(Reuters) – Barcelona will seek to clinch a place in the Champions League knockout rounds for the first time in three seasons when they face Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk in Hamburg on Tuesday. The Spaniards, who beat Shakhtar 2-1 at home last month, top Group H with nine points from …

PETALING JAYA: Don’t write off Taiwanese shuttler Chou Tien-chen just yet. The 33-year-old had struggled for most part of the year in the men’s singles and dropped out of the world’s top 10 but deserves credit for never giving up. Tien-chen, ranked 13th in the world, bounced back strongly to …

(Reuters) – Final talks over the weekend to agree a proposal for a new climate disaster fund averted a deadlock ahead of the U.N.’s COP28 climate summit later this month, but cracked open tough new questions about who will pay and how soon. The fifth meeting of a 24-member U.N. …

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s opposition Labour Party leader Peter Obi on Monday criticised the Supreme Court’s ruling affirming President Bola Tinubu’s victory in February’s elections and vowed to continue to fight for a “New Nigeria”. The country’s top court on Oct. 26 rejected an attempt to overturn the election result …

(Reuters) -Dating app operator Bumble said founder Whitney Wolfe Herd will step down as chief executive and hand over the role to seasoned tech and business executive Lidiane Jones, sending its shares down nearly 7% to a record low on Monday. Jones is the CEO of Salesforce-owned Slack and has …

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina election polls are showing an increasingly tight race between Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa and radical libertarian Javier Milei ahead of a runoff ballot on Nov. 19. The two candidates offer polarized visions for the embattled Latin American country, the region’s third largest economy, a …