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Renowned British architects Foster and Partners was named on Monday as the designer of the stadium that will host the final of the controversial Qatar football World Cup in 2022. The 80,000 seater stadium will be built in the purpose-built city of Lusail, some 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of the capital Doha. The stadium will be the centrepiece of a huge $45 billion (38 billion euro) construction project which will see an entire new city rise from the desert in time for football’s biggest tournament in seven years’ time.

Manager Carlo Ancelotti has rose to the defence of Real Madrid’s front three of Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo while insisting he will stick with the club’s traditional 4:3:3 formation. Ancelotti’s men suffered their fifth La Liga defeat at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday and slipped up in the race for the Spanish title, allowing rivals Barcelona to overtake them at the top of the table with their humbling of Rayo Vallecano a day after.

Five people have died in a stabbing attack in the western Japanese city of Sumoto, local media report. A 40-year-old unemployed man was arrested for allegedly attacking the victims at a farmstead early on Monday morning, according to police. Japanese media have named the attacker as Tatsuhiko Hirano. Reports say he was found with blood on his clothes and initially admitted to the killing.

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Premier Li Keqiang has announced a lowered growth target of around 7% China's monthly trade surplus hit a record $60.6bn (£40.3bn) in February, as exports grew and imports slid back. Exports were up 48.3% year on year to $169.2bn, and imports dropped by a fifth to $108.6bn, said the country's General Administration of Customs.

Flabba (front row, left) was a member of popular 1990s hip-hip group Skwatta Kamp A woman has been arrested in South Africa for allegedly stabbing and killing a well-known local rapper. Nkululeko Habedi, known as Flabba, 38 died, in his home in Alexandra, a Johannesburg township. Police have told the BBC that his girlfriend will be charged with murder and will appear in court "within 48 hours".

Ilya Yashin (r) is co-chairman of Boris Nemtsov's party and he was among his closest colleagues A close ally of the murdered Russian opposition politician, Boris Nemtsov, says he is "totally sceptical" that the two men charged organised his killing. Ilya Yashin spoke to the BBC after Zaur Dadayev and Anzor Gubashev, both of Chechen origin, were charged with his murder; three other men were arrested.