Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has fired a fresh warning to Arsenal and Mikel Arteta ahead of this weekend’s fixtures. The Gunners won in midweek against Chelsea to maintain their own title push while Liverpool lost to Everton to all but end the…
‘It can happen’: Pep Guardiola begins mind-games with fresh warning for Arsenal ahead of Tottenham clash
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has fired a fresh warning to Arsenal and Mikel Arteta ahead of this weekend’s fixtures. The Gunners won in midweek against Chelsea to maintain their own title push while Liverpool lost to Everton to all but end the…
EU liberal leader rules out coalition with conservative eurosceptics
The leader of the liberal bloc in June’s European Parliament elections told the European Newsroom (enr) on Wednesday that she’d be happy to keep working with the legislature’s largest centre-right group, but ruled out a coalition with the main euroscep…
German trade union verdi launches strikes against Ikea, Metro AG
The German trade union verdi staged a nationwide strike in the retail and wholesale sector on Friday, with major companies Ikea and Metro AG among those affected. Petra Ringer from verdi said at midday that she was “quite satisfied” with the turnout, a…
German Catholics inch ahead with reforms despite Vatican criticism
Catholic bishops in Germany are pressing forward with reforms that would share authority over Church matters with lay Catholics, despite opposition from the Vatican. The German Bishops’ Conference has approved the statutes for the key reform body, the …
German opposition lawmakers grill ministers over nuclear phase-out
Two top German government ministers have defended last year’s closure of the country’s last nuclear power plants before parliament, rejecting new allegations levelled in a magazine piece that they’d suppressed internal concerns about the plan. In a pie…
Accused Chinese spy previously sought job at Germany’s intel agency
A suspected Chinese spy who worked as a top aide to a far-right German politician in the European Parliament had previously applied to work for Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND. The accused spy, Jian Guo, was turned down by the BND severa…
Seeing is Believing for Boughey and Bentley
By Ben Cleminson NO BRITISH-trained horse has ever won the Group One Chairman’s Sprint Prize (Sunday, 7.50am), but that isn’t stopping trainer George Boughey and owners Highclere having a crack at the £2.2 million pot with four-year-old filly Believing…
Teenager bailed after being arrested by police in Diss on suspicion of eight offences
A teenager has been released on bail after being arrested in Diss on Monday on suspicion of eight offences. A post on South Norfolk Police’s Facebook page said an officer was driving down Victoria Road when a vehicle started making erratic movements to…
German opposition lawmakers grill ministers over nuclear phase-out
Two top German government ministers have defended last year’s closure of the country’s last nuclear power plants before parliament, rejecting new allegations levelled in a magazine piece that they’d suppressed internal concerns about the plan. In a pie…