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There are some teams who come to the Bernabeu and suffer the kind of defeat that makes them reassess just what they thought they were, but Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur players can say, at the very least, that they fought the greatest side in European football and lived to tell the tale. At times it …

All Hallows’ Eve isn’t for a few more days, but the Halloween celebration starts in earnest now. But it’s not all ghouls and goblins and slutty pumpkins in Milwaukee this weekend. An eclectic ensemble takes the stage at Uihlein Hall in the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St., for “The Arts Bridge …

LAS VEGAS  — The Latest on the shooting in Las Vegas (all times local): 7:15 p.m. Investigators have updated the number of firearms they found in the hotel room and home of the Las Vegas shooter. Assistant Clark County Sheriff Todd Fasulo says officers have found 23 firearms in the Mandalay Bay hotel room of …

Bayern Munich striker Lewandowski struck his 16th goal of the qualifying campaign as Poland recovered from throwing away a two-goal lead in Warsaw to secure a first trip to the World Cup finals since 2006. Montenegro’s Zarko Tomasevic (left) and Poland’s Robert Lewandowski jump for a header during their World Cup Group E qualifying football …

German finance policy According to IMF figures, global growth is picking up. Yet so are the risks to the banking system and financial markets, and now even Germany has become a source of uncertainty as it struggles to form a new government. Published on October 12, 2017 12:37 pm Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s notoriously frugal finance …

Fullback Billy Slater and backrower Felise Kaufusi are among seven players from the NRL premiership-winning Melbourne Storm selected in Mal Meninga’s Australia squad for the Rugby League World Cup. Kaufusi was one of six rookies confirmed on Tuesday in the 24-man squad for the tournament, which will be played in Australia, New Zealand and Papua …

From the moment he burst onto the scene as a precocious teenager, Sam Burgess has always been one to watch. Whether that has been smashing Fuifioi Moimoi for Great Britain in 2007, rampaging through Australia two years later or leading South Sydney to an iconic Grand Final win with a shattered cheekbone in 2014, Burgess …

Football has become a multi-billion-pound business in recent decades – and European leagues’ popularity in emerging markets means there’s more to come, says Matthew Partridge. Twenty-five years ago British football was transformed by the decision of the clubs in the first division of the Football League to rebrand as the FA Premier League and strike …

Wielding a fresh Bachelor’s degree in physics, a 22-year-old woman walked into NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977 and interviewed for a job. Staff looked over her resume and offered the young woman a choice. Would she like to join an existing mission at Mars, called Viking — or a brand-new mission called Voyager? “Well, …

In the spring of 1960, just after he turned 16, Chuck Stout went to work as a “garbage boy” at a McDonald’s in Toledo, Ohio. For 85 cents an hour, he swept and mopped the floors, kept the drive-in lot tidy, filled the shake machine, and washed dishes. Chuck loved the job. It was an …