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Kane snatches draw for Spurs at Chelsea as clashing Conte and Tuchel see red.

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  Kane snatches draw for Spurs at Chelsea as clashing Conte and Tuchel see red. For connoisseurs of football managers’ handshakes, this was the reward for those hours of dedication. For everyone else it was the inevitable conclusion to an afternoon that had hit boiling point during a second half of twists, turns and raw vitriol. Spurs had just rescued an undeserved draw through Harry Kane’s deflected header and there was scant chance, given what had passed, that Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte would part ways with smiles and invitations for a post-match beer. But the sight of the pair clashing for a second time after the final whistle, eyes bulging and throats bawling, was astonishing by any measure and will keep the FA’s disciplinarians fully occupied in the early part of this week. Antonio Conte of Tottenham and Thomas Tuchel of Chelsea had to be pulled apart after their handshake led to this confrontation. Engrossing spectacle ends with Tuchel’s and Conte’s handshake war Read mo...

At least 41 people killed in Egypt church fire, say officials

  At least 41 people killed in Egypt church fire, say officials. Security sources say majority of dead are children after blaze breaks out at Coptic Abu Sifin church in Giza. A fire sparked by an electrical fault at a packed church in a working-class district of Greater Cairo has killed at least 41 people and injured another 45, Egyptian officials have said. About 5,000 people had gathered at the Coptic Abu Sifin church in Imbaba, Giza, for Sunday morning services, when a fire broke out just before 9am local time (7am BST). Advertisement Flames and smoke blocked an entrance to the church, causing a crowd crush, security sources told Reuters, adding that most of those killed were children. Some people jumped from higher floors in an attempt to escape, witnesses said. “People were gathering on the third and fourth floor, and we saw smoke coming from the second floor,” said Yasir Munir, a worshipper on the ground floor who managed to escape with his daughter. “People rushed to go down...