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By JAMES DICKENSON EXPRESS SPORT brings you all the latest transfer news with the deadline set to shut at 11pm tomorrow night. 02:51 james.dickenson 30.01.2017 But before we start daydreaming about Jurgen Klopp signing someone on the touchline at Anfield, we have pressing transfer business at hand...

Donald Trump’s executive order to halt travel from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia – has provoked a wave of concern and condemnation from international leaders and politicians. A spokesman for Angela Merkel said the German chancellor regretted Trump’s...

BRITISH Olympic champion Mo Farah could find himself caught up in Donald Trump’s Muslim ban after it emerged the policy applies to people with dual citizenship. The runner, who has a training base in the US, is a British passport holder but was born in...

By James Gill Sir Mo Farah is homesick after years spent training abroad – but even with President Trump in the White House, Team GB's hero is staying in the US for the sake of his running career Mo Farah training in Dubai, where he has...

Growing up in Somaliland, Ismail Ahmed saw the power of money transfers. He later learned the sector’s potential for corruption Some people use their savings to start a business, while others turn to family and friends to borrow cash. But Ismail Ahmed’s case was more...

Turkish social media users and officials condemned Western media outlets for falsely reporting that the ACT Airlines plane, which crashed in Kyrgyzstan early Monday belongs to Turkey's flagship carrier Turkish Airlines. Foreign outlets, including Reuters, French Press Agency and BBC World falsely reported that the...

Soccer's governing body, FIFA, voted on Tuesday to expand the World Cup to 48 teams from its current 32, brushing aside concerns that the expansion would lower the overall standard of the tournament and make it too big and unwieldy. FIFA president Gianni Infantino, fulfilling...

Farah remains Britain’s most popular athlete by a mile but at the Great Edinburgh International XCountry there were the first stirrings of a changing of the guard. Even after defeat they chanted Mo Farah’s name like a mantra, the cries of “Mo! Mo!” growing more...

ANKARA-Turkey said Wednesday it had identified the gunman behind the New Year's massacre on an elite Istanbul nightclub that killed 39, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the attack aimed to polarise Turkish society. The assailant stormed the glamorous Reina nightclub on the Bosphorus early...

Government hopes two-year social experiment will cut red tape, reduce poverty and boost employment Finland has become the first country in Europe to pay its unemployed citizens a basic monthly income, amounting to €560 (£477/US$587), in a unique social experiment that is hoped to cut...