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Barcelona started the game on the wrong foot, as Yannick Carrasco gave the defending champions the lead after eight minutes. However, the hosts equalised just two minutes later through Jordi Alba. Teenage sensation Gavi and Ronald Araujo’s first-half goals gave Xavi’s team a 3-1 lead before Dani Alves scored the Blaugrana’s fourth in the 48th minute. Luis Suarez scored Atletico’s second goal in the 58th minute. Alves was sent off in the 69th minute, but the hosts saw out the victory....

SON: I’ve always felt that the Internet should be much faster, much cheaper to use. Especially in Japan, it’s so expensive and so slow. I thought that we should change this, and if nobody else does it, we have to do it. That’s my attitude. We couldn’t do it much earlier because of the monopolistic situation that [phone giant NTT] has had. At the end of last year, a new law was passed....

“We are working on improving our performance at the World Cup. We will try many things against Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo [in Friday’s friendly match],” Cuper said in a press conference on Tuesday. “We always respect our opponent. Even if it is Europe’s champions Portugal, it is a very strong and important game. “The technical staff have studied Portugal and Ronaldo well, as we did with Uruguay and their stars Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani, and we will see what will happen in the match....

A Neymar-inspired Barca side thrashed PSG 6-1 at Camp Nou on Wednesday to overturn a 4-0 first-leg deficit and reach the quarter-finals. PSG give Emery vote of confidence Emery’s continental pedigree - having led Sevilla to three Europa League crowns in a row - was key to his appointment in Paris, but four consecutive quarter-final exits with this damaging departure leaves PSG without a statement in Europe since their billionaire Qatari owners took over in 2011....

Hazard suffered a fractured ankle while on international duty with Belgium in June and is yet to start a Premier League match for the champions this season. Hazard to bag last goal 16/5 The 26-year-old winger was involved in both of Belgium’s World Cup qualifiers against Gibraltar and Greece at the start of the month, with Conte previously revealing that he and Roberto Martinez agreed that Hazard would benefit from getting those two games under his belt....

Arsenal must listen to ‘Kroenke Out’ protesters Wenger has yet to sign a contract extension at the Emirates Stadium, and many supporters feel it is time for him to leave the club. On Sunday, the Gunners failed to better Liverpool’s result in the Premier League, meaning they finish fifth and will not play in the Champions League next season. While many fans had previously called for Wenger’s exit, those calls grew louder with many prominent supporters including Piers Morgan weighing in on #WengerOut....

While the specifics of the tour haven’t been mentioned, Xavi could be referring to when the Catalan giants toured Japan in late July 2005. They played out a 1-1 draw against the Yokohama Marinos. They beat the same team in Japan two years later, but by then, Messi was a major fixture in Barcelona’s starting XI. Speaking in the documentary ‘Messi’, Xavi said: He added: Messi and Xavi played 399 matches together as teammates, winning four UEFA Champions League titles and seven La Liga seven titles....

The Super Eagles will be aiming to go beyond the second round at the global tournament since their maiden appearance in 1994, with a youthful squad. They are paired with Croatia, Iceland and Argentina in Group D, and Rohr has assured that his squad are out to put smiles on the 180 million Nigerians with their approach in games. “We know this pressure. We have this all the time. We had it in qualifiers....

It’s a heck of a father-son story, but it’s also a tale of the power of one man to do something selfless that forever changes a life. Or, in this story, 200 lives. “Courage,” Aristotle wrote, “is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” And courage is precisely what was on display in a German prison camp over seven decades ago, when one brave American soldier did the unthinkable: Staring down the barrel of his Nazi captor’s pistol, he refused to identify which of his fellow prisoners of war were Jewish....

I was there for seven years, and every year graduation rates amongst our homeless individuals were rising. I would be with them through their high school experience, and then thinking: What happens next? In Denver, we only have one homeless shelter exclusively for teens. Finding housing for youth past 18 is really difficult without a guardian, or any type of down payment. Then I heard about Colorado Village Collaborative through a mutual friend....

We had tried so many times to get a line from Belgrade to Pristina that when I finally heard it actually ringing, on April 6, I could hardly believe it. I could picture it: the old black Bakelite telephone on the little table on the second floor of the house of my old friend, Ibrahim Rugova; his study with the collection of rocks from all over Kosovo. “Comment vas-tu?” I said, because we speak in French....

There were over half a million customers affected by this decision. Travix, the parent company of BudgetAir, CheapTickets and others now owned by Chinese firm Trip.com, operates in around 40 countries and sells, in a normal year, around five million airline tickets. Now, thousands of customers are complaining about no refunds and no communication, with little way to get their stories heard. “I’m out of pocket by £3,500,” customer Zad Mahal wrote on TrustPilot....

But my big plan growing up was to go and work for Disney, so I actually studied animation. But once I got into that industry I realized that a lot of the work is contract based, so it can be hard to be employed consistently. Then, in 2009, my uncle called me up and asked if I wanted to check out what he did for work, he said he thought I would enjoy it because I’m a social guy....

Chelsea and Conte could struggle in the Champions League After finishing second behind Arsenal in Group A, the Ligue 1 champions have been pitted against the Spaniards, who have knocked them out of the competition in two of the last four years. Although PSG, who lie second in Ligue 1, impressed in beating Bordeaux 3-0 on Friday, the Brazil international centre-back is aware their level needs to be raised a notch....

Our warriors know what they’re up against. I hooked up with the Third Platoon of Company B, Fourth Battalion, 12th Infantry, which will move out in mid-December. When I asked them if they were “good to go,” all 23 voices shouted, “Hoo ah!"-the equivalent of a paratroop-er’s “Airborne!” or a marine’s “Semper fi!” But like all soldiers going into a potential killing field, they’re concerned about the unknown. “Our biggest worry is the mines,” says Sgt....

We absolutely loved it. At that point we were living in Dubai and it was just such a different life in Scotland—being outside with so much greenery was great and it felt like a slower pace of life. At that time I was working in radio in Dubai, and one day the following year I came across a story about buying a castle in Scotland for roughly the price of a parking spot in London....

Goals from Marquinhos, Edinson Cavani, Lucas Moura, Julian Draxler and Blaise Matuidi saw PSG humiliate their arch rivals in front of a record crowd at Stade Velodrome, but Emery still called for improvements from the Ligue 1 champions post-match. Rabiot willing to consider offers PSG arrived in Marseille on the back of a 0-0 draw at home to Toulouse, and Emery reminded his players of the narrow nature of the 2-1 victory over Lille earlier in February....

Their town, with a population of about 100,000, is small by Chinese standards, and word of the couple’s illness spread rapidly. “People know just enough [about AIDS] to be scared to death,” says Audrey Swift, a Western health worker based in Yunnan. Xu’s doctor promised not to reveal her condition–and then quickly informed the factory where she worked as a cook. Xu was fired. Her husband, already emaciated and growing weaker, had been forced to leave his Army unit as soon as he was diagnosed....