The Brazil star left Barcelona to join PSG in a world-record €222 million deal - a switch reportedly fuelled by Neymar’s desire to escape Lionel Messi’s shadow in his pursuit of football’s ultimate individual honour. PSG 11/2 to beat Bordeaux 3-0 Neymar has made a stunning start to life in France, scoring six goals and assisting as many more in just seven appearances. Mbappe has scored just twice since his loan move from Ligue 1 champions Monaco, but his strike against Bayern Munich in Wednesday’s 3-0 Champions League thrashing evidenced the 18-year-old’s appetite for the big occasion....

Alongside Messi and Luis Suarez, Neymar forms one of the world’s best attacks at Barca. Ticket prices soar for U.S. Clasico Neymar, 25, has already won two La Liga titles and a Champions League, among other trophies, with the European giants. Ronaldinho, a two-time FIFA World Player of the Year, feels Neymar belongs alongside Messi and Ronaldo, generally considered the best players on the planet. “Neymar is a close friend and he is Brazil’s greatest idol today,” he said in Dubai on Wednesday, via the Gulf News....

Neymar and PSG suffered a 3-1 loss to Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday. The Brazil international has been linked with a stunning move to Madrid despite only joining PSG in a world-record €222million switch from Barcelona last year. But, speaking after the first leg, Neymar said he was happy at PSG, where he is contracted until 2022....

Mourinho made Man Utd dirty - Courtois The team that won the World Cup in Mexico that year is regarded as one of the greatest of all time, and the 70-year-old says that there would be no room for Brazil’s current star, who is widely seen as one of the best players of the modern day. “There wouldn’t be a space for Neymar,” Gerson said to Fox. “In whose place would he play?...

“I wanted to make a statement to get their attention that masking kids for six to seven hours a day is wrong,” the nurse, Erin Pein, said of her decision no longer to wear a mask. “I knew what the consequences would most likely be, and I still wanted to spread the word about how harmful these masks all day are for the students.” Pein’s mission is to encourage other parents to stand up for their kids and call out against masks, which she claims are harmful and useless....

If approved by the Legislature and Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a death penalty opponent, the move would make New Jersey the first state to abolish capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976. “The time has come,” Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts Jr. said after a breakfast meeting in his office with Sister Helen Prejean, the Roman Catholic nun who wrote “Dead Man Walking.” “This is such a special moment,” said Prejean, whose book about serving as a spiritual adviser to death row inmates was made into an Oscar-winning movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn....

Full USA January camp roster There is a different feeling this time around because of the circumstances that led to Arena’s return. A pair of World Cup qualifying losses in November, followed by Jurgen Klinsmann’s firing after more than five years as U.S. coach, has pressure hanging in the air. This January camp isn’t casual, but rather the first step in what is essentially a rescue mission for Arena....

“Naijiel’s been dismissed from our program,” Petersen said, via The Seattle Times. “We need to move forward. Wish Naijiel the best.” MORE: Top 15 CFB programs since 2000 | Nebraska PA announcer accused of stealing $363k from elderly women Petersen remained silent on the situation surrounding Hale’s dismissal, which was announced a day before the Huskies’ fall camp starts. Hale also acknowledged that he would no longer be with the Huskies, penning a positive Instagram post and stating on Twitter that he plans to play for for another school....

Ronaldo & Real are once in a generation Juve took on Zinedine Zidane’s side in Cardiff in their second final in three years, looking to win the competition for the first time since 1996. However, two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and one each from Casemiro and Marco Asensio saw the Spanish side retain the title with a 4-1 win. While Juventus players and fans were devastated, Nainggolan was delighted as it gave him the chance to wind up his rivals, despite his Roma side finishing second to them in Serie A....

Pelosi’s remarks came on the second day of the impeachment hearings against Trump, who some allege should be impeached because they believe his request of the Ukrainian president to investigate former vice president and Biden’s son, Hunter, was tantamount to asking a foreign government to interfere in an American election. Pelosi, along with House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff, spearheaded the launch of the impeachment inquiry late last month. The hearing began yesterday with the testimonies of William Taylor, the top United States’s top diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, a senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine policy....

