Bruno Fernandes' move to Manchester United is part of a Fifa investigation after Sampdoria lodged a complaint against Sporting Lisbon for unpaid sell-on fees.

Arsenal are reportedly planning a summer move to capture Bayern Munich youngster Angelo Stiller.

Liverpool are benefiting from an analytics-led transfer policy that helps them find value even at the top end of the market, the club's former director of football Damien Comolli has declared.

Liverpool are favourites to secure the signing of in-demand RB Leipzig forward Timo Werner this summer.

Luke Shaw has hailed the togetherness of the Manchester United squad, revealing the introductions of manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and signings such as captain Harry Maguire have provided pivotal turning points.

England star Jadon Sancho has told of how he grew up idolising Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney, amid speculation linking him with a move to Old Trafford.

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Tottenham have been handed a major boost in their attempts to sign Thomas Meunier with reports in France claiming that the Belgian will not be signing a new contract with PSG.

Manchester United want to extend Odion Ighalo's loan deal as they continue to weigh up a permanent move.

Arsenal loanee Henrikh Mkhitaryan has pleaded with the club to allow him join AS Roma on a permanent basis.

Manchester United are only pursuing an extension to Odion Ighalo's loan deal and have no immediate plans to negotiate a permanent move.

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Ivan Rakitic plans to see out his contract at Barcelona.

Liverpool remain keen on signing Kosovo winger Milot Rashica, the president of the country's Football Federation has claimed.

Ajax chief executive Edwin van der Sar has all-but confirmed that the likes of Andre Onana and Donny van de Beek will leave the club this summer, but warned their Premier League suitors: 'They won't come cheap!'

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has confirmed he still wants to improve his attack - despite Ed Woodward issuing a warning about Manchester United's spending this summer.

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Fabio Capello has warned Lautaro Martinez against a move to Barcelona, claiming he is not guaranteed starts at the Camp Nou.

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder has warned Manchester United to do the "morally correct" thing and allow Dean Henderson to see out the season with the Blades.

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Social distancing rules will ‘kill cities’, experts warn – and the future of mass transit hangs in the balance

This is the second feature in our Life after lockdown series, which looks at how Covid-19 could change Australia for good

Before the pandemic struck, Sara Blazey made the same three-hour commute to work, three days a week, for the better part of 12 years. The 63-year-old family lawyer from the Blue Mountains works for a domestic violence legal advice hotline in Parramatta and it used to be that she would wake at 7am, drive seven minutes to Hazelbrook station and from there catch the 7.17am train to Parramatta before making the same one-and-a-half hour trip home in the evening.

With the pandemic, all that would change. Domestic violence support services such as the one Blazey worked for were declared “essential” services, meaning they could keep operating despite restrictions. To ensure they could do so safely, the organisation did what some commentators long thought impossible and began to transition its employees into working from home.

Terminally ill serial killer Ivan Milat is transferred from the medical wing of Long Bay Jail to Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital to receive pain relief as his health takes a turn for the worse.

A leading international transportation strategist says Sydney can never have a world-class public transport system, despite the NSW Government's record investment in major projects.

NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance wants to follow London's lead and take "drastic action" by ditching diesel and renewing Sydney's 8,000 bus fleet.

Britain's biggest family, who live in Morecambe, revealed how they did it in their latest Youtube video

Man Utd looked at signing Salomon Rondon in the January transfer window but Dalian Professional did not want to sell him.

The first ever set of specific recommendations to support transgender autistic young people was co-created by these youth and their families working hand-in-hand with clinical experts. The resulting model offers clinicians a set of concrete ways to provide this unique population the support they need.

Photosynthetic systems in nature transport energy very efficiently towards a reaction center, where it is converted into a useful form for the organism. Scientists have been using this as inspiration to learn how to transport energy efficiently in, for example, molecular electronics. Physicist Richard Hildner from the University of Groningen and colleagues have investigated energy transport in an artificial system made from nanofibres. The results were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

A new discovery in mice shows the innate immune system has 'memory,' previously thought to be a unique feature of the adaptive immune system. Blocking this memory prevented transplanted organs from being rejected, providing a way to more specific drugs that could lengthen organ transplant survival.

Researchers have used a microbiome 'fingerprint' method to report that an individualized mosaic of microbial strains is transmitted to the infant gut microbiome from a mother giving birth through vaginal delivery. They detailed this transmission by analyzing existing metagenomic databases of fecal samples from mother-infant pairs, as well as analyzing mouse dam and pup transmission in a germ-free, or gnotobiotic, mouse model, where the dams were inoculated with human fecal microbes.

