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Paul Ince backs flop Alexis Sanchez to become 'key part' of Manchester United

The Chilean is currently on loan at Inter Milan but has failed to make an impression and United are keen to offload Sanchez. Ince wouldn't be surprised if Sanchez turned things around at Old Trafford.




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Manchester United boss Solskjaer 'ready to sell Jones, Lingard, Pereira, Smalling and Sanchez'

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is reportedly prepared to sell five players this summer as part of an overhaul of his squad.




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Alexis Sanchez SHOULD return and play for Manchester United again, says Paul Merson

Alexis Sanchez has had a less-than-impressive loan spell with Inter Milan this season having been deemed surplus to requirements last summer by Man United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.




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Roy Keane hails Bruno Fernandes 'arrogance' after his blistering start at Manchester United

Fernandes has not crumbled under the United curse that has seen the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao all not live up to their billing after joining the club.




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Alexis Sanchez has had a difficult time at Manchester United and Inter Milan

Alexis Sanchez has had a difficult year according to his Chile boss Reinaldo Rueda. The Manchester United forward is on loan at Inter Milan where he has been in and out of the side with injuries.




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Paul Pogba, Alexis Sanchez and Jesse Lingard could be among Man United deadwood sold on

Manchester United will continue their squad overhaul this summer and it means clearing out some of the deadwood in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's squad to raise funds. But who could depart Old Trafford?




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Alexis Sanchez facing dilemma with 'Inter Milan unwilling to sign forward on a permanent deal

The 31-year-old may be forced to train separately from United's first-team squad at Carrington when the current season reaches a conclusion, after failing to impress during his Serie A loan spell.




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Alexis Sanchez 'keen on Universidad de Chile move' claims club chief as Man Utd seek to offload him

Alexis Sanchez is currently on loan at Inter Milan after struggling to adapt to life at Manchester United. Sanchez's future at Old Trafford is uncertain, but he is reportedly keen on a move back to Chile.




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TOM UTLEY: What my wifi going wonky taught me about Prince Philip's lessons for life 

TOM UTLEY: Well, the minutes passed, and then the hours - and still I could get nothing but that infuriating message. I began to feel something like panic stealing over me.




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TOM UTLEY: Not since my teens have I felt the urge to conform. But even I feel it now

TOM UTLEY: All my grown-up life, I've prided myself on being something of a non-conformist - a maverick unafraid to question and challenge the conventional wisdom and conduct of the herd.




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Deontay Wilder jokes about Anthony Joshua's 'pitty pat' punching style

Deontay Wilder has taken a swipe at heavyweight rival Anthony Joshua as he steps up preparations for his rematch with Tyson Fury by mocking his boxing style.




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Floyd Mayweather predicts Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua's dominance will soon come to an end

Fury claiming the WBC title from Wilder in a spectacular display last month means he and Joshua, the WBA, IBF and WBO champion, hold all four of the major belts in the heavyweight division.




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Coronavirus UK: Anthony Joshua is 'fit and healthy' after meeting Prince Charles who tested positive

The world heavyweight champion is following government guidelines around self-isolation but has shown no symptoms of the deadly disease, which threatens to derail his fight with Kubrat Pulev.




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Coronavirus: Fears for the future of boxing as cancelled shows leave grassroots level in crisis

This week the British Boxing Board of Control pulled all fights until the end of April, with Anthony Joshua's June 20 clash with Kubrat Pulev also under threat of postponement.




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Tyson Fury 'plans to convince Deontay Wilder to step aside' from trilogy bout so he can face Joshua

Team Fury are said to be assessing options about whether the fighter can not face Wilder and instead provide the lucrative unification bout against WBA, WBO and IBF belt holder Anthony Joshua.




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Harry Kane is at a crossroads after angering Daniel Levy, as Manchester United wait to exploit rift

Given Spurs' financial circumstances, it's no wonder Daniel Levy was furious over Harry Kane's off-script message on cancelling the season. Tension is increasing and a move is looming.




