Reflections of Arsenal’s Kai Havertz: When everyone had written me off, Mikel Arteta restored my confidence
The 24-year-old has says Arteta “boosted his confidence” by telling him that “he should be confident in the opponent’s box”.
Guardiola’s ‘carnivorous’ Man City ‘eat’ Fulham at lunchtime to wrest control of Premier League title race out of Arsenal grasp
Kyle Walker wanted to make sure Bernardo got the credit for it. As the City players congregated in front of the jubilant away support (including Noel Gallagher), Walker picked up the Portuguese in what was essentially a fireman’s carry, taking him a good 20 yards to the rest of them.
Solar storm hits Earth, producing colourful light shows across Northern Hemisphere
The storm could produce northern lights as far south in the US as Alabama and Northern California, NOAA said. But it was hard to predict and experts stressed it would not be the dramatic curtains of colour normally associated with the northern lights, but more like splashes of greenish hues.
As Premier Leagues season winds down Man City risks expulsion on FFP grounds, Arsenal to be champions
Former Everton CEO Keith Wyness, who now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs, claimed on Friday that “expulsion is on the table” for Man City – who strongly maintain their innocence – if they are found guilty of their charges.
Prince Harry, wife Meghan land in Nigeria to promote Invictus Games and meet soldiers wounded in line of duty
Harry served in Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter copilot gunner, after which he founded the Invictus Games in 2014 to offer wounded veterans and servicemembers the challenge of competing in sports events similar to the Paralympics. Nigeria was among the nations that participated in last year’s edition of the games.
Nobody foresaw Borussia Dortmund’s fairy tale run to Euro Champions League final, not even themselves
They are heading to Wembley and the symmetry of that escapes nobody. It has been 11 years since Jurgen Klopp led them there for their last Champions League final and the warmth of those days, of the entire Klopp era in fact, has been something the club have been longing for ever since. Dortmund are not back. Nobody would describe them as being the equal of that Klopp side but there lies the sweetness of this anomaly and the charm of their achievement. This is a great story that nobody saw coming.
Shunned for centuries, Voodoo is mutating into a powerful religion Haitians seek solace in to thwart bloody gang violence
The syncretic religion that melds Catholicism with animist beliefs has no official leader or creeds. It has a single God known as “Bondye,” Creole for “Good God,” and more than 1,000 spirits known as the lwa — some that aren’t always benevolent.
UN General Assembly wants UN Security Council to ‘reconsider favourably’ Palestine’s quest for statehood
The vote by the 193-member General Assembly on Friday will act as a global survey of support for the Palestinians. An application to become a full UN member first needs to be approved by the Security Council and then the General Assembly.
High cost of unequal societies: Economic inequality, in effect, normalises immoral and unethical behaviour
The longer we let inequality define our contemporary daily lives, this new research helps us understand, the more unethical behaviour all around us will seem to reflect just the way our world naturally works.
US contractors land in Haiti to build base for UN forces as Kenyan contingent reassembles in Nairobi
The Kenyan contingent that will deploy reassembled this week for the first time since the Kenyan government announced in March that the deployment would be delayed, said a Kenyan security official, who asked not to be named.
