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ANTONIO CONTE can have few complaints when he is sacked by Chelsea at the end of the season. That is the verdict of Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville. Conte has edged closer to the exit door at Stamford Bridge after Chelsea were beaten 3-1 by Tottenham on Sunday. The defeat was a damaging blow to their hopes of finishing in ...

MANCHESTER UNITED manager Jose Mourinho is said to be unhappy at reports linking Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino to the Old Trafford job. Manchester United boss Mourinho has found his position under threat amid talk Pochettino is being lined up to take the reins. The 54-year-old, however, is safe for now and is understood to retain the full support of Red ...

Hailed as mother of the ‘new’ South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s legacy as an anti-apartheid heroine was undone when she was revealed to be a ruthless ideologue prepared to sacrifice laws and lives in pursuit of revolution and redress. Her uncompromising methods and refusal to forgive contrasted sharply with the reconciliation espoused by her husband Nelson Mandela as he worked to ...

A Facebook executive’s memo that claimed the “ugly truth” was that anything it did to grow was justified has been made public, embarrassing the company. The 2016 post said that this applied even if it meant people might die as a result of bullying or terrorism. Both the author and the company’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, have denied they actually ...

One in five British households have experienced slow broadband speeds in the last year, according to Which. A similar number have had connection dropouts and router problems, the consumer rights group added. It polled more than 1,900 customers across 12 providers, more than half of whom reported having problems with their broadband service or price. Which said providers had “a ...

In a laboratory in Copenhagen, scientists believe they are on the verge of a breakthrough that could transform computing. A team combining Microsoft researchers and Niels Bohr Institute academics is confident that it has found the key to creating a quantum computer. If they are right, then Microsoft will leap to the front of a race that has a tremendous ...

The Trump administration has said it wants to start collecting the social media history of nearly everyone seeking a visa to enter the US. The proposal, which comes from the state department, would require most visa applicants to give details of their Facebook and Twitter accounts. They would have to disclose all social media identities used in the past five ...

South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela has died aged 81, her personal assistant says. Winnie Madikizela Mandela was the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. The couple – famously pictured hand-in-hand as Mr Mandela walked free from prison after 27 years – were a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle for nearly three decades. However, in later ...

Electric car-maker Tesla has been admonished by the US watchdog investigating a recent fatal crash involving one of its cars. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was “unhappy” the firm had made public details of the probe. The company had blogged on Friday that the Model X car involved’s Autopilot self-steering system was in use at the time of the accident. ...

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