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Aug 18, 2025, 06:00 AM ETBrentford defender Nathan Collins has emerged as a target for Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur while Chelsea’s bid for Inter Milan defender Alessandro Bastoni has been turned down. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors and gossip from around the globe.Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s grades | Women’s gradesTOP STORIES- Milan confirm interest in United striker Højlund- Amorim backs Bayindir after blunder in United loss- Sunderland near Forest’s £142m PL spending recordNathan Collins has made 71 appearances for Brentford since arriving there at the start of the 2023-24 season. John Walton/PA Images…

Good morning.Donald Trump has piled pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ahead of talks in Washington on Monday, saying the leader could end the war “almost immediately” if he wanted to.The president’s comments were posted on his Truth Social platform on Sunday night, hours before he was due to meet Zelenskyy and the leaders of Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the EU and Nato at the Oval Office.Following his meeting with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, on Friday, Trump also ruled out Ukraine joining Nato or recovering Russian-occupied Crimea. He posted on Sunday: “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end…

17 Pelican Valley Nigeria Limited, a leading real estate company, has unveiled a zero-interest and no-hidden-charge housing and land subscription repayment plan targeted at Nigerians in the diaspora. The new offer was officially announced on Wednesday in Winnipeg, Manitoba, during a real estate conference where the award-winning firm showcased its property investment opportunities to participants from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. According to the company, the initiative was introduced to attract more investors, support capital repatriation, and help bridge Nigeria’s widening housing deficit. Speaking at the event, the Chief Executive Officer of Pelican Valley, Dr Babatunde Adeyemo,…

Leigh Boobyer & Jeremy SternBBC News, WiltshireBBCFaye Woodley says she has “no confidence” in planned NHS dentistry reformsA woman who says her teeth were destroyed by cancer treatment says dental care in the UK “feels like we’re going back to Victorian times”.Faye Woodley, who is unable to work because of chronic illness, said she was unable to afford the required treatment to fix her teeth, which would cost thousands of pounds at her practice.She said she had “no confidence” in planned NHS dentistry reforms and the current situation felt like a step back in time when “only the rich were…

We’re now into that strange period of the season where the starting gun has been fired but the transfer window remains open. In other words, there’s even more howling to be done as fans bemoan the glaring holes in their teams that were brutally exposed on opening day.In the battle for who needs most reinforcements, surely West Ham are leading the race after starting the season in shambolic style with a 3-0 defeat by newly promoted Sunderland. When the oddsmakers updated their ‘next Premier League manager to go’ markets on Monday morning, it was no surprise to see Hammers boss…

Esteban Amaro, director of the Quintana Roo Sargassum Monitoring Network, agrees that fuel is the best product to focus on. Processing the seaweed into other consumer products is possible, but inadvisable given that the health risks of doing so have not yet been sufficiently studied.“I believe that sargassum’s purpose is to produce energy, because when it decomposes, it releases many heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, and cadmium,” Amaro says. “Therefore it is better to produce biofuels or biogas than everyday products like clothing or shoes.”A Potential Source of Carbon CreditsIn the race to dispose of sargassum, there is another…

Myanmar will begin its general elections on 28 December, its military government announced, in a phased poll widely condemned as a sham that will be used to entrench the junta’s power.This will be the first vote since the junta seized power in a bloody coup in 2021, and imprisoned democratically elected leader Aung San Sung Kyi.Myanmar has been embroiled in a civil war since, with deadly battles between the military and ethnic armed groups, many of whom have said they would not permit voting in their areas.Previous plans to hold an election were repeatedly delayed as the military has struggled…

Netflix has unveiled the key art and first-look images of its cast for House of Guinness. Louis Partridge, Anthony Boyle, Emily Fairn, Fionn O’Shea and James Norton star in the new show from Peaky Blinders mastermind Steven Knight — airing Sept. 25 on the streamer — about one of Europe’s most enduring dynasties. Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, the story begins immediately after the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur (Boyle), Edward (Partridge), Anne (Fairn)…

Despite the much-anticipated rollout of Dangote Refinery’s direct distribution of petrol and diesel, the initiative has not commenced as scheduled. This is as key petroleum products marketers are poised for an emergency meeting amid mounting uncertainty over the commencement of Dangote Refinery’s much-anticipated direct distribution of fuel products. Recall that Dangote Refinery had announced that from 15 August, the refinery’s would begin the direct delivery of petrol and diesel to filling stations, industrial facilities, and other high-volume consumers. According to a statement from the refinery, it aims to meet Nigeria’s daily consumption of 65 million litres of refined petroleum products.…

In early August, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) exchanged fire with Syrian government forces near Manbij in Kurdish-majority northeastern Syria. The tensions in the north came just weeks after bloodshed in the south’s Suwayda governorate killed more than 1,400 people and displaced nearly 175,000. The violence between Druze and Sunni Bedouin groups continued for more than a week and has still not fully abated.In March, groups loyal to former President Bashar al-Assad clashed with government forces and allied armed factions in the coastal governorates of Latakia and Tartus, dominated by the Alawite community. From 1,400 to 1,700 people were…