Giroud was a target for a number of sides during the January transfer window including Inter Milan, Lazio and Tottenham Hotspur having fallen out of favour at Stamford Bridge.

RUTH SUNDERLAND: How bad can it get? That's the question on the lips of investors, from the largest Wall Street operators to the most modest pension saver.

SPECIAL REPORT: There are growing concerns that the new franchise-based tournament is unaffordable given the challenges facing cricket amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Labour leadership contender Owen Smith has warned he will use parliament to try to block us from leaving the EU if he takes charge of the party.

The Liverpool defender, 28, is currently at home training on his own as the Premier League has been suspended since March due to the ongoing pandemic.

RICHARD KAY: Above all Harry's speech demonstrated how raw and how unpredictable the drama over his and Meghan's split from the royals really is.

Just days after the line-up for the latest season of Dancing With the Stars was revealed, fans are already hedging their bets on who will take out the top spot.

Former boxing world champion turned top pundit Paulie Malignaggi doesn't think Deontay Wilder has what it takes to beat Tyson Fury when the pair fight for a third time.

For most, challenging one of the hardest-hitting heavyweights ever to a fight would be seen as somewhat of a left-field move, but for big John Fury it's what we've come to expect.

Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wants to expanded absentee balloting and a rethink of how Americans vote in November to avoid delaying the contest due to coronavirus concerns.

Ciara delivered an electrifying performance at the Billboard Music Awards performance on Wednesday.

How many players in Premier League history have had a position named after them? The Neville shuttle? The Bergkamp shadow? The Heskey statue? No – just one – Claude Makelele.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Rather than waste time trying to punish the leaker, McLaren should hear the cri de coeur that represents large parts of the Woking workforce and sort this mess out.

The video posted to social media shows the mother, Kathy Byczynski, of Ottawa, Illinois, ordering her daughter, Alayna, to get ready to make a run to the store and stock up on some wine.

EDDIE HEARN: I have had a lot of people asking for an update on Joshua and as ever a lot of work has been going on behind the scenes. We have made offers to the major heavyweight contenders.

Unforeseen events have utterly transformed the political weather. First came the Election result. Then came the abiding, endlessly painful tragedy of Grenfell Tower.

Videos involving purple shampoo - a product to remove brassiness - are going viral on TikTok as users seem to have misunderstood what the shampoo is for. Teens are using it to 'dye' their hair

Andy Murray said he can finally play without worrying about his hip following career-saving surgery in January, but says next year's Australian Open is a big test of his progress.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said households are saddled with £8,000 of non-mortgage debts, totalling £230 billion across the UK. And the coronavirus pandemic means incomes are falling.

Think-tank Reform is calling on Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor (pictured), to let businesses bring back employees on reduced hours but still receive some state support as lockdown is lifted.

The Gypsy King annihilated Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas to take the WBC crown and the pair are set for a dream showdown when the COVID-19 lockdown is lifted.

Tottenham's second-choice goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga says he is not dwelling on Harry Kane's £200million transfer rumours as he is only 'thinking of him as a Tottenham player'

In a blow for the Chancellor who used the Autumn Statement to unveil a raft of populist giveaways, 60 per cent thought it was good for ‘rich people’.

He was on the field for just 63 minutes, but in that time Diogo Jota showed again why he is emerging as one of the most lethal strikers in the country, as Wolves gathered further momentum.

After shooting onto the scene in 2017, Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold has achieved everything that a young academy player dreams of in his career and he is just 21 years old.

UEFA president said he would consider finishing the European competitions behind closed doors but will accept they might have to be cancelled if they were unable to resume by September.

Supermarket deliveries are a lifeline for those who have been told they will be at serious risk if they leave home. Despite this, many precious delivery slots are still snapped up by young, healthy households.

EXCLUSIVE: This week Sir Ian Botham will join friends at an Adelaide vineyard to help scatter the ashes of his great mate and longtime brother-in-arms Bob Willis.

