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ARSENE WENGER has announced he will leave Arsenal at the end of the season. The Frenchman has left the footballing world in shock after announcing he will step down after 22 years at the club. Wenger’s side have struggled in the league in recent years. But the veteran has continued to defy fan outrage and remain at the Emirates. However, ...

Swaziland’s King Mswati III has announced he is renaming the country as the Kingdom of eSwatini. The monarch announced the official change at Golden Jubilee celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Swazi independence. The celebrations also marked the king’s 50th birthday. The southern African nation is an absolute monarchy. The king, known as Ngwenyama or “the lion”, is known for ...

FIFA has dismissed a claim by Rhian Brewster that England team-mate Morgan Gibbs-White was racially abused by a Spanish player during the Under-17 World Cup final. Brewster alleged in an interview with the Guardian in December that Wolves midfielder Gibbs-White was called a “monkey” during the match in October, which England went on to win 5-2. FIFA launched an investigation ...

After declining for years to disclose how many people pay for Amazon Prime, Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos revealed on Wednesday in his annual letter to shareholders that over 100 million people globally have joined Amazon’s membership club. “13 years post-launch, we have exceeded 100 million paid Prime members globally,” Bezos wrote. “In 2017 Amazon shipped more than five billion ...

MANCHESTER UNITED players have been holding showdown talks with Paul Pogba in a bid to save his career. The France star’s future at Manchester United is uncertain after a difficult second season back at Old Trafford. Pogba has been in and out the team since the turn of the year and has been substituted in big games. He was taken ...

Manchester United have been handed a boost ahead of future Champions League campaigns. New UEFA rules mean that finishing in fourth place in the Premier League will result in automatic qualification for the group stages of Europe’s top club competition. Under previous rules, any side which finished fourth in the league would have to qualify for the competition via a two-legged play-off. ...

The president of Uganda has said he wants to ban the nation’s citizens from practicing oral sex because ‘the mouth is for eating’. President Yoweri Museveni blamed ‘outsiders’ for trying to convince Ugandans to perform oral sex on one another – and said he was issuing a public ‘warning’ about it. He told press: ‘Let me take this opportunity to ...

Greek giants Panathinaikos will not face any points deduction after paying off debts owed to Ghana midfielder Michael Essien and two others. Currently 10th on the 16-team table, Panathinaikos were on the verge of losing points which could have ultimately seen them being relegated having failed to settle debt owed to their three former players. Essien together with Argentine winger ...

European football governing body, UEFA has strongly condemned the abuses referee, Michael Oliver has been subjected to since he officiated the Real Madrid versus Juventus Champions League quarter final second leg game in Madrid, reports goal.com. Having lost the first leg of their quarter-final contest 3-0 at home, Juve were on the verge of forcing extra-time at the Santiago Bernabeu ...

Top European leagues are set to oppose FIFA plans for adding more teams and playing days at the 2022 World Cup. FIFA president Gianni Infantino wants to study a 48-team tournament plan that would add 16 teams, 16 extra games and at least four days to the scheduled 28-day event kicking off in November 2022 in Qatar. That schedule would ...