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Sam MarsdenMoises LlorensSep 8, 2025, 06:47 AM ETBarcelona have announced that Sunday’s LaLiga game against Valencia will take place at the Estadi Johan Cruyff, delaying their return to Spotify Camp Nou once again.Barça had hoped this weekend’s match, their first at home in the league this season, would take place at Camp Nou, which has been undergoing extensive renovation work since 2023.However, the necessary permits have not yet arrived to facilitate a return, forcing the club to seek an alternative venue to host Valencia.Barça have spent the last two seasons playing at the Olympic Stadium in the Montjuic area of…
Athletic Club player Yeray Álvarez was handed a 10-month ban by UEFA on Monday for failing a banned substance test due to taking a medicine to prevent hair loss caused by cancer treatment.The Spanish defender failed a drug test after Athletic lost to Manchester United in the UEFA Europa League semifinals in May and accepted a voluntary provisional suspension in early June, UEFA said.Athletic Club’s Yeray Álvarez will serve a 10-month ban. Angel Martinez/Getty ImagesFollowing an investigation by two inspectors from UEFA’s ethics and disciplinary department, the governing body has suspended Álvarez for a period of 10 months. The ban will…
Smith announces her arrival in style Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Highlights from the WSL match between Arsenal and newly promoted London City Lionesses. Olivia Smith’s then-record £1m transfer fee may have already been eclipsed this summer but there was no outshining her on the pitch at the Emirates on Saturday. Having stepped up from Liverpool’s seventh-placed finish last season to a side with genuine WSL title credentials and with that price tag around her neck – all after only turning 21 a month ago – she could’ve easily taken time to settle in north…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen.The crux of the legal fight is over nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved aid that President Donald Trump last month said he would not spend, invoking disputed authority that was last used by a president roughly 50 years ago.Last week, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled that the Republican administration’s decision to withhold the funding was likely illegal. Trump told House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in a letter on Aug. 28 that he would not…
For the last four years, my job has been to comb through government statements, along with policy and legal documents, and then brief members of parliament on exactly what linguistic and legal gymnastics the government of the day is using to justify exports of military equipment – despite evidence that these exports are likely to be used in war crimes. At a certain point, I recognised these documents and legal arguments for what they really are: the bureaucracy of genocide. While we might have seen a change in tone from senior UK ministers in recent weeks in relation to starvation…
Thomas Tuchel has declared that “the long throw is back” and he is not wrong. “Long throws have been a feature of this Premier League season,” Jamie Carragher told Monday Night Football recently. And the statistics bear this out.Using the definition of a long throw into the penalty box as being one that travels 20 metres, the data shows that the number of such throw-ins per game has almost doubled so far this season, after rising more steadily over the previous five seasons. In fact, the most recent goal that was scored in the Premier League – Ismaila Sarr’s late…
Fenerbahce president Alic Koç has described the club’s sacking of José Mourinho “painful” but necessary in order for his team to play “better football.”Mourinho, 62, was dismissed by Fenerbahce on Aug. 29 in the aftermath of the team’s 1-0 aggregate loss to Benfica in the Champions League qualification playoffs.”Why did we fire Mourinho? I’ll say it for the first time, it was a painful dismissal,” Koc told Turkish sports outlet Fanatik.”Parting ways with someone who is above all a friend was tough. Being eliminated by Benfica wasn’t a problem, but the way we were eliminated was unacceptable. This made me…
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Nothing makes Brad Lancaster happier than a monsoon downpour.The tall 58-year-old jumped like a kid in the puddles on the sidewalk one recent August afternoon after a half inch (1.3 centimeters) of rain suddenly fell in Tucson, Arizona, during an especially dry summer.“Sweet!” Lancaster exclaimed, beaming when he saw how the water pooled in a basin he had dug earlier in dirt planted with native vegetation along the public walkway.“It’s really important that you are ready to plant the rain when it comes, even if it is a small amount,” he said, referring to a simple…
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck and destroyed another high-rise building in Gaza City on Monday after warning residents to evacuate, part of an offensive aimed at taking over the largest Palestinian city. The military said it was targeting Hamas observation posts and bombs placed around the 12-story office building.Over the past several days, Israel has destroyed multiple high-rise buildings in Gaza City, accusing Hamas of putting surveillance infrastructure in them. It has ordered people to flee ahead of its ground offensive into the city of some 1 million residents, which experts say is experiencing famine.U.S. President Donald…
VIENNA (AP) — For weeks, sightings of a rare immigrant have been keeping a corner of Austria on its toes.A moose that has come to be known as Emil appeared nearly three weeks ago in Lower Austria, a province in the country’s northeast that surrounds Vienna, and it doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to leave. Sightings of the animal have drawn curious onlookers, and by Monday a Facebook fan page for him had 10,000 members.It’s been an eventful few days for Emil. The moose showed up late last week in a suburb of the provincial capital, St. Pölten.…