Scalise echoed the frustration of several top Republican lawmakers Sunday morning, as he demanded Pelosi hand over the two articles of impeachment to the Senate immediately. Both Pelosi and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have said that if the Trump administration does not agree to present witnesses, it will simply be a Republican-run “sham trial.” Scalise mocked Pelosi for what he described as her trying to receive assurances from the Senate for which she is not owed: “It’s not her role to go over to the Senate, she could run for the Senate if she wants to be a senator....

Shortly after 6:30 p.m., the alert was announced after police said they were tracking an aircraft circling the building. However, it turned out that the aircraft was a U.S. Army parachute plane that took off from Joint Base Andrews right outside of Washington, D.C. The plane was part of a parachute stunt for Wednesday night’s Washington Nationals baseball game. Members of the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights were on the plane and parachuted into the Nationals’ stadium for a pregame event....

In a statement issued today, Pelosi said Kinzinger “brings great patriotism to the Committee’s mission: to find the facts and protect our Democracy.” Kinzinger promptly accepted Pelosi’s request, issuing his own statement through social media: “Today, I was asked to serve on the bipartisan January 6th Select Committee and I humbly accepted. When duty calls, I will always answer.” Kinzinger joins one other GOP lawmaker on the House committee: fellow Trump critic Liz Cheney of Wyoming....

Pelosi, speaking at Northeastern University on Monday, told attendees of the dire consequences she sees ahead of November’s presidential election, particularly citing the president’s budget cuts and “hoax” claims amid the novel coronavirus spread. The longtime California Democrat urged Republicans to “take back” the party from Trump, who she said went out of his way to dismantle the National Security Agency and withdraw funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “after he even knew about the coronavirus” spread....

Trump on Saturday tweeted: “OUR GREAT USA WANTS & NEEDS STIMULUS. WORK TOGETHER AND GET IT DONE. Thank you!” During an interview with CBS News’ Face the Nation, Pelosi was asked if the president’s tweet suggested an agreement had been reached. “No, it means that we want to see that they will agree on what we need to do to crush the virus, so that we can open the economy and open our schools safely....

Maurizio Sarri’s side saw Juventus overtake them with a 2-0 win at Chievo on Saturday but they responded at the San Paolo with their sixth league win in a row. Bologna snatched the lead in the first minute through former Inter striker Rodrigo Palacio but they were pegged back four minutes later in unceremonious fashion, with Ibrahima Mbaye turning the ball into his own net after trying and failing to clear it off the line....

The flight ended up pushing Ingenuity to its operational limits as the helicopter encountered a mid-air glitch that caused it to tilt back and forth. NASA said the helicopter was able to land safely because engineers had installed a safeguard—called a stability margin—that prevented it from losing control even in the face of in-flight errors. Håvard Grip, Ingenuity’s chief pilot at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, wrote after the flight: “While we did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight, NASA now has flight data probing the outer reaches of the helicopter’s performance envelope....

The blast occurred on the surface of a pulsar—a rapidly rotating neutron star with powerful magnetic fields that shoots out beams of radiation from its poles, often likened to an interstellar lighthouse. Neutron stars are the incredibly dense remnants of stars which have exploded as supernovae after running out of fuel toward the end of their lives. The pulsar in question—known as SAX J1808.4-3658 (or J1808 for short)—is located around 11,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, spinning away at a staggering 401 rotations per second, according to NASA....

According to observations conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope, heavy metals such as iron and magnesium are escaping the planet’s upper atmosphere as gases—the first time this phenomenon has been detected in an exoplanet. The fact that these heavy metals can escape as gases can be explained by the incredibly high temperature of the atmosphere—a result of the planet, dubbed WASP-121b, being so close to its host star. In fact, WASP-121b’s upper atmosphere is around 10 times hotter than that of any other known planet, scientists say....