How Real Madrid and Barcelona could line up following stunning signings of James Rodriguez and Luis Suarez

James Rodríguez's £63million arrival at Bernabéu ensure that both Spanish clubs will be equipped with the most formidable forward lines next season 

                            James Rodriguez (right) poses with Florentino Perez after signing for Real Madrid

In 2001 when Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez began the second summer of his Galáctico revolution with the signing of Zinedine Zidane from Juventus for a world record fee of £45 million, the only available squad number between one and 11 was No5. And so the greatest midfield player of his generation glided around the Bernabéu for the next five seasons with a swan-necked centre-half’s shirt on his back. Two years later David Beckham turned that notion on its head when he took No23 because Raul held the freehold on No7, but before the marketing phenomenon arrived it was felt that 1-11 remained the most valuable slots for merchandising.

Commonwealth Games 2014: Glasgow’s big night comes by royal appointment

The Queen will attend opening ceremony of event that presents an invigorating antidote to some of the grating commercialism of mainstream sport

It was a papal document that encapsulated the standard to which Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games aspire.

“A place of renown,” read the Vatican’s edict of 1451, establishing a university in the city, “where the air is mild and the victuals are plenty.” Truly, Pope Nicholas V could not have put it any better than if he had been describing a summer’s night on Sauciehall Street.

For Glasgow, aptly for a place once heralded as the ‘Second City of the Empire’, finds itself enveloped by a Commonwealths fever.

Not, mercifully, the gastroenteritic variety that plagued the last Games in Delhi – although the athletes’ village in the East End has reported more than 50 cases of the norovirus – but the same avid, fervent, immersive fascination with the spectacle that marked the 2006 instalment in Melbourne.

Louis van Gaal has brought positive energy to Manchester United, claims executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward

Ed Woodward, the man responsible for hiring Louis Van Gaal to Old Trafford, insists there is a feel-good factor surrounding what he describes as 'the biggest club in the world'

Louis van Gaal takes charge of Manchester United for the first time in the early hours of Thursday morning with the man who sealed his appointment claiming that the Dutchman’s “aura” is already banishing memories of David Moyes’s disastrous year-long reign as manager.

Exactly a week after arriving at Old Trafford following his run to the World Cup semi-finals with Holland, Van Gaal’s United face LA Galaxy at the Pasadena Rose Bowl aiming to take their first steps towards erasing from memory a miserable campaign last season.

Ed Woodward, United’s executive vice-chairman, insisted that the Dutchman’s arrival had generated a feel-good factor within the club, claiming that the 62-year-old’s philosophy was “in sync” with the traditions of a club still coming to terms with the underachievement and turmoil of last season which led to the team finishing seventh in the Premier League and missing out on European qualification for the first time since the Eighties.

Indonesian president-elect Jokowi calls for unity after bitter election

       Indonesian presidential candidate Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo (C) walks while waiting for the results announcement by              the   Elections Commission, at Waduk Pluit in Jakarta July 22, 2014

Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was declared the winner of Indonesia's presidential election on Tuesday, bringing the promise of major reforms to the world's third largest democracy.

The Elections Commission, known as KPU, said the Jakarta governor had won by just over six percentage points, with 53.15 percent of the nearly 130 million votes cast on July 9.

It was the closest and most bitterly fought election in Indonesia's history, pitting Jokowi against former general Prabowo Subianto, whose promise of strong leadership brought echoes of decades under autocratic rule.

"This victory is a victory for all the people of Indonesia," the president-elect told hundreds of supporters gathered at a port on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, chosen to emphasize his commitment to Indonesia's maritime potential.

T.B. Joshua Claims He Predicted the Malaysian Airlines MH17 Plane Crash

controversial Nigerian pastor T.B. Joshua has released a video claiming he had predicted the pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine will shot down an airplane several months earlier.

The pro-Russian militants apparently used a ground-to-air missile to shot down the Malaysian Airline flight MH17 last Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard.