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Merseyside Police are investigating allegations that a newspaper article about Everton midfielder Ross Barkley constitutes a "racial hate crime". Barkley, 23, was punched in a Liverpool bar last weekend in what his lawyer described as an "unprovoked attack". In an article...

Arsenal face a "massive" challenge to qualify for the Champions League, says boss Arsene Wenger, who added "nothing" has changed about his future. Monday's 3-0 defeat by Crystal Palace left Arsenal in sixth place, seven points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester...

Marc Bartra says he experienced the "hardest 15 minutes" of his life when Borussia Dortmund's team bus was damaged by explosions in Germany. The defender had an operation after fracturing his wrist in the incident. It led to Tuesday's Champions League...

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte refused to choose between Eden Hazard and N'Golo Kante as his pick for PFA Player of the Year. The Blues duo are on the six-man shortlist along with Harry Kane, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez and Romelu...

Juan Mata looks set to miss the rest of Manchester United's season after Jose Mourinho admitted he expects the Spaniard to be out until the end of May. United's final Premier League game of the season is on May 21...

North Koreans placed flower baskets and bouquets below portraits of founder president Kim Il Sung on Friday, showing little sign of tension despite fears the reclusive nation may conduct a nuclear test and the United States would retaliate. The 105th...

China said on Friday tension over North Korea had to be stopped from reaching an "irreversible and unmanageable stage" as a U.S. aircraft carrier group steamed toward the region amid fears the North may conduct a sixth nuclear weapons...

France's presidential race looked tighter than it has all year on Friday, nine days before voting starts, as one poll put all four main candidates within touching distance of the two-person run-off round. The Ipsos-Sopra Sterna poll for daily Le...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ruled out on Friday extraditing German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel to Germany while he is in office, repeating his assertion that Yucel is a "terrorist agent". Yucel, a national of both countries, was arrested two months ago...

Japan's Toshiba Corp is likely to win creditors' approval for offering its prized memory chip business stake as collateral for new loans and loan commitments worth around 1 trillion yen ($9.2 billion), sources briefed about the matter said on...