Barcelona won’t be able to retire Lionel Messi’s iconic No.10 shirt after his emotional farewell because of LaLiga rules.
Spanish FA rules state LaLiga teams must assign their 25-man squads the numbers 1 to 25 for each league campaign.
Goalkeepers either wear 1, 13, or 25 while on the rare occasion of reserve players brought into the first team, they are able to take on from 26 to 50. But should Barcelona retire Messi’s No10, they would sacrifice a senior place in their squad for the 2021-22 season.
According to Mail Online, this is because the first-team squads must reflect the numbers 1 to 25 when registered with the Spanish footballing body.
The report also said Barca could still press ahead with retiring the shirt – just as their city rivals Espanyol did with the No21, following the tragic death of defender Daniel Jarque during pre-season in 2009. But this would leave an open spot which Barca cannot afford to do.
Barcelona confirmed last Thursday, August 5, that Messi would not sign a new contract with the Spanish club amid financial concerns “and structural obstacles” which prevented Messi from renewing.
Messi, who won the Ballon d’Or six times, is Barcelona’s record goalscorer with 672 goals in 778 appearances.
The Argentina international won 35 major titles at club level since making his debut in 2003 – 10 La Liga titles, four Champions League crowns, seven Copa del Rey trophies, three Club World Cups, three European Super Cups and eight Spanish Super Cups.
A heartbroken son has revealed how his mother, father, and brother all died of Covid within the space of a week, after refusing to get the coronavirus vaccine.
Francis Goncalves’ brother Shaul, 40, father, Basil, 73, and mother, Charmagne, 65, all died in hospital within two weeks of contracting coronavirus.
The 43-year-old, who lives in Cardiff, says his three relatives who were based in Portugal, refused the Covid jab after falling victim to ‘anti-vaccination propaganda’ despite his parents living with underlying health conditions.
Now Francis, who believes the virus spread through his family during a meal, is pleading with others to avoid ‘falling into the trap’ of Covid conspiracies.
He said: ‘They (my family) got caught up in a lot of the anti-vaccination propaganda that’s going around. It preys on people who are afraid and they fall into the trap.
‘The message I want to get out is why would the government want to hurt you by giving you a vaccine? What is the purpose behind it? I’ve spoken to so many people who are terrified of the vaccine and it costs lives.’
He also paid tribute to his family, describing his mother as the ‘mother hen’ who would ‘do anything for us’, and his father as a man ‘who gave everything’.
And speaking about his brother, he said: ‘ He always looked out for the best interests of people around him and he wanted to teach people. He spend time helping people and wouldn’t ask for anything in return.
‘That was the same with my father, he would go to people’s places and help fixed things for them. I was and am still proud of my family,’ he added.
A young woman was mauled to death by a tiger in a safari park enclosure after her colleagues failed to warn her that the cage door was open.
Catalina Torres Ibarra, 21, was killed in the park in Chile, South America on Friday, August 6.
Catalina, who had been working at the enclosure for over two years, was reportedly sent to perform cleaning duties but was attacked in the process. She died “on the spot” after suffering neck wounds in the fatal attack in Rancagua.
Her colleague Leonardo Maluenda, claims she was not told the tiger’s cage door was open.
Leonardo told the press: “The most logical thing is that they tell you to be careful if you go to clean up there because the tiger is loose, but they did not warn her.”
Colleagues are now playing the blame game as an internal investigation into the incident begins.
The park’s finance manager, Antonio Rojas, claimed that a group of workers had deliberately unlocked the tigers’ cage against protocol.
However, the workers in question have vehemently denied the allegations, saying that the cage was already open and that they did not open it themselves.
The safari park continues to remain closed as police investigate claims of possible negligence.
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared that the sit-at-home order organized in protest of Nnamdi Kanu’s continued detention by the DSS recorded 100 percent compliance throughout the Southeast.
According to IPOB, the sit-at-home order carried out Monday, August 9, is an indication that the group is intact, has no issue and is ready to go into the next phase of actions to ensure Kanu’s release.
In a statement by IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, he urged the people of the Southeast to remain resolute in their push for Biafra.
The statement reads: “We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our prophet and liberator, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, are delighted to note that this ghost town and sit-at-home order issued by IPOB leadership was 100% successful.
