The Bavarian club made a bid worth €100 million for the Wales international, but he would rather return to England, with former club Tottenham his preferred destination. Florentino Perez may, thus, include Bale in any deal for striker Harry Kane this summer. Mourinho signs new Man United deal Jose Mourinho has signed a new contract with Manchester United, the club announced on Thursday. The manager has extended his stay until at least 2020, with an option in place to remain a further year beyond that date....

China’s Foreign Ministry said it expressed its “strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition” to Japanese counterparts on Thursday following remarks by Japanese Deputy Defense Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, who spoke on the mutual threat faced by Tokyo and Taipei during a forum hosted by Taiwanese think tanks the day before. Nakayama likened the geographic and cultural proximity between Taiwan and Japan to his nose and mouth. “People say we are like friends, but we are not, we are family,” he said, according to a report by the online newspaper Taiwan News....

Paris Saint-Germain had won four successive Ligue 1 trophies but the French champions were deposed by Jardim’s men after a 2-0 victory over Saint-Etienne at Stade Louis II on Wednesday. Kylian Mbappe’s 15th Ligue 1 goal of the season put Monaco on track after 19 minutes and Valere Germain wrapped up the silverware by tapping in with the last kick of the game. Monaco are Europe’s most exciting team...

The Portuguese has been linked with a number of top jobs over recent weeks, with Arsenal, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain among the clubs reputedly interested in his services. Vasilyev, however, says that the man who led Monaco to an unlikely Ligue 1 title in 2016-17 will remain in charge of the club on a long-term basis because he is the “ideal” man for the job. “At the time he arrived, it was complicated, and I had met several candidates,” Vasilyev told Goal....

Kushner, a senior White House adviser, arrived at the Future Investment Initiative forum in Riyadh on Tuesday, a year after Western leaders, including some from the United States boycotted the conference due to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In a report on its website Tuesday, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) pointed to its finding from last year that the Trump Organization’s business partner in Indonesia signed a deal with a Saudi government-owned construction firm to build a Trump-branded resort....

Kushner made the comments in an interview with News Israel 13 on Monday, when he also responded to criticism by Biden—who said in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday that it was improper for Kushner and Trump’s daughter to have roles in the White House. “A lot of the work that the president’s had me doing over the last three years has actually been cleaning up the messes that Vice President Biden has left behind,” Kushner said after Biden called into question his credentials....

In the early Tuesday morning hours, the Suicide Squad actor mentioned on Twitter that he had traveled to the desert to self-meditate for 12 days. After being away for about a week and a half, Leto discovered from friends and family that the world around him has drastically changed. The Academy Award winning actor has finally caught up on the news about the outbreak and his mind is rightfully blown....

Water’s death was due to unknown causes, as announced per Twitter on Wednesday night. The poignant statement from the @ThisIsUsWriters on Twitter read: “The entire #ThisIsUs family was devastated to learn of Jas Waters passing. “In our time together, Jas left her mark on us and ALL over the show. She was a brilliant storyteller and a force of nature. We send our deepest sympathies to her loved ones. She was one of us....

adidas challenged the golfer to hit a piece of foam with a golf ball. He couldn’t, but he did hit the drone carrying it, which in some ways is much better. It’s bad for the drone, but they got an awesome commercial out of it. Day’s golf shoes are sure to fly off the shelves.

As a Cardinal, he hit a home run last season in Game 3 of the NLDS, which the Cubs — his new team — would go on to win in four games. Then he switched allegiances over the winter and signed an eight-year, $184 million contract with the northsiders. He went from being a fan favorite in St. Louis to being a “trader.” MORE: Why the Cardinals will hate the Cubs this season...

Center Jason Kelce posted a video on Instagram on Sunday showing his three-year-old daughter, Wyatt, singing the Eagles’ fight song in her crib. “Apparently Wyatt is pretty pumped about the Eagles win last night too,” Kelce said in the caption. Wyatt can be heard on a recording by a baby monitor chanting, “E-A-G-L-E-S, Eagles! Yay!” She nailed the spelling, but apparently there was more than just the video showed. Kelce said he and his wife woke up to Wyatt singing the “entire” song....

