• Manager praises his team’s turnaround in past 12 months

• January arrivals also hailed for making a key difference

Pep Guardiola has praised Manchester City for turning their form around to become the best-performing Premier League team in 2025 and warned rivals they will improve once Rodri returns to full fitness.

Despite a rare trophyless season, City go to Sunderland on New Year’s Day with 2025’s best points-per-game ratio, narrowly ahead of Arsenal, who played two more league matches.

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The PM acknowledges "things have been tough" but says 2026 will see "positive change".

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Trump official says funds will be released ‘only when states prove they are being spent legitimately’

The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump’s administration told ABC News in a report published Wednesday, just hours after department officials announced that they had frozen childcare funding to Minnesota.

States’ funds, the unnamed official said, will be released “only when states prove they are being spent legitimately”.

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So December – the busiest month on the Premier League calendar – comes and goes without a single win for West Ham or Brighton; 12 matches played between them, but only occasional draws to show for their endeavours.

At least this meeting of the winless was not short on entertainment, with two goals apiece in just the Premier League’s second ever game to see three first-half penalties awarded. But the draw – matching the one they shared at the Amex Stadium earlier this month – helps neither team.

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Former Brazilian president underwent a phrenic nerve block while temporarily released from prison for surgery

Jair Bolsonaro underwent a second “phrenic nerve block procedure” on Monday to treat persistent hiccups.

The treatment went well and the former Brazilian president’s condition is stable, according to his medical team.

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Tributes have been paid to two of Anthony Joshua's "close friends and team members" after they were killed in a crash in Nigeria, in which the British heavyweight boxer was injured.

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• Bangal, Catamo and Calila score in 3-2 victory

• Diallo on target as Côte d’Ivoire draw with Cameroon

Mozambique ended a 40-year wait for victory at the Africa Cup of Nations as they beat Gabon 3-2 in Agadir.

Goals from Faisal Bangal, Geny Catamo and Diogo Calila earned the southern African side a deserved victory in which they were led by 42-year-old winger Elias Pelembe. It is their first win at the continental finals since their debut in 1986 in what was their 17th game.

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