Arsenal take part in a team huddle before the Premier League match against Tottenham.

Arteta looks to Manchester City alumni to revive Arsenal’s title charge | Arsenal

Only 11 months have passed since Oleksandr Zinchenko, a force of nature in those final weeks of Manchester City’s campaign, cut back for Rodri to equalise against Aston Villa and haul them to within one goal of the title. The player who retrieved the ball from Robin Olsen’s net and ferried it back towards halfway …

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Thiago Silva and N'Golo Kante

Ruthless Mauricio Pochettino a perfect fit to unite Chelsea for new era | Chelsea

So, Chelsea need a big-name manager, an ultra-charismatic type who can look after the egos of superstar players and also develop the younger ones, offering encouragement to them. They need somebody with an inside-out knowledge of the Premier League, who knows London, too. And they need someone to reshape the squad, to trim the fat, …

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Van der Flier in action for Leinster against Ulster in the Champions Cup earlier this month

Ireland’s Josh van der Flier: ‘The next goal is to try to win the World Cup’ | Ireland rugby union team

“It was really, really frustrating,” Josh van der Flier says on a grey day in Dublin as, just briefly, his sparkling good cheer and disarming modesty give way to something more tangled. Van der Flier, the consistently excellent flanker in the red scrum cap for Ireland and Leinster, is World Rugby’s player of the year. …

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Konrad Kujau holds the forged diaries in a court in Hamburg in 1984.

Fake Hitler diaries to go on public display in Germany | Germany

The fake diaries of Adolf Hitler, which sparked outrage when they were published as genuine 40 years ago, are to be displayed for public viewing at the national archives in Germany. The counterfeit journals were published by Germany’s Stern magazine and sold around the world, including for serialisation in the Sunday Times. They will be …

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Alice Pullin

‘He ought to go on a course’: how voters in Dominic Raab’s seat see him | Dominic Raab

“Whenever you mention Dominic Raab around here people just roll their eyes,” says Linda Waddingham, 74, a retired customer services manager at British Airways. “Now I’ve started doing it,” she says as her eyes look skyward on a trip back from Sainsbury’s in Walton-on-Thames, one of the biggest towns in Raab’s Esher and Walton constituency. …

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The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, 1599.

Bottom-fondling audacity: how did Lavinia Fontana get away with it? | Art and design

Arguably nothing in art embodies the male gaze more than the Renaissance nude, that genre of licentious painting in which the likes of Titian and Bronzino excelled. But an exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin next month proves that a Renaissance woman took on the boys in this very genre – …

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people in shanghai

India overtakes China to become world’s most populous country | India

India has overtaken China as the world’s most populous country, according to UN population estimates, the most significant shift in global demographics since records began. According to the UN’s projections, which are calculated through a variety of factors including census data and birth and death rates, India now has a population of 1,425,775,850, surpassing China …

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We didn’t want to say anything about his strides.

Having finally escaped the National League, the future is bright for Wrexham | Soccer

THERE’S A NEW FC HOLLYWOOD IN TOWN While even the most cynical among us genuinely struggle to find anything unpleasant to say about the job Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have done since taking over as Wrexham owners, if we had one bone to pick, Football Daily would suggest that their presence at the Racecourse …

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