Wilshere, who has been at Arsenal since he was nine-years-old, has featured in 30 games for the north London giants this campaign – the most he has played in four seasons. The 26-year-old has re-established himself as a regular in the Arsenal starting line-up while he was rewarded with a call up to Gareth Southgate’s England squad on Thursday for the Three Lions upcoming friendlies with Netherlands and Italy, where he could feature for the first time since Euro 2016....

Stanic takes aim at Conte over China comments The Spaniard is currently in Glasgow ahead of signing for the Scottish giants where he will undergo a medical tomorrow morning. Toral’s time at Granada, which included just six appearances for the club, was ended after Arsenal activated a recall option in the deal which took him to Spain. The 21-year-old shone in the Championship last season while on loan at Birmingham where he scored eight goals in 33 appearance, after impressing at Brentford prior to that....

Arsenal meet Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday, Arsene Wenger’s side bidding to salvage silverware from a season that saw them finish fifth in the Premier League, while the Blues chase a famous double. Why Mustafi won’t be pushed to play The Gunners won 3-0 against Chelsea last September, but Antonio Conte’s men inflicted revenge in a 3-1 Stamford Bridge win in February, Hazard scoring an impressive individual goal. “I think the way we started the [home] game in the first half was very good,” Ramsey, who scored the winner in his side’s 2014 FA Cup final victory over Hull City, said to Arsenal Player....

How Arsenal used Manolas as a pawn for Mustafi The 19-year-old is a replacement for the injured Saphir Taider and will be hopeful of working his way into the starting XI for the tournament in Gabon. Bennacer, who only made his senior debut for Algeria in September, will miss key fixtures for Arsenal’s under-23 side over the next month, including matches against Southampton and Chelsea. Former France under-18 international Bennacer switched his international allegiance in July last year and joined Arsenal from Ligue 2 side Arles-Avignon in August 2015....

The ex-England international formed part of the Gunners squad that made history while sweeping to the Premier League title in 2003-04. Chelsea 9/2 to beat Swansea 2-0 Arsene Wenger’s side went an entire campaign without coming unstuck, with their unbeaten run eventually stretching to 49 games. Pep Guardiola is hoping to emulate that achievement this season, having negotiated 13 Premier League games unscathed so far, but Cole doubts they will match Arsenal’s heroic effort....

The 19-year-old was on parade for Dutch Eredivisie side VVV-Venlo for the first part for the season but was limited to game time with just nine league appearances and a goal to his name. Nwakali who is tied to Arsenal until the summer of 2021 will be aiming to replicate his form in the 2016-17 season where he was vital in Ron Elsen’s team, with two goals in 29 appearances....

That sounds like a statement of the bleeding obvious after a second defensive horror show in four days came on the back of an already unconvincing start to the campaign. But it is worth emphasising that the Gunners’ title race is run before many of us have even turned on our central heating. After being over-run by an impressive Swansea City team in the last half-hour after taking a deserved 1-0 lead, Arsene Wenger’s team is a distant 12 points behind pacesetter Chelsea with just 11 matches played....

The goalkeeper hobbled off in the second half of the Gunners’ 5-1 demolition of Everton on Saturday, with Colombian David Ospina replacing him. Cech received a kick to his calf and, while there are no long-term concerns about his condition, Wenger remains unsure if he will be ready for Saturday’s trip to bitter rivals Spurs. However, Wenger could potentially have both Danny Welbeck (hip) and Nacho Monreal (illness) available for selection once again....

The Gunners come into the new season with a point to prove, having finished fifth last term, and they have already laid down a marker by beating Chelsea in the Community Shield. Leicester also suffered a disappointing campaign last year as they were easily dethroned as champions, but Craig Shakespeare managed to halt their downward slide. Expectations at both clubs vary, but there is similar pressure on both managers to deliver much better results this season....

