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BBC News
4 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
FC Santa Coloma v Borac Banja Luka
Update: Date: 90'+7 Title: Post Content: Match ends, FC Santa Coloma 0, Borac Banja Luka 2. Update: Date: 90'+7 Title: Full Time Content: Second Half ends, FC Santa Coloma 0, Borac Banja Luka 2. Update: Date: 90'+1 Title: Post Content: Fourth official has announced 6 minutes of added time. Update: Date: 88' Title: Booking Content: Karlo Peric (Borac Banja Luka) is shown the yellow card. Update: Date: 88' Title: Goal! Content: Goal! FC Santa Coloma 0, Borac Banja Luka 2. Karlo Peric (Borac Banja Luka) header. Update: Date: 86' Title: Booking Content: Sebastián Herrera (Borac Banja Luka) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Update: Date: 79' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Borac Banja Luka. David Cavic replaces David Vukovic. Update: Date: 75' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, FC Santa Coloma. Nabil Kheribi replaces Armando León. Update: Date: 75' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, FC Santa Coloma. Aarón Gallego replaces Ot Remolins. Update: Date: 75' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, FC Santa Coloma. Xavi Puerto replaces Mario Mourelo. Update: Date: 74' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Borac Banja Luka. Stefan Marcetic replaces Sandi Ogrinec. Update: Date: 74' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Borac Banja Luka. Damir Hrelja replaces Luka Zoric. Update: Date: 73' Title: Booking Content: Adrià Arjona (FC Santa Coloma) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Update: Date: 71' Title: Goal! Content: Goal! FC Santa Coloma 0, Borac Banja Luka 1. Sebastián Herrera (Borac Banja Luka) right footed shot. Update: Date: 69' Title: Post Content: Second yellow card to Hugo Ferreira (FC Santa Coloma) for a bad foul. Update: Date: 66' Title: Booking Content: Amer Hiros (Borac Banja Luka) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Update: Date: 62' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Borac Banja Luka. Amer Hiros replaces Stefan Savic. Update: Date: 62' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Borac Banja Luka. Karlo Peric replaces Luka Juricic. Update: Date: 61' Title: Booking Content: Moisés San Nicolás (FC Santa Coloma) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Update: Date: 60' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, FC Santa Coloma. Martín Ross replaces Aleix Cisteró because of an injury.
BBC News
4 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Sileks v Dečić
Update: Date: 90'+5 Title: Post Content: Match ends, Sileks 2, Decic 1. Update: Date: 90'+5 Title: Full Time Content: Second Half ends, Sileks 2, Decic 1. Update: Date: 90'+1 Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Decic. Ilir Camaj replaces Stefan Golubovic. Update: Date: 90' Title: Post Content: Fourth official has announced 4 minutes of added time. Update: Date: 90' Title: Booking Content: Stefan Golubovic (Decic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Update: Date: 82' Title: Booking Content: Pjeter Ljuljduraj (Decic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Update: Date: 81' Title: Goal! Content: Goal! Sileks 2, Decic 1. Aldin Hrvanovic (Sileks) right footed shot. Assisted by Darko Dodev. Update: Date: 74' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Sileks. Kristijan Velinovski replaces Milos Nikolic. Update: Date: 73' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Decic. Trimron Selimi replaces Vuk Strikovic. Update: Date: 64' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Sileks. Miguel Pires replaces Ilija Donov. Update: Date: 51' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Sileks. Bojan Rajkov replaces Angelche Timovski because of an injury. Update: Date: 46' Title: Second Half Content: Second Half begins Sileks 1, Decic 1. Update: Date: 46' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Decic. Ibrahima N'Diaye replaces Balsa Radusinovic. Update: Date: 45'+5 Title: Half Time Content: First Half ends, Sileks 1, Decic 1. Update: Date: 45'+3 Title: Booking Content: Darko Dodev (Sileks) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Update: Date: 45'+3 Title: Booking Content: Darko Angjeleski (Sileks) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Update: Date: 45'+1 Title: Post Content: Fourth official has announced 2 minutes of added time. Update: Date: 28' Title: Goal! Content: Goal! Sileks 1, Decic 1. Adi Alic (Sileks) header. Update: Date: 23' Title: Substitution Content: Substitution, Decic. Pjeter Ljuljduraj replaces Matija Bozanovic because of an injury. Update: Date: 3' Title: Goal! Content: Goal! Sileks 0, Decic 1. Vuk Strikovic (Decic) left footed shot. Assisted by Petar Sekulovic.
