On Tuesday, Di Francesco’s Giallorossi defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 to advance via the away goals rule following a 2-1 first-leg defeat in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Montella’s Sevilla stunned Manchester United at Old Trafford as Wissam Ben Yedder came off the bench to strike twice in quick succession and send his side into the quarter-finals of Europe’s premier competition for the first time in 60 years thanks to a 2-1 aggregate success....

So much so that Mayor Denis Coderre will meet with Rob Manfred on May 28 in hopes of convincing the MLB commissioner his city is worth another look. MLB DRAFT 2015: Mock draft “We will show Mr. Manfred our love for the sport. I don’t want to negotiate openly, but we’ll clearly talk about Montreal,” Coderre told Canadian Press (via CBC). The Expos left Montreal after the 2004 season, moving to Washington....

In Thursday’s predawn sky, the moon will pass 3.5 degrees below and to the left of the Red Planet, space.com reported. You can see this encounter low to the east-southeast horizon. “Thursday morning, April 16, the waning crescent moon will appear below the planet Mars, with the planets Saturn and Jupiter to the right. The moon will be the last to rise in the east-southeast (at 3:42 a.m. ET for the Washington, D....

It is not the easiest of task to replace a coach who won the double in the previous year and that is the arduous task that Benjamin Mora will have to handle. As Mario Gomez was dismissed having led Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) to the Super League and FA Cup triumphs last year, the responsibility on the hands of Mora is a heavy one. In the league match against Perak on Saturday, Mora saw his team suffer their first domestic defeat and the heat is turning up on the Mexican....

At the start of the 2017 season, Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) decided that it was time to say goodbye to Mario Gomez - the coach that has brought to the team Super League titles, FA Cup triumph as well as the magnificent AFC Cup trophy in recent year. Benjamin Mora was promoted from Johor Darul Ta’zim II (JDTII) to take over the hot seat as JDT look to run things a little differently from before....

Costa is currently training alone in Brazil having been told by Blues boss Antonio Conte that he was no longer needed in west London. Chelsea 15/4 to win the Premier League The relationship between player and manager disintegrated following the break down of Costa’s £76 million move to the Chinese Super League club Tianjin Quanjian in January, Costa is yet to find a new club, though is believed to have agreed a deal in principle to return to La Liga outfit Atletico Madrid where the forward spent three seasons....

The striker’s fine start to the season has obliterated any doubt over his suitability to succeed Diego Costa at the forefront of Antonio Conte’s side since his £60 million move from Real Madrid. West Ham 9/1 to beat Watford 1-0 After scoring in Chelsea’s previous win over Manchester United, the Spaniard continued that form in Saturday’s clash with West Bromwich Albion. Morata opened the scoring 17 minutes in when he netted the rebound from an Eden Hazard shot before setting the Belgian up later in the first half....

Since the war began on February 24, there has been a major increase globally in the number of people wanting to learn Ukrainian, language-learning app Duolingo reported. Dr. Cindy Blanco, a senior learning scientist for Duolingo, told Newsweek that globally, “the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo increased 577 percent.” “We kind of see this huge increase from the beginning of February to mid-March,” Blanco said. According to Duolingo, the U....

The Gators cornerback stirred up this rivalry with a never-been-heard metaphor to say No. 19 Florida is going to beat No. 14 Tennessee for the 12th straight year. “We have a message from DBU to Tennessee,” Wilson said earlier this week. “Have you ever seen a duck pull a truck? Ducks don’t pull trucks. Nobody has ever seen a duck pull a truck. Florida Gators are going to win, simple as that....

The Mandy Allwood saga is summer fun for the British press, but it embodies one of the thorniest issues in reproductive medicine. Some 20 to 30 percent of the pregnancies achieved through drugs or in vitro fertilization yield more than one fetus. And though a quadruple or quintuple pregnancy can seem like a godsend to an infertile couple, it’s exceedingly risky. The babies are typically born premature (each additional fetus knocks roughly three and a half weeks off the normal 40-week gestation time), and those who survive often suffer handicaps....

A report published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology last month studied nearly 7,000 cancer patients with brain metastases. Along with his team, lead study author Paul W. Sperduto, MD, a board-certified radiation oncologist with Minneapolis Radiation Oncology, developed a diagnosis-specific tool called the Graded Prognostic Assessment (GPA) to determine the expected length of life for patients with cancer that has metastasized to the brain. When they considered all factors assessed by the tool, researchers noted a wide variability in the life expectancy of patients with brain metastases....

CityMD has temporarily closed 26 locations throughout the Empire State. Four of those sites are in the Bronx, two in Westchester, five in Queens, six in Manhattan, four on Long Island and five in Brooklyn. That’s seven more sites closed in one week, as CityMD had announced on December 22 that 19 sites had been temporarily shuttered. The urgent care center noted in its most recent update that most of its locations are operating at full capacity but that some closures were necessary to have adequate staffing at the sites....

Goodell, speaking at a recent Q&A session in Jacksonville, Fla., gave this response to a question about the size of the playoff field: MORE: NFL resolutions | NFL’s Thursday Night Twitter plan deserves Crying Jordan “It’s a tough one. And the reason I say that is it works so well right now. We have 12 teams that qualify for the playoffs and what it does is it’s not just the number of teams in the playoffs, it’s what it does to our regular season....

Though distant, that vision is heartening. Coal, the mineral that stoked the Industrial Revolution back in the 19th century, remains the most globally abundant fossil fuel, with an estimated 250 years of reserves in forms ranging from translucent black rock to damp brown sludge reminiscent of primordial peat moss. It could power China and India to global economic leadership, replace imported natural gas in the United States and slash Europe’s dependence on foreign oil....

Biden and Democrats aim to pay for their proposed $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” budget reconciliation package through a series of tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations. Although no Republicans back the Democrats’ legislation, many GOP voters appear supportive of many of the package’s key components. A poll conducted by Data for Progress and Invest in America showed that 51 percent of Republicans said they are supportive of tax hikes impacting Americans earning more than $400,000 in income per year....

The findings, reported in a poll Thursday that was commissioned by Data For Progress, a progressive advocacy group, illustrate just how grave the employment situation is for many Americans in the midst of an unprecedented global health crisis. New statistics from the Department of Labor further clarified the picture on Thursday, when it was disclosed that 6.6 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment insurance last week, the second-highest number on record....

“You have skin cancer,” she told me. Within those few minutes of that call, I was diagnosed with dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP). My body felt hot with shame. It had likely been over a year since I had noticed an oddly shaped, raised bruise on my upper torso. I had allowed too much time to pass before going in for a dermatology consult, as advised by my primary care physician....

Biden has secured 290 Electoral College votes, exceeding the 270 requested to win the election, but Trump has declined to concede. In recent days, the president has continued to condemn what he calls the “lamestream media” calling results and launched a series of lawsuits in swing states. As pressure on Trump to acknowledge defeat mounts, the latest Politico/Morning Consult poll, released Tuesday, found that 27 percent of Republican registered voters think the president should refuse to concede “no matter what....

Bush is a believer. He toured clubs during the campaign. He repeatedly urges businesses to support their efforts. He even donated the $75,000 advance from his autobiography, “A Charge to Keep,” to the BGCA and a couple of other worthy youth-service groups “because I believe so strongly in helping children understand that somebody loves them.” Recently he love-bombed Boys and Girls Clubs again with what may be his highest compliment....