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Frank Sanchez lines up shot at WBO title though his manager says Anthony Joshua will vacate the belt

Undefeated Frank Sanchez burst into the top ten of the WBO rankings after beating Joey Dawejko on points last month and is now lining up a title shot for Anthony Joshua's WBO title.




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Robert Smith says boxing won't resume behind closed doors until social distancing is totally lifted

Boxing is openly acknowledging that it will be impossible to resume action behind closed doors until the coronavirus lockdown eased and social distancing lifted completely.




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Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have a '50-50' chance of fighting each other this year - Barry Hearn

Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have a '50-50' chance of their much-anticipated world heavyweight unification fight taking place this year, according to Barry Hearn - chairman of Matchroom. 




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Why Scott Morrison 'has zero chance' of banning wet markets in China

The Morrison government - and the US administration - have called for the markets to be closed permanently to protect public health. But China is unlikely to listen.




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Donald Trump was told to cancel flights from Europe by deputy national security adviser in February

National security adviser Robert O'Brien's deputy, Matthew Pottinger, pushed to shut down air travel from the then-coronavirus epicenter Europe in February but Trump did so March 11.




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Girl, five, cries inconsolably after her medic mother died in the fight against coronavirus

Zhang Jingjing, 32, died from a cardiac arrest earlier this month after working day and night to save patients during a two-month mission to Hubei, the former ground zero of the outbreak.




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Chinese man who once gobbled down a raw snake gallbladder sees his lungs riddled with worms 

An exotic food lover from China who once devoured a snake gallbladder has found his lungs festered with worms. Doctors said that his riddled organs were caused by eating uncooked seafood.




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Billionaire Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest hits back after inviting Chinese diplomat to press conference

The billionaire invited Victorian China Consul-General Zhou Long -  who did not take questions but credited the 'transparent' manner with which China had dealt with the COVID-19 outbreak.




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Chinese tourists ignore social distancing and swarm to a 'sacred' mountain to watch the sunrise

A video shows the Mount Tai, one of China's five greatest mountains, being jam-packed with visitors this morning. Similar sights can be spotted in other famous tourist attractions in China today.




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Katarina Johnson-Thompson suggests she will forego defence of world indoor pentathlon title

There are three significant events in the 2021 athletics calendar, with the European Indoors on March 5-7 joined by the rescheduled World Indoors on March 19-21 and the Tokyo Olympics.




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'Once upon a virus': China mocks the US response to the coronavirus crisis with Lego-like animation

In the animation posted online by China's official Xinhua news agency, a warrior Lego figure wearing a face mask warns a Statue of Liberty figure of the dangers of the virus.




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China covered up the severity of COVID-19 and how contagious the virus was, say intelligence reports

Intelligence reports show China covered up the impact of COVID-19 to hoard supplies needed to battle the pandemic, which President Donald Trump says proves he wasn't late in addressing the crisis.




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Chinese investors are preparing to buy up cheap Australian property once restrictions are lifted

Chinese property investors are lying in wait to snap up cheap real estate deals in Australia when coronavirus travel restrictions are lifted.




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China reports the lowest number of active coronavirus cases since Wuhan was put under lockdown

Mi Feng, a spokesperson from China's National Health Commission, said Monday that the number of active infections in China dropped to 481, the lowest number recorded since January 23.




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Boris Johnson's Downing Street press conference is met with criticism on Gogglebox

Contributors on the Channel 4 show mocked Boris Johnson's description of COVID-19 as 'an unexpected mugger', with several pointing out it was 'no surprise'.




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Dr Fauci says there's 'NO evidence' coronavirus leaked from Chinese lab - contradicting Trump claims

Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, panned the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Monday.




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China 'harasses, threatens and silences' Wuhan COVID-19 survivors who plan to sue the government

Multiple activists, journalists and ordinary internet users have already vanished after criticising Beijing's approach to the crisis as the country tries to control the COVID-19 narrative.




