Gunners manager Mikel Arteta will hope his side have recovered from any mental scars caused by a demoralising end to a promising season, slipping out of the final Champions League spot courtesy of a limp defeat to arch-rivals Tottenham and a beating at Newcastle in their final three games. Arteta has been busy in the transfer market over the summer, and his signings have left Arsenal fans optimistic that his side will improve on their fifth-placed finish last time out....

How could Man Utd line up? Sunday’s mammoth league clash against Manchester City represents another tough domestic encounter in which Wenger faces a managerial opponent whom he has an indifferent record against. Wenger will want his side to get back on track with a win at the Etihad Stadium, although he faces a difficult test even though City are missing their top scorer Sergio Aguero through suspension. ARSENAL INJURIES Shkodran Mustafi has been ruled out for the rest of the year with a hamstring injury, joining fellow defender Mathieu Debuchy on the sidelines....

Mathieu Debuchy, meanwhile, makes his first Gunners start in nearly a year while Mohamed Elneny starts alongside Holding and the Frenchman in a makeshift defence. The Gunners made easy work of Cologne and BATE Borisov in their first two group-stage matches, and can move five points clear at the top of Group H with a win on Thursday. However, they are without a number of first team stars including Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez while Chuba Akpom is the most recognisable name among Arsene Wenger’s subs....

The idea behind the research was the creation of artificial organs in a procedure known as delivering an “organ on a chip” or “human on a chip.” During the procedure, tissue parts are created which then interact with each other. They are placed on a chip of a few centimeters in size and can be supplied with very specific nutrients or also with pharmaceutical compounds in a highly precise manner....

The entertainment business is a cultural carpet-bombing operation. But it’s got one point of vulnerability: what if people should stop caring? Like most American businesses, it needs to keep the customers craving and buying newer and newer disposable and unnecessary products. Dead poets and blues singers–hell, even live poets and blues singers–don’t contribute much to the new Market Patriotism, in which lasting value seems un-American. Shelley called poets “the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” but today’s ULWs are the entertainment-media-information conglomerates: AOL Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, News Corp....

And it’s the nation’s no. 1 film-making more money in its opening weekend last week than the next three movies combined. Even before it debuted, Miramax’s Dimension Films, which produced “Spy Kids,” decided to make a sequel. It’s the first Miramax movie to have a tie-in with McDonald’s, and if it keeps doing steady business, “Spy Kids” will end up making a much bigger profit than Miramax’s Best Picture nominee, “Chocolat....

With more than 1 million confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect each year, we need the Spocks, Bettelheims and Brazeltons to study families and how to strengthen them, Blakely concedes. But in her witty and piercing new memoir, American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie (291 pages. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. $19.95), Blakely takes on theorists whose edicts leave little room for common sense. She also attacks the ““family-value evangelists,’’ who, even after 30 years of social change, still expect Donna Reed perfection....

The leaders of Israel and Saudi Arabia attended a meeting last weekend to discuss normalizing relations between the two countries, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper published its report on the meeting just hours after Iran’s Ministry of Defense announced that Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the scientist believed to have led the country’s “Project Amad” nuclear program in the early 2000s, had died following a roadside attack on Friday....

Petito’s family reported her missing to police in North Port, Florida on September 11, 10 days after Laundrie returned to the home he shared with Petito and his parents. Police have declared Laundrie a person of interest in the investigation. The live coverage of this story has now ended. Twitter user Raquel Molteni replied to Garrison’s post and said that the parents should be held accountable for aiding and abetting or kept Laundrie in lockdown....

The announcement came as New York, once the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, confirmed its largest single-day increase in cases since April, at the height of the state’s outbreak. The upcoming wave of restrictions will take effect this Friday. According to Cuomo, the state’s latest provisions limit groups to 10 people when congregating indoors. The governor said restrictions apply to private gatherings, such as parties and other social events. How the state intends to regulate or enforce this portion of its new mitigation order was not immediately clear....

The event, which inspired public discussions similar to those surrounding the issue of the removal of public monuments to Confederate generals in the southern United States, served as a reminder that not all Ukrainian citizens wish to see their state declare its cultural independence from Russia. But those opposing the cultural transition are now in the minority in Odesa — a result of Russia’s war on Ukraine. “When the mayor’s office conducted a poll last month, just over 50% of local citizens were in favor of removing the monument from the square,” Odesa city council member Petro Obukhov told Newsweek....

Though no details of the potential scope, lawmakers continue to pitch ideas about what they feel should be part of the legislation that would come in the summer months as the country is more fully reopened and the economic damage assessed. Unlike previous coronavirus stimulus bills where lawmakers across the board felt they were direly needed, this one will likely feature a more strenuous political battle with tedious negotiations. The hesitance from Republicans to appropriate more funds while Democrats in the House have already passed a $3 trillion measure has teed up a collision course for Washington’s leaders that could exacerbate the challenges that lay ahead with anything lawmakers will try to accomplish....

Coming into New York, as he weaved his way through the airport, skyscrapers and multitude of fans chanting his name, his calm demeanor was evident. It was more so Wednesday at Madison Square Garden; despite being surrounded by reporters, he was like any other kid, hands in his pockets as he leaned back and offered a smile to the scrum before him. Not much overwhelms him – not even becoming the new face of a franchise....

Saturday’s statement comes a day after an anti-abortion march in Washington, DC where activists expressed hope Supreme Court justices weighing up a Mississippi case would eventually overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling made on January 22, 1973. Tens of thousands of people joined the annual March for Life protest where the group’s president Jeanne Mancini told the crowd “we are hoping and praying that this year, 2022, will bring a historic change for life....

Asensio struck with a tremendous 30-yard effort as Madrid returned to winning ways with a 3-0 victory on Sunday. Real 16/5 to beat Atleti to nil in derby A clearance fell to the Spain international, who unleashed a first-time left-footed strike into the top corner to double his side’s lead. “I scored another good goal. I was able to hit the ball well, it went in and was a great goal,” Asensio said....

Fanly Chen told KPIX-TV the suspected teenager stole several iPhone Max cases from GoApple, her phone repair store on Grant Avenue, on Saturday. He returned to the store shortly afterwards and claimed he wanted to exchange them for different ones, Chen said. She said she asked to see a receipt and threatened to call police on the boy for theft. She followed him out of the store and said he hit her in the face....

Anthony expects to be consulted about any possibilites the Knicks are considering before the 3 p.m. Thursday deadline, according to CBS New York. MORE: NBA is there for NOLA | PHOTOS: NBA All-Star Game “I’m pretty sure they would bring it to me,’’ Anthony said prior to the Knicks’ game in Memphis Tuesday. “They would keep me up to date on what’s going on. As far as making decisions, that’s their job....

Dr. Barbara Morris wanted to prescribe life-ending drugs to Neil Mahoney, a 64-year-old with incurable cancer. Centura’s policies against assisted suicide allegedly violated state law. KCNC reports that after asking a state court to declare that she could not be sanctioned for attempting to help her patient end his life, Dr. Morris was dismissed from her position. Colorado state law allows the prescription of the lethal drugs under Proposition 106, which voters approved in 2016....

The asteroid, named 2019 AV13, is estimated to measure between around 330 feet and 750 feet in diameter—making it about the size of the 455-foot Great Pyramid. It is forecasted to zoom by at a speed of around 20,000 mph, and will pass at a distance of 13.8 Lunar Distances, with one Lunar Distance being the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The last time the asteroid came this close was in 1914, and the next time it will come within a similar distance will be 2113....

The international group of researchers published their discovery on the arXiv pre-print repository and have submitted their article to the Astrophysical Journal. In the study, they describe the radio signal ASKAP J173608.2−321635, which was detected by scanning the sky for radio signals as part of the Australian ASKAP VAST survey. The source of the signal was close to the middle of the galaxy, around four degrees from the galactic center....