The Court of Appeal ruled that the £14billion Heathrow expansion project was illegal because the Government did not take its duty to curb climate change into account.

Gareth Bale believes Wales reaching the European Championship next summer could trump the achievement of playing at Euro 2016. Wales ended a 58-year wait in 2016.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has warned that the decision to move the African Cup of Nations back to a January slot will have an impact on the club's transfer policy.

People have been confusing the new, deadly coronavirus with Corona beer with searches for both 'corona beer' and 'corona beer virus' rising by more than 1,100% over the last week.

Nazeem Hussain pulled off an epic April Fool's Day prank on his mother by tricking her into thinking he was keeping a live tiger in his house. 

Google will still allow users to scroll through the results and will sometimes provide 'alternative' searches that could not better results by re-tailoring language or using different terms.

Former NASA astronaut Steven Lee Smith, 61, from Phoenix, Arizona claimed today on Lorraine that in decades to come, space tourism will become as common as travelling by airplane.

According to the social platform, it is conducting a test for users on iOS that will use its AI to scan replies before they're posted and give users a chance to re-think or revise them.

The letter from HM Courts and Tribunals Service hit my doormat last month. I knew what it was before I opened it - for the third time in my life, I had been selected for jury service starting later this month.

While reopening economic activities, we need to keep in mind that the industry cannot be opened in isolation, the whole ecosystem along with the related supply chains needs to be revived and restarted, said Suresh Prabhu, Hon'ble Member of Parliament. We should follow the Chinese model of revival through specific geographical openings for economic activities in areas which are marked green and keeping the hotspot districts completely locked, till there is full containment in those areas, said Hon'ble Member of Parliament. This is the time India needs to take advantage of the crises and convert it into an opportunity, we set our National goal of getting Foreign Direct Investments to India and each citizen and all arms of the government must work towards this common goal with complete alignment of reforms, said Prabhu. Businesses are the most important part of the economy, as they are significant contributors to economic growth and progress, he said.

While holistic solutions are available, municipalities have struggled to implement them without proper planning and support from various ministries. Sanjay K Gupta reports.

In 2007, Mayawati won extensively in OBC strongholds and lost in some SC ones — those who voted for her were actually voting someone else out

If you’ve read a book in a car, you probably know what motion sickness feels like. WSJ’s Tim Higgins visits Massachusetts-based ClearMotion, which is betting its suspension technology could provide a solution as we move closer towards a future with driverless cars. Photo: Max Esposito/WSJ

Beyond planting trees, what do we need to be really doing that makes for the difference we seek in use and abuse of resources? Chandrashekar Hariharan presents some directions that consumers, citizens, businessmen need to be taking.

Global oil prices have risen dramatically, and nationalised oil companies have been crying themselves hoarse over the government's reluctance to correspondingly increase retail prices. The sensible long term alternative is to move beyond fossil fuels, with clear policy initiatives. The India Together editorial.

An Expert Group in the Planning Commission calls for a more development-led approach to people's resistance, and a renewed commitment by the State to the democratic system. K S Subramanian says a lot of people should read the report.

Three million forest dwellers in Odisha are estimated to have been displaced since independence by various industrial and hydro-projects, among which the Upper Indiravati Hydro Project is one. Abhijit Mohanty brings us the story of three tribal settlements uprooted by it.

A recent IFPRI report indicates concrete progress by India in the hunger index, while many experts continue to underline unsatisfactory outcomes under GDP-driven growth. Prahlad Shekhawat calls for a new approach to address the real issues that lie somewhere in between.

Many teenagers in Mumbai are spending their evenings on the "untiring toil" of tuitions, trying to learn what their teachers should have been teaching them in junior college but don't. This is a system that unthinkingly takes away these kids' leisure time, says Dilip D'Souza.

Did you know why the Indian lockdown is creating so much human suffering, even though we did relatively well on the Covid case numbers? Why is ours the only major country in the world where...

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