LONDON (Reuters) – Wigan Athletic became the first team to be relegated from England’s top flight in the same season as winning the FA Cup after they lost 4-1 at Arsenal, with Lukas Podolski scoring twice, in the Premier League on Tuesday.

The victory keeps Arsenal in pole position to claim fourth spot and a place in next year’s Champions League. They lead north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur, in fifth spot, by one point with the last round of games to be played on Sunday.

LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) – Wigan Athletic became the first team to be relegated from England’s top flight in the same season as winning the FA Cup after they lost 4-1 at Arsenal, with Lukas Podolski scoring twice, in the Premier League on Tuesday.

The victory keeps Arsenal in pole position to claim fourth spot and a place in next year’s Champions League. They lead north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur, in fifth spot, by one point with the last round of games to be played on Sunday.

By Robert Woodward

(Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo will return with nine-times winners Real Madrid to Manchester United, where he developed into one of the world’s greatest forwards, and Lionel Messi’s Barcelona take on AC Milan in the Champions League last 16.

Bayern Munich, last season’s beaten finalists, play Arsenal and Juventus take on surprise qualifiers Celtic. Big-spending Paris St Germain face Valencia.

Dec 20 (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo will return with nine-times winners Real Madrid to Manchester United, where he developed into one of the world’s greatest forwards, and Lionel Messi’s Barcelona take on AC Milan in the Champions League last 16.

Bayern Munich, last season’s beaten finalists, play Arsenal and Juventus take on surprise qualifiers Celtic. Big-spending Paris St Germain face Valencia.

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers feasted on Friday on the demise of one of their own — Britain’s News of the World — serving up headlines such as “World’s End” and “Hacked To Death.”

But other properties within his News Corp empire offered more sober reporting or buried the story in inside pages.

LONDON/NEW YORK, July 8 (Reuters) – From front-page
splashes to slim stories buried inside, readers of London and
New York newspapers owned by News Corp (NWSA.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) were greeted on
Friday with varied coverage of the shutdown of Rupert Murdoch’s
weekly News Of The World.

The Sun, which dominates the British tabloid market during
the week in the way the News of the World did on Sundays,
splashed the closing of its 168-year-old sister paper due to a
scandal involving controversial reporting tactics under the
front-page headline “World’s End.”

LONDON (Reuters) – As Japan considers burying its destroyed nuclear reactors in concrete, as at Chernobyl, other aspects of the disaster at Fukushima have also drawn comparisons with the drama that hit the Soviet Union 25 years ago.

Among these is the way the public has complained of feeling kept in the dark as a situation which officials at first said was fairly minor has slowly built to catastrophic proportions.