Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini believes that one glance at the Premier League table will give his players an important psychological edge going into next Sunday’s derby with United. And he hopes the club’s storming start to the season will earn extra respect from Sir Alex Ferguson. This is the first time since 2007 that [...]
Johan Cruyff remembers the first time he set eyes on Pep Guardiola. The scrawny teenager was playing in Barcelona’s youth team and Cruyff had just been appointed first-team manager at the club. ‘He was a boy and the people said to me, “Oh, he’s one of the best”. ‘So (over the next year) I looked [...]
Arsenal captain Robin van Persie has laughed off claims he wants to leave the Gunners. Arsenal have endured a woeful start to the season, losing four of their opening seven league games, one of which came at Old Trafford where they were humiliated 8-2 by rivals Manchester United. The poor start to the campaign has [...]
The world’s population looks set to smash through the seven billion barrier in the next few days, according to the United Nations. It comes just 12 years since the total reached six billion – with official estimates saying the figure will top eight billion in 2025 and 10 billion before the end of the century. [...]
Doomsday preacher Harold Camping was left a laughing stock when his prediction that the world would end on May 21 failed to materialise. But the 90-year-old Californian may well have the last laugh after revealing that date was in fact Judgment Day – a spiritual moment when the righteous would be chosen – and simply [...]
With a reception, kitchen and bedroom, as well as electricity and running water, it’s a property which would satisfy most first-time buyers. But this extravagant house has been designed to suit slightly younger tenants, after being unveiled as Britain’s most expensive Wendy house. While most mere mortals pay £20 for a Wendy house at a [...]
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Investing as little as 0.16 percent of the world’s gross domestic product — or $198 billion per year — could give half a billion people regular access to safe drinking water within four years, a U.N. official said Friday. That would halve the number of people who risk serious illness and death [...]
MADRID (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of young pilgrims braved searing temperatures Saturday to take part in a prayer vigil with Pope Benedict XVI, massing at a dusty airport field in Madrid as the Catholic Church’s youth festival neared its climax. Firefighters sprayed the crowds with water from the top of their firetrucks and pilgrims [...]
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba is condemning Washington’s decision to keep it on the list of states allegedly sponsoring terrorism. A Foreign Ministry statement says the U.S. has no right to judge Cuba and says the island nation has an “unblemished” record fighting terrorism. The statement also accuses Washington of manipulating the issue for political ends. [...]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Two American men arrested more than two years ago while hiking along the Iraq-Iran border have been sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage and illegally entering Iran, state TV reported Saturday. The announcement appeared to dash hopes for the imminent release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal after Iran’s [...]
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