The Secretary of State will be joined at Downing Street with deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam.

In its desperate attempt to flatten the curve, India is flattening something else: its notorious air pollution.

Based on its first randomized comparison to standard ICDs, the subcutaneous-lead ICD 'should be considered in all patients who need an ICD who do not have a pacing indication,' researchers said.
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THE same process used by an international matchmaking site to pair lonely hearts may hold the key to improving the outcomes of liver transplants.

Transurban reports to shareholders that construction on the West Gate Tunnel has been set back, with the project now expected to be completed by in 2023.

Sarah Ferguson is never one to do things by halves and to mark VE Day on Friday, the...

Ceballos was injured back in November which forced him out of action for three months, during which time Emery was sacked by Arsenal, though the midfielder is now back to full fitness

Klopp says he'd choose Gerrard if he was able to magically sign a legend from Liverpool's past to play in his current team, but warned him he'd have to fight for his place

When Belinda Willshire's partner brought a gun into her home and threatened her sons' lives, she knew something needed to change. Now, the mother-of-four has turn her life around with the help of triathlons.

A smiling, happy Brydi Saul is on a mission to get to the Paralympics. But rewind three years, and it was a very different story.

By Jennifer A. Davidson and Justine E. Johnson On February 21, 2020, FDA published a final rule that, effective March 23, 2020, amends the regulatory definition of “biological product” consistent with the statutory definition under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA), as amended by the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (FCAA),

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BIO is hosting a Translation Research Forum at the BIO International Convention.  NIH Director Collins keynotes an event that will explore how private, public and academic sectors can leverage meaningful partnerships, highlight emerging best practices, explore risk-sharing at the clinical research stage, and explore ways to bridge the gap in funding and know-how necessary to take […]

Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today raising a series of concerns over the methodology used to distribute and the lack of transparency into how COVID-19 relief funds and loans for health care providers are being spent.  “We write to raise serious concerns about the Provider Relief Fund and the Accelerated and Advance Payment Programs,” Pallone and Neal wrote.  “With respect to each, we are concerned about the lack of transparency with Congress and the American people about how funds are being spent or loans are being made.  We also have grave concerns regarding the methodology being used to distribute $175 billion Congress appropriated for the Provider Relief Fund.” The Chairmen’s letter documents concerns with how the programs are being run, in particular the Administration’s methodologies for distributing funding that has shortchanged a number of critical providers and makes clear that more transparency is needed for Congress to accurately assess the ongoing needs of health care providers as the COVID-19 crisis unfolds. “The Administration’s efforts to establish the Provider Relief Fund to date has been at best, a series of missteps, and at worst, a disregard of Congress’ intent for the program,” Pallone and Neal continued in their letter. Pallone and Neal wrote that when Congress passed the CARES Act, it was clear that the funding provided to HHS for the Provider Relief Fund was for the express purpose, “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.”  The two Chairs voiced concern that some of the funding formulas adopted to date fail to target funding based on the statutory framework relating to COVID-19 driven costs.  In fact, the Chairs write that the level of funding appears to be, “completely disconnected from need.” The Chairmen requested an immediate response from HHS regarding documents and information pertaining to the Provider Relief Fund and the Accelerated and Advanced Payment Program.  Pallone and Neal also wrote that if HHS is unable to immediately provide the information, it should provide a timeline of when the Committees would receive the requested information. While recognizing the incredible demands on the Department at this difficult time, the Chairmen emphasized that, “This crisis demands that we work swiftly and based on the best data available.  Currently, despite repeated requests, this Administration has prevented Congress from obtaining the data that the Department has available on funding for our health care system, data that is necessary to inform near future legislation.  We look forward to receiving this information so that we can conduct the business the American people expect of us.  We look forward to having you join us at the earliest possible date in each of our Committees to discuss these and other COVID-related issues.” To read the full letter, click HERE. ###

Bristol Myers Squibb and Acceleron Pharma’s Reblozyl (luspatercept) has secured a positivr opinion from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for use in the treatment of transfusion-dependent anaemia in two adult patient populations.

Researchers studying malaria in Kenya have discovered a microbe that blocks transmission of malaria from mosquitoes which could pave the way to eradicating the disease.

When Gilead Sciences scored a groundbreaking FDA emergency use authorization for COVID-19 therapy remdesivir, the company made the unusual move of handing distribution rights to the U.S. government. But the federal rollout has gotten off to a rocky start.