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Steven Gerrard insists Chelsea  won’t compete for major honours until they buy “world-class” players for three positions after an inconsistent start to the season. A surprise 1-0 defeat to Sunderland on Sunday  leaves Chelsea in fifth place heading into the international break in Xabi Alonso’s first season at Stamford Bridge. They’ve won five and lost four of their 10 Premier League games this term, scoring the third-most goals with 19 behind Manchester City (21) and Brighton (26), but conceding 16, the seventh-most in the division and more than any team in the top half of the table. Asked if Chelsea’s next round of recruitment needs to start with the defence, Gerrard said on The Overlap Daily, sponsored by Sky Bet : “100 per cent. “Chelsea have good defenders. I really like Reece James when he’s fit and available and he plays right-back. I think he’s the best right-back in the country. “I really like Colwill, because he gives them nice balance and the left foot. T...

United  States President Donald Trump has questioned the integrity of last week’s midterm elections, reversing course less than a week after congratulating Democrats on their victories and saying he was willing to accept the results. “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday. “How could the Polls be so wrong???” While  Republicans questioned  whether polls were once again underestimating their support, as they had in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 presidential elections, the results ultimately went the other way. Polls had largely pointed to a strong night for Democrats, with surveys suggesting the party was well positioned to take control of the House of Representatives and had a realistic chance of winning the Senate. In fact, Pew Research released a report analysing pre-election polling data and found that the data understated the Democratic margin by at least 2 points in 23 of 27 races for governo...

Jerusalem —  President Donald Trump said a “great dislike” for Israel was one of the reasons the Republicans lost in the midterm elections, along with the Iran war and the subsequent rise in gasoline prices. “I think if I was on the ballot, it would’ve been a much different situation because you saw the level of popularity and love,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’ " 60 Minutes" that aired Sunday . “But there’s something beyond that. They didn’t like the war. They didn’t like the fact that gasoline went up, ‘cause I had it down at a low, and there’s a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel.” Trump’s comments underscore a sea change in US politics  where Israel once had bipartisan support, as well as strong backing from Republican and Democratic presidents. But the extent of US military and financial support for Israel emerged as a frequent political liability during the midterm elections. Michigan’s Democratic Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed may have been the most...

Barcelona' s Lamine Yamal  will miss Spain 's Nations League  game against Czechia  on Thursday with a knee injury, the Spanish Federation [RFEF] announced Monday. Yamal, 19, picked up the knock in his right knee during Barça's 2-1 victory away at  Atlético Madrid  in LaLiga  on Sunday. The forward played 90 minutes as Barça secured a win which extended their lead at the top of the table to three points, setting up the winner for Fermin López. He will undergo treatment in Barcelona over the next few days, the RFEF added, with the aim of joining up with the Spain squad ahead of Sunday's match against England  in Madrid. Real Sociedad  striker Mikel Oyarzabal  will also sit out the trip to Czechia as he recovers from flu. Like Yamal, the RFEF say he will return for the England game. Yamal has started all 20 games for club and country this season so far, scoring 17 goals and providing 13 assists, amid calls for his minute...

President Bola Tinubu on Saturday urged supporters in Rivers State to use their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to vote for what he described as the progressive development of the Nigerian economy, saying it was their weapon against poverty. Tinubu made the appeal while addressing supporters at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, during the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign rally ahead of the 2027 general elections. The President urged those who had yet to collect their PVCs to do so, stressing that the card was the instrument available to them to fight poverty through the ballot. “It is left for you to use the weapon you have, and that weapon is the PVC. If you have not collected yours, please go ahead and collect it. Please, I beg you, I take God beg. The weapon you have against poverty is to elect progressive development of our economy. That is what I am pursuing,” Tinubu said. Addressing Nigerian youths, the Preside...

