PARIS - New International Cycling Union (UCI) president David Lappartient told AFP on Thursday that he would support a salary cap as the sport looks at ways of improving competitiveness and avoiding the sort of dominance that Team Sky has enjoyed in recent years.
ARLINGTON, Texas - Philip Rivers was more than comfortable on the Thanksgiving stage for the first time in his 14 NFL seasons.
PARIS - Arsene Wenger's Arsenal secured top spot in Europa League Group H on Thursday despite slumping to a 1-0 defeat at Cologne, while AC Milan reached the last 32 by thrashing Austria Vienna.
MILAN - An Italian court sentenced former AC Milan and Brazil forward Robinho in absentia to nine years in prison on Thursday after convicting him of taking part in a gang rape of an Albanian woman in 2013.
LONDON - Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino on Thursday played down talk of a rift between himself and fullback Danny Rose after the England international was left out of last week's north London derby against Arsenal.
The central government is planning to set up a special fund of up to 100 billion yuan ($15.19 billion) to accelerate mixed-ownership reform by the first half of next year, China Securities Journal reported on Thursday.
Zhima Credit, the online credit scoring service of e-commerce giant Alibaba, said on Wednesday that it would invest 1 billion yuan ($151 million) to eliminate security deposits in the sharing economy.
United Overseas Bank (China) Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore-based UOB, opened a branch in Kunming, Yunnan province, on Thursday in an effort to help Chinese companies expanding into Southeast Asia.
The Canadian province of British Columbia made its second yuan-denominated bond issue of 1 billion yuan ($151 million) in the Chinese market on Wednesday, supporting the development of the domestic interbank market while anticipating a further opening of the financial sector.
China's soon-to-be launched national emissions trading system will help the country achieve its carbon emission goals earlier than 2030, but it may take some time for the system to become "fully functional".
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