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Manchester City have avoided a Fifa transfer ban despite being found to have broken rules regarding the signing of young players. City have been fined 370,000 Swiss francs (£314,725) by world football’s governing body after admitting to breaching regulations on the international transfer of under-18s. The Premier League champions faced being hit with …

Boris Johnson has been accused of “breaking the economy” with continued threats of a no-deal Brexit and mounting fears the UK could face its first recession in a decade. It comes as GDP shrank by 0.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2019 as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) latest figures …

Adam Peaty says he is “addicted to the pain” after his hard work paid off with a record-breaking World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju. The 24-year-old enjoyed his most successful World Championships to date in South Korea this month as he won four medals – three of them gold. Peaty helped …

A Brexit Party bus was found abandoned in a hedge late last night after it broke down in the Brecon Beacons. James Wells MEP, who is campaigning for the party in an upcoming by-election in Wales, confirmed that the bus broke down and had to be left until this morning to be …

Good Friday morning. Coming up: The Justice Department is expected to approve T-Mobile’s deal to buy Sprint this morning. (Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.) This Facebook co-founder wants to split the company Chris Hughes helped create the company when he was Mark Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard, …

Orange Is the New Black, finishing its seven-season run today, was big. Big in its reach (presumably, though actual viewing figures for Netflix series are still an occult mystery). Big in its influence, as one of the first genuinely original programmes in the new medium of streaming. Big in its ambitions …

Chace Crawford has revealed that one of his former Gossip Girl co-stars was in the running to play Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad. The American actor, who appears in new Amazon series The Boys, claims that Penn Badgley was in the running to play the role opposite Bryan Cranston before it went …

Teaming up Barcelona captain Lionel Messi with new signing Antoine Griezmann, and also bringing back Neymar from Paris Saint Germain, excites many both inside and outside the Camp Nou. But with Barca’s finances already worryingly stretched even before paying €120 million to sign Griezmann last week, the idea of pushing …