UK News
Manchester City v Arsenal: Premier League – live | Premier League
Key events
90+6 min: City substitution Nathan Ake for Antoine Semenyo.
90+5 min: So close from Havertz!
What a chance for Arsenal! Trossard, on the right, flashes a superb cross towards a group of players near the penalty spot. Havertz rises beautitfully and powers a header that beats the leaping Donnarumma and ripples the roof of the net.
Donnarumma might have saved it had it been on target, but I wouldn’t put the farm on it. Goodness me, Arsenal have had some chances today.
90+5 min Rice’s corner is headed up and partially away by O’Reilly. Arsenal are forced back to Raya and then they come again.
90+4 min A deep cross towards Gabriel is headed behind by Nunes. Corner to Arsenal…
90+3 min Arsenal are finally pinning City back. Donnarumma doesn’t come for White’s cross, which is eventually hooked clear by Nunes. Hincapie swings in another cross and the tireless Bernardo Silva heads away.
90+2 min Hincapie runs at Nunes just outside the area and goes over. Nunes leaned into him quite forcefully and was a bit lucky to get away with that. It was outside the area so VAR can’t get involved.
90 min Arsenal had some excellent spells in the first half. But in the second, despite going very close on three occasions, they haven’t been able to put City under any sustained presssure.
There will be seven added minutes.
88 min: City substitutions Savinho and Nico Gonzalez replace Jeremy Doku and the limping Rodri. He’s been magnificent in midfield.
87 min The last few minutes have been very stop-start, which suits City. I’d imagine there will be at least five added minutes.
86 min Pep Guardiola was booked for his angry reaction when Gabriel wasn’t sent off.
85 min: A substitution apiece City bring on Phil Foden for Rayan Cherki. Arsenal replace Martin Zubimendi with Viktor Gyokeres, which means a switch to 4-2-4.
83 min: It’s kicking off! Haaland and Gabriel go head to head, then Gabriel shoves his head forcefully against Haaland’s. It wasn’t quite a headbutt but it was such a risky thing to do and he could easily have been sent off. Not today: Anthony Taylor has given both players a yellow card. Haaland also shoved Gabriel before they went head to head.
The contretemps led to a shoving match involving most of the 22 players. It soon petered out.
82 min Haaland’s goal was his 23rd in the Premier League this season. He’s a nose ahead of Igor Thiago in the race for the Golden Boot.
81 min City are still dominating possession even though it’s Arsenal who need a goal. It’s been a confusing second half: City have been in control yet Arsenal have hit the post twice and forced a big save from Gianluigi Donnarumma.
79 min “Before the match, Freddie Ljungberg made the observation on Viaplay that in recent matches the Gunners had refrained from passing forward, even when the option presented itself,” writes Kári Tulinius. “They’ve been notably progressive today. If they take this attitude into the rest of the run-in, I have some hope for the title race.”
78 min Arsenal break from a City corner. For a split-second it looks like Havertz is through on goal, only for Bernardo Silva to charge back, wrestle with Havertz and force the bouncing ball to safety. Outstanding defending.
77 min In other news…
75 min Nothing against White or Mosquera but Arsenal have really missed Jurrien Timber in the last month.
74 min: Double substitution for Arsenal Ben White and Leandro Trossard replace Cristhian Mosquera and Eberechi Eze.
73 min There was a check for handball against O’Reilly but it definitely came off his side.
72 min: Gabriel hits the post!
Odegaard swings a free-kick beyond the far post, where Gabriel’s header hits O’Reilly’s side and deflects onto the inside of the post! Havertz, off balance, forces the loose ball towards goal and Khusanov blocks crucially.
Despite being under the pump, Arsenal have hit the post twice in the second half.
71 min Apart from those two near misses from Havertz and Eze, Arsenal have been on the back foot in the second half. Mikel Arteta needs to change something. Maybe it’s a job for Max Dowman.
70 min The second corner is half cleared to Doku, who mishits a left-foot shot well wide from a tight angle.
69 min Rodri’s long-range shot deflects over the bar. Cherki’s corner is headed behind for another.
68 min Hincapie shoves Haaland after another wrestling match with Gabriel. Haaland’s undershirt is ripped so he has to change it before play can resume.
Doku cut inside from the left and fed the underlapping O’Reilly, who calmly steered a speculative ball across the penalty area. Rodri distracted Hincapie at near post and Haaland held off Gabriel to clatter a left-foot shot past Raya.
It was a tremendous display of physical strength from Haaland because he and Gabriel were all over each other.
GOAL! Man City 2-1 Arsenal (Haaland 65)
Erling Haaland cracks City back in front!
64 min Eze was so close to adding another belter to his spectacular portfolio of goals. In that sense, he’s the Matthew Le Tissier des nos jours.
Incidentally, Guehi was booked for fouling Rice during the move that led to Havertz’s chance.
