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Team World held a slim lead at Laver Cup London 2026 at midday on Saturday, six matches in. The next four matches proved trickier, with Team Europe capturing two on Saturday and two on Sunday to win the Laver Cup 13-5. “We are pretty close,” Team World’s Alex de Minaur said. “When you look at yesterday, we won two supers [10-point tiebreakers] and lost one with Taylor [Fritz] playing an epic match. We were very close. We were up against it from the get-go; we were the underdogs and put in a hell of a fight. A couple points here and there could have changed the whole tie.”

Mauricio Pochettino says controversial Folarin Balogun appeal ‘changed the energy’ around US team at World Cup 2026. United States coach Mauricio Pochettino said he regretted not being more involved in the decision to appeal Folarin Balogun’s World Cup red card, adding that the controversy changed the energy around his team before their last-16 loss to Belgium. Balogun was sent off in the US’s round-of-32 win over Bosnia but FIFA’s disciplinary committee later suspended his one-match ban for a year, allowing the forward to play against Belgium. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Timeline: Man City’s Premier League financial charges to reported verdictlist 2 of 4Israel’s Abu Farchi sent off for gun celebration in Nations League matchlist 3 of 4Premier League and La Liga lead FIFA reform calls after ‘exploitative’ planlist 4 of 4‘Stop the game’: Understanding the controversy behind Ireland vs Israelend of listThe decision triggered controversy after US President Donald Trump said he had intervened on behalf of the World Cup cohosts by urging FIFA chief Gianni Infantino to review the case.

A Russian man secretly working for Ukraine's intelligence services has shared videos of surveillance work he says he has done for Kyiv inside Russia. The man, who we are calling Ivan, claims to have played a role in Ukrainian drone attacks on strategic bombers and munitions factories on his home soil. He features in a BBC World Service documentary about the shadowy world of Russian saboteurs. Ivan was cautious about how much detail he shared, making it impossible to verify the activities he claims to have carried out.56 minutes ago

Site search54 minutes agoMonica GarnseyBBC Eye Two Russian men secretly working for Ukraine's intelligence services have given rare accounts of operations they claim to have been involved with, that have targeted military assets and personnel inside Russia. One of the men, whom we are calling Ivan, claims to have played a role from Russia in Ukrainian drone attacks on strategic bombers and munitions factories on his home soil. He features in a BBC World Service documentary about the shadowy world of Russian saboteurs. The documentary, by independent Polish journalist Marcin Mamon, also features a man we are calling Foma, a Russian living in exile in Poland. Foma runs a network of undercover volunteers in Russia, that surveils high-level officers that the GUR - Ukraine's military intelligence service - is considering targeting, he says. He stresses they are never involved in the attacks themselves. Getty ImagesLt Gen Fanil Sarvarov was killed in Moscow last year by an explosive device hidden under his carThere have been previous media reports of Russian sabotage groups, but it is rare to get access to someone operating on the ground, like Ivan, explaining alleged activities.