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Children CAN spread coronavirus, studies claim as NIH launches trial to track pediatric infections 

One Chinese study found school closures can lower a peak in coronavirus cases by 40% to 60% and a Germany study found children carry as high levels of the virus as adults can.




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How Brisbane City Council SCRAPPED a $50,000 PPE donation to China

Brisbane City Council was gearing up to' send $50,000 worth of personal protective equipment to two Chinese cities before state and federal authorities called off the plan.




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Disneyland Shanghai to reopen on Monday with social distancing measures remaining in place

Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek revealed Disneyland Shanghai (left) will reopen its gates on Monday, becoming the first Disney theme park to start operating again after COVID-19.




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Plane carrying produce heads to Asia in first flight from South Australia since pandemic

The first scheduled international flight out of South Australia left with 30 tonnes of fresh seafood, meat and other produce destined for Asia.




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Chinese province forces residents to stand back to back in the lift to stop the spread of COVID-19

Local authorities from the north-eastern Chinese province Heilongjiang has issued a new set of guidelines as precautions against the spread of the killer bug in lifts and escalators.




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Mike Pompeo launches new attack on China accusing it of still refusing access to its labs

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a new round of attacks on China, accusing Beijing of covering up coronavirus outbreak and charging them with providing faulty medical equipment.




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Manchester City owners buy NINTH club - Belgian second division side Lommel SK

City Football Group, who are majority owned by Abu Dhabi United and have involvement from China Media Capital, CITIC Capital and Silver Lake, will wipe out Lommel's debts of £1.75million.




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How China 'used Word document to launch potentially devastating cyber-attack' on Western Australia

The report by Israeli cyber-security company Check Point said hackers known as Naikon targeted a worker in the office of the Western Autralian premier.




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Odion Ighalo 'desperate to stay at Manchester United' with striker due for return to China on May 31

Odion Ighalo was settling in nicely to his dream Manchester United loan before it was cruelly cut off by coronavirus, leaving the striker desperate to extend his stay with the Premier League club.




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Special case? Manchester United's Paul Pogba needs to be special to merit that

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Pogba is looking for a new challenge. No, he won't try to justify the £89million United spent on him. He wants a challenge, not mission impossible.




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The Open is off for first time since 1945... and other majors put back amid coronavirus pandemic

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: The Open will not be staged this year for the first time since 1945, after the R&A took the momentous decision to cancel the championship set for July.




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Tiger Woods watches Rafael Nadal deliver an 'incredible performance' at US Open

Golfer Tiger Woods was on hand with girlfriend Erica Herman and his children in New York on Monday to see Rafael Nadal come back and beat Marin Cilic to advance to the US Open quarterfinal.




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Jameela Jamil makes rare appearance with beau James Blake at the US Open Tennis Championships

The Good Place actress, 33, oozed style in a casually chic ensemble, consisting of an oversized black blazer and a pair of form-fitting cycling shorts.




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Priyanka Chopra cuts a glamorous figure in fringed dress at the Couture Council Award Luncheon

Priyanka Chopra had all eyes on her at the Couture Council Award Luncheon in New York ahead of Fashion Week on Wednesday.




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Switzerland's Bencic defeats pal Vekic to reach first Grand Slam semi-final at the US Open

Belinda Bencic defeated Donna Vekic on Wednesday to reach her first grand slam semi-final at the US Open.




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Teenager Bianca Andreescu reaches first ever Grand Slam semi-final at US Open

Teenager Bianca Andreescu's remarkable rise continued as she came from a set down to sink Elise Mertens and reach the last four of the US Open.




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US Open 2019: Bianca Andreescu was not even born when Serena Williams won her first Slam!

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: Twelve months ago a fast-rising young opponent - not to mention a vigilant umpire - turned the US Open final into something of a nightmare for Serena Williams.