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ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger says positives can be taken despite his side losing 2-1 to Manchester United. Wenger took a makeshift squad to Manchester with the focus on Thursday’s Europa League semi-final second leg against Atletico Madrid. It meant a club debut for Greek defender Konstantinos Mavropanos while youngsters Reiss Nelson and Ainsley Maitland-Niles also started. And the Gunners produced ...

ARSENAL star Ainsley Maitland-Niles has apologised to fans after losing to Manchester United on Sunday. The Gunners’ youthful side almost left Old Trafford with a point before Marouane Fellaini popped up in the closing minutes to head home the winner. Arsene Wenger failed to get a desired result on his final trip to the Theatre of Dreams, and Arsenal are ...

Former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has received the 2017 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership at a special Leadership Ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda. Speaking to guests from Rwanda and around the world, President Sirleaf said: “I’m honoured to be this year’s recipient of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. I receive this distinction on behalf ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion (dollars),” Trump said at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan. “We come up again on September 28th and if we don’t ...

A Libyan transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday at an airfield near El Sharara oilfield, killing three people, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said. The military C-130 plane had been chartered by Akakus Oil, which operates Sharara, and had delivered 18 tonnes of catering and maintenance supplies to the southwestern field. The two pilots and a flight assistant ...

A European court has ruled that Lionel Messi, the world’s top-earning footballer, can trademark his own name. The Barcelona and Argentina striker fought a seven-year fight to be able to use his name on sports goods. His original application was challenged by the Spanish cycling brand, Massi, which argued that the names were too similar and would cause confusion. But ...

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Billionaire French tycoon Vincent Bollore was detained on Tuesday as part of a corruption investigation into his group’s activities in West Africa where it operates several ports, legal sources told AFP. The 66-year-old head of the Bollore Group was taken into custody in the Paris suburb of Nanterre for questioning about how the group obtained contracts to run Lome port ...

LIVERPOOL sensation Mohamed Salah is the best player in the world on current form, claims BT Sport pundits Rio Ferdinand and Steven Gerrard. Salah scored twice and assisted another two in Liverpool’s 5-2 Champions League semi-final first-leg win over Roma tonight. The Egyptian has now scored 43 goals in all competitions for the Reds, second behind Ian Rush’s all-time record ...