The striker completed a £55 million move to the Emirates Stadium at the end of the January transfer window and walks straight into the Gunners’ first-team, replacing Alexandre Lacazette at the head of the attack. The Gabon international reunites with former Borussia Dortmund team-mate Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who makes his first start for his new side since joining from Manchester United in a swap deal for Alexis Sanchez. Mkhitaryan made a 30-minute debut in Tuesday’s 3-1 defeat to Swansea, but replaces Mohamed Elneny to line up from the start alongside Mesut Ozil, who recently signed a new contract with the club....

The Blues roared to the Premier League title in Antonio Conte’s first season at the helm and now have the chance to be the first team to win both the top-flight championship and the FA Cup since they did it under Carlo Ancelotti in 2009-10. Former Arsenal star slams Mertesacker They face an Arsenal side that has been decimated by injuries over the past week or two but desperate to salvage some pride after a disappointing league campaign....

Months of speculation over the veteran manager’s future were ended this week as Wenger agreed a new contract with the north London club. The deal comes after arguably Wenger’s toughest season to date, with an increasingly vocal opposition to his tenure among fans. And for Seaman, who starred under Wenger’s command at Highbury, Mourinho’s more pragmatic approach could see an upturn in his fortunes. “Mourinho has gone in to Manchester United and won three trophies last season,” he told TalkSport....

Cai is definitely cool, in every sense of the word. With the boom—pardon the expression—in contemporary Chinese art, he’s become a star. In November, he broke the auction record for a contemporary Chinese artist when a set of 14 of his gunpowder drawings sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong for $9.5 million. This week his first major retrospective opens at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (through May 28) and will later travel to Beijing and Bilbao....

But Briles says he hasn't taken any other job and doesn't plan to. MORE: Top 10 coaching jobs | College football icons | Bowl matchups Briles released this statement Friday morning: "I have no desire to pursue other coaching positions," he said. "As I've said many times, I am both humbled and honored to be the head coach at Baylor University, and believe we have something special going here. I look forward to leading the Bears onto the field next fall at McLane Stadium and defending our Big 12 championship that our players and coaches worked so hard to win this season....

The graphic novel—which was serialized from 1980 to 1991—tells the story of the cartoonist who was born in 1948, shortly after the end of the Second World War. He is speaking to his father, a Polish Jew, about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor. The graphic novel famously portrays Jews as mice and Germans as cats. Spiegelman made the comments in a CNN interview on Thursday, January 27, which is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day....

A better route to a decent relationship? Keep it mellow. “Conversation is more likely if it can happen casually, when everyone is relaxed,” says Bobby Sue Hood, a San Francisco architect. She found that one of the best places to talk to her children was in the car, going to or from school or to a sports practice. But car trips only last so long. How can you maintain contact outside the four-door vehicle as well?...

Despite limits on non-essential travel between Mexico and the U.S. already being in place until at least July 21, Sonora state Health Secretary Enrique Clausen suggested on Wednesday that those limitations were not being sufficiently enforced. “No more crossings from the United States into Mexico for visitors who do not have essential activities,” Clausen said. “They should only be allowed for work or business.” Clausen’s demand came as confirmed cases in Mexico continued to rise, with the country’s count up to 238,511 cases by Friday, according to an online tracker maintained by the Johns Hopkins University....

Netanyahu’s campaign game plan has always operated on two parallel tracks—i.e. go high and also go low. Taking the high road, Netanyahu presents his prowess as a great world leader. He planned to travel to India to meet with his friend, Prime Minister Modi. However, that visit was called off. Instead, Netanyahu flew off last week for a hurried audience with embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This week, five days before the election, Netanyahu jetted to Sochi, Russia to meet Vladimir Putin, who kept him waiting for 2 hours and 45 minutes....

During the administrations of Donald Trump and Barack Obama, the official @SecondLady Twitter accounts belonged to Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, and Jill Biden, wife of then-Vice President Joe Biden, respectively. Next Wednesday, the @SecondLady account will officially switch over to @SecondGentleman; and it’s just one of several switchovers that Twitter will make in transitioning the White House’s top social media accounts from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration....

The Brazilian had enjoyed a memorable debut campaign at Camp Nou, in which he scored 47 goals across all competitions, but was sold to Inter Milan after just 12 months. A man who would go on to become a World Cup winner and World Player of the Year insists that he never intended to leave Barca. ‘Messi the only indispensable player’ He was prepared to stay, with an agreement in place, but saw club officials go back on their word and sanction a sale to the highest bidder....

As Ukraine has proven to Russia that it will stand its ground and fight, President Vladimir Putin has ramped up his offensive arsenal, sending a 40-mile-long military convoy toward Kyiv, the capital city, and increasing its military fire aimed at residential areas in a bid to conquer the nation’s resilient cities. The increased fire power and onslaught of Russian forces could very well force more Ukrainians to consider leaving their country, and some may be pushed to do so in a hurry....

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of Michael Picard, who was arrested in 2017 for handing out flyers about jury nullification in front of the Bronx Hall of Justice. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Picard was charged with criminal contempt under a New York law that prohibited protests within 200 feet of the courthouse. While the law intended to protect the integrity of judicial proceedings, the 200 feet requirement included surrounding public sidewalks and streets, which are the most traditional public forums under the First Amendment doctrine....

National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby told reporters Wednesday that Iranian unmanned aerial systems wielded by Russia have been “newly introduced to the fight” in Ukraine. Though he declined to get ahead of Kyiv in assessing the impact of these platforms, he did say that “U.S. officials know of some difficulties that the Russians have been having with some of these drones and in some of the limits on some of the capabilities....

The coronavirus pandemic caused a huge spike in unemployment and to ease the financial burden on American families, Congress passed the CARES Act in March. It gave more than 160 million Americans payments of up to $1,200 and increased unemployment benefits, but there continues to be a deadlock to agreeing another stimulus package eight months on. On Monday, a report by the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that any response to the economic downturn was complicated by the fact unemployment numbers were likely to have been inflated this year....

The survey published by Morning Consult on Monday found that pluralities of independents felt the U.S. was not ready to deal with another spike in COVID-19 cases. Forty-six percent told pollsters they didn’t think the U.S. was prepared to weather the economic shocks of a second wave, compared to 27 percent who believed the country was ready. A similar plurality (43 percent) said the U.S. was not ready for the public health strains another spike in cases would cause, while a third told Morning Consult that the country was prepared to handle those impacts....

The ash is from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta, a volcano located in Katmai National Park and Preserve on the Alaskan Peninsula that dropped volcanic ash still visible today. Strong northwesterly winds near the park and preserve and Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes caused the volcanic ash to stir on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. “Generally, this time of year, we get these some of these northwestern winds that can come down from the Katmai region and really scour some of the free ash that’s deposited from the 1912 eruption and then bring it up to height,” Hans Schwaiger, a U....

Sure looks that way. Even before the film opens, Moore has three movie offers on the table, and she met with two directors last week. (Her primary hope is to find a romantic comedy that suits her.) What’s more, the strategy of her return has been the talk of the industry. By doing a film targeted to both young people and to women, she is introducing herself to teenagers who were in grade school when she split town and reinforcing her appeal with the female audience that made “Ghost” a smash....

Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr., 28, of Columbia, was charged with two counts of providing material support to terrorists in February 2017. He pleaded guilty to one count of the indictment last September as the case proceeded in exchange for a dismissal of the other count, which cut the potential term of imprisonment in half. In fall 2016 and early 2017, Hester carried on a relationship with several undercover FBI agents, believing they were affiliated with ISIS, the terrorist organization based in Syria whose territorial claims have been vastly reduced in recent years....