No kidding. Just a few weeks ago Schnabel, 55, was applying the final brush strokes to several of the 70 works now on display in “Summer: Paintings and Sculptures 1982-2007,” which runs through Oct. 21 and represents the full range of his oeuvre. Ever since he first shocked viewers back in the late 1970s with his violently expressive paintings on broken plates, he has refused to fix on any single style; as he says, his paintings, “like poetry, like a diary, tell my life story....

Every artist knows that turmoil fuels creativity. And for the past four months, nothing has caused more turmoil in Asia than severe acute respiratory syndrome. Now, from Shanghai to Singapore, the drama of living with SARS is producing an artistic movement of sorts. Through a wide range of new paintings, photographs, plays, films and songs, Asia’s artists are expressing the diverse emotions–fear, anger and even hope–triggered by the disease....

With Ryan coming off his worst NFL season, Blank still believes he will be the quarterback to take the Falcons to the Super Bowl. MORE: What will Peyton do next? 9 options | Early preseason power rankings “Absolutely,” Blank said, via ESPN.com. “No question about it. But it doesn’t take one player to get there. It takes a lot of players around him and having a lot of talent around him....

Researchers in Japan used two of the world’s fastest astrophysical simulation supercomputers, known as ATERUI and ATERUI II, to create an aptly-named “Dark Emulator” tool, which is able to ingest vast quantities of data and produce analysis of the universe in seconds. The AI could play a role in studying the nature of dark energy, which seems to make up a large amount of the universe but remains an enigma....

It’s a world away from the relationship described in Prince Harry’s new memoir Spare in which he is highly critical of William and evendetails a violent outburst involving the brothers in the kitchen of the Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace in 2019. Nicky Philipps, who would go on to paint Queen Elizabeth II, was commissioned by London’s National Portrait Gallery to paint the princes in their full military dress in 2009, describing how they were “great fun to be with” during the sittings together....

Five months later, Maud had finally recovered, though a combination of “time, therapy, medication and a strong-willed personality,” her sister says. Soon afterward, Taije Silverman, an editor at William Morrow, was looking for a young editor to work on a low-budget project, a collection of mostly original essays on depression. She asked Nell, a books editor at Self magazine. “It was such a strange and good coincidence because it seemed wonderful to be asked to write about something that had been so harrowing,” Casey says....

“There’s a lot of uncertainty right now, and I think we’re going to see a lot of good stories come out, but also a lot of challenges,” said Becky DePodwin, a meteorologist and emergency management specialist at AccuWeather. “I think people need to go in with the recognition that this is not going to be a normal season.” The United States is grappling with the world’s largest outbreak of the virus, and more than 337,971 people tested positive as of Monday....

Cuomo left the Albany office in August amid a scandal, much like his predecessors. Now, the Democrat is facing a criminal complaint about sexual misconduct. And across the country, a number of other governors have faced criminal charges. Since the 1990s, 11 U.S. governors have been convicted of federal corruption offenses, in particular, violations to the Hobbs Act, RICO, the Travel Act, mail or wire fraud, or through establishing a conspiracy to defraud the U....

Bolsonaro was swept to power in a wave of anti-establishment sentiment in the 2018 presidential election. The 65-year-old was already one of the most divisive world leaders before the pandemic, but its arrival in Brazil has highlighted the shortcomings of the populist who has shown little regard for science or public health. Bolsonaro’s ambivalence has done nothing to stop the virus’s spread. There have now been more than 178,000 confirmed cases in the country—the eighth-most in the world—and the daily increase in the total is still accelerating....

Newsweek has obtained two documents that offer an insight into the scope of the threat, including reports of several actual attacks that have happened in past few months. The first is a corporate intelligence security memo detailing at least 15 instances over the course of just over a year showing suspected extremists openly threatening and calling for acts of sabotage against energy sites, especially electricity substations, but also including other targets such as cell towers and pipelines....

Say what you will about the pace of the NBA offseason, which seems to slow by another couple of days each summer, but there is no doubting this: It has absolutely ramped up the drama. It has been eight days, and even by LeBron James’ notoriously noncommittal standards, that’s a lot. Four years ago, when James decided to ditch Cleveland and go to Miami in the first place, it was on the eighth day that he made the announcement....