Unai Emery is the king of the Europa League.He won a fifth title with Aston Villa in May – their win over Freiburg in Istanbul ending a 30-year trophy drought – but the Super Cup has eluded him.On Wednesday in Salzburg Emery tries for a fourth time to win the competition, when Villa face Champions League winners Paris St-Germain.Last season Emery declared he wanted to seal third place in the Premier League because he had not achieved it with Villa.Finishing fourth was not a failure but it will have rankled with perfectionist Emery.It will be the same with the Super…

Israel has quietly given the green light for infrastructure work to begin in a designated area of southern Gaza, according to Israeli media, as it advances a post-war vision that experts warn is designed to reshape reality on the ground and permanently fragment the enclave.Dubbed “Green Rafah”, the project backed…

An intrepid young goose woke up his owners overnight when he noticed their barn was on fire — saving the structure and the animals inside. The 4-month-old bird aptly named Goosey had only been with the Gerber family since Mother’s Day and usually keeps to himself — but last Tuesday…

Business & Money

Most exceptionally wealthy families owe their wealth to control of a significant asset, whether business, real estate, an art collection, or an inheritance, rather than savings. What the first generation owns is not a number on a statement but an asset they control, and the personal, emotional, and social returns…

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