Miller said that Trump may join Gettr if Trump’s social network isn’t operational by the time that Trump decides whether he’ll run for the 2024 presidential election. Trump has hinted that he’s likely to run. Trump’s social network is set to launch on President’s Day, February 22. “If his platform takes longer to develop, I would not completely rule out him joining Gettr,” Miller told The New Yorker. “And, even when he launches his, I wouldn’t rule out that he also creates a Gettr account....

Washington coach Jay Gruden believes it … to a point. He believes it, at least, about the multiple brawls that prematurely ended his team’s joint practice against Houston on Saturday. WATCH: Multiple brawls at joint practice | MORE: Should Washington move on from RGIII? “I think it brought us together a little bit, actually,” Gruden said before practice Monday, the team’s first since. “You watch the tape (and see) who was right and who was wrong, but when you see Redskins players helping Redskins, that’s a good thing....

When the rapper was asked about Donald Trump’s election and if it “has revived the debate about race in America,” he responded by bringing up former Clippers owner Donald Sterling. In 2014, Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million after audio surfaced of him making racist comments. Jay-Z believes he shouldn’t have been punished that way, and explained why to the Times. MORE: Clippers hit with knockout punch...

At the SNL 40 after party, the rap legend got a little confused and asked Curt Schilling about his infamous bloody sock game. Only problem? He asked David Wells. MORE: Yankees open to using 6-man rotation | Cole Hamels can’t win in Philly | Tim Lincecum will start season in Giants rotation It’s Jay Z for crying out loud. The fact that he even speaks to you should be a compliment in itself....

That’s putting it mildly. This summer Chan stars in no fewer than three major Asian films. In addition to the independent “The Drummer”— scheduled to premiere at Switzerland’s Locarno International Film Festival in August—Chan plays a Hong Kong cop in “Invisible Target,” a crowd-pleasing police thriller out this month. And he shows up as a young man having an illicit love affair during the Cultural Revolution in Jiang Wen’s Venice Film Festival entry, “The Sun Also Rises....

Our next player to take the spotlight is Celtics All-Star guard Jaylen Brown. The Celtics came up just short of an NBA title this past season and the truth is, it can’t help but feel like they shot themselves in the foot. The greatness of Stephen Curry and the Warriors’ experience on the NBA Finals stage are two aspects that certainly deserve plenty of credit, but Boston’s penchant for forcing things on offense and turning the ball over was undoubtedly its Achilles heel throughout the entire playoffs....

Former President Barack Obama’s foundation said in a statement that the gift from Bezos is planned “to help expand the scope of programming that reaches emerging leaders” in the United States and around the world. The donation is the largest individual contribution the foundation has received to date. Bezos has asked for the plaza at the Obama Presidential Center to be named after Lewis, the congressman and civil rights icon who died last year....

In 2018, Van Drew became the first Democrat to take New Jersey’s 2nd district since 1995 but he defected to the Republicans after he opposed the impeachment of President Donald Trump. He said in the Oval Office at the time that Trump had his “undying support,” and said of his new party: “I believe that this is just a better fit for me. This is who I am.” In November’s election, he faces Amy Kennedy, the wife of the former U....

During an ESPN teleconference call on Monday, NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy was asked about his feelings regarding the Bulls firing Tom Thibodeau. Van Gundy started off his answer with “I’ve got a couple comments.” Strap in everyone. MORE: Hoiberg to be named Bulls next coach | Bulls players reportedly ripped Thibs “To me, I think this is that the statement (the Bulls) put out when they let Tom go proves once again that every organization needs a vice president of common sense because when you have a public relations, high powered public relations business put that out and then you have multiple people have to co‑sign it to put it out, and it just absolutely wreaked of a lack of class, it shows that you just need somebody to say whoa,” Van Gundy said on the call....