63 min “Accidentally found myself in an Arsenal pub for this game,” writes Rachel Clifton. “Very nervy place…. at least we have the mellifluous tones of Lee Dixon and Graeme Le Saux to calm them.”
It sounds weird but even if Arsenal lose this, they should take a lot of heart from their performance. Not even Banty McBanterface could accuse them of bottling it today.
61 min: Eze hits the post!
Eze receives the ball 20 yards from goal, swerves away from Khusanov and whips a thrilling left-foot curler that beats the diving Donnarumma, hits the inside of the post and flies across the face of goal. Goodness me, this is pulsating stuff.
59 min: Big save by Donnarumma!
A slick break from Arsenal ends with Odegaard putting Havertz through on goal with a short pass into the area. Havertz stretches to screw a shot that is superbly blocked by the outrushing Donnarumma. The follow-up – not sure who it was – dribbles towards the line and is cleared with time to spare by O’Reilly.
57 min “Well,” says Peter Oh, “I guess with that heavy touch and shambolic shipping of a goal, there goes the City and Italia keeper’s chance of earning the nickname Maradonnarumma.”
Talking of portmanteaus, I remain distressed that Arsenal’s march to the title in 2001-02 was never christened #Ljungbergkamp.
55 min I should have said that Martinelli has started on the right wing, which is where he was when he played that pass into Havertz. His pace could be important for Arsenal because they are struggling to get out.
53 min Martinelli shapes a fine early pass behind the City defence towards Havertz. Khusanov leans into him just outside the area and Havertz goes flying. He wants a foul – which would mean a red card for Khusanov – but Anthony Taylor plays on. It looked like a lean rather than a foul from Khusanov.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the ban will give children more time, security and freedom to grow up. But how do under-16s feel?
Source link
UK News
US midterm primaries 2026 live: results and updates as elections in Georgia and Oklahoma test Trump’s power | US midterm elections 2026
Results expected as voters cast ballots in three states and Washington DC
Fran Lawther
Voters have been casting their ballots in primary elections in Alabama, Oklahoma and Georgia – where a closely watched runoff will decide who faces off against Democratic candidates in Senate and gubernatorial races in November.
In Washington DC – a Democratic stronghold – voters were also selecting a candidate for the party ahead of November’s mayoral election.
In Alabama, a Republican primary runoff for Senate between Trump-backed Barry Moore and Jared Hudson is another test of how far Trump’s endorsement can sway voters.
These primaries are the latest test of Donald Trump’s power over the Republican party. In deeply conservative Oklahoma, Trump has given his early backing to Kevin Hern in the senate seat previously held by homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Hern has kept other potential big challengers at bay in Oklahoma, which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1990, according to AP.
But a bigger test of Trump’s influence – which has usually proved potent in Republican primaries this year – may come in the crowded race to succeed outgoing governor Kevin Stitt.
In Georgia, meanwhile, Republicans will finalize their selections for gubernatorial and US senate elections.
For the senate, US representative Mike Collins and former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley are the finalists for the Republican nomination. Whoever wins will challenge rising Democratic star Jon Ossoff for the seat in November.
In the Republican primary campaign for Georgia governor, Trump-backed Burt Jones was facing off against the healthcare billionaire and political newcomer Rick Jackson. Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state and longtime political enemy of Trump, was locked out of the race when he finished third earlier in the year.
We’ll bring you the latest results and reactions as the night unfolds.
Key events
Trump’s candidate trails in early count in Republican primary race for Georgia governor
With the first 20% of the ballots counted in the Republican primary in Georgia to be the party’s candidate for governor in November, the Trump-endorsed candidate, Georgia’s lieutenant governor, Burt Jones, trails health care executive Rick Jackson by nearly 20 points: 59.4% to 40.6%.
Jackson has spent over $100 million on his campaign.
Georgia Republican Senate primary on a knife edge in early count
With 15% of the vote counted in Georgia, the race for the Republican nomination for the US Senate, to take on incumbent Jon Ossoff, is very close. Trump-endorsed congressman Mike Collins has 51.9% of the vote so far, to 48.1% for former football coach Derek Dooley, who is backed by the Georgia governor Brian Kemp. The current margin in less than 6,000 votes.
Polls close in Georgia primary runoff elections
Polling places closed at 7pm local time across Georgia, where voters cast ballots in several primary runoff races, including Republican contests to be that party’s nominee for the US Senate and governor. We will bring you updates on the vote count soon.
A trip to the Georgia secretary of state’s website is a reminder that the state’s elections are still overseen by Brad Raffensperger, the top voting official Donald Trump threatened with possible prosecution during a recorded phone call in early 2021, if he did not help the then president “find 11,780 votes”, one more than he needed to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in the state’s 2020 presidential election.
Weighed down by his subsequent unpopularity with Trump voters, for refusing to help him cheat, Raffensperger finished a distant third last month in the Republican primary to be the party’s candidate in the November election for governor.
