New West Brom signing, Diego Lugano

The 32-year-old is considered a coup for the club and will bring a wealth of experience to the Hawthorns

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The Brazilian international is a fiery character who has a record to challenge Luis Suarez

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From an early age it was not difficult to see he was going to be a top player

Roberto Soldado looks set to join Spurs after a deal was agreed with his current club Valencia

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Fee has been agreed although talks are on-going between Spurs and the player's agent

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National coach will take charge of the youth team while search continues for Stuart Pearce's replacement

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Spanish international has his say on the Bale transfer saga and also suggests that Cesc Fabregas will be staying at the Nou Camp

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Neymar will expect to win a number of trophies during his career with Barcelona, but how did they fare against Polish side Lechia Gdansk

It’s hard to know what to think about immigration. But not impossible

Having watched politicians have their numbers debunked lately, we're well acquainted with the sight of MPs overcooking statistics - but not Government departments

Richard Browne ran 10.75sec in the T43/44 100m at the Anniversary Games in London

In 2016 will the blade runners be racing Usain Bolt?

After fastest Para 100m ever on Sunday, some think so – but their slow start is a major obstacle

Bernard of Atletico Mineiro

Arsenal Transfer news: Bernard advised to join Porto as father reveals Gunners are yet to make 'official' approach for Brazil star

Arsenal had been the front-runners for the 20-year-old but his father reveals that Hulk has advised him to join his former club Porto

Malian singer/songwriter Rokia Traore who performed at Womad 2013

Festival review: Womad, Charlton Park, Malmesbury

With its six main stages and rolling programme from midday till after midnight, it’s inevitable that FOMO sets in as you try to sample a full taste of the world unfurling its colours at Charlton Park. This year wasn’t the greatest line-up, but it’s easy to pick out the hot and chilled over the merely warmed over.

Fernandinho alongside Manuel Pellegrini

Fernandinho calls for flying start at Manchester City

The new signing wants points on the board before Champions League begins

Brazil’s Alan Oliveira, left, surges ahead of Great Britain’s Jonnie Peacock, right, to set a new world record in winning the men’s 100m T43/44 event in front of a packed house

Anniversary Games: Alan Oliveira’s new 100m record puts Rio 2016 in spotlight

That the last world record on this track went to a Paralympic athlete seemed a fitting finale to the closing act of the first part of the Olympic Stadium’s life. It has played host to the transformation of a movement and on Sunday it hosted a full-house of 65,000 to celebrate what Paralympic sport has become to this country in the space of a year. Outside the Paralympic Games it is the largest ever audience for such an event.

Beach boy: Thom Yorke rocks a ‘surfer dude’ look, to front new band Atoms for Peace

Simon Price on Atoms for Peace: Nice grooves, Thom – shame about the moves

If you'd told the average Radiohead fan 20 years ago that their leader would one day be on stage with his hair in a scrunchy, wheeling his fist like he was at an old-skool rave, while the bassist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers gyrated next to him like an ape wrestling a rubber python, they'd have looked at you with the kind of paranoid mistrust that extended exposure to Radiohead's music engenders.

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