LONDON, Dec 24 — Liverpool manager Arne Slot blamed the team’s poor set-piece record for harming their top-four hopes, with the champions sitting just behind Chelsea on goal difference.

NANCHANG (China), Dec 24 — Eight people, including the driver, died after their vehicle plunged into a pond in Pengze County, Jiangxi Province, Xinhua reported Wednesday, citing local police.

MOSCOW, Dec 24 — A bomb in Moscow killed three people, including two police officers, after they approached a suspicious man near the site where a senior Russian general was assassinated two days ago, an attack Russia blames on Ukrainian intelligence.

BANGKOK, Dec 16 — Malaysia’s Megan Ding Min Ern claimed gold in the individual dressage event at the SEA Games Thailand 2025 in Chonburi today.

MANILA, Dec 16 — The father and son accused of Australia’s deadly Bondi Beach shooting spent almost all of November in the Philippines, authorities confirmed, with the father entering the country as an “Indian national.”

TOKYO, Dec 16 — Japan has lifted a rare megaquake advisory a week after a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck off its northern coast, the weather agency said.