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European regulators will investigate Apple’s planned purchase of Shazam, the music recognition app that was developed in the UK. The European Commission said Apple could encourage Shazam users to use its music streaming service rather than its competitors’ if the deal goes ahead. Apple Music has about half as many paid subscribers as Spotify, the world’s biggest streaming platform. Shazam ...

A team of US doctors has successfully carried out the world’s first total transplant of a penis and scrotum. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, performed the operation on a soldier who had been wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan. They used a penis, scrotum and partial abdominal wall transplanted from a deceased donor. They say the soldier ...

A VAN has ploughed through a crowd of people in Toronto, Canada, leaving nine people dead and sixteen injured. One man is in police custody. Toronto police have confirmed nine people have died and 16 were injured after a van ploughed through a crowd in the Canadian city. The driver was arrested after the incident and a huge investigation is ...

The woman who is set to become the seventh wife of South Africa’s ex-President Jacob Zuma has been forced to resign from her job at She Conquers, a non-governmental organisation, local media reports. Nonkanyiso Conco’s “affiliation” with Mr Zuma – 52 years her senior – was contrary to the organisation’s campaign to “empower young women in every phase of their ...

REAL MADRID president Florentino Perez has played down talk of the club signing David de Gea or Thibaut Courtois this summer. The duo have been linked with a move to the Spanish capital for a number of years, with Los Blancos famously missing out on the former due to a fax machine error in 2015. De Gea’s stunning form at ...

MOHAMED ELNENY could miss the rest of the season despite receiving an injury boost. Elneny was forced in the first half of Arsenal’s 4-1 win over West Brom after landing awkwardly following a challenge with Mark Noble. After the match, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger expressed his concern that the midfielder could be out for an extended period. “Unfortunately it doesn’t ...

Bayern Munich comes up against one of football’s all-time greats on Wednesday evening, with Jerome Boateng adamant that Bayern “can only stop Cristiano Ronaldo as a team”. Five-time Ballon d’Or Ronaldo has been in rip-roaring form Real in European competition this season, scoring in all ten of the Spanish side’s Champions League games this term, with a total goal tally ...

The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy. The child, whose title is HRH Prince of Cambridge, is fifth in line to the throne and the Queen’s sixth great-grandchild. The new arrival, who is the third child of Catherine and the Duke of Cambridge, weighs 8lbs 7oz. A Kensington Palace statement said Catherine and her new son ...

Mohamed Salah has won the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year award for 2017-18. The Liverpool forward, 25, beat Kevin de Bruyne, Harry Kane, Leroy Sane, David Silva and David de Gea in the vote by his fellow players. Manchester City’s Sane won the young player prize, while Chelsea’s Fran Kirby won the Women’s Player of the Year award. ...

Thousands marched in Madagascar’s capital on Monday to protest against new electoral laws and the death of a person in a similar march at the weekend, a Reuters witness said. On Saturday, police fired teargas at an opposition demonstration where the person died and more than a dozen were treated for injuries, some caused by teargas canisters. On Monday, thousands ...