Day: October 6, 2024

Tennis: Errani-Paolini win in Beijing

Sara Errani and Jasmin Paolini on Sunday won the final of the doubles tournament of the China Open WTA 1000 in Beijing.

n the final, the Italians beat the American Sofia Kenin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands with a score of 6-4 6-4.

With this victory, th…

Marathon runner among 21 new cardinals

Amarathon running Algerian bishop is among the 21 new cardinals Pope Francis will create on December 8.

Jean-Paul Vesco, a 62-year-old Dominican and archbishop of Algiers, competes for Athletica Vaticana.

The bishop has a personal best of 2 hours 5…

League rallies at Pontida, Vannacci, Orban star

The rightwing League party held its annual rally at its spiritual home of Pontida in northern Italy Sunday with MEP and suspended army general Roberto Vannacci and Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban among the stars.

Vannacci, a former paratrooper who …

Tennis: Sinner thru to last 16 in Shanghai

Jannik Sinner beat Argentina’s Tomas Etcheverry 6-7 6-4 6-2 and qualified for the last 16 of the Shanghai Masters 100 on Sunday.

“It was a tough match, physically and mentally,” said the 23-year-old South Tyrolean world number one and Aussie Open ch…

MotoGP: Bagnaia wins in Japan, cuts Martin’s lead to 10 pts

Italian two-time and reigning MotoGP champ Francesco Bagnaia won the Japanese MotoGP Sunday cutting Spaniard Jorge Martin’s lead in the riders’ championship standings to just 10 points.

Martin same second.

Bagnaia, who scored his eighth victory thi…

Soccer: Juve stay 3rd as held to home draw by Cagliari

Juventus remained third in Serie A as they were held to a 1-1 home draw by Cagliari at the Allianz Stadium Sunday.

Serbia centre forwrd Dušan Vlahovic put the Bianconeri 1-0 from the penalty spot in the 15th minute but Romania midfielder Razvan Mari…

Progeria campaigner Sammy Basso dies of disease

Sammy Basso, a Venetian biologist suffering from the fast-aging genetic disease progeria, died Saturday night at the age of 28, his family siad Sunday.

He was the longest-living patient with this pathology.

(Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome) which cause…

Salvini says autonomy is law, there is no going back

League leader Matteo Salvini told the party’s annual rally at Pontida near Milan Sunday that its pet policy of ‘differentiated autonomy” had been approved despite claims that it will worsen the north-south gap and there would be no going back.

“Auto…