Arsenal beat struggling Burnley 3-1 to move level on points with leaders Manchester City at the top of the Premier League table after Tottenham Hotspur slipped to a last-gasp loss at Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Kylian Mbappe grabbed a hat-trick as Paris St Germain moved top of Ligue 1 with a 3-0 victory at fourth-placed Reims.

Akuila Mateisuva has been appointed as the co-captain of the national football team for the Pacific Games, alongside current captain Roy Krishna.

It was a moment of sheer joy and disbelief for Shayal Sidhika when she was named to represent the country in the Fiji Women’s Football Senior team this year at the Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

A powerful duo have been named to lead the Digicel National senior women’s team in the upcoming Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas freed the father of Liverpool soccer player Luis Diaz, after taking him hostage nearly two weeks ago, the government said.

Liverpool suffered a shock 3-2 loss at French side Toulouse in Europa League Group E this morning as Brighton & Hove Albion took a big step towards the knockout stages with a 2-0 win at Ajax Amsterdam.

Manchester United gave up a two-goal lead in a breathless 4-3 Champions League loss to FC Copenhagen this morning that turned after Marcus Rashford was shown a controversial red card following a brace by young United striker Rasmus Hojlund.

Bayern Munich top scorer Harry Kane struck twice in seven minutes late in the game to guide his team to a 2-1 victory over Galatasaray and secure a spot in the Champions League knockout stage as group winners with two games to spare.

Arsenal returned to winning ways with a routine 2-0 defeat of Sevilla to take a big step towards qualification for the Champions League knockout rounds.

Real Sociedad edged closer to a place in the knockout stage of the Champions League with a comfortable 3-1 win over Benfica in Group D on Wednesday which ended the Portuguese side’s faint hopes of reaching the last 16.

Union Berlin’s David Fofana scored a second-half equaliser against the run of play to snatch a 1-1 Champions League draw at Napoli and snap a 12-game losing run, but it was not enough to keep the German side’s knockout hopes alive.