“The quest to demand the release of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from DSS dungeons will continue but from another dimension until they release our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“We, therefore, warmly commend Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of Biafra freedom who made the exercise a huge success irrespective of counter orders from unknown men working for DSS to discredit IPOB and its leadership. We equally thank our gallant security outfit and volunteer members who made this exercise a successful event today 9th of August 2021
“The huge success recorded in the sit-at-home order today has again further demonstrated that IPOB is intact and has no issues with anybody, we are in unity and we can restore Biafra sooner than expected.
“We, therefore, encourage all Biafrans to remain resolute in our struggle for self-determination which is our fundamental right.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre has filed a lawsuit in New York alleging that UK Royalty, Prince Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17 years old.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, August 9 which happens to be Giuffre’s 38th birthday, claims that she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York three times as ordered by the late Epstein.
Giuffre alleges that convicted and now dead pedophile, Epstein or his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell instructed her to have sex with the UK royal.
Prince Andrew has always denied having sex with Giuffre, as well as denied knowing her. He has even suggested that an infamous photo of him with his hand around Giuffre’s waist is fake.
‘Today my attorney filed suit against Prince Andrew for sexual abuse under the Child Victims Act,’ Giuffre said in a statement obtained by People.
“As the suit lays out in detail, I was trafficked to him and sexually abused by him.’
The lawsuit states that in one of the incidents, Giuffre was forced to engage in a sex act with the prince at Maxwell’s home in London.
‘During this encounter, Epstein, Maxwell, and Prince Andrew forced Plaintiff, a child, to have sexual intercourse with Prince Andrew against her will,’ the suit reads.
The suit states that Giuffre and another victim were abused by the prince at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
‘During this encounter, Maxwell forced Plaintiff, a child, and another victim to sit on Prince Andrew’s lap as Prince Andrew touched her,’ it states.
‘During his visit to New York, Prince Andrew forced Plaintiff to engage in sex acts against her will.’
Giuffre’s lawyer David Boies wrote in the suit that his client ‘feared death or physical injury to herself’ if she did not follow Epstein and Maxwell’s demands.
In her statement, Giuffre said: ‘I am holding Prince Andrew accountable for what he did to me. The powerful and rich are not exempt from being held responsible for their actions.’
Giuffre said she ‘did not come to this decision lightly’.
‘As a mother and a wife, my family comes first – and I know that this action will subject me to further attacks by Prince Andrew and his surrogates,’ Giuffre stated.
‘But I knew if I did not pursue this action, I would be letting them and victims everywhere down.’
Giuffre is seeking unspecified damages for battery as well as infliction of emotional distress.
Judgment day finally came for two Nigerian fraudsters, Tobilola Ibrahim Bakare and Alimi Seun Sikiru as they lost cash and properties in upscale Lekki axis of Lagos to the Federal Government following their arrest and prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The forfeited assets include the sums of N196, 741, 216.82 and N7, 054, 852.01 in bank accounts; two vehicles, a Mercedes Benz E500 and a Toyota Hilux 2020.
Others are; five bedroom duplex situated at Ibrahim Eleto Street, Osapa London, Lekki, Lagos, four bedroom semi-detached duplex situated at Ologolo, Jakande, Lekki, Lagos and another four bedroom semi-detached duplex in Southern View Estate, Mayor Court, Chevron Alternative Road, Lekki, Lagos.
The two vehicles are valued at N30million while the three duplexes are valued at N230million.
The fraudsters gave up the assets as they could not give satisfactory explanation of the funds and properties linked to them. They confessed to involvement in cybercrime. Bakare, 27, an indigene of Ijebu Ode, Ogun State claimed his forte is Business Email Compromise, and that he had hacked into different companies outside the shores of Nigeria.
The scammers had been successful in their ignoble trade, earning a cumulative sum of $1million USD from victims including three foreign airlines through Business Email Compromise fraud. They laundered the proceeds of crime in acquiring properties including real estate and luxury vehicles.
Their problem began in September 2020, when Operatives of the Commission, in the course of investigating a case of suspicious transactions and money laundering involving one Kehinde Adelakun, a convicted internet fraudster, stumbled on evidence linking Alvine International Resources Ventures, owned by the second defendant, Sikiru.
The transaction that sets off the alarm bell was an inflow of N5million in two tranches from Alvine International Resources Ventures.
Further probing by the investigators, revealed several inflows suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities in two accounts of the second defendant. The balance in both accounts: N196, 741,216.82 and N7, 054,852.01 , were swiftly placed on a Post No Debit, to forestall dissipation of the funds pending the conclusion of investigation and determination of the case.
The second defