Barcelona and Benfica produced a classic that swung from the sublime to the ridiculous. We hand out honours and dishonours from the latest round of action

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Omar Marmoush s'est engagé ce jeudi avec Manchester City jusqu'en juin 2029. L'attaquant égyptien, arraché à l'Eintracht Francfort, se réjouit à l'idée de jouer sous les ordres du technicien espagnol Pep Guardiola.

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had emphasized diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government.

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A band of anti-Israel agitators stormed a History of Modern Israel class on the first day of Columbia University's spring semester, handing out posters showing a crushed Star of David.

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini, Jonathan Fadugba and Barney Ronay to discuss the Champions League action

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On the podcast today: PSG do the very thing PSG aren’t supposed to do and un-implode against Manchester City, coming back from 2-0 down to win 4-2 and leave Pep’s side with a chance of not making the Champions League playoffs.

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A sense of play has characterized some of the most exciting outfits in the streets of New York this winter.

• Forward’s arrival takes City’s January outlay to £122.5m
• Milan have option to buy Walker at end of the season

Manchester City have confirmed the signing of Omar Marmoush for €70m (£59.1m) plus €5m in add-ons from Eintracht Frankfurt and have agreed to loan Kyle Walker to Milan, who have an option to buy the defender in summer.

Marmoush, who has a four-and-a-half-year contract, is the Premier League champions’ third acquisition of the window. He follows the defenders Vitor Reis, bought from Palmeiras for £29.6m, and Abdukodir Khusanov, signed for £33.8m from Lens, taking City’s spend to £122.5m.

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• Manchester City second in list with £708m earnings
• Top 20 revenue-generating clubs made £9.46bn last year

Real Madrid became the first football club to surpass €1bn (£844m) in revenue in a season when they substantially increased their financial firepower over their major European rivals.

According to the latest Deloitte Football Money League report, Madrid made €1.046bn (£883m) in the 2023-24 season, fuelled by match-day revenue doubling to €248m after the completion of renovations to the Bernabéu and a 19% increase in commercial revenue. They ended the campaign as winners of the Champions League, La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup.

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From 2-0 up, Manchester City crumbled in Paris and their manager was simply powerless to stop it

Slowly, and then all at once. This is how Manchester City collapse these days. Pep Guardiola once described his ultimate fever dream as a coach, the goal at the end of all this detail; which is essentially to have the ball for 90 minutes, creating his own frictionless Pep-world of total control. Well, that might just have to be parked for a bit. Probably best not to watch this one back for a while, either.

At the Parc des Princes City produced one of the strangest performances of Guardiola’s time. Everyone has an off day. Human error happens. What stood out in, a second half during which City went from 2-0 up to 4-2 down, was how lonely the players looked out there, a team utterly losing the sense of itself.

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Scientific meetings were canceled, and research data on the bird flu outbreak was delayed, amid confusion over the directive.

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It ought to have been over. In previous times it surely would have been. Erling Haaland had tapped in from close range shortly after Jack Grealish, on as a substitute, had broken the deadlock. There were 53 minutes on the clock and Manchester City looked ready to breathe life into their ailing Champions League campaign.

And yet the current edition of Pep Guardiola’s serial Premier League champions have come to lack the old certainties. They are vulnerable to high-tempo flurries from the opposition. The idea for them was to prove they were back, having moved on from that horror run of one win in 13 from the end of October. They had won four of their previous five.

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Dans une interview au média australien Optus Sport, Emmanuel Adebayor a assuré ne pas regretter sa célébration devant les supporters d'Arsenal, son ancien club, alors qu'il portait les couleurs de Manchester City lors d'un match contre les Gunners lors de la saison 2009-2010.

Covered windows, peeling wallpaper: For the first time outside of Amsterdam, an exhibition reconstructs Anne’s hiding place during the devastation of the Holocaust.

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The plan, which rezones parts of the Manhattan neighborhood, aims to address the city’s housing shortage and the area’s beleaguered commercial sector.

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A story of hazy memories, a reluctant rock star and a special day in 1973. Or was it 1974?

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