A stage-by-stage process of negotiations between the mainland and Taiwan has already begun silently with the recent and ...

Ireland showed character to deny former coach Joe Schmidt a winning return to Lansdowne Road on Saturday by edging Australia 22-19 in a scrappy encounter in their one-off rugby Test.

Justin Kluivert scored the first ever Premier League hat-trick of penalties as Bournemouth won 4-2 at Wolves on Saturday and Kevin Schade also scored three in Brentford's 4-1 victory over Leicester.

Patrik Schick scored the winner as Bayer Leverkusen edged Union Berlin 2-1 on Saturday to keep Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich in sight, while RB Leipzig lost heavily again.