One thing is clear, the other more uncertain. Firstly, Chelsea have a good enough squad to be challenging for trophies. Very few can rival the strength in depth at Stamford Bridge. More questionable is whether they have the right manager to take advantage. Recent performances, of course, would suggest not. Whether it’s …

Millwall are in talks about signing Birmingham City’s midfield dynamo Maikel Kieftenbeld on a permanent deal before the transfer window closes. Gary Rowett is looking to bolster his midfield and has first hand experience of Kieftenbeld’s destructive qualities having taken him to St Andrew’s in the summer of 2015. Indeed …

David Prutton has predicted an entertaining 2-2 draw when Preston North End host promotion-chasing Reading on Saturday lunchtime.   Both sides are heading in the right direction – with Alex Neil’s team winning at Birmingham City on Wednesday, whilst the Royals thrashed Coventry City 24 hours earlier to climb up to fifth. …

US President Joe Biden arrived at the White House on Wednesday, walking the last block with members of his family through streets that were eerily empty because of the coronavirus pandemic. Under tight security, military bands and an escort of police motorcycles led the presidential motorcade to the White House …

Two weeks after pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, America reclaimed its citadel of democracy Wednesday with the latest transition of power — but Joe Biden’s inauguration, coming amid unprecedented security threats and pandemic woe, was unlike any other. For one, his twice-impeached predecessor Donald Trump was absent, having fled Washington …

Canada on Wednesday announced a one-month extension of a ban on non-essential international travel into the country, stretching the restrictions until February 21. Travellers allowed into Canada despite the ban, which has been in force since March, must still quarantine for 14 days. Since the beginning of January, they have …

Nobody should panic about getting access to a Covid-19 vaccine because everyone who wants one will get one, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The WHO’s assistant director-general Mariangela Simao said the UN health agency was working towards ensuring access to coronavirus jabs all around the world. “No one needs …

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party picked her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader on Saturday, in a vote for “continuity” as Europe’s biggest economy heads into a key election year with the deadly coronavirus pandemic still raging. In the close race, Laschet, the state premier of Germany’s most …

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was due to address parliament’s lower house on Monday at the start of a make-or-break week in a crisis that could bring down his government. Against the backdrop of a coronavirus pandemic that sparked fresh restrictions at the weekend, Conte will seek a show of …

An academic edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is being published in Poland this week for the first time, with its editor responding to critics by calling it “a homage to the victims”. Hitler’s inflammatory tract has rarely been published even after rights to the book, which first came out …