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Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann has topped the Sky Sports La Liga Power Rankings this week. Griezmann scored an 88th-minute matchwinner during a 2-1 win over Real Sociedad after team-mate Filipe Luis (No 11, up 109 places) levelled Willian Jose’s (No 15, down eight places) opener. Barcelona only managed a 2-2 draw against Celta Vigo after Lionel Messi (No 7, up three places) and ...

elona have been drawn against Celta Vigo in the last 16 of the Copa del Rey, after the draw was made on Tuesday. It’s a repeat of Saturday’s Liga match at Camp Nou, which was a really entertaining game, Barca drawing 2-2 thanks to goals from Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez. It’s arguably the tie of the round, elsewhere Real ...

South Africa’s corruption watchdog has found officials misused millions of dollars during Nelson Mandela’s funeral four years ago. According to the report, 300m rand ($22m; £16m) was redirected from a development fund to help with costs. It had been earmarked for things like “sanitation, the replacement of mud schools and the refurbishment of hospitals,” the report stated. Instead, the authorities ...

NEMANJA MATIC was “immense” for Manchester United against Arsenal and he will be key to their title hopes. Those are the thoughts of BBC Sport pundit Garth Crooks. Matic, who was originally a serious doubt to be fit for the Emirates showdown, marshalled the midfield well as United ran out 3-1 winners on Saturday. United are eight points behind Manchester ...

Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah has been named the PFA Player of the Month for November becoming the first Egyptian in history to win the award. Salah’s impressive form has been on a top level lately and especially in November as he helped the Reds remain unbeaten with three wins and a draw. The Egyptian was able to score seven times ...

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is refusing to concede defeat in the Premier League title race even though his team are now 15 points adrift of Manchester City in top spot. Mauricio Pochettino has ruled Tottenham out of contention but Wenger is refusing to throw in the towel despite Saturday’s painful 3-1 loss to Manchester United. The Gunners, who last won ...

A statue of Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has been destroyed by vandals in Buenos Aires. Photographs of the sculpture taken after the attack show that it has been cut from the ankle up, leaving behind a pair of boots dribbling a football. The local authorities do not know who the perpetrators are but it is not the first time the ...

What’s the cyber-security policy in your organisation? Is it common to share login passwords with your colleagues? Because that’s how it works in the House of Commons – according to one MP at least. Responding to the row over just who might have had access to Damian Green’s computer – and therefore potentially used it to view pornography – Nadine ...

Reports from Yemen say ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in clashes with the rival Houthi movement. Houthi-controlled al-Masirah TV cited the interior ministry as announcing the “end of the crisis of the treason militia and the killing of its leader”. There was no independent confirmation, but pictures circulated on social media appeared to show Mr Saleh’s body. Until ...

A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines. The bug meant anyone with physical access to a Mac running High Sierra could get admin access to the machine. Wired magazine has found that the bug returns if Mac owners upgrade to the latest version of Sierra after ...