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Madrid win 2-1 at Camp Nou to move within three points of the La Liga leaders, who suffer their first domestic defeat of the campaign.
Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 at Camp Nou on Sunday, cutting the gap to the La Liga leaders to three points. His late winner settled El Clasico after Raphinha had cancelled out the French forward’s first-half opener.
Barcelona has released more than half a million male mosquitoes carrying a parasite that makes them effectively sterile, in the largest European experiment against mosquito-borne disease. The trial, which runs until mid-November, aims to replicate Singapore's results, where the wolbachia parasite cut dengue cases by 70%.
todayBarcelona city centre saw a night of chaos on Saturday as groups of young people clashed with police and shops were looted, leading to around 100 arrests. The unrest, which began late in the afternoon on 24 October around the Plaça de Catalunya, saw protesters throwing stones, erecting barricades and setting fire to rubbish bins before riot police moved in.
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