Edin Dzeko and Emerson Palmieri have given the all-clear to join Chelsea, claim Sky Sport Italia, as negotiations continue with Roma. Transfer guru Gianluca Di Marzio broke the news on Thursday night that talks for left-back Emerson Palmieri had also expanded to include an approach for their centre-forward. Now the same source suggests Dzeko has…

He struck Highways England workers Adam Gibb, 51, who was killed almost instantly, and Paul Holroyd, 51, who has been left in a wheelchair. (Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)A football agent has been jailed after he killed one man and left another paralysed in a motorway crash. Peter Morrison, 37, had been sending text messages and…

A House-passed stopgap bill that would avoid a government shutdown fizzled out in the Senate late Friday night, leaving Congress negotiating frantically as the midnight deadline to fund the government passed. The measure failed in a procedural vote by a 50 to 49 margin. Five Democrats — Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Joe Donnelly of…

The U.S. government officially entered a partial shutdown early Saturday as Senate leaders struggled to reach a deal to at least temporarily resume funding for federal operations before Americans awoke to a political breakdown. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell held a key procedural vote open past the midnight deadline to pass a spending bill with…

Predrag Mijatovic sees no reason why Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo cannot play together at the Santiago Bernabeu as the former Real Madrid forward heaped praise on the Paris Saint-Germain star. Neymar completed a world-record move to PSG from Barcelona in August last year but the Brazil international has already been linked with Spanish and European…

Pressures in intensive care units are at their highest level since the 2010 swine flu pandemic,with wards regularly having no spare beds, senior doctors have warned.  Figures reported by the NHS this winter show that two-thirds of hospital trusts have experienced at least one day over the winter period with no beds at all.  Eleven trusts – which…

Ewan McGregor has filed for divorce from his wife of 22 years Eve Mavrakis, according to US reports. The 46-year-old actor, who shares four children with production designer Eve, is believed to have cited irreconcilable differences. Ewan wants joint custody of the couple’s three minor children. Eve, who filed at the same time, is asking…

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Bangladesh 320 for 7 (Tamim 84, Shakib 67, Mushfiqur 62, Perera 3-60) beat Sri Lanka 157 (Perera 29, Shakib 3-47, Rubel 2-20, Mashrafe 2-30) by 163 runsnScorecard and ball-by-ball details Shakib Al Hasan lines up for a pull AFPBangladesh’s four seniormost cricketers came to the fore to deliver them a 163-run win – their biggest in…

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