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Where are they now? The three dream signings Gary Neville identified for Man Utd in 2019
Back in 2019, Gary Neville named his three dream signings for Manchester United and we’ve checked out where those players are today. The Red Devils haven’t had the best track record in the transfer market in recent seasons and Ruben Amorim will no doubt want to put his own stamp on the squad over the coming years. During a Twitter QnA back in 2019, Neville named his three dream United signings and we’ve checked out where all of those players are today. Raphael Varane Neville eventually got his wish with this one as the Red Devils signed the Frenchman in the summer of 2021 for around £40million. Varane made a fairly decent impression during his spell at Old Trafford, although injuries often sidetracked his progress. “For me, when I watch Varane, he actually defends his part of the pitch very well and the box very well – he heads out a lot of balls and is quite dominant in the air,” Neville said on The Overlap earlier this year. “I just think he’s that kind of centre-half who will always do his own job really well but I don’t think he’ll impact the players around him. “And that’s not a criticism by the way, because to be fair there are many great centre-halves who do their own job very well but don’t actually manage a back four.” Probably the best fantasy game for the holiday season [no install] Elvenar Probably the best fantasy game for the holiday season [no install] Ad Following a three-year stint with the club, the 31-year-old departed on a free transfer to Como 1907 over the summer. However, following a knee injury that he sustained in August, the Frenchman decided to retire in September. He still works at Como today as a board member.
The best Spanish films to watch once in your life
Spanish cinema is rich in timeless, captivating and daring masterpieces. Here are six must-see films for you to discover. Spanish cinema has established itself as one of the most captivating in the world, combining aesthetics with strong emotions and memorable storylines. Read more to learn about the Spanish films that every film-lover should watch at least once in their life. Passionate about cinema? Read more on the topic: The best British films you need to watch once in your life Where was Gladiator 2 filmed? The filming locations of Ridley Scott’s film 6 cult films with the city of Venice as the key protagonist Volver, an ode to women and resilience Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Volver (2006) plunges its viewers into a tale of mystery, humour and family drama. The film follows Raimunda (played by Penélope Cruz), a strong, valiant woman confronted with a family secret and the unexpected return of her mother’s ghost. Why should you watch it? With its striking aesthetic, Volver celebrates the strength of women in the face of life’s challenges. Pedro Almodóvar offers us a poignant and tender tale, magnificently performed. Los Otros, the ultimate thrill Directed by Alejandro Amenábar, Los Otros (2001) is a supernatural thriller starring Nicole Kidman as Grace, a single mother living in an isolated mansion where strange phenomena occur. Why should you watch it? Los Otros (The Others) blends suspense with mystery, played out by the brilliant Nicole Kidman. The plot, with its many twists and turns, has become a classic of fantasy cinema. Watch it asap! Todo sobre mi madre, a deeply moving drama In this 1999 Oscar-winning drama, Pedro Almodóvar explores themes of loss, identity and family ties. It follows the adventures of Manuela, a nurse bereaved by the tragic death of her son. She decides to travel to Barcelona to find the child's father. Why should you watch it? Todo sobre mi madre (All about my mother) is a hymn to maternal love and human relationships . In this movie, Penélope Cruz gives one of her finest performances on the silver screen. La isla mínima, an investigation into the heart of deepest Spain Directed by Alberto Rodríguez in 2014, La isla mínima is a captivating crime thriller set in the marshes of southern Spain in the 1980s. It relates the story of two detectives who are at odds with each other, investigating mysterious disappearances in a region scarred by the remnants of Franco’s regime.
Spain: Meteorite Traveling at 85,000 km/h Lights Up Sky Over Gulf Of León
Girona, Spain - December 20, 2024 A bright meteorite, the size of a fist, streaked across the sky over the Gulf of León, off the coast of Girona, at 5:34 AM UTC (6:34 AM CET) on December 20. The meteoroid, traveling at an impressive speed of 85,000 km/h, entered the atmosphere and was visible from several locations, including Sant Celoni and Barcelona. Despite its lower speed, the meteorite’s radiant suggests it may have been an Ursid meteor from a disrupted orbit near Earth. Its luminous trail, caused by ablation, appeared at altitudes between 78 and 44 km above sea level.
Survivor remembers what 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami felt like
The Indian Ocean tsunami which unexpectedly hit Asia on December 26th, 2004, caused devastation across a dozen countries taking the lives of more than 225,000 people across two continents.
Tesla Sales Are Tanking In Europe
Eleven months into 2024, Tesla is seeing a double-digit decrease in registrations. Tesla is having a rough time in Europe. Its registration numbers went down by over 30,000 units in the EU since the beginning of the year. In November alone, Tesla recorded a 40.9% decrease in registrations in the EU. Europe is experiencing some weird times. From politics to economy and car sales, it’s far from rosy, and arguably the biggest player in the electric vehicle game is having a rough year. Top winter strategy game Forge of Empires Top winter strategy game Ad Eleven months into 2024, Tesla recorded a double-digit decrease in registrations, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), which released official figures for November. To be clear, Tesla is still the largest EV manufacturer in Europe and the United States, but its grip is weakening on the other side of the Atlantic. Last month, Tesla recorded a 40.9% decrease in registrations in the European Union compared to the same month last year. The number of registrations went from 31,810 in November 2023 to 18,786 last month, marking a decrease in market share from 3.6% to 2.2%. More Sales Stories European EV Sales Were A Mixed Bag In November Fisker, A Bankrupt Automaker, Sold More EVs Than Volkswagen In October U.S. EV Registrations Were Up In October Despite Tesla Being In The Red Ford EV Sales Reach New Monthly Record In November Year-to-date, Tesla had 211,405 registrations in the EU, 15.2% fewer than last year’s 249,265 units. It’s a similar story when the European Free Trade Association members and the United Kingdom are included in the mix. EFTA members include Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. On these markets, Tesla registrations went down 28.4% in November, from 36,563 units last year to 26,191 units this year, which made the American automaker’s market share go down from 3.4% to 2.5%. Year-to-date, Tesla registrations in the EU, EFTA and UK went down 13.7% from 327,635 units in 2023 to 282,692 units this year, while the market share shrunk from 2.8% to 2.4%. In the EU alone, which has 27 member states, Tesla’s market share went down from 2.6% in the first 11 months of last year to 2.2% this year. ACEA registration figures for November 2024 in the EU, EFTA and UK The automaker’s losses can be attributed to a number of factors, including the increasingly controversial attitude of its CEO, Elon Musk, and the decrease in government incentives. Some European states have reduced the amount of money offered toward the purchase of a new EV, while others have eliminated the incentives altogether. That said, Tesla’s significant drop in European registrations has largely left the EV industry unaffected. Considering the sheer volume of electric cars sold by Tesla, EV registrations as a whole only went down by 1.4% in the EU, EFTA and UK from January to November and they actually went up 0.9% in November compared to last year. In the EU alone, EV registrations went down 5.4% year-to-date and 9.5% in November. This can only mean one thing: other automakers have stepped up to try and fill the gap left by Tesla, and customers are following suit.
Drone video of landslides following 7.4 magnitude quake in Vanuatu
Debris from the landslides is seen blocking several sections of a road next to the international shipping terminal, where at least one container appeared to have toppled over.
The 10 Premier League stars who have gained the most value in 2024
The Premier League is home to some of the biggest stars in football and players from Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United have seen exponential growth in their market values during 2024. As the money involved in football continues to skyrocket, it is now commonplace for Premier League players to be worth vast sums of money and move for jaw-dropping transfer fees. Using Transfermarkt market values, we have found the 10 Premier League stars who have gained the most market value throughout the calendar year of 2024. 10. Ethan Nwaneri (+€24million) Nwaneri became the youngest player in Premier League history in 2022 when making his Arsenal debut as a 15-year-old. Some observers described it as a Mikel Arteta vanity gesture, but Nwaneri has since proved himself to be the real deal. Quick, intelligent and boundlessly creative, the teenager has already become a firm fan’s favourite at the Emirates and scored his first Premier League goal in November’s 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest. Given Arsenal’s stodgy form in the absence of Martin Odegaard in the autumn, many Gunners fans have asked whether Arteta should have given a bigger role to Nwaneri sooner. 9. Savinho (+€25million) It’s gone off the boil for Savinho, like the rest of his Manchester City team-mates, over the past few matches but the Brazilian winger made an eye-catching beginning to life in the Premier League. Having caught the eye at Girona, helping the Catalan club reach the Champions League, Savinho was bought by City for a cut-price fee as Girona are part of the City Football Group. Try not to be sick in your mouth. However unsavoury the deal, Savinho has demonstrated enough talent in 2024 to indicate he’ll escape his current rut sooner rather than later. 8. Murillo (+€28million) Nottingham Forest’s transformation from relegation flirters to European pushers has been one of the stories of the 2024-25 season and Murillo is one of the reasons behind their rapid improvement. Forming a menacing centre-back pairing with Nikola Milenkovic, the impressive 22-year-old was signed for just £10million from Corinthians in 2023 and has already been linked with the Premier League’s richest clubs. Before any possible move, Murillo will back himself to help Forest finish in their highest position of the 21st century. 7. Leny Yoro (+€30million) Much of Yoro’s valuation jump came before the centre-back joined Manchester United over the summer; he’d impressed at Lille and United reportedly beat Real Madrid for his signature. Sadly, the defender was injured during pre-season and is only now making his first appearances of the season. United paid for potential as much as current ability, but Yoro has shown enough in flashes to suggest he’s worthy of such faith. 6. Phil Foden (+€30million) The second half of Foden’s 2024 has been instantly forgettable; the midfielder looked lost for England at Euro 2024 and has been unable to lift a struggling Manchester City side. Such has been his loss of form that it’s easy to forget how imperious Foden was in the second half of the 2023-24 campaign, scoring 14 league goals as City swept to a fourth consecutive title. His efforts were enough to be voted PFA Player of the Year. It would be wise not to forget that when casting aspersions over Foden’s current form. READ NEXT: 6 players we can’t believe don’t have a single Premier League goal or assist TRY A QUIZ: Can you name every club to ever appear in the Premier League? 5. Bukayo Saka (+€30million) It has been another superb year for Saka, who cemented his status as Arsenal’s most effective attacker and England mainstay. The 23-year-old has recorded 15 goals and 13 assists in 2024 as the Gunners came so close to winning their first league title since 2004. While his critics suggest Saka is a little too one-dimensional and easily quietened if Martin Odegaard isn’t playing alongside him, Saka’s numbers and sheer relentlessness point to a player who is fast becoming one of the world’s best. The Arsenal XI from Bukayo Saka's last game at left back The Arsenal XI from Bukayo Saka's last game at left back READ: Where are they now? The Arsenal XI from Bukayo Saka’s last game at left-back 4. Riccardo Calafiori (+€32million) Part of the Bologna team that qualified for the Champions League for the first time since the 1960s, Calafiori was one of Italy’s only impressive performers at Euro 2024 and earned himself a move to Arsenal. His first months in England have been marred by injury, but few will forget Calafiori’s goal against Manchester City and the string of accomplished performances in defence when fit. Considering few in this country had heard of Calafiori 12 months ago, it has been a meteoric year for the 22-year-old. 3. Morgan Rogers (+€37.2million) In December 2023, Rogers was shining in the Championship at Middlesbrough and was linked with a host of ambitious Premier League clubs. Aston Villa won the race for his signature and, when many expected him to warm the bench initially, Unai Emery had no qualms with throwing the creative midfielder into his starting XI. Emery’s decision was a wise one; Rogers has taken to Premier League life like a duck to water and become an integral part of Villa’s attack. The 22-year-old also won his first England cap during the Nations League win over Greece in November 2024. Expect his rise to continue in 2025. 2. Kobbie Mainoo (+€49million) Mainoo has enjoyed a breakout year to remember in 2024, starting by scoring his first Manchester United goal in an FA Cup win over Newport County in January. Quickly becoming a calm and stable presence in a tumultuous team, Mainoo chipped in with some world-class strikes like his last-minute winner at Wolves, his stunner against Liverpool and an emphatic finish in the FA Cup final victory over Manchester City. The teenager from Stockport also played himself into England’s Euro 2024 team, coming on as a half-time substitute against Slovenia in the group stages and staying in the XI all the way to the final. Mainoo doesn’t turn 20 until April 2025, but is already a crucial member of both United and England’s midfield. 1. Cole Palmer (+€85million) It has been a stratospheric year for Palmer, who has scored 25 goals and provided 13 assists in the Premier League for Chelsea in 2024. But numbers don’t do such a maverick player justice; in an increasingly regimented sport, Palmer is a breath of fresh air with his laconic style, his jaw-dropping creativity and his non-media-managed personality. It seems incredible that the 22-year-old from Wythenshawe didn’t play more at Euro 2024, but he still set up England’s winner in the semi-final and scored in the defeat to Spain in the final itself. Chelsea and England have a potential Ballon d’Or winner on their hands.
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Windows 11 24H2 is the unwanted holiday gift that keeps on giving thanks to Auto HDR game crashes, audio device woes, odd bouts of stuttering and more
Microsoft has been logging many of the various known issues on its Windows release health page, and the most recent entry relates to Auto HDR. Some users have been experiencing incorrect game colours with "certain display configurations" and even full-on crashes in some games. Microsoft has applied a compatibility hold on devices with Auto HDR enabled, meaning that these devices will not be offered the option to install 24H2 via the Windows Update release channel if they haven't installed it already. However, that's far from the only 24H2 bug doing the rounds this holiday season. Second on the list is an entry mentioning audio issues with a "limited set of devices from one manufacturer" namely devices using Dirac Audio with cridspapo.dll. Again, Microsoft says it's put a compatibility hold on affected PCs—but both myself and my colleague, Nick Evanson, have had audio device issues since installing the update, and neither of us uses Dirac Audio. In my case I've had audio devices disappear, refuse to switch over (which is fun for meetings!) and odd crackling. All of this is directly post-update, which for me also broke many of my drivers and required me to reinstall them manually. Oh, and my Windows notifications keep disappearing and reappearing en masse, too. Polling the hardware team for odd PC experiences since installing the update reveals yet more strange behaviour. Our Jacob Fox has experienced animation glitching when minimising and maximising individual windows, which a quick Google search reveals seems to be an ongoing issue for many users. He's disabled animations entirely to fix it, so spare a thought for poor Mr Fox this holiday season with his barebones Windows experience. Nick has ongoing issues with Chrome, which (directly after the installation of 24H2) occasionally freezes page rendering halfway through, leaving the bottom half stuck in place but the top half still active. And as for myself, it's not just audio and notification issues that have me scratching my head. I noticed odd stuttering and hangs in games that ran smoothly pre-update, including Diablo 4 and No Mans Sky, both of which usually run consistently at over 100 fps on my machine. Spending an evening scouring forums for a fix (not exactly my favourite way to spend a night off), I noticed that some people were recommending turning off fast startup and disabling hibernation to solve the issue in certain games. And wouldn't you know it, that's worked for me too. These are anecdotal experiences of course, but I'd say it was worth a try if you've experienced odd hitching and micro stutter issues since installing the update yourself. All this, and I haven't even got to the Ubisoft debacle, in which 24H2 was prevented from being sent out to machines with certain Ubisoft games installed on them, like Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, in order to prevent crashing. Ubisoft has been releasing hotfixes to solve the problem, but certain games are still yet to receive a fix. Previous issues have included the 24H2 audio jump scare bug, the Western Digital SSD BSOD bug, and a borknado of other pre-public launch problems. So, it seems 24H2 continues to cause headaches for many. I can't remember a time a major Windows update didn't cause widespread issues, but even so. this latest patch seems to cause more than most. So here's hoping Microsoft squashes these bugs sooner rather than later. I have games to play over the holidays, you see, and I'd rather not spend my time off scouring the forums for yet more hackaround fixes.
Trump campaign adviser calls incoming UK ambassador to US a 'moron'
A top campaign adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump has called the incoming UK ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson, "an absolute moron". In a post on social media, Chris LaCivita said Lord Mandelson "should stay home". Mr LaCivita, who was a co-campaign manager for Trump's presidential election bid, criticised the British government's decision saying it was replacing a "professional universally respected ambo [ambassador] with an absolute moron". Lord Mandelson is one of the best-known figures in British politics, having served in multiple ministerial roles under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown before taking up a life peerage in the Lords. He called his appointment as the UK's next ambassador to the US as "a great honour". As first reported in The Times, Lord Mandelson will replace Dame Karen Pierce, whose term in Washington DC is due to end as Trump enters the White House in early 2025. Dubbed the "Prince of Darkness" during his years as New Labour's spin doctor, the 71-year-old will now be the key link between the prime minister and Trump's incoming administration during a crucial time for US-UK diplomacy. Like other senior Labour figures, Lord Mandelson has a record of criticising Donald Trump, once describing him as "little short of a white nationalist and racist". Those comments were the focus of Mr LaCivita's criticism of Lord Mandelson, as he said in his post on X that the incoming ambassador "described Trump as a danger to the world and 'little short of a white nationalist'". Mr LaCivita, a veteran of Republican politics with decades of experience, was a senior adviser to Trump's 2024 election campaign but currently has no official role in the administration. In a statement following his appointment, Lord Mandelson said: "We face challenges in Britain, but also big opportunities and it will be a privilege to work with the government to land those opportunities." Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was "delighted" to appoint Lord Mandelson. "The United States is one of our most important allies and as we move into a new chapter in our friendship," he said in a statement. "Peter will bring unrivalled experience to the role and take our partnership from strength to strength." Sir Keir also thanked Dame Karen for "her invaluable service for the last four years, and in particular the wisdom and steadfast support she has given me personally since July". UK ambassadors are normally career diplomats or civil servants, but Downing Street said choosing a leading Labour politician "shows just how importantly we see our relationship with the Trump administration". It comes as senior Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith challenged the decision. He called for an investigation to scrutinise Lord Mandelson's appointment, his background and "whether or not this is reliable or anyway likely to cause offence in the United States". "He's not a diplomatic appointee, he's a political appointee and political appointees often carry baggage, particularly if they've been out of parliament and out of government for some time," Sir Iain added. In a recently unearthed interview with an Italian journalist in 2019, Lord Mandelson described Trump as a "reckless and a danger to the world". In a 2018 interview with the Evening Standard, he also called Trump "a bully". Since being touted as a potential candidate for the US-ambassador role, considered the most prestigious diplomatic post in the UK government, Lord Mandelson has softened his language on Trump. In November he made a pitch on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme to create "a new relationship rather than a special one" with the US. He also told News Agents podcast it is "absolutely essential that we establish a relationship with President Trump that enables us not only to understand and interpret what he's doing but to influence it". He added that the Labour government should try to "reconnect" with Trump's ally and tech multi-billionaire Elon Musk. Musk, who has been critical of Sir Keir's government, has been appointed head of new advisory team the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which is not an official government department. Peter Mandelson: How the Prince of Darkness became his excellency Starmer: UK does not need to choose between US and EU
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