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Aubameyang completed his long-awaited move to Arsenal on deadline day, the Gunners parting with a club-record £55 million for his services. Dortmund replaced the Gabon international with the loan signing of Chelsea’s Michy Batshuayi - whom Stoger has suggested will go straight into the starting XI for Friday’s trip to Cologne. To complete the transfer triangle, Arsenal offloaded Olivier Giroud to Chelsea, but with the window now shut, Stoger hopes a good deal of the media furore will die down heading into the business end of 2017-18....

The female jaguar, named Juma, escaped the chains around her neck moments after being a few feet away from the Olympic torch, which was at a zoo adjacent to a military training center. MORE: 31 greatest Olympic athletes The animal was shot with tranquilizers, and then was killed with one shot by a member of the army after it allegedly came close to attacking a soldier. The killing of Juma led to a backlash by animal rights activists, including a local organizing committee for Rio 2016, which released the following statement:...

The pairing of six-year-old Kirana and two-year-old Raja took place over several months, the zoo said in a press release on Monday. “Keepers moved the two near each other so they had visual and smell access while still being physically separated by a mesh door and then closely monitored the pair, looking for ‘chuffing,’ fence-rubbing, and other positive signs that they were attracted to and comfortable with each other,” the release said....

Alexa Groat and her family chartered a fishing boat on Tuesday to celebrate her sister’s birthday, when an unexpected guest gatecrashed the party. The group had taken the boat out to the Gulf of Mexico where they spotted the shark (Rhincodon typus) cruising near the surface of the water. “It was a moment of clarity, that we are so small compared to the rest of the world,” she told Newsweek....

Willock leads Man Utd’s ’top four’ talents It is well known that certain Premier League teams would be in favour of this idea - first floated by ex-FA chairman Greg Dyke in 2014 as a way of increasing the production of young English talents. But the 72 EFL clubs said no last September when they voted against any structural reform that would facilitate Premier League clubs fielding “B” teams in their divisions....

LIVE: Follow England vs. France updates from the World Cup A matchup that is potentially big enough for a World Cup final itself, let alone a last-eight clash, this tie should deliver plenty of action, as two of the free-scoring sides at the tournament meet. As well as the overall tactical battle, there will be plenty of individual clashes between world-class stars, including Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe. Who will win the midfield battle between Jude Bellingham and Aurelien Tchouameni?...

The 20-year-old joined RB Leipzig during the January transfer window, on loan from the Merseyside outfit, and has made five appearances for the club since his arrival. And despite having spent only two months at Leipzig, the forward is of the opinion that the English topflight is quite physical to the German top division. “It’s different to the Premier League,” Lookman told Bundesliga website. “The Premier League is a lot more physical, but most of the teams here like to play football in terms of more passing and moving....

Annabel Dorrestein, a Ph.D. candidate from Western Sydney University, has been studying flying foxes (otherwise known as fruit bats) on the island—which is located around 960 miles northwest of the closest point on the Australian mainland. However, the scientist’s research has often been interrupted by robber crabs living up to their name and trying to steal her equipment. “They have been bothering me ever since I started my Ph.D.,” Dorrestein told ABC News....

A mayoral staffer opened the envelope, addressed to Jersey City Mayor "Steven Fulop, family and friends," about 2:15 p.m. when a white, powdery substance fell out of the envelope, according to Jersey City public safety director James Shea. The content of the message was unknown, but a source told nj.com that its general message was “spiritual stuff. Heaven stuff. A picture of Tebow.” The staffer immediately alerted police. A squadron of police and fire personnel, the city's bomb squad, its hazmat unit and ambulances responded....

Now the bottled-water industry is fighting back. On Friday, NEWSWEEK has learned, The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle will each carry a full-page ad containing a message from the International Bottled Water Association. This week’s campaign will be the first industrywide advertising since 1999. In the ads, the industry pushes the notion that “calorie-free, refreshing water” is a healthy choice in a country where diabetes, obesity and heart disease afflict so many people....

Tearing occurs when these pool in the eyes and sometimes spill over onto the cheeks—akin to crying but without sadness. Tearing, in this case, is a symptom of an underlying issue. If you treat that cause, the tearing should stop. In some cases, though, there may actually be more than one factor at play. Look for all the factors that may be contributing here, including colds, allergies, a blocked tear duct, and more....

Adams, who has long mocked the fellow frontrunner as an Ivy League-educated “startup” employee, bluntly referred to Yang as a “joke” Tuesday during a Bronx speech. Yang shot back and told NYC residents outside his new Bensonhurst office that Brooklyn Borough President Adams, a former NYPD captain, is another “business as usual” candidate in the pocket of current Mayor Bill de Blasio. De Blasio has not officially endorsed any candidate yet, but he has offered thinly veiled criticisms of Yang and has reportedly made private remarks in support of Adams....

All indications are that Ottawa general manager Pierre Dorion would prefer to find a trade partner before the 2018-19 regular season opens in October, bringing an end to what’s become a yearlong saga and yet another drain on the Senators. And after a monthlong hibernation, those rumors have returned. Here’s a recap of the situation, in case you’ve forgotten: The Senators tabled an eight-year contract extension worth $80 million ($10 million AAV) on July 1, the first day of eligibility to re-sign their star....

In her 2010 lawsuit, Andrews accuses the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University of allowing David Barrett, who was 50 at the time, to book rooms next to hers in 2008, rig peepholes and videotape her in the nude. Andrews, who worked for ESPN at the time, was in Nashville to cover Vanderbilt football. MORE: Worst crimes connected to sports | Andrews ‘jealous’ of Katie Nolan’s success Court documents say Barrett posted the videos on the Internet....

How tastes change. By the time the panels were excavated four to five decades ago, Chairman Mao had banned traditional erotica as pornography. During his Cultural Revolution the Red Guards burned such works in bonfires. The only reason the panels survived was that a peasant had used them in what the radicals saw as a more noble project: a pig sty. Recovered by sharp-eyed local officials in the 1980s, they have often been shown abroad, but never before in China....

John Huston’s 1981 film Escape to Victory is one of those memorable shows, particularly in the United Kingdom and Ireland. A cult classic among football fans, it has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas, but evokes memories of that time of year for many and boasted a stellar cast that packed full of well-known footballers. With the festivities in full swing, Goal takes a look back at the film that may well be gracing your screen during the holidays....

Instead, the three words that have been worn out are these: Shut it down. That has been the too-common response to every obstacle faced by those in charge of visible sporting entities in the year of COVID-19. And we’re hearing it again, in an amended fashion, now that a significant number of college basketball games have been scuttled by ESPN’s decision not to stage the multi-team tournaments it owns....

The 62-year-old, who was with ESPN for 27 years, said he used cocaine for years (but never at work) and had always been careful about who he purchased it from. In December 2017, Skipper said he decided to purchase cocaine from a new source. “I wasn’t careful this time,” said Skipper. “They threatened me, and I understood immediately that threat put me and my family at risk, and this exposure would put my professional life at risk as well....

One minute she was introducing her beaming dad to ESPN stars such as Adam Schefter, Jemele Hill and Ryan Clark in Bristol. The next she was horrified to learn ESPN management was not picking up the contract for what she termed her “dream job.” Morales’ three-year tenure with ESPN ends Jan. 5. Even though the layoff had zero to do with performance, she’s still wrestling with feelings of guilt. “I’ve never seen (my father) so happy and so proud of me, and then I lose the job,” Morales told Sporting News in an interview....