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The US Open Tennis Championships, commonly called the US Open, is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year, except for 2020. The other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. The US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day holiday. The tournament is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles and men's doubles were first played in August 1881. It is the only Grand Slam that was not affected by cancellation of World War I and World War II or interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The tournament consists of five primary championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles. The tournament...

  Fifa Women's Football The Swedish team has been traditionally recognized as one of the world's best women's teams and won the  1984 European Competition for Women's Football . Like the equally successful  men's  counterpart, the women's team also became runners-up at a  World Cup  ( 2003 ) and three  European Championships  ( 1987 ,  1995  and  2001 ), as well as participating at six  Olympic Games , eight World Cups and ten European Championships. Sweden also finished third at the  1991 ,  2011  and  2019  World Cups. The 2003 World Cup-final was the only second time Sweden ever reached the final of a FIFA World Cup after the  1958 FIFA World Cup Final , and was the second most watched event in Sweden that year.  Lotta Schelin  is the top goalscorer in the history of Sweden with 85 goals. Schelin surpassed  Hanna Ljungberg 's 72-goal record against  Germany  on 29 Octobe...

  LIVE: Japan vs Sweden – Women’s World Cup 2023 Sweden  hang on to beat Japan 2-1   and set up a Women’s World Cup semi-final clash against Spain. Japan missed a penalty and were denied by the woodwork and Sweden’s goalkeeper   Zecira Musovic   as they tried to mount a late comeback from two goals down.                                                            Attacking Possession 40% 45% 15% in contest Goal Total 1 2 Conceded 2 1 Inside the Penalty Area 1 2 Outside the Penalty Area 0 0 Assists 0

  Five killed in South Africa’s Cape Town amid taxi strike Unrest on the outskirts of Cape Town follows an announcement of a weeklong strike by minibus taxi drivers. Five people have been killed in the South African city of Cape Town as a strike by minibus taxi drivers that began last week turned violent, authorities said on Tuesday. The South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) announced a one-week provincial shutdown last Thursday after failing to resolve various issues with the local government in Cape Town. The grievances arose after a new municipal law gave local authorities the power to impound vehicles for violations such as driving without a licence or registration plates. Sporadic violence erupted in different parts of the city after police began impounding vehicles last week, as angry protesters torched buses and cars, and pelted the police with stones. Among the dead was a 40-year-old British national who was shot and killed on Thursday, South African Polic...

  Mushroom poisoning death: Ex-husband pulled out of Victoria death cap lunch 'at the last minute' - after just recovering from mystery illness Four people poisoned at a family lunch in Leongatha Three have since died while the fourth is critical Daughter-in-law of one couple is person of interest Her ex-husband missed killer lunch                                                                                                                        The ex-husband of a woman who hosted a poisonous lunch where four people fell ill - three of whom have since died - had been invited to the deadly get-together.  Sources have told Daily Mail Australia that Erin Patterson, 48, in...