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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
personPierre-Emerick Aubameyang will join Chelsea in £10.3m deal from Barcelona. Defender Marcos Alonso is expected to go the other way. The Blues are also close to completing a loan deal for Juventus midfielder Denis Zakaria. Arsenal are making a second bid to sign Aston Villa midfielder Douglas Luiz.
BBC Breakfast
organizationFormer BBC Breakfast host Bill Turnbull has died at the age of 66. The news was announced by his family on Thursday morning (1 September) Fellow TV personalities including Dan Walker, Susanna Reid and The Apprentice’s Alan Sugar have paid tribute to Turnbull.
Russell Wilson
personRussell Wilson agreed to a five-year contract extension with his new team. The deal is worth $245 million, including $165 million in guaranteed money. Wilson becomes the second-highest paid quarterback in the NFL in terms of average annual value.
Sarah Palin
personSarah Palin defeated in special election to represent Alaska in US Congress. Democrat Mary Peltola won by a narrow margin on Wednesday. She will be the first Alaskan Native to serve as a lawmaker in Washington. The next election will be held 8 November.
Anett Kontaveit
personSerena Williams beat No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (7-4), 2-6, 6-2. The 40-year-old, 23-time Grand Slam title winner triumphed in front of a partisan crowd. Tiger Woods was courtside at Flushing Meadows to watch the match.
Thomas Webster
personFormer NYPD officer gets 10 years in longest U.S. Capitol attack sentence. Thomas Webster was found guilty in May of assaulting a Washington police officer. Judge Amit Mehta said Webster threw away a lifetime of respect for 20 years as a police officers.
UN
organizationUN report accuses China of "serious human rights violations" and possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. China has rejected the findings of the report, saying it is based on disinformation. The Chinese government published its own detailed response to the hard-hitting report.
Lukoil
organizationLukoil chairman Ravil Maganov, 67, was pronounced dead after plunging from ward on sixth floor. Police are investigating the cause of his fall, which came months after Lukoil publicly opposed Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Mikhail Gorbachev
personMikhail Gorbachev died age 91 on Tuesday following a long illness. He was the final leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. Boris Johnson said he ‘always admired the courage and integrity he showed’
Moderna
organizationModerna has received emergency use authorization for its Omicron-specific COVID-19 booster shot. The jab is the first reformulated shot to receive the regulatory green light in the U.S.
Mikhail Gorbachev
personFormer Soviet leader became invisible when he was placed under house arrest, leading to the rise of Boris Yeltsin. Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed. He was widely despised at home as the gravedigger of the communist Soviet Union.
Wesley Fofana
personWesley Fofana has joined a seven-year-old from Leicester City. He joins Kalidou Koulibaly and Marc Cucurella at the same time. Chelsea still looking to push through a deal for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Alize Cornet
personEmma Raducanu lost 6-1, 6-4 to France's Alize Cornet in the first round. The 19-year-old was defending her women's singles title at Flushing Meadows. Defeat means she will drop 2,030 points and drop to number 84 in the world rankings.
FDA
organizationThe FDA has authorized second-generation COVID-19 boosters from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. New shots target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants. 20 million doses were made available for vaccinators to pre-order.
Emma Raducanu
personEmma Raducanu lost 6-3,6-3 to Alize Cornet in the first round of the US Open. The 19-year-old was defending her women's singles title at Flushing Meadows. Naomi Osaka was knocked out in the opening round for the first time in seven visits.
Fumio Kishida
personJapan PM Kishida apologises for party members' ties with Unification Church. Revelations of long-running links between some lawmakers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the church.
Naomi Osaka
personDefending champion Emma Raducanu loses in straight sets to Alizé Cornet. Two-time champion Naomi Osaka was knocked out in the opening round for the first time in seven visits. Venus Williams lost 6-1 7-6 (5) to Belgium's Alison Van Uytvanck.
Gazprom
organizationGazprom suspends gas deliveries to Engie, a French utility. Move will deepen concerns about Europe's winter energy supply. France has already reduced its exposure to Russian gas imports to 9%.
Meghan Markle
personMeghan appeared to suggest she is trying to 'forgive' the Royal Family. Royal expert Russell Myers hit out at Meghan's interview with The Cut. He claimed the Duchess of Sussex does not help herself when it comes to using the title of princess.
Premier League
organizationBournemouth have shipped 16 Premier League goals in their first four games this season, the most by a side at this stage of a top-flight campaign since 1963-64. The Cherries are currently 14th in the Premier League. Gary O'Neil has been placed in temporary charge of the club.