Arsenal have been hit with an injury blow on the eve of the new Premier League season after manager Arsene Wenger revealed Alexis Sanchez is out with an abdominal injury.

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The Beckhams have added to their roll-call of exotically named children with latest addition Harper Seven.

US stocks rose sharply today after Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher suggested inflation would be dampened by a slowing economy and said that while the housing and vehicle sectors were economic weak points, the rest of the US economy was doing “extremely well”.

Electronics giants Toshiba and Hitachi are planning large-scale job cuts amid a slump in global demand for information technology.