WORLD

MANCHESTER UNITED midfielder Ander Herrera could face trial over an investigation into match-fixing allegations – but his new team-mate Alexis Sanchez has dodged court after accepting a suspended jail sentence for tax fraud. The long-running probe relating to Herrera follows claims the result of a La Liga match in 2011 between Real Zaragoza and Levante was manipulated when he was ...

South African President Jacob Zuma is under pressure to resign, as top members of his own party who have the power to remove him consider their next step. His presidency has covered more than a third of South Africa’s time after apartheid, but it has been dogged by scandal. So what has happened to bring us to this point? Here’s ...

Kenya has deported opposition supporter and lawyer, Miguna Miguna, following his role in the unofficial swearing-in of opposition leader Raila Odinga as “the people’s president”. Mr Miguna has boarded a flight to take him to Canada, where he is a citizen. His departure came after he was charged with treason-related offences. Kenya’s Chief Justice David Maraga has criticised the government ...

Angela Merkel’s conservatives (CDU/CSU) have finally hashed out a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) that could break months of political deadlock in Germany. Negotiators have agreed on the division of key ministries – one of the last hurdles towards forming a government. It could end more than four months of wrangling since inconclusive elections in September. But ...

Apple removed messaging app Telegram from its app store because some users were sharing images of child abuse. The explanation was revealed in an email from Phil Schiller, manager of the App Store, which was published by Apple news site 9to5Mac. The secure messaging app returned to the app store within hours with fixes to prevent the illegal content being ...

ITALIAN agent Federico Pastorello has suggested Liverpool star Emre Can has already signed for Juventus. The Germany international came close to joining the Italian side last month and reports in Italy claimed he had reached an agreement in principle to move to the Serie A outfit. Can is out of contract at the end of the season and is yet ...

AJAX star Justin Kluivert has claimed Jose Mourinho did NOT approach him with a transfer offer in last season’s Europa League final clash with Manchester United. Justin Kluivert has been linked with a move to Manchester United ever since he was spotted chatting with Jose Mourinho at the Europa League final last year. The Red Devils boss is said to ...

More than 746,000 phishing emails pretending to be from the NHS were blocked in just one month in 2017, the National Cyber Security Centre says. A report on the first year of the GCHQ unit’s cyber-defence programme found that it removed 121,479 phishing sites hosted in the UK. This reduced the UK’s share of global phishing attacks from 5.3% to ...

The value of Bitcoin has fallen to below $6,000 – its lowest price since November 2017. The price fell to $5,947.40 (£4,256.44) on Tuesday, according to a price index run by news website Coindesk. Bitcoin reached its peak in November, when it hit $19,000, and then began to fall steadily from mid-December. The latest fall comes a day after several ...

A Poundland ad campaign that featured innuendo and depictions of sexual acts has been deemed “irresponsible” by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The pre-Christmas social media posts featured a “naughty” toy elf and were published on Twitter and Facebook. One image featured the elf holding a tea bag in a suggestive pose with a plastic doll. The ASA ruled that ...