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Argentina are through to the knockout stages of the World Cup following their 2-1 win over Nigeria. Problems remain but one may have been solved thanks to the impressive impact of Ever Banega and his link-up play with Lionel Messi,…
We round up Tuesday’s talking points from Russia as Argentina left it late to qualify for the last 16, joining France, Denmark and Croatia. Each day during the tournament, we will be pulling together all the big stories and best…
On Tuesday, Emin Agalarov, the aspiring international-pop-star son of an Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire, released a music video that is, for now, the most perfect art piece of the age of Trump. It is a commentary on the anger and confusion that…
In 2011, the poet Donald Hall—who passed away at his home in rural New Hampshire, on Saturday, at age eighty-nine—received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama, the highest award granted to an artist by the American government. For…
At eighty-seven, I am solitary. I live by myself on one floor of the 1803 farmhouse where my family has lived since the Civil War. After my grandfather died, my grandmother Kate lived here alone. Her three daughters visited her.…
Eamon Dunphy has criticised Roy Keane’s coaching and punditry skills. Speaking on 2FM’s Game On, Dunphy said Keane is assistant coach of a team that “plays the worst football” in the world. “Ireland are not playing the same game as…
