Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho stoked the embers of his rivalry with Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger after his side’s damaging 2-0 defeat at the Emirates Stadium.

South Africa’s net foreign reserves rose to 41.728 billion dollars in April from 41.419 billion dollars in March, the Reserve Bank said on Monday.

Atletico Madrid and Monaco will attempt to overturn daunting first-leg deficits in the Champions League semi-finals this week and publicly they insist they can pull off the improbable.

Facebook has launched a British newspaper advertising campaign to warn users of the dangers of fake news, in the latest drive by the social media giant to tackle malicious information ahead of a national election.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino claimed on Monday that the finances of football’s governing body were “extremely solid”, despite it posting a $369 million loss earlier this year.

Hundreds of Syrian rebel fighters began a process of leaving the besieged Damascus suburb of Barzeh on Monday as part of an evacuation deal agreed with the government, state television and a war monitor reported.

Shanghai SIPG’s Brazilian striker Hulk insisted he likes and respects “all of the Chinese people” as he rejected claims of a racially motivated assault on an assistant coach in the Chinese Super League.

The Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has been urged to give a top priority to the security of the state by giving quick ascent to the Anti-Grazing Bill passed last week by the State House of Assembly.

The 18-year-old brother of Safia S, a teenage girl who stabbed a police officer in the neck on behalf of Islamic State, goes on trial in Germany on Monday on suspicion of carrying out an arson attack in a mall in 2016.

Oil prices rose on Monday on a growing conviction that an OPEC-led production cut initially scheduled to end in June would be extended to cover all of 2017.