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President Donald Trump has launched yet another attack on US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, labelling him “weak”. His latest Twitter onslaught comes amid reports the president is consulting advisers about possibly firing the country’s top prosecutor. On Monday, he called Mr Sessions “beleaguered” in another tweet. Mr Trump has made clear he is unhappy with Mr Sessions for recusing himself ...

ROMELU LUKAKU is a better signing for Manchester United than Alvaro Morata to Chelsea and Alexandre Lacazette to Arsenal, according to Gary Pallister. There has been no shortage of transfers in the Premier League this summer with a number of the top teams spending big money on strikers. Arsenal have broken their transfer record to bring in Alexandre Lacazette from ...

MONACO have denied they have reached a £161MILLION fee with Real Madrid for striker Kylian Mbappe. According to stunning claims from Spanish sports paper Marca, Real Madrid have agreed to pay £143m (€160m) up front with around a further £18m (€20m) coming in add-ons. But Monaco have told Sky Sports they have NOT agreed to sell Mbappe to Real Madrid. ...

Justin Bieber has apologised to his fans after cancelling the remaining dates of his Purpose World Tour because of “unforeseen circumstances”. The move affects 14 dates in Asia and North America which were coming up over the next three months. Bieber told celebrity news website TMZ.com: “I’m sorry for anybody who feels disappointed or betrayed.” The singer has performed more ...

Israel is removing metal detectors from a holy site in Jerusalem and will use less obtrusive surveillance instead. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet voted for the move early on Tuesday. Tensions rose after two Israeli policemen were killed on 14 July at the site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Muslims as Haram al-Sharif. The UN’s Middle ...

A controversial new book about the last days of former South African President Nelson Mandela has been withdrawn by the publisher. Mandela’s family had complained that the book, written by his doctor of almost 10 years, contained personal details. The publisher said it had pulled the book “out of respect” for the family. It added that the author had told ...

Khorsheeda Khatun had been left with nothing — then that too was washed away The 28-year-old fled her home country of Myanmar in January with her two daughters, escaping the latest outbreak of violence, and was living in the Kutupalang Makeshift Settlement in Bangladesh when cyclone Mora arrived five months later and displaced up to 500,000 people. “My house was ...

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will tell a Senate panel later that neither he nor any member of the Trump campaign team colluded with Russian officials over the US election. He will say he had no improper contacts and had not relied on Russian funds to finance his business activities. Mr Kushner released his opening statement ahead of the ...

South East Asian ride-hailing firm Grab has raised $2.5bn (£1.9bn) in fresh funds, in what it says is the region’s biggest ever round of investment. Didi Chuxing, which effectively ended Uber’s ambitions in China, is one of the key backers. Along with Japan’s Softbank, Didi will invest up to $2bn. The other $500m will come from new and current investors. ...

Anthony Joshua must forget all about the idea of fighting Tyson Fury and concentrate on a much more serious contest, according to former boxing icon Evander Holyfield, DailyMail reports. Joshua has been linked with an all British bout with Fury the next time he steps into the ring, with both camps talking up a potential showdown. The two men have ...