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Lens condemn racist abuse of Saint-Maximin after player’s children targeted in Mexico

  • Winger suffers online racism on return to France

  • Abuse of Frenchman’s family led him to leave Mexico

Lens have condemned the racist abuse aimed at new signing Allan Saint-Maximin after a previous racist incident involving the former Newcastle winger’s children ended his career in Mexico’s top flight.

Saint-Maximin joined Lens on a six-month deal during the winter transfer window. He left Mexican side Club América, saying his children were the victims of racist abuse there.

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© Photograph: Eloisa Sanchez/Reuters

© Photograph: Eloisa Sanchez/Reuters

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Virginia man having affair with au pair found guilty of murdering wife and another man

Prosecutors say other man was lured to Brendan Banfield’s house as a fall guy in scheme to get rid of Banfield’s wife

A Virginia man having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair was found guilty Monday of murdering his wife and another man that prosecutors say was lured to the house as a fall guy.

Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, told police he came across Joseph Ryan attacking his wife, Christine Banfield, with a knife on the morning of 24 February 2023. He shot Ryan and then Juliana Magalhães, the au pair, shot him, too.

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© Photograph: Tom Brenner/AP

© Photograph: Tom Brenner/AP

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Justin Rose notches first wire-to-wire Torrey Pines win in 71 years with apology to Tiger Woods

  • Rose wins Farmers Insurance Open with 72-hole record

  • 265 total pips Woods’ 1999 mark by one shot

Justin Rose became the first wire-to-wire winner at Torrey Pines in 71 years, starting with a six-shot lead and never letting anyone get any closer to him Sunday as he closed with a 2-under 70 to win the Farmers Insurance Open.

Rose opened with a 62 on the North course at Torrey Pines and really never let up all week, playing even better on the South course that has hosted two US Opens. He wound up breaking the 72-hole tournament record at 23-under 265, one better than Tiger Woods in 1999. George Burns also shot 266 in 1987.

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© Photograph: Denis Poroy/AP

© Photograph: Denis Poroy/AP

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Australian snowboarder dies in ski lift accident in Japan after her backpack was caught

Woman, 22, thought to have suffered a cardiac arrest after being dragged along the snow and suspended mid-air

An Australian woman has died after a ski lift accident in a Japanese resort after her backpack got caught and she was left hanging mid-air.

The 22-year-old snowboarder sustained critical injuries at the Tsugaike ski resort in Otari near Nagano on Friday.

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© Photograph: Whitcombe-Japan/Alamy

© Photograph: Whitcombe-Japan/Alamy

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Australia fall to worst T20 defeat in final World Cup warmup in Pakistan

  • Mitch Marsh’s team spun to record-breaking 111-run loss in Lahore

  • Usman Tariq hits back at Cameron Green over throwing allegation

Australia have been handed the worst possible conclusion to their World Cup warmup, suffering their heaviest T20 international defeat in a third successive morale-sapping capitulation to Pakistan.

Still wounded from a 90-run defeat 24 hours earlier at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium – their worst loss to Pakistan – it only got even more dire for Mitch Marsh’s side on Sunday as they were spun to a record-breaking 111-run loss on the same ground.

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© Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images

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Democrat flips reliably red Texas district in victory that stuns Republican party

Taylor Rehmet’s win adds to Democrats’ record of overperforming in special elections so far this cycle

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that Donald Trump won by 17 points when he clinched a second presidency in 2024.

Rehmet, a labor union leader and veteran, easily defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist, in the Fort Worth-area district. With almost all votes counted, Rehmet had a comfortable lead of more than 14 percentage points.

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© Photograph: Facebook/Taylor Rehmet For Texas

© Photograph: Facebook/Taylor Rehmet For Texas

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More than 120 dead after multiple suicide and gun attacks in Pakistan, officials say

Military says ‘terrorists’ carried out attacks in Balochistan province in what analysts described it as the deadliest day for militants in decades

Pakistan’s military said on Saturday that multiple suicide and gun attacks by “terrorists” across the restive south-western province of Balochistan killed 33 people, including civilians, while security forces responding to the violence killed 92 assailants.

Analysts described it as the deadliest single day for militants in decades.

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© Photograph: Adnan Ahmed/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Adnan Ahmed/AFP/Getty Images

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Woeful Australia sent spinning by Pakistan in T20 World Cup warm-up

  • Pakistan 198-5; Australia 108 (15.4 overs) | Pakistan win by 90 runs

  • Australia lose series with 11 days to go before T20 World Cup begins

World Cup-bound Australia have been given a hiding in Lahore, bamboozled by Pakistan’s spinners as they crumbled to a 90-run defeat and a T20I series capitulation.

Just hours after their squad for the World Cup in India and Sri Lanka was announced, Mitch Marsh’s side, featuring nine World Cup players and looking desperately in need of their absent big guns, simply could not cope with the hosts’ five-pronged spin attack on Saturday.

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© Photograph: Rahat Dar/EPA

© Photograph: Rahat Dar/EPA

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Germany rule out World Cup boycott despite calls to send Trump a message

  • DFB rejects plea to make stand against US

  • ‘Our goal is to strengthen this force – not to prevent it’

Germany’s football federation, the DFB, has ruled out a boycott of the World Cup despite calls to send a message to Donald Trump. “We believe in the unifying power of sport and the global impact that a Fifa World Cup can have,” the DFB said. “Our goal is to strengthen this positive force – not to prevent it.”

The federation said its executive committee met and discussed the option of a boycott of this summer’s tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico, a consideration first proposed last week by the DFB vice-president, Oke Göttlich.

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© Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

© Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

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Lindsey Vonn misses final super-G before Winter Olympics after downhill crash

  • American still preparing for Milano Cortina Games

  • ‘Thank you for the love and support I have received’

Lindsey Vonn sat out a World Cup super-G race on Saturday after crashing and injuring her left knee a day earlier, but remains on track for the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, her coach said.

“No, she is not racing today but preparing for Cortina as usual,” Chris Knight, Vonn’s personal head coach, said in a text message. Vonn then posted on Instagram: “Unfortunately, I won’t be able to race today. Thank you for all of the love and support I have received. Means the world to me. Doing my best right now …”

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© Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

© Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

© Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

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