Doja Cat  dropped by The Jennifer Hudson Show  on Friday (Nov. 6) to chat up her recently released fifth album, Vie , and share the story behind the male childhood alter ego that is still a part of her life today. But the rapper/singer also provided some super helpful tips during a rapid fire segment where she weighed in on everything from the eternal question of whether there’s life on Mars, to the proper plane footwear debate, the appropriate number of people for a group chat and the one song she could listen to forever. First things first. She cannot tell you if there is life on Mars, and frankly, she added, neither can beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. “I think that there might be life somewhere else in the universe,” she said of her thoughts on humanity’s eternal question about our place in the cosmos. “But … Mars? If it’s anything it’s like microbes,” she said, casually mentioning that the red planet has something called “water bears,” aka Tardigrad...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that he says will prevent future presidents from making certain changes to the White House Oval Office. The executive order declares the president's official office, which he has renovated, to be a national monument. "We're making it a national monument, and it will not be allowed to be touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people, in order to build something in a slightly different shape," Trump told reporters on Thursday. The order does not prevent future presidents from changing the decor of the famous room. The document says that it does not "restrict the President's authority to redecorate the monument, select furnishings, or make ordinary operational and security modifications that do not substantially impair the monument's historic structure or architectural character". American presidents currently have the power to make some changes to the White House but larg...

The EU announced on Nov. 5 that it had sent an additional 4.36 billion euros ($4.91 billion) in financial support to Ukraine, as part of its 90 billion euro ($101 billion) support loan. Ukraine has been unlocking tranches of the 90 billion euro loan in exchange for completing reforms required by the EU and by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the latest disbursement linked to IMF reforms. "By meeting the conditions agreed with international partners, Ukraine has demonstrated its continued commitment to EU accession and to strengthening its economic resilience," said the EU's Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis. "The 4.36 billion euros disbursed today under the Ukraine Support Loan reflect that progress," Dombrovskis said, before outlining how predictable financial support can help keep Ukraine's economy going. Of the disbursed amount, 3.7 billion euros ($4.2 billion) was tied to implementing IMF-required reforms. The remaining 658 m...

Portugal legend Cristiano Ronaldo says he is retiring from international football. The 41-year-old forward has scored 146 goals and won 234 caps for his country - both world records - since making his debut in 2003. He walked out  of the Portugal camp in September after being told he would not start the Nations League match against Denmark, resulting in a £215 fine and a 30-day suspension. "To the Portuguese people, the day has come for me to hand back the number seven shirt of our national team," Ronaldo said in an Instagram video., external   "I never felt it belonged to me alone, but for 23 years I had the privilege and responsibility of wearing it, defending it and carrying it with me into stadiums all around the world. "Today the time has come to pass it on to the future. It was not an easy decision, because some decisions are not made with the mind alone - they are also made with the heart. "A journey that began in August 2003 and changed my l...

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - With the US midterms  over, Democrats are turning to what could become one of their most crowded and unpredictable presidential primaries in decades, a 2028 contest likely to expose the party's divide over how to win back the White ​House. No Democrat has emerged as a clear favorite in a field that could attract dozens of contenders , while Republicans have a smaller group of widely discussed candidates, led by Vice President JD Vance ‌and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to succeed President Donald Trump, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term. Potential Democratic candidates, including sitting governors and senators, have spent months cultivating donors, visiting states with early nominating contests and raising their national profiles, positioning themselves for a race that strategists expect to begin in earnest now that the midterms are over. The sweeping victories by Democrats  on Tuesday, when voters deliver...

The 2027 Asian Cup is just the latest event to be postponed in the Middle East amid concerns about missile attacks by Yemen's Houthi movement. The 24-team tournament - Asia's version of the Euros - was scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia from 7 January to 5 February next year. The Asian Cup has now been delayed by almost a year,  and will be held between 23 December, 2027 and 21 January, 2028. Sport in the region had already been heavily affected by the US-Iran conflict, which led to the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends  in April this year. Now the races in Qatar and Abu Dhabi at the end of the year are also in doubt due to that ongoing situation and the current conflict involving the Houthis. If they are cancelled, F1 would have lost four of its 24 events this year. It is not just football and F1 that have been forced to cancel, reschedule or move high-profile events, and many more remain under threat. BBC Sport takes...