans slumbering in nearby tents.

Erling Haaland's emphatic header against Everton was his 36th goal in the league this season, the highest in the top flight since Southampton striker Ron Davies scored 37 in 1966-67.With a contract until 2027, he could become the first player to win the golden boot in England for four straight seasons.

Barcelona sealed their first La Liga title since 2018-19 with four games to spare after a stylish win at the home of city rivals Espanyol.Barca were 3-0 up by half-time, Robert Lewandowski scoring his 20th league goal of the season before Alejandro Balde, 19, doubled the lead.Lewandowski added the third before Jules Kounde's header made it 4-0.

It's that time of the year again in which an absurd number of games is packed into the shortest period of time possible.At this point, repeated complaints from players and player unions fall on deaf ears because UEFA and FIFA want more football, more competitions, and more ways to earn money.The result of this relentless hunger for more is a month of April in which Juventus played nine games in 30 days, which is almost a game every three days.

The dogs, reportedly named Marshall and Millionaire, were shot dead by an armed police officer at 5pm on Sunday by the Limehouse Cut.Louie Turnbull's dogs had allegedly attacked a woman and her dog on Sunday afternoon in Commercial Road, Limehouse.Footage posted on social media showed officers then pursued Mr Turnbull, who was holding the two dogs on a short lead along the canal, on Sunday afternoon.

Inter Milan have gained a significant foothold in their bid to reach the Champions League final by beating city rivals AC Milan in the first leg of the semis, officially away even though the two teams, of course, play at the same stadium and there's no away-goal rule anymore.Still, a two-goal lead is about as tangible as any Inter fan but the most fanatical ones will have hoped for going into the match.

A last-minute extra-time goal by substitute Jodi Jones sent Notts County into the National League play-off final with an enthralling win against Boreham Wood after being two down.Jones beat goalkeeper Joe McDonnell with an audacious effort from the edge of the area with the game seconds from going to a penalty shootout.

Champions Bayern Munich bounced back from a goal down and struck four times in a powerful first half against Augsburgen route to a 5-3 victory in the Bavarian derby on Saturday to go provisionally three points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.Fresh from Wednesday's 2-0 Champions League round-of-16 victory over Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern suffered an early shock when the visitors went in front with Mergim Berisha after two minutes.

Ryan Chyzowski produced three points in an injury-stricken 36-game regular season, scoring twice.The winger opened the scoring and netted the game-winner of Game 3 in Utica as the Toronto Marlies moved within one win of advancing.First Period
The Marlies played an almost perfect first period on the road, not only limiting chances for Utica but keeping a raucous crowd quiet.

After 10 months of one of the longest and bloodiest battles in Russia's war in Ukraine, Ukrainian soldiers are now defending a shrinking half-circle of ruins in a western neighborhood of Bakhmut, only about 20 blocks wide and continually pounded with artillery.Pushed into this ever-smaller corner of the 16-square-mile city, the Ukrainian army is determined to hunker down and hold out, even as allies have quietly questioned the rationale for fighting block by block, sustaining significant casualties, in a city that is a devastating panorama of damaged buildings and rubble.

Shortly before landing in Moscow on Monday, China's leader, Xi Jinping, condemned the killing of nine Chinese nationals a day earlier at a gold mine in the Central African Republic, where tensions have flared between Chinese and Russian interests.Among competing claims about who was responsible including one that blamed the Kremlin-backed Wagner mercenary group Mr. Xi urged the authorities of the Central African Republic to bring the perpetrators to justice, according to a statement released by the Chinese foreign ministry.

WASHINGTON In a Supreme Court argument on Wednesday arising from a murder for hire in the Philippines involving a two-man kill team, the justices struggled with how to handle a federal agent's testimony about a confession from one of the defendants implicating the second defendant.The justices have long sought to draw a line that allows juries to hear such testimony while protecting the Sixth Amendment right of the other defendant in a joint trial to be confronted with the witnesses against him.

Advances in DNA technology led to the arrest of a man in the 1997 shooting death of a teller during a bank robbery in California, authorities announced Tuesday.On April 28, 1997, two robbers disguised as construction workers wearing raincoats, hard hats and pantyhose over their faces went inside Western Financial Bank in Thousand Oaks and demanded money from the employees, Ventura County Sheriff Jim Fryhoff said during a news conference.

Aston Villa beat Manchester City in extra time to book their place in the semi-finals of the Women's FA Cup.Rachel Daly fired home in the 97th minute from close range to shock the three-time competition winners.Rachel Corsie almost won it for Villa in the last action of normal time with a header just beyond the far post.

Scottish Cup holders Rangers eased past Raith Rovers at Ibrox to progress to the competition's semi-finals.Connor Goldson's goal on the brink of half-time was well-deserved, before Ryan Nolan's unfortunate own-goal and Scott Arfield's injury-time strike.Michael Beale's side dominated proceedings and never looked like losing to their Championship opposition, and now join Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Celtic in the final four.

Carlton Morris grabbed his 15th goal of the season as Luton Town boosted their promotion push with a vital victory over faltering second-placed Sheffield United.Morris found the net from close range to earn a third win in four games when he turned the ball in at the near post after some great work by Elijah Adebayo.

Bayern Munich came from a goal down to beat Bavarian neighbours Augsburg in an eight-goal thriller.Mergim Berisha put Augsburg ahead after two minutes before Joao Cancelo equalised with his first Bayern goal.Benjamin Pavard netted twice in a game for the first time in his career and Leroy Sane headed in for a 4-1 lead.

Leeds slipped back into the Premier League relegation places despite twice coming from behind to earn a point in an entertaining draw at home to Brighton.Alexis Mac Allister's first-half header was quickly cancelled out by Patrick Bamford's spectacular 20-yard strike before Jack Harrison scored at both ends in a fast and frenetic second period.