Goal-starved Arsenal switch interest from European targets to young Brazilian striker Yuri Alberto
Arsenal are reportedly interested in trying to push through a deal to sign Internacional striker Yuri Alberto in one of the next two transfer windows. The Gunners are on the lookout for a new striker and have been linked with the likes of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Jonathan David, Alexander Isak and...
‘Mysterious hut’ captured by Chinese rover stokes conspiracy theories of alien’s habitat on the moon
In an act of sheer lunar-cy, some people reckon there’s an actual alien hut on the surface of the moon. Pictures beamed back to Earth from the Chinese Yutu-2 lunar rover, which currently calls the far side of the moon home, show something mysterious. It’s a cube-shaped structure (or, most...
Trial of 20 who plotted to kill Madagascar president Rajoelina begins in capital Antananarivo
Twenty people, including two French nationals, were charged on Monday with plotting to kill Madagascar’s president and other offences as their trial began in the Indian Ocean Island nation. Madagascar has a history of political violence. Former coup leader Andry Rajoelina, 44, was sworn in as president in 2019 after...
Senior British journalists under fire for trying to ‘bury’ PM Johnson’s Christmas party during Covid lockdown
Dominic Cummings has accused senior political journalists of trying to “bury” the story of an alleged Christmas party in Downing Street because they were there. The Prime Minister’s former top aide – now a regular critic of Boris Johnson’s government – suggested Number 10 is lying about the gatherings, which...
Irritated Mikel Arteta rates Arsenal’s performance against Everton as too passive to win a match
Mikel Arteta has slammed Arsenal’s “sloppy” performance in Monday night’s Premier League defeat to Everton, while he played down the significance of Ben Godfrey’s clash with Takehiro Tomiyasu. The Gunners took the lead at Goodison Park on the stroke of half-time just moments after Everton had a goal ruled out...
Arsenal goalkeepers Aaron Ramsdale and Bernd Leno are at peace with each other, despite swapping berths
Aaron Ramsdale says Bernd Leno is “perfect” with him despite displacing his Arsenal teammate as No.1 goalkeeper. Ramsdale arrived at the Emirates in the summer after Arsenal struck a deal worth up to £30 million with Sheffield United to sign the 23-year-old. Although Leno, 29, started in the defeats to...
It was brisk business for Top 100 military hardware makers despite coronavirus economic shocks
Despite the global economy contracting amid the upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s top 100 arms producers increased sales slightly in 2020, to $531 billion, according to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). This amounted to an increase of 1.3 per cent in...
Head of Sudan’s governing junta declares military will back to the barracks after 2023 polls
Sudan’s military will exit politics after elections scheduled for 2023, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declared in an interview at the weekend, adding that the deposed former ruling party would have no role in the transition. Following a military takeover led by Burhan in late October that upended Sudan’s transition to...
Sigh of relief as preliminary indications show Omicron may not be a pneumonic and severe disease
While researchers are warning that it might be too early to tell, doctors are seeing a significantly different clinical profile in their patients admitted for Covid in Tshwane hospitals – giving preliminary and early indications of less Covid pneumonia and less severe disease. Tshwane is significant as it is the...
President Museveni’s government hacks Ugandan journalists’ phones with Pegasus spyware
Apple has warned two Ugandan journalists and an opposition figure that their iPhones may have been hacked by a state-sponsored surveillance entity, the targeted people said on Saturday. Apple told the targeted journalists last week that at least one attack appeared to have employed spyware from an Israeli company blacklisted...
