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MANCHESTER UNITED and Real Madrid will be allowed to stop for drink breaks during Tuesday night’s Super Cup if the heat in Skopje continues into the evening. Temperatures have rocketed across southern Europe thanks to a heatwave dubbed ‘Lucifer’, regularly taking the Macedonian capital above 40 degrees Celsius. It is forecast to be 36C when Jose Mourinho’s United side train ...

South Africa’s Deputy Education Minister Mduduzi Manana has been accused of hitting a woman during a row at a nightclub. Mr Manana has not formally commented. However, in a recorded conversation, a person believed to be the minister can be heard admitting to slapping the alleged victim. The government has said it is aware of the assault accusation. South Africa ...

Just Like The Breezy Brazilian – Three Neymar-like Signings That Manchester United Can Pull Off This Summer The Premier League is easily the richest league in Europe and until a month ago, they fittingly held the record transfer deals ever for a club in the world of football. However, not so long ago, the shackles were broken as French giants ...

A Google employee’s opinion criticising the firm’s diversity initiatives is causing a furore at the firm. In an internal memo, a male software engineer argued the lack of women in top tech jobs was due to biological differences between men and women. “We need to stop assuming that gender gaps imply sexism,” he wrote in the piece which was widely ...

South Korean authorities told the BBC that its foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha spoke to her North Korean counterpart Ri Yong Ho on Sunday on the sidelines of a forum in Manila. Tensions have escalated on the Korean peninsula in recent months amid repeated missile tests by the North. The UN Security Council voted on Saturday to impose fresh sanctions. South ...

MANCHESTER UNITED are targeting one more summer signing with the transfer window shutting in less than a month. Express Sport brings you all the latest updates from Old Trafford as they come through. MANCHESTER UNITED TRANSFER NEWS LIVE UPDATES: NEYMAR MIGHT JOIN AFTER PSG SPELL, MARTIAL TO INTER MILAN RULED OUT Friday August 4 Mata nice guy 15:43: Juan Mata ...

A massive Buddha statue weighing about half a tonne has been stolen from a temple in the Botswana capital, Gaborone, police say. The Buddhist community in the city say they are devastated by the loss and have appealed for help to retrieve it. The bronze statue was donated by Thailand in 1996 and is 1.5m (5ft) tall and 1.2m wide. ...

Arsene Wenger has characterised Neymar’s €222 million move from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain as “beyond rationality” and has blasted the deal as being a result of when “a country owns a football club.” Qatar Sports Investments became the majority shareholder of the Ligue 1 club in 2011 and has proceeded to make headlines for the exorbitant sums they’ve spent on ...

A large fire has ripped through a residential skyscraper in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates – for the second time in two years. Footage posted on social media showed flames spreading up the Torch Tower, and burning debris falling down. The authorities later said that civil defence workers “successfully evacuated” the building and the blaze was brought under control. ...

The special counsel investigating claims of Russian meddling in the US election has begun using a grand jury in Washington, reports say. The move suggests Robert Mueller may be taking a more aggressive approach to gathering data on possible collusion with Donald Trump’s campaign team. Grand juries are used to issue subpoenas to compel people to testify. The president has ...