Atletico Madrid have confirmed Diego Costa will have an operation on his left foot in Brazil this week. The surgery will keep him out until February.

Diego Costa proved he has lost none of his mischievousness since leaving Chelsea for a return to Spain in 2017 by playing a hilarious prank on his brother.

The striker is currently recuperating from surgery on his left foot and is expected to be out until February but that did not prevent him from scheming against team-mate Lucas Hernandez.

The video assistant referee (VAR) system was once again on everybody's lips and keyboards on Wednesday night as the Champions League trial threw up a few controversial incidents.

Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa was sent off for dissent during Saturday's defeat by Barcelona after reportedly aiming a vile insult to the referee regarding his mother.

The Atletico Madrid striker played an old school yard trick on an unassuming young mascot before the friendly with Beitar Jerusalem.

Real Madrid were torn apart by their fierce rivals in New York as Atletico Madrid put on a seven-goal masterclass in the International Champions Cup clash in New York City.

Costa played up front with Griezmann for a season and a half under Diego Simeone's stewardship and believes the want-away Frenchman left the club for the right reasons.

While Atletico are still keeping pace with La Liga's top two, their performances have left fans frustrated with three of their last four league games ending as goalless stalemates.

Manchester United decided to let Romelu Lukaku leave in the summer without bringing in a replacement, although they are expected to snap a striker up in the January transfer window.

John Terry has shared an insight into how Chelsea players were kept entertained during pre-season training in 2015, with Diego Costa flooring masseur Billy McCulloch in a boxing fight.

IAN LADYMAN: Football has a bigger heart and much greater intelligence than many may think and during this tricky time we are beginning to see it but the game needs to do more to publicise it.

Kim Yo-jong (left) sat alongside her brother and his wife at North Korea's mass games in Pyongyang, the first time she has been seen in 50 days following reports she was sent to a labour camp.

President Donald Trump said North Korea's special representative to the U.S. for nuclear negotiations had not been assassinated and said he looks forward to meeting again with Kim Jong-un.

In one shot,  locals enjoy a feast of wine and biscuits, in another a local dignitary is carried through a provincial village.

Kim's eagerness to meet Trump in the DMZ that divides North and South Korea contrasted with the picture that Pyongyang paints of a powerful and proactive leader, a source told Korean media.

Choe In-guk - the son of former South Korean foreign minister Choe Dok-shin who defected in 1986 - was filmed arriving in Pyongyang on Saturday where he pledged allegiance to Kim Jong-un.

US national security adviser John Bolton has said that North Korea's latest missile tests did not violate pledges made by the state to Donald Trump. Short-range missiles were launched on Tuesday.

Donald Trump said South Korea has agreed to pay the U.S. 'a lot more money' for protection after North Korea's Kim Jong-Un conducted a series of missile tests over the past two weeks.

The Russian-American businessman, 53, was an invaluable FBI source who helped the US government 'combat terrorists', a letter filed by prosecutors in 2009 and unsealed on Friday reveals.

Images of the Sinpo South Shipyard suggest circumstantial evidence of the construction of a new ballistic missile submarine, according to the report on Wednesday.

John Bolton ripped apart Donald Trump's efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula as ineffective, claiming it will get worse with time. 'North Korea isn't our friend and never will be,' Bolton said.

US special representative Stephen Biegun told reporters in Seoul that the US had heard the North's 'hostile, negative and unnecessary' demands but would not work to the arbitrary deadline.

North Korea has released an hour-long documentary charting Kim Jong-un's two trips up the country's sacred Mount Paektu last year, apparently in place of an anticipated New Year address by the dictator.

A mother-of-two from North Korea is under investigation by the Ministry of State Security after she saved her children from a fire but failed to rescue portraits of the country's leaders.

EXCLUSIVE: Millionaire financier David Rowland held talks with North Korean leaders in the capital Pyongyang about managing the personal fortunes of the rogue state's ruling family.

Multiple photographs depicting North Korea's response to the threat of COVID-19 were sent to Stuart Gibson, a senior lecturer in forensic science at the University of Kent, for expert analysis.

Stuntman Gianluca Di Medio, 40, was on the set of a new movie filming in North East China when he contracted coronavirus and collapsed on set.

Lindsey Graham has frequently commented on the regime in the US media and, last year, was reported by CNN to be a powerful foreign policy adviser for the Trump administration.

The 'Supreme Leader' of this impoverished country boards his beloved train by means of a ramp covered with a red carpet.

The Santa Barbara native wore a long blonde wig with a wide black headband and a full face of makeup, including winged liner. And she added large yellow and white earrings.

She's just released her latest single, Harleys in Hawaii and Katy Perry looked every inch the pop princess at the OnePlus music festival press conference in Mumbai.

in the sassy clip, the 35-year-old pop star gets up close and personal with quite the curious creature. Katy slipped her top off so she could relax with a massage from a cheeky reindeer.

The singer, 35, sported bell-bottom jeans and a designer sweater as she stepped out with her adorable micro teacup pet poodle Nugget in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Katy Perry and Taylor Swift famously ended their six-year feud in Taylor's music video for You Need to Calm Down in June 2019.

She's in the midst of planning her wedding to a Hollywood hunk, and is continuing to mend her relationship with a former enemy in spite of their busy schedules.

Katy Perry has revealed that her grandmother Ann Pearl Hudson has sadly passed away, breaking the news on Twitter on Monday morning.

Katy Perry has shared a moving video of the moment she told her grandmother she was pregnant.

Katy Perry has been seen in public for the first time since her grandmother Ann Pearl Hudson died, aged 99, on Monday. 

Katy Perry has revealed the last conversation she had with her grandmother Ann Pearl Hudson who died, aged 99, on Monday.  

Katy Perry is reportedly 'in lockdown' in her Sydney hotel as coronavirus anxiety grips Australia.

Katy Perry struck a pose in agold dress for #TuesdayShoesday where she promoted her Pineapple Perfection collection, as well as social distancing amid coronavirus crisis.

The 35-year-old singer's paternal grandmother Ann Pearl Hudson, who passed away shortly after Katy announced her pregnancy, will be the inspiration behind her daughter's name.

Katy Perry is expecting her first chid, a daughter, with fiance Orlando Bloom, 43.

Katy Perry has confessed she misses drinking alcoholic beverages during her pregnancy.

Grayson Jarvis Goodwin (pictured), 30, fronted Waverley Local Court on Wednesday charged with drug possession after police found he had four bags of cocaine hidden in his car last October.

The disgraced footy bad boy, 30, is accused of punching the brother of his wife Ainslie Currie in the face at a pub in his hometown of Mackay in central Queensland last Friday.

The Manly Sea Eagles captain, 31, said he fought not only against his sweet tooth but also the lure of a boozy night out with his mates to get himself in peak condition.

Former Australian NRL and English Super League backrower Adam Maher, 47, died on Tuesday after being diagnosed with the disease in late 2018.

Red-faced NRL officials have been forced to make last-minute edits to its new television ad to promote the 2020 season after a series of embarrassing blunders originally went unnoticed.