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Chelsea have signed England left-back Ben Chilwell from Leicester on a five-year deal for an undisclosed fee. Chilwell is Chelsea’s third addition of the summer after the arrivals of winger Hakim Ziyech, 27, from Ajax and striker Timo Werner, 24, from RB Leipzig. The defender, 23, is a Leicester academy product who made his debut for the club in 2015, ...

Powerful Hurricane Laura battered the Louisiana coastline Thursday morning after sweeping ashore as the region’s strongest storm in over a century. If you’re just reading in now, here are the latest developments on the storm: Downgraded: Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4 storm, but it has since weakened to a Category 2. It still has winds of 110 ...

French and Manchester United midfielder, Paul Pogba, has contracted coronavirus. France coach, Didier Deschamps, made this known to the press. Pogba was part of the France world cup winning team in Russia in 2018. Aged 27, the Guinean-origin midfielder will be self-isolating for 14 days. As a result, he is expected to miss France’s Nations League game in Sweden on ...

Jeff Bezos was already the world’s richest man. Now his net worth has skyrocketed once again, setting another new record. On Wednesday, the Amazon CEO’s wealth reached an estimated $202 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the company’s shares soared. That’s up about $87 billion since January. The explosive growth in Bezos’ fortune is being driven by his ...

A former president of the Liga giants has blasted the current regime for their apparent handling of Luis Suarez and their talismanic club captain Former Barcelona president Joan Laporta has hit out at the “incompetents” currently controlling the club, with Josep Maria Bartomeu accused of disrespecting Luis Suarez and looking to sell Lionel Messi. Chaos on and off the field ...

The Gunners are set to confirm the arrival of the Brazilian defender from Lille as Mikel Arteta further bolsters his squad ahead of the new campaign While Arsenal fans excitedly wait to hear of confirmation that Gabriel Magalhaes has completed his transfer to north London, there will be some with close connections to the Emirates Stadium who will have somewhat ...

There have been clashes for a second night in Wisconsin, with buildings and cars set alight, following the police shooting of a black man on Sunday. Jacob Blake, 29, is in a stable condition after he was shot several times as he went to a car and opened its door in the city of Kenosha. Governor Tony Evers has called ...

The trial of Manchester United captain Harry Maguire is set to begin on the Greek island of Syros on Tuesday morning. He will be represented by Alexis Anagnostakis, one of Greece’s top human rights lawyers. The 27-year-old was released from police custody on Saturday following his arrest on the island of Mykonos on Thursday after an alleged altercation with police ...

South Africa’s students in all grades resume classes on Monday after weeks of closure because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Final-year students had resumed classes earlier to prepare for examinations. President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the schools in July after they were briefly reopened following a public outcry on rising virus cases. Monday’s resumption of classes comes as the country registers a decline in ...

Bayern Munich overcame Paris St-Germain in a tightly contested Champions League final in Lisbon to claim the crown for the sixth time. Kingsley Coman, who started his career at PSG, settled a tense affair with a 59th-minute header at the far post from Joshua Kimmich’s cross to leave the French giants still searching for that elusive Champions League triumph. It ...