Pachuca sink Columbus to win CONCACAF Champions Cup

Mexican side Pachuca won the CONCACAF Champions Cup for a sixth time on Saturday after outclassing Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew 3-0. Veteran striker Salomon Rondon scored twice either side of a Miguel Rodriguez effort to seal a deserved victory at Pachuca's 30,000-capacity Estadio Hidalgo. Columbus entered the final in a confident

VAR drama saves Miami blushes in St. Louis draw

A late VAR intervention saved Lionel Messi and Inter Miami from falling to a second straight home defeat on Saturday as the Eastern Conference leaders battled to a 3-3 draw with St.Louis. Inter, upset at home by Atlanta on Wednesday, appeared to be heading for another costly loss after a 68th-minute

S&P downgrades French credit rating in blow to Macron

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded France's credit score on Friday citing a deterioration in the country's budgetary position, a blow to Emmanuel Macron's government days before EU parliamentary elections. In a statement, the American credit assessor justified its decision to drop France's long-term sovereign debt rating from "AA" to "AA-"

China making youth unemployment a ‘top priority’

At a job fair for soon-to-be graduates in central Shanghai, recruiters sat bored under washed-out tarpaulins as rain and an apparent lack of interest kept potential young employees away. The empty seats belied China's stubbornly high youth unemployment rate – a problem so pressing that President Xi Jinping this week told