Raffensperger got less than half the votes of the two leading contenders who faced off in today’s runoff: the Trump-backed Burt Jones, who supported his effort to overturn the 2020 election through false claims of fraud, and a self-funding healthcare billionaire, Rick Jackson.
Peter Stone
The Trump administration is waging war on voting rights using justice department lawsuits, FBI investigations, and an executive order to limit voting by mail, moves mirroring the US president’s false claims he lost the 2020 election due to voting fraud, say election experts and ex-officials.
Since Donald Trump began his second term, numerous 2020 election denialists have been installed in key agencies such as the DoJ, the FBI and elsewhere to pursue widely discredited claims of fraud, which can intimidate election workers and voters in swing states that Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020.
The justice department has also filed lawsuits seeking sensitive voter data from 30 states – even though, by law, states control elections – and the FBI has launched investigations into debunked allegations of voting fraud in Georgia, Wisconsin and a few other swing states that Trump lost in 2020.
Trump in late March this year issued an executive order sharply tightening mail-in voting rules, which Trump has long claimed without evidence contribute to fraud. The order gives the United States Postal Service unprecedented powers to issue new rules making voting by mail harder.
The administration’s multi-pronged push to change voting rules is under way despite laws that empower states and Congress to set election rules, sparking lawsuits from states and nonpartisan voting rights groups.
Fran Lawther
Donald Trump has a strong record in this year’s primaries so far – with many of his preferred candidates winning their primaries.
But none have faced a self-funded rival with Rick Jackson’s spending power, the AP reports. Trump has backed Burt Jones, who, as lieutenant governor, was part of Trump’s attempt to overturn his 2020 defeat to Joe Biden, and the president has repeatedly praised Jones’ loyalty.
Jackson has chipped in more than $93m of his own money to win the nomination. The 71-year-old businessman amassed a fortune from his company that provides contract healthcare personnel, and he’s used it to blanket television and online platforms with ads.
Results expected as voters cast ballots in three states and Washington DC
Fran Lawther
Voters have been casting their ballots in primary elections in Alabama, Oklahoma and Georgia – where a closely watched runoff will decide who faces off against Democratic candidates in Senate and gubernatorial races in November.
In Washington DC – a Democratic stronghold – voters were also selecting a candidate for the party ahead of November’s mayoral election.
In Alabama, a Republican primary runoff for Senate between Trump-backed Barry Moore and Jared Hudson is another test of how far Trump’s endorsement can sway voters.
These primaries are the latest test of Donald Trump’s power over the Republican party. In deeply conservative Oklahoma, Trump has given his early backing to Kevin Hern in the senate seat previously held by homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Hern has kept other potential big challengers at bay in Oklahoma, which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1990, according to AP.
But a bigger test of Trump’s influence – which has usually proved potent in Republican primaries this year – may come in the crowded race to succeed outgoing governor Kevin Stitt.
In Georgia, meanwhile, Republicans will finalize their selections for gubernatorial and US senate elections.
For the senate, US representative Mike Collins and former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley are the finalists for the Republican nomination. Whoever wins will challenge rising Democratic star Jon Ossoff for the seat in November.
In the Republican primary campaign for Georgia governor, Trump-backed Burt Jones was facing off against the healthcare billionaire and political newcomer Rick Jackson. Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state and longtime political enemy of Trump, was locked out of the race when he finished third earlier in the year.
We’ll bring you the latest results and reactions as the night unfolds.
Retired British couple Jane and Alan Kelvey spoke to BBC’s Newsnight after coming into close contact with Russian frigate the Admiral Grigorovich on Tuesday morning.
“They gave out five blasts on their horn, which means, have you seen us?”, explained Jane.
“We immediately turned two degrees to port so that they could see we’d made a deliberate change, of course, which meant we had seen them,” she added.
The Russian Defence Ministry said the yacht had been on a “dangerous approach” towards the warship, and its crew fired into its path with rifles after making several attempts to contact it over the radio and after launching warning flares.
The Ministry of Defence has described the encounter as an “isolated incident” and not linked to the seizure of a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Channel on Sunday.
-
Crime & Safety4 weeks agoWhat happens to Halifax customers if Lloyds makes changes?
-
Crime & Safety4 weeks agoOxfordshire bridge closure comes as management ‘weaknesses’ found
-
Oxford News4 weeks agoActor steps down from major role in new Harry Potter series
-
UK News4 weeks agoBurnham seeks to calm markets by committing to fiscal rules
-
UK News4 weeks agoGlass deposit scheme 'risks major problems' for retail industry
-
UK News4 weeks agoEx-minister Shapps quits aerospace firm over rule concerns
-
Crime & Safety4 weeks agoRyan Bridge speaks of London arrest after Oxford incident
-
Crime & Safety4 weeks agoOxfordshire man accused of sexual offences 40 years ago