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Three England players scored their first international goals to give Gareth Southgate’s experimental team a comfortable 3-0 win over Wales in a friendly at Wembley Stadium on Thursday. In-form Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin netted in the 26th minute before second-half goals from Conor Coady and Danny Ings secured the win in the warm-up game for Nations League matches against Belgium and Denmark. It was the first time three players have scored their first England goals in the same game since June 1963 against Switzerland. Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish, making his first start for his country, set up on the opener…

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the oldest men ever to run for president of the United States.  Especially given President Trump’s recent COVID infection, and the former vice president’s frequent mental lapses, voters should be paying close attention to their running mates. They had an opportunity to do just that during the first and only vice presidential debate, held in Salt Lake City, when Vice President Mike Pence squared off against Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Joe Biden’s second-in-command. After the raucous and disappointing head-to-head between Trump and Biden a week earlier, the V.P. contest came off as infinitely more civilized, but at times equally frustrating…

Portugal had to settle for a 0-0 draw at home to Spain in a heavyweight friendly on Wednesday after hammering the crossbar twice and missing a last-gasp open goal. Cristiano Ronaldo, who hit a hat-trick when the two sides met in a thrilling 2018 World Cup group stage game, almost gave the European champions the lead when he sent a shot crashing against the underside of the bar early in the second half. Midfielder Renato Sanches went even closer moments later with a first-time shot at goal. He also hit the bottom of the bar before running away to celebrate,…

Web Summit, Europe’s biggest technology conference, will be held entirely online in December due to the coronavirus outbreak, which has forced the cancellation or postponement of many major events this year, its organiser said on Thursday. “Lisbon is still Web Summit’s home but with growing COVID-19 outbreaks across Europe, we have to think of what’s best for the people of Portugal and our attendees,” the conference’s founder Paddy Cosgrave said in a statement. The decision, which came after the organizer said in June the event would take place in Lisbon as planned, followed talks with the Portuguese government and Lisbon’s…

Does a cancelled gym membership spell financial disaster? That is the type of question British banks are asking as they try to work out whether borrowers owing some 75 billion pounds in home loans will be good for it when a payment holiday, introduced when the coronavirus crisis first hit, ends. Lenders are scouring current account transactions, credit card spending and trends in Internet searches for clues about customer finances as part of a wider effort to understand the damage to their portfolios from the pandemic. The once-in-a-lifetime mix of economic shutdowns, unprecedented government support and an uncertain path to…

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said he believed Britain and the European Union should be able to reach a trade deal, and that he did not expect the new wave of coronavirus cases to be as damaging as the first. “I do think it is in the interests of both sides – let’s be blunt – to get an agreement,” he said in an interview with the Yorkshire Post newspaper published on Thursday. “I’m surprised that the EU wants to restrict where their citizens can do business. We will certainly keep our markets open to the world,” he added.…

President Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, announced Tuesday afternoon the president “reports no symptoms” of the novel coronavirus after doctors discharged Trump from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center the previous evening. Meanwhile, White House Physician Jesse Schonau said that Vice President Pence continues to test negative for the virus and “does not need to quarantine.” The positive health prognoses for the president and vice president come less than a month before Election Day and on the eve of the vice presidential debate scheduled for Wednesday night in Salt Lake City, Utah. “This morning the President’s team of physicians met…

Britain’s NatWest Group NWG.L has kicked off a campaign encouraging customers to dump the discredited Libor lending rate, as the coronavirus pandemic slows the pace at which borrowers are shifting to alternatives. The lender is writing to 3,500 companies to explain how delays in switching could increase the volatility of their borrowing costs and how to choose the most suitable new benchmark before Libor disappears at the end of 2021. The campaign coincides with the banking sector’s third quarter deadline on offering alternative risk-free rates on new loans, and comes six months before new lending referencing Libor is banned. Authorities decided to…

Claycourt master Rafa Nadal passed his first real test of this year’s French Open with a 7-6(4) 6-4 6-1 victory against Italian rising star Jannik Sinner as his quest for a record-breaking 13th title gathered momentum on Tuesday. The Spaniard, also looking to match Roger Federer’s record of 20 Grand Slam men’s singles titles, was stretched by the 19-year-old Sinner as he set up a clash with Argentine Diego Schwartzman, who beat him in the Italian Open quarter-finals last month. The 34-year-old Nadal’s 97 previous victories at Roland Garros made the difference in key moments with the Spaniard rallying from…

Barclays BARC.L plans to enter four new European private banking markets in 2021, its regional manager for the business told Reuters. Gerald Mathieu, who in September became Barclays’ private banking head for Europe outside Britain, said the British bank was looking to start up the business in France, Italy, Spain and Germany next year. “These are the countries where we see a lot of opportunities, also because we have a very strong footprint of corporate and investment banking locally,” Mathieu said in an interview. “The idea is to have a capital-light approach and work in very close collaboration with the investment bank…