The National
9 hours ago
- Business
- The National
President Sheikh Mohamed arrives in Serbia after concluding visit to Albania
President Sheikh Mohamed arrived in Serbia on Thursday for talks with President Aleksandar Vucic as part of a working visit. Sheikh Mohamed and his delegation were welcomed at Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport by the Serbian leader, with both leaders taking cover under umbrellas on a rainy day in the capital. It is his first visit to Serbia since a comprehensive economic partnership agreement between the two nations came into force in May. It is hoped that bilateral trade between the Emirates and Serbia will contribute about $351 million to the UAE's GDP by 2031. The trip comes after the UAE leader visited neighbouring Balkan nation Albania on Wednesday, during which he met Prime Minister Edi Rama. Sheikh Mohamed and Mr Rama had reviewed the growing partnership between their countries and discussed efforts to advance relations in key sectors such as the economy, trade, renewable energy, food security and technology during high-level discussions. Sheikh Mohamed set out his commitment to forging robust ties across the Balkans. He said Albania was an important partner for the Emirates. Mr Rama spoke of his hopes that the visit would establish new avenues of co-operation after welcoming Sheikh Mohamed and his delegation at the Prime Minister's Office in Kryeministria. The two men also exchanged views on a number of regional and international issues, emphasising the need to promote dialogue and diplomacy in resolving conflicts. UAE leader given national honour During the meeting, Mr Rama awarded Sheikh Mohamed the Benemerenti medal, the highest public honour conferred by the Prime Minister of Albania, in recognition of the President's pivotal role in strengthening UAE-Albanian relations. The Prime Minister praised Sheikh Mohamed's commitment to bolstering bilateral ties, describing the award as a mark of his country's deep respect and appreciation for him. The meeting was attended by members of the official delegation, including Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohamed bin Zayed, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court for Special Affairs; Sheikh Zayed bin Mohamed; Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad, adviser to the UAE President; Ali Al Shamsi, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for National Security; Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology; Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan, Minister of State; Dr Ahmed Al Mazrouei, chairman of the President's Office for Strategic Affairs and chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Office; Faisal Al Bannai, adviser to the UAE President for Strategic Research and Advanced Technology Affairs; Lana Nusseibeh, Assistant of Minister of Foreign Affairs for Political Affairs; Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority; Dr Ali Al Dhaheri, UAE ambassador to the Hellenic Republic and non-resident ambassador to Albania; and Mohamed Alabbar, chairman of the board of directors of Eagle Hills. On his arrival in the Albanian capital earlier in the day, Sheikh Mohamed was greeted at Tirana International Airport by Mr Rama along with senior ministers and officials. The President's trip to Albania came after he concluded a state visit to Turkey on Wednesday, in which he issued a joint call for peace with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Guardian
11 hours ago
- Climate
- The Guardian
I've found the cure for a sleepless night in a heatwave – but it can have its drawbacks …
Here's a tip for keeping cool overnight as the world heats up. It's a tip you shouldn't take unless you're more competent than I am in practical matters. While this is a low bar, admittedly, it's a health warning I need to share. My mum's place in Croatia is very old. Its walls are a metre thick. When she wanted a door knocked through one of them, the noise was tremendous. The dust and debris rose in what might have been mistaken for a mushroom cloud. There may have been dynamite involved. Having walls this thick is reassuring – any calamity serious enough to bring them down wouldn't be worth surviving anyway. An issue with walls this thick is that, when they get cold, they stay cold, long after the outside temperature is cracking the flags and fraying nerves. For the first half of summer this is good – natural cooling. For the second half of the summer, less so. The house becomes hot, perhaps hotter than it is outside. And it stays hot. A few summers ago, for my mum's 80th birthday, my family were there in numbers, and I was banished to sleep in the smallest, hottest room in the roof of the house. I didn't dare enter it until well after midnight, but I might as well have waited until Christmas for it to cool down. It was like a bloody tandoor in there. The one little fan I had sweeping my sweaty body like a dim searchlight had no impact. Someone suggested I put some ice in a bowl beneath the fan. It helped a bit, but not much. On the second night, I went big on the ice – very big. I found the biggest, deepest oven tray I could fit in the freezer, filled it with water, and left it there all day. Come bedtime, I hauled this iceberg of mine up the stairs and balanced it on a chair just below the fan. It started to crack alarmingly, like a glacier in the spring, but the air was soon deliciously cool and I fell into the deepest, smuggest sleep. It was a slumber so deep that, when I awoke in the dark hour before dawn in need of a wee, I quite forget where I was, stumbled, fell and upended the tray, soaking the bed and floor, and permanently breaking the fan. But God, it was good while it lasted. Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist
The Guardian
14 hours ago
- Climate
- The Guardian
I've found the cure for a sleepless night in a heatwave – but it can have its drawbacks …
Here's a tip for keeping cool overnight as the world heats up. It's a tip you shouldn't take unless you're more competent than I am in practical matters. While this is a low bar, admittedly, it's a health warning I need to share. My mum's place in Croatia is very old. Its walls are a metre thick. When she wanted a door knocked through one of them, the noise was tremendous. The dust and debris rose in what might have been mistaken for a mushroom cloud. There may have been dynamite involved. Having walls this thick is reassuring – any calamity serious enough to bring them down wouldn't be worth surviving anyway. An issue with walls this thick is that, when they get cold, they stay cold, long after the outside temperature is cracking the flags and fraying nerves. For the first half of summer this is good – natural cooling. For the second half of the summer, less so. The house becomes hot, perhaps hotter than it is outside. And it stays hot. A few summers ago, for my mum's 80th birthday, my family were there in numbers, and I was banished to sleep in the smallest, hottest room in the roof of the house. I didn't dare enter it until well after midnight, but I might as well have waited until Christmas for it to cool down. It was like a bloody tandoor in there. The one little fan I had sweeping my sweaty body like a dim searchlight had no impact. Someone suggested I put some ice in a bowl beneath the fan. It helped a bit, but not much. On the second night, I went big on the ice – very big. I found the biggest, deepest oven tray I could fit in the freezer, filled it with water, and left it there all day. Come bedtime, I hauled this iceberg of mine up the stairs and balanced it on a chair just below the fan. It started to crack alarmingly, like a glacier in the spring, but the air was soon deliciously cool and I fell into the deepest, smuggest sleep. It was a slumber so deep that, when I awoke in the dark hour before dawn in need of a wee, I quite forget where I was, stumbled, fell and upended the tray, soaking the bed and floor, and permanently breaking the fan. But God, it was good while it lasted. Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist
