Nacer Chadli: West Brom sign midfielder from Tottenham on four-year deal

West Brom have signed Belgium midfielder Nacer Chadli from Premier League rivals Tottenham on a four-year deal for a fee reported to be £13m.

The 27-year-old joined Spurs from Dutch side FC Twente for £7m in July 2013.

He made 119 appearances for Spurs, scoring 25 goals, but has not featured for Mauricio Pochettino's side this season.

"It came very quickly but they have a good team, a good manager and I am very pleased to be here," Chadli said.

"I just want to help the team win as many games as possible."

Chadli is West Brom's third signing of the summer after Matt Phillips arrived from QPR for a reported £5.5m and Brendan Galloway's loan move from Everton.

Tony Pulis' side are 10th in the Premier League with four points from their first three games and the Baggies boss said: "He's a top, top player and I'm delighted we've got him.

"I said last week that these signings all had to be about players who would improve our squad - and Nacer does precisely that."

With two days left of the summer transfer window, West Brom's England U21 striker Saido Berahino could remain at the club for the rest of the season.

Crystal Palace and Stoke have made bids for the 23-year-old, whose contract expires next summer.

The Striker has turned down an extension to the deal, but Pulis has said the player will only leave if there is an "unbelievable offer".

Sofiane Boufal: Southampton break transfer record to sign midfielder from Lille

Boufal, 22, scored 11 goals last season to help Lille finish fifth in Ligue 1 and qualify for the Europa League.

Southampton's previous transfer record was the £15m they paid Roma for forward Dani Osvaldo in 2013.

"I can see that this club is the best place for me to continue my progression as a footballer," Boufal said.

Les Reed, the club's executive director of football, said: "We are extremely confident he will successfully adapt to life in the Premier League.

"Sofiane is a player we have watched develop closely over the last few years, and we're thrilled to have him join the club. We're delighted that Sofiane sees Southampton as the best place for him to continue his development."

But he added the player would be some weeks away from a first-team appearance while he gets up to match fitness.

Boufal, who has signed a five-year contract, is the latest summer arrival as new manager Claude Puel shapes his team following several departures.

The Frenchman replaced Ronald Koeman in June after the Dutch manager left to join Everton.
Sadio Mane, Victor Wanyama and Graziano Pelle all left the Saints during the summer for combined fees of £57m.

Southampton spent £10m to sign Nathan Redmond from Norwich City while Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg arrived for £12m from Bayern Munich.

Meanwhile full back Jeremy Pied, a summer signing from Nice, says he needs an operation on a knee ligament injury.

The 27-year-old told his Twitter followers: "I can confirm the bad news for my knee - I need an operation.

"It's hard to digest but it's a trial to overcome. I'm determined to give all my energy to come back as soon as possible on the pitch."

Luis Alberto: Liverpool agree to sell Spanish forward to Lazio for £4.3m

Liverpool have agreed to sell Spanish forward Luis Alberto to Serie A side Lazio for £4.3m.

Alberto, 23, made 12 appearances for Liverpool after he was signed by former manager Brendan Rodgers from Sevilla in a £6.8m deal in June 2013.

He has now travelled to Rome to discuss personal terms after impressing while on loan at Spanish side Deportivo La Coruna last season, scoring six goals.

The fee also includes add-ons and a 30% sell-on clause for the Reds.

Sri Lankan teenager held over hacking of president's website

A Sri Lankan teenager has been arrested for allegedly hacking the website of President Maithripala Sirisena, police say.

The site was hacked on Thursday and Friday by a group calling itself the Sri Lanka Youth.

It demanded that A-level exams due to be held in April be rescheduled because they clashed with Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebrations.

The student, 17, is being questioned to determine any other motives.

A message posted by the group in Sinhala protested about new exam times and called on the president "to take care of the security of Sri Lankan websites or... face a cyber war".

"If you cannot control the situation, hold a presidential election," the message said, along with a call for the president to "stop the prime minister's irresponsible work and look more into the problems of the university students".

It was removed soon after it appeared, the Daily News reported, alongside a message notifying users that the site was temporarily out of service so that it could be maintained.

But soon after it was back in action it was hacked once again, this time with no message.

The BBC's Azzam Ameen in Colombo says that several government websites have recently been hacked and the latest example has prompted people to question why the security of the president's website was so inadequate that it could be overwhelmed by a teenager.


President Sirisena came to power last year.

German plan to force mums to name lovers in paternity cases

Germany's justice ministry has drawn up a change in the law which would require mothers in certain paternity cases to reveal who they had slept with.

The measure would apply when men who had supported a child, believing that they were the father, sought financial redress in court.

They could thus more easily claim maintenance back from the actual biological father.
Women would only have the right to remain silent with "serious reasons".

Justice Minister Heiko Maas said (in German): "We need to offer more legal protection for 'false' fathers to seek financial compensation".

The precise wording of the new paragraph states that the mother would be obliged to provide information to the man on "who has lain with her during the conception period".

Men in this situation were already able to try to claim back money paid for a child that was not theirs.

The draft change follows a ruling by Germany's highest court in March 2015 that there was no legal basis to force mothers of so-called "cuckoo children", in German slang, to name the biological father.

The draft changes, which will require parliamentary approval, also limit the "false" father's financial claim to two years' worth of maintenance costs. Previously this was open-ended.

A 2005 review of studies into so-called paternal discrepancy published in the British Medical Journal found that the rate was around 4% - meaning one in 25 children is biologically fathered by someone other than the man who believes he is the father.

Germany to allow hospital births under false name

The 'baby box' returns to Europe


Archbishop of Canterbury learns identity of biological father

Deer collides with competitor at Dublin city triathlon

Triathlons are tough at the best of times, but one competitor in the Dublin city event got more than he bargained for when he and a deer collided.

Photographer Erik Scraggs snapped the moment Shane O'Reilly was struck by the animal as he cycled in Phoenix Park.

Mr O'Reilly from Blackrock in County Dublin told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that he was left with a cracked helmet following the incident on Sunday, but managed to carry on.

The park is home to around 500 deer.

"The helmet definitely saved me," Mr O'Reilly added.

"Apart from that, my shoulder was a bit sore and I had a headache."

The competitor completed the race in two hours 25 mins.

Mr Scraggs said he never thought deer would "try and leap over the cyclists".

"I had a feeling they might make their way across the cyclists' path, so I tracked them though my lens," he said.

"I never envisaged that they would actually try and leap over the cyclists. It all happened so fast, It was a really heavy crash.

"It was a relief to see the competitor get back to his feet and continue."


It is understood the deer has also recovered.

Anthony Weiner scandal: Huma Abedin splits from sexting husband

Hillary Clinton's personal aide, Huma Abedin, has announced she is separating from her husband, disgraced former politician Anthony Weiner.

Ms Abedin's announcement comes after a report emerged that he had allegedly exchanged sexual photos with a woman.

He appeared to have sent a photo of himself in his underpants with his toddler son nearby.

The former congressman resigned in 2011 after sending explicit photos to women by text message.

"After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband," Ms Abedin said in a statement.

"Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy."

She is one of Mrs Clinton's most trusted advisers and Republican Donald Trump said it showed a lack of judgement on her part, with Mr Weiner possibly having access to classified information.

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Analysis - Tara McKelvey, BBC News White House reporter

Why did it take so long? That's what everybody wants to know. Abedin is now officially separated from her husband, ending (at least temporarily) a marriage that has been scrutinised in public for years.

She appeared in a fascinating documentary, Weiner, in which she stood near her husband with arms crossed, looking really angry, for much of the time.

After an earlier sexting scandal surrounding Weiner, she said that her work as an adviser to Hillary Clinton became a refuge. "My compass was my job," she told the New York Times.

Clinton is now in the final stretch of her campaign. Abedin will have to focus - and try not to think about her personal problems. That may be a relief.

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The New York Post reported that Mr Weiner had sent sexual messages and half-dressed photos of himself to an unidentified woman in 2015.

One image appeared to show a child next to Mr Weiner, who was in his underpants.

Mr Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 and publicly apologised after inadvertently posting an explicit image of himself to his Twitter account.

The former congressman then launched a bid for New York City mayor in 2013, but the campaign was ultimately derailed by another sex scandal.

At the time, Ms Abedin defended the decision to remain by her husband's side, saying it was "made for me, for our son, and for our family".


Weiner, a documentary released in May, followed the politician's failed mayoral bid and his strained marriage in the wake of revelations that he had again been exchanging messages with other women.