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At Maracana Stadium, Adeyemi promises support for children

Adeyemi (left), Idowu and Dierch at the Maracana Stadium…at the weekend.

New interactive map shows the terrible human cost of the 1940 Christmas Blitz in Manchester

They were the bloodiest 48 hours in the history of Manchester and are now slipping away from living memory. Just before Christmas in 1940, more than 750 civilians - many of them families with children - were killed in their homes during two nights of intense bombing by the Nazis.

Superb Manchester City beat Fluminense to secure historic Club World Cup triumph

Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City not so much completed the circle as cemented it shut.

Watch: La Liga Coach's Outrage Viral After Team Concedes Late Goal vs Real Madrid

Lucas Vazquez sent 10-man Real Madrid to the top of La Liga with a 92nd-minute winner in Thursday's 1-0 victory at Alaves. Defender Vazquez headed home to lift Madrid above Girona to the number one spot after this season's surprise packages were held to a 1-1 draw at Real Betis earlier in the day. Basque hosts Alaves frustrated Madrid even before the Spanish giants' defender Nacho Fernandez was sent off 10 minutes after the break.