WORLD

GARY CAHILL has accused his Chelsea team-mates of lacking focus after they were beaten 3-0 by Newcastle. With a top-four finish still possible, Chelsea produced an abject display as Dwight Gayle and a brace from Ayoze Perez consigned the Blues to Europa League football next season. After the match, Chelsea boss Antonio Conte said his team would lose to Manchester ...

MICHAEL CARRICK waved farewell to Old Trafford by helping set up the goal that delivered a 1-0 win for Manchester United over Watford. The veteran midfielder, who is retiring this summer, captained Manchester United as they wrapped up their Premier League campaign. Marcus Rashford scored the only goal after 34 minutes, tapping in after Carrick’s superb long pass had played ...

MANCHESTER CITY reached the 100-point mark with a late Gabriel Jesus strike against Southampton. Manchester City had already achieved the record points total, beating Chelsea’s 95 from 2004-05, but have now reached 100 with a victory over Southampton on the final day. They were made to wait for it though with Jesus scoring with the last kick of the game. ...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has won the Premier League’s Player of the Season award. The 25-year-old Egypt international has scored 31 goals in 37 league matches in his first season since signing from Roma for £34m. He will beat the record of 31 goals in a 38-game season if he scores against Brighton on Sunday. Salah also won the PFA ...

South Africa has promised another 5 billion rand ($400 million) capital injection to help its struggling state airline meet urgent financial obligations, the CEO of South African Airways (SAA) said on Thursday. SAA has not generated a profit since 2011 and has already received state guarantees totalling nearly 20 billion rand. It needs the money to help pay debts and ...

Jerome Boateng has started running work as the Germany defender bids to recover from a thigh injury in time for the World Cup. The Bayern Munich centre-back was forced off after 34 minutes in the first leg of his side’s Champions League semi-final defeat to Real Madrid last month. Reports had indicated Boateng was in danger of missing the World ...

Angola plans to privatise 74 state companies over the next few years, predominantly those in the industrial sector, according to the prospectus sent to investors as part of the country’s Eurobond issuance. Africa’s second-largest crude producer has been battered by a fall in the price of oil over the past four years and President João Lourenço, who took office in ...

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has been charged by UEFA over his outburst towards referee Michael Oliver after his side’s Champions League quarter-final exit to Real Madrid. UEFA has announced that the Italian legend has been charged with breaching its “general principles of conduct” for his abuse of the English official. After Oliver awarded Real Madrid a last-gasp spot-kick – which Cristiano Ronaldo converted to ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has joined forces with graphic novel and animation producers Graphic India to help co-create a new cartoon series for kids. The show is called “Striker Force 7” and will see the often-overlapping worlds of professional football and superheroes brought together on screen once again. A character bearing Ronaldo’s likeness stands central in the promotional imagery, where he is ...

The United Nations agency for Children UNICEF on Friday published a report saying at least 770,000 children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Spokesman Christophe Bouliera Reuters TV in Geneva that UNICEF had appealed for $88 million to provide assistance in Kasai, but said only about 25 ...