The Gunners have confirmed that he will be eligible to take part in the remainder of their Champions League fixtures despite featuring for Spartak in the Europa League playoffs. Arsene Wenger welcomed Kallstrom with a statement to the club's official website: “Kim Kallstrom is a hugely-experienced player. "He is a midfielder with proven quality at both club and international level. We welcome Kim to Arsenal.” Kallstrom added: “Arsenal is an amazing club with a lot of great players and a coach who has done really well here for a long time....

The Wirral-born Dean, who is set to officiate the game between Arsenal and Tottenham at the Emirates on Sunday, has gained an infamous reputation with Gooners who believe that he may have an agenda against them. In the last 14 games that Dean has officiated Mauricio Pochettino’s team, 11 of those were Spurs victories, the Lilywhites were awarded five penalties during that time. He has earned a notorious legacy with Arsenal fans who have accused him of committing high-profile mistakes in recent outings....

The Chile international continues to be heavily linked with a big-money summer switch, as uncertainty shrouds his future at Emirates Stadium. Despite having seen the issue discussed at length for several months, Arsenal are yet to tie the 28-year-old to an extended contract. ‘Inter should sign Verratti from PSG’ His current deal is due to expire in 2018, with the Gunners needing to make a decision one way or another before his value starts to decline....

Giroud’s future at Emirates Stadium has been the subject of considerable speculation during the close season following the arrival of Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon. Olivier Giroud 33/1 to be Premier League top scorer Arsene Wenger splashed out a club-record fee, thought to be in the region of €53 million, for Lacazette last month and he has been first choice as Arsenal’s lone central attacker in their pre-season friendlies. Lacazette was also given the nod in the Community Shield against Chelsea last weekend, although it was substitute Giroud - having replaced Lacazette - who scored the winning penalty to secure a 4-1 shoot-out win following a 1-1 draw at Wembley....

The left-back, who will finalise the switch when his contract expires at the end of June, has spent six years with Schalke and described the “many long sleepless nights” he endured before deciding to leave. How to pronounce Kolasinac In a message posted on his Facebook page, the 23-year-old Bosnia-Herzegovina international thanked the Bundesliga club and their fans, while claiming he turned down “many financial offers from large European clubs” in the January transfer window....

Sutton goalie defends pie-eating antics The Gunners knocked the non-league side out of the tournament thanks to goals from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott to set up a quarter-final tie with Lincoln City. While Doswell was disappointed to see his club’s magical cup run ended he did reveal how the clash with Arsenal would alter their future and thanked the Gunners for their generosity. “Arsenal have been superb and we think they will help us with a classroom,” Doswell told reporters....

With Christmas Eve falling on a Sunday this year, Sky TV had proposed the clash – which is to be hosted at the Emirates – should be held then, much the same as many other top-flight clashes in the English top flight. Arsenal 7/4 to finish PL top four Fans were furious about Sky’s plan, however, due to being faced with the prospect of getting stuck in London for Christmas Day....

Arsenal sit atop the Premier League table with the one loss to Manchester United the only blemish in an otherwise perfect 2022/23 season thus far. Tottenham, meanwhile, sit just a point back in third after a similarly positive start to the season, unbeaten through seven league matches. They pummeled hapless Leicester City 6-2 last time out, while wins over scrappy Fulham and Wolves prove they can grind matches out as well....

Arsenal are set to miss out on Champions League qualification via the Premier League for the second season in a row, the Gunners sitting sixth in the table. But winning the Europa League would earn Arsenal a return to the continent’s premier club competition in 2018-19. Wenger’s position has come under threat even though the veteran Frenchman has a year remaining on his contract at Emirates Stadium. And Lacazette - who has scored two goals on Arsenal’s run to the semi-finals - has targeted the Europa League as a way to secure Wenger’s future....

Mrs Arshavina, travelling with her two children and her nanny, was removed from the airplane by the captain of the aircraft after refusing to comply with instruction from the crew. Aeroflot claim that she attempted to seat her nanny in business class, though her ticket was for economy, in addition to flouting safety regulations. She also unfastened one of her children’s seatbelts before take-off. While under pressure from crew to correct her behaviour, Mrs Arshavina claimed she was an operative within the FSB, the Russian secret service....

That distorted view of life—turning what most might consider awful into something romantic and positive—pervades Lynch’s work, from his feature films to his art. Though fans of such dark and disturbing movies as “The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive”—or the cult TV series “Twin Peaks”—may be surprised to know what a talented painter and photographer Lynch is, they will not be surprised by the jarring perspective in his work....

A new permanent exhibition at the privately owned Ayala Museum in the financial capital, Makati City, only heightens the mystery. “Gold of Ancestors” features 1,059 precious objects that are believed to date back as far as the 10th century. Most were acquired by a private collector, and have never been seen in public. Among the pieces on display are cutwork diadems, funerary masks, ornaments and ritual containers. Their quality and scope suggest that ancient Filipinos had closer links to their Southeast Asian neighbors than is currently supposed....

Spiegelman said it seems that stories about Jewish Americans will be the next battleground in public schools, “after coming against critical race theory as the accusation against books dealing with our history [and] never facing up to studying the genocide of Indians.” “It’s already started happening, like I said. The dog whistles abound,” he told CNN’s New Day on Thursday. Earlier this month, Spiegelman’s award-winning graphic novel Maus was removed from an eighth-grade English-language arts curriculum in Tennessee after the McMinn County Board of Education unanimously voted to pull the book over concerns about profanity and a drawing of a nude woman....

Sounds serious when you string together words like prevalence, burden, and impact, but actually “prevalence” just refers to the number of people affected by any type of arthritis. Simply put — how common is it? Who Compiles the Data? The National Arthritis Data Workgroup provides a single source of national data for various rheumatic conditions. The workgroup is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American College of Rheumatology, and the Arthritis Foundation....

The former Polish press agency correspondent is talking about his staggering, ongoing career as chronicler of the Third World; his new book on Africa, “The Shadow of the Sun” (published by Knopf); Idi Amin (“I knew him, a very stupid man”); Julius Nyerere (“a great intellectual”); Herodotus (“a great reporter, the father of reportage-I’m doing a book on him”); the intrepid World Cup midfielder Zbigniew Boniek; the aphorisms of E....

These changes may serve to undermine Biden’s message of multilateralism and an attempt to establish a collective front against climate change. Nearly a year into the new administration, Biden has not yet repaired severed ties with Cuba or Iran, nor has he backed down from a confrontational stance toward the United States’ global competitor, China. And the manner in which a recent nuclear submarine deal with Australia and the United Kingdom was handled drew comparisons to Trump from spurned ally France....

Next up: New regulations. “It’s impossible for digital assets to go mainstream without clear regulation and sufficient safeguard,” Vytautas Zabulis, CEO of H-Finance, a digital asset trading company based in Vilnius, Lithuania, said in a research report. “As Bitcoin becomes an institutional asset, market participants expect regulation to be in place to protect capital and have clearly set rules,” the report said. “As cryptocurrencies start being treated as a new asset class, at least some clear rules will need to be put in place to solidify international adoption....

According to the survey, which was conducted by The Dallas Morning News/the University of Texas at Tyler, 46 percent of registered voters in the state said they’d vote for Biden, compared with 44 percent that sided with Trump. Among those who identified as likely voters, Biden held a slightly larger lead, as 48 percent chose him while 45 percent supported Trump. The poll surveyed 1,012 registered voters, with 925 characterizing themselves as likely voters, from October 13 to 20....

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that since April, the proportion of the 1,108 adults polled who described the economy as “bad” has reduced by 11 percentage points, from 71 percent to 60 percent. The biggest drop off of people describing the economy as “bad” happened between May and June when numbers dropped from 70 percent to 63 percent as states began to reopen from the pandemic lockdowns....