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ROMELU LUKAKU insists he is more interested in trophies than goals after moving into double figures in just nine games for Manchester United. Lukaku struck twice as United swept aside CSKA Moscow here last night to take an early control of their Champions League group. Anthony Martial with a penalty and Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored the other goals as United made ...

Carlo Ancelotti has been sacked as manager of Bayern Munich. Following Wednesday’s 3-0 Champions League defeat by Paris St-Germain, the club’s board decided to dismiss the Italian, who replaced Pep Guardiola at the start of last season. Ancelotti, 58, helped Bayern win the Bundesliga last term, but they only reached the last eight of the Champions League and the semi-finals ...

ANTONIO CONTE hailed his team for keeping their heads in the white heat of Madrid last night as they came from behind to register a famous Champions League win Chelsea produced one of their greatest ever European performances last night, as they became the first English team ever to beat Atletico at home. They had fallen behind when David Luiz ...

Hugh Hefner, American founder of the international adult magazine Playboy, has died at the age of 91. Playboy Enterprises Inc said he passed away peacefully at home in Los Angeles, from natural causes. Hefner began publishing Playboy in his kitchen in 1953. It became the largest-selling men’s magazine in the world, shifting seven million copies a month at its peak. ...

Ghana’s U-17 side, the Black Starlets as part of preparations in their Dubai walloped their Africa counterparts Guinea by 6-1 ahead of the World Cup which kicks starts next week. In-form Manchester City attacker Aminu Mohammed grabbed a sensational hat trick in full time, with Sadiq Ibrahim getting a brace and Emmanuel Toku finishing the dosage. Paa Kwesi Fabin’s side, ...

DIEGO COSTA is poised to come face to face with Antonio Conte tonight for the first time since the Italian told him he was not wanted at Chelsea. Costa wants to meet with Antonio Conte for the first time since the text message that ended his Chelsea career by saying his goodbyes in the tunnel of the Wanda Metropolitano stadium ...

Diego Costa thanked Chelsea for three “remarkable” and unforgettable years as he bid farewell to the Premier League champions. Costa, 28, will return to Atletico Madrid in January after his move from Chelsea was finalised on Tuesday. The Spain striker leaves Chelsea in a deal worth a reported €60 million after three campaigns, two of which ended with the league ...

SENIOR Labour figures have issued a swift apology after an MP launched a bizarre attack on Prince Harry at a fringe meeting of they party’s Brighton conference. Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad reportedly questioned Harry’s ability to fly a helicopter at a meeting called Reigning in the Monarchy. But John Woodcock, MP for Barrow & Furness and former chairman of ...

Jose Mourinho has been speaking in Moscow ahead of Manchester United’s UEFA Champions League clash with CSKA Moscow on Wednesday. The Man United boss has had a positive start to the new season with seven wins from nine games in all competitions as his side are second in the Premier League table only on goal difference. That said, injuries are ...

An Egyptian woman once believed to be the world’s heaviest has died in the United Arab Emirates. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty had travelled to India earlier this year for bariatric weight loss surgery. Local media reported that she had lost more than 300kg (660lb) of her 500kg but had died from complications from other health conditions. A hospital statement ...