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Manchester United’s Cameroonian midfielder #19 Bryan Mbeumo celebrates scoring the team’s first goal during the English Premier League football match between Everton and Manchester United at Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool, north-west England on September 6, 2026. (Photo by PETER POWELL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or ‘live’ services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time.…

“Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee!” – the four incantatory words I blame for receiving a shonky Paul Daniels Magic Set as a child in the 80s. In Bedknobs and Broomsticks, it’s the spell that Angela Lansbury’s patriotic Nazi-vanquishing witch Eglantine Price casts to transform people into fluffy rabbits; a trick I yearned to pull off.When it became clear I wouldn’t deter the Third Reich with three plastic thimbles, a deck of playing cards and a flaccid wand, my conjuring kit was mothballed – but my irrational love of the Disney film remains to this day. For me, it originally fell into…

Arsenal’s pedigree as defending Premier League champions faced its first big test of the season, with the Gunners hosting title aspirants and big spenders Chelsea on the third matchday.It is not often that games built up with such hype and expectations live up to their billing, but Arsenal’s 2-1 win over Chelsea certainly delivered on Sunday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBreathless action, sub-plots galore and a total of 99 minutes and 35 seconds of edge-of-your-seat football drama.We may only be three rounds into the marathon 38-game Premier League season, but it was the first real test of the…

Published On 7 Sep 20267 Sep 2026Israeli air attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least 11 people, including two children and two medics, Lebanese state media reported.Israeli warplanes hit a residential building early on Monday in the town of Kfar Reman in southern Lebanon, killing nine people including two children, and wounding five others, Lebanon’s National News ‌Agency (NNA) reported.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listA separate Israeli drone attack on a civilian vehicle in the town killed two medics inside the car, NNA said.The Israeli military also struck a residential area in the town of Deir al-Zahrani in…

General view of Land Rover cars outside the Jaguar Land Rover factory on April 7, 2025 in Halewood, England.Richard Martin-roberts | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThousands of workers at Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will be offered voluntary redundancies as the luxury car manufacturer responds to intense competition from cheaper Chinese rivals, a cyberattack and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.The company, which is owned by India’s automotive manufacturer Tata Motors, is planning to cut as many as 4,000 jobs over the next two years, according to a report from The Times.A JLR spokesperson did not comment on the scale…

Rescue teams work to locate survivors after New Delhi building collapse.Published On 7 Sep 20267 Sep 2026A multistorey building in the Indian capital, New Delhi, has collapsed, killing at least six people and trapping dozens of others.Rescue teams are searching the rubble of the collapsed building, which housed mostly students, near a Delhi University campus in Satya Niketan on Sunday.The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said it treated several victims after the incident.“Out of the 10 patients, five were brought dead, while one patient who was in critical condition later succumbed to his injuries,” AIIMS said in a…

Those already out and about at 5am this week will be rewarded with a beautiful waning crescent moon approaching Jupiter, while Mars watches on from a little further away.The chart shows the view looking east from London at 5am on Tuesday. The waning moon will be easily visible with about 10% of its visible surface illuminated. The brilliant beacon of Jupiter will be close by. The two are drawing together ahead of a conjunction later that day when the moon will pass less than a degree north of the giant planet. For comparison, the moon appears to be about half…

Paris Saint-Germain’s Spanish head coach Luis Enrique (C) lifts the trophy as he celebrates with his players winning the UEFA Champions League final football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Arsenal FC at the Puskas Arena in Budapest on May 30, 2026. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP) Another UEFA Champions League season gets going this week with the beginning of the league phase as Paris Saint-Germain bid to join the tiny band of clubs to have won the competition three years running. PSG successfully defended their title last season when they beat Arsenal on penalties in Budapest, retaining the…

If you’ve never loved anything before, apart from a car or a sandwich or The Inbetweeners, this news is for you! Netflix unveiled on Monday that a third movie in the raunchy franchise is moving ahead, with production beginning on Monday in the U.K. on The Inbetweeners 3, which the streamer described as “a continuation of the hugely popular sitcom and its two record-breaking films.” Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas will reprise their roles as the protagonist trio Will McKenzie, Jay Cartwright, Neil Sutherland and Simon Cooper who get into all sorts of misadventures. And The…

Oluchi Chibuzor  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, of the has seized N3.951 billions worths of illicit goods comprising mainly of psychotropic substance and four high grade mercury cylinder. Speaking at the formal handing over of the seized items in Lagos, Comptroller, Federal Operations Unit, Gambo Aliyu, said the development demonstrates public safety. He said the illicit movement of cannabis sativa and other controlled substances poses a serious threat to public health, national security and the future of the young people.  He noted that such substances fuel addiction, criminality, violence and other social problems. He also…