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CHELSEA are set to complete the signing of Juventus defender Daniele Rugani. The 23-year-old will become Maurizio Sarri’s second summer signing, with the defender following Napoli midfielder Jorginho to Stamford Bridge. The London Evening Standard say Rugani will pen a five-year contract worth £77,000-a-week. Chelsea are forking out around £44m for the Italy international, who impressed last season for Juve ...

CHELSEA star Willian is desperate to quit Stamford Bridge this summer. The Brazil international has been heavily linked with a move away from the Blues in recent weeks. Barcelona and Manchester United are chasing the 29-year-old winger. The Spanish giants have tabled two bids for Willian, while Jose Mourinho is a long-term admirer of the forward, who he tried to ...

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LIVERPOOL are reportedly closing in on a deal for Alisson Becker after agreeing a £66.8m fee with Roma. Jurgen Klopp wants to install the Brazil international as his new No 1 after Loris Karius and Simon Mignolet failed to convince in the role. And The Times report Liverpool chiefs are following his wishes by pushing ahead with a move to ...

Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a breeding farm, an official said on Monday. Photographs released by Antara News Agency showed bloodied carcasses of the crocodiles in a large pile in the Sorong district of the Eastern Indonesian Province of West Papua. ...

LIVERPOOL have made a world-record £62million bid for Roma keeper Alisson. The Reds remained locked in talks with the Serie A side last night as they look to make the Brazil No1 the most expensive shot stopper on the planet. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp sees Alisson as the ideal replacement for Loris Karius after the German goalkeeper’s Champions League final ...

Kenya will use Alphabet Inc’s system of balloons to beam high-speed Internet access in hopes of connecting more of its rural population to the web, its ICT minister said. Known as Project Loon, the technology was developed by Alphabet’s X, the company’s innovation lab. It was used by U.S. telecom operators to provide connectivity to more than 250,000 people in Puerto Rico ...

Iceland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson stepped down on Tuesday, a few weeks after leading the tiny nation at its first World Cup. “If I had to continue, I would have done it with the same preparation, the same motivation but at some point, this kind of routine can lead to a certain weariness,” he told a press conference in Reykjavik. The ...

Google has secured several of the UK’s largest recruitment services for a local version of its jobs-hunting tool. Reed, Guardian Jobs, Haymarket and Totaljobs.com are among those providing listings, in addition to global sites such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor. The facility automatically shows the “freshest and most relevant” openings based on a user’s location when they type relevant terms into Google ...

Sophia, the famous humanoid robot, has finally met Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, after her lost body parts were found. A bag containing some parts of the robot was lost at Frankfurt airport last week, leading to the cancellation of a press conference scheduled to take place on Friday at the Ethiopian National Museum and dinner with Abiy on the same day. ...