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Bangladesh needed 57 runs and got them in 14.2 overs. They chased down the target in 14.2 overs, winning by nine wickets at Marrara Oval in Darwin on 16 August.

Bangladesh closed day two at 351 for 6 in Darwin, 153 ahead, after Tanzid Hasan became just the second Asian batter to score a century in a maiden Test innings in Australia.

Eli Lilly has placed Candace Parker at the centre of a new 30-second advertisement that debuted during Amazon's WNBA on Prime doubleheader coverage.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashwini Panwar acquitted Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, former president of the Wrestling Federation of India, and former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar on 3 August 2026, ruling that the prosecution had not proved the sexual harassment charges filed against

Gianni Infantino pitched a USD 20 billion vehicle for the World Cup's commercial rights, and within five days three confederations had forced him to bury it. How the revolt built, day by day.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino killed the plan in a single sentence. "Our purpose has always been, and will always be, to unite and improve. As a result, this proposal will not proceed," Infantino said on 1 August 2026. No detail, no apology, no road map for what follows.

Australia's Dolphins closed the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games with 37 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals, the biggest gold haul any Australian swim team has ever posted at a single Commonwealth Games.

Football's world governing body wants to move the World Cup into a new company and sell slices of it to private investors, including a fund run by Joshua Kushner. Europe's federations say it is not FIFA's to sell.