Rugby league-Welsh player dies after cardiac arrest at match

Welsh rugby league player Danny Jones died on Sunday after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during an English third-tier match. The Keighley Cougars player, 29, collapsed after being replaced early in the game and was treated by the match doctor and paramedics at the ground before being taken to hospital, where he later passed away. Rugby Football League Chief Operating Officer Ralph Rimmer said in a statement: “It is always devastating when someone so young dies in these circumstances. “Danny was a popular and talented Rugby League player, having played at the highest level with the Wales National team and playing over 12 seasons for Keighley Cougars and Halifax.” The match was abandoned after 16 minutes.
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Soccer-Mourinho joy tempered by father’s illness

Jose Mourinho said the build-up to Chelsea’s title-clinching victory over Crystal Palace had been overshadowed by his father’s health problems back in Portugal. The Chelsea boss was in a sober mood after a 1-0 win sealed his third Premier League title with the London club, having been preoccupied with his father Jose’s health. “When the game finished at Leicester (on Wednesday) I immediately went to Portugal, I was there with him at the most difficult moment, the surgery,” Mourinho told reporters. He’s strong and is getting better and better so I’m much more relaxed.” Mourinho also said that midfielder Ramires had been taken to hospital before the game.
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Pope tells elderly and sick he, too, is old and ailing

Pope Francis celebrates a mass during his pastoral visit to the Church of S. Maria Regina Pacis in OstiaPope Francis on Sunday asked a group of elderly and sick members of Rome's seaside parish to pray for him because he, too, had grown old and was ailing. "Pray for me, too, eh," Francis told the parishioners in a private meeting that was later broadcast by Catholic channel TV2000. The comment comes two months after Francis said in an interview with a Mexican broadcaster: "I have the feeling that my pontificate will be brief – four or five years, even two or three. Benedict, now known as Pope Emeritus, became the first head of the Roman Catholic Church in 600 years to resign instead of ruling until he died, and Francis has said Benedict's move should not be considered "an exception, but an institution".

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