Denmark captain Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, also an ex-Tottenham midfieder, told Danish broadcaster TV2: "There's a throw-in, and then I go out to the side. I turn around a bit, and I see Christian on his way to the floor, and we know a little about how he reacts, what that means.
"[Everyone] reacted super-fast and with respect. I can only compliment how much courage those who took care of Christian on the field had.
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Orhan Cicek/Anadolu via Getty Images When Iran qualified for the World Cup on 25 March 2025, few could have imagined the challenges that lay ahead.
More than a year later, Iran's participation has become one of the most complex stories of the tournament - scheduled to play at a host nation whose joint-military strikes with Israel killed Iran's supreme leader and sparked
Reuters Israel has hit southern Beirut in the first attack on the Lebanese capital since a truce brokered by the US last week.
Two air strikes on two apartment buildings in a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah killed two people and injured at least 17, Lebanon's state news agency said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had struck "terrorist headquarters in the Dahieh district of Beirut, in response to Hezbollah's firing at Israeli territory". Hezbollah has
It's a tradition repeated in stadiums across the world, with crowds of spectators rising up in a rippling roar.
The largest wave so far, according to Guinness World Records, was at a Nascar racing event in the American state of Tennessee in 2008, when 157,574 people joined a wave that swept around the stadium.
Now, as part of the countdown to the World Cup, Mexico City is attempting to surpass that mark.
The
Reuters One person has been killed and five others wounded after a man in a car opened fire at several locations in Israel, authorities say.
Israel's emergency service organisation Magen David Adom (MDA) said a man aged about 35 had died of gunshot wounds. Two of those injured were in a serious condition and three were in a moderate condition "with penetrating injuries to their bodies", MDA said.
The alleged attacker
@HQNigerianArmy At least 360 people kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists from a mainly Muslim community in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state in March have been freed from a remote mountain hideout.
The circumstances of how they were freed are disputed. The army says it had launched an unprecedented intelligence-led operation that had been weeks in the planning and taken the Islamist militants by surprise.
But a local group,
AFP via Getty Images Iran's Fifa World Cup 2026 football team have landed in Mexico amid an ongoing row over visas and access to the stadiums in the US where they are to play.
All three of Iran's group games are in the US, but the players and support staff have been told they have to fly in and out of the country on match day
Getty Images UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will host Volodymyr Zelensky in Downing Street later on Sunday, alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, for talks on European support for Ukraine.
Ahead of the meeting, Kyiv officials said a Russian drone had hit a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near the Chornobyl nuclear plant in the north of Ukraine.
They said a fire
EPA/Shutterstock More than a million people lined the streets of Madrid on Sunday as Pope Leo XIV held an open-air mass in the Spanish capital, the Vatican said.
Crowds descended on the city as the pontiff arrived for the service on the second day of his official visit to the country at the Plaza de Cibeles, with King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia among the congregants.
The Pope