Gabriel Jesus put Arsenal ahead as early as the 6th minute. However, Arsenal’s lead lasted only five minutes as Ismaïla Sarr leveled for Crystal Palace. Jesus restored Arsenal’s advantage in the 15th minute, marking his fifth goal of the week after managing just one all season prior. Arsenal suffered a setback in the 24th minute when Bukayo Saka was forced off due to injury. Gabriel almost made it three in the 37th minute when his header struck the post following a well-delivered cross from captain Martin Ødegaard. Kai Havertz extended Arsenal’s lead with a simple tap-in after Jesus hit the...
José Mourinho Under Massive Pressure as Fenerbahçe Fall Five Points Behind Leaders Galatasaray
José Mourinho’s Fenerbahçe are under big pressure, sitting five points behind league leaders Galatasaray, despite having played one more game. Jose Mourinho’s side failed to beat Eyüpspor yesterday in the Super Lig. A club whose total market value is €29.65m compared to Fenerbahce’ s €226.28m. Turkish international Ahmed Kutucu scored for Eyüpspor, while former Sevilla star Youssef En-Nesyri found the back of the net for Fenerbahçe. Despite dominating possession, Fenerbahçe struggled to create meaningful chances. Mourinho has failed to beat all the top five sides in the league this season: ❌ 1-3 Galatasaray ⭕ 2-2 Samsunspor ⭕ 1-1 Eyüpspor ⭕...
Aston Villa Pile Misery on Pep Guardiola with 2-1 win as Manchester City’s Crisis Deepens
Pau Torres nearly gave Manchester City the lead in the 2nd minute with a powerful header, but Stefano Ortega produced a brilliant save to deny him. John Duran opened the scoring for Aston Villa in the 16th minute, marking his fourth goal in the last four games for the club. Manchester City’s only clear chance of the first half came in the 35th minute when Phil Foden’s shot forced Emiliano Martínez into a fine save. The second half lacked intensity until the 65th minute, when Morgan Rogers scored against his former club. A precise pass from John McGinn found Rogers,...
Pope Francis Reprimands Vatican Staff for Gossiping In Annual Christmas Message
Pope Francis used his annual Christmas greetings to admonish the backstabbing and gossiping among his closest collaborators, telling Vatican bureaucrats on Saturday to stop speaking ill of one another.The-88-year-old urged the prelates instead to speak well of one another and undertake a humble examination of their own consciences in the Christmas holiday season.“A church community lives in joyful and fraternal harmony to the extent that its members walk in the life of humility, renouncing evil thinking and speaking ill of others,” Francis said. “Gossip is an evil that destroys social life, sickens people’s hearts and leads to nothing. The people say it...
Sri Lanka’s Navy Rescues 102 Rohingya Refugees Found Adrift aboard a Fishing Trawler
Sri Lanka’s navy rescued more than 100 people believed to be Rohingya refugees who were found adrift aboard a fishing trawler off the island nation, a navy spokesman said Friday.Navy spokesman Gayan Wickramasuriya said fishermen had spotted the refugees, including 25 children and 30 women, off Sri Lanka’s northern coast on Thursday. Navy vessels then escorted the trawler to naval base on Sri Lanka’s east coast where they were given medical care, food and water.Wickramasuriya said the navy hasn’t yet confirmed whether the refugees are Rohingya because of communication difficulties. But the navy believes the group to be from Myanmar.The...
German Christmas Market Attack Death Toll Rises to Five More than 200 Injured
Germans on Saturday mourned both the victims and their shaken sense of security after a Saudi doctor intentionally drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people, including a small child, and injuring at least 200 others.Authorities arrested a 50-year-old man at the site of the attack in Magdeburg on Friday evening and took him into custody for questioning.According to officials, the doctor has lived in Germany for nearly two decades, practicing medicine in Bernburg, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Magdeburg.The governor of the surrounding state of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, told reporters that the death toll rose from two...
U.S. TO LIFT $10M BOUNTY ON DE FACTO SYRIAN LEADER’S HEAD
The U.S. is set to remove the $10 million bounty it had placed on de facto Syrian leader, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, formerly known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani.Sharaa is the head of rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), which led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad earlier this month. The decision follows meetings between U.S. diplomats and HTS in Damascus on Friday in which Sharaa committed to ensuring terrorist groups in Syria do not pose a threat to the U.S. and its allies, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf said. The high-level U.S. delegation’s visit to the Syrian capital was the first such trip since the fall of the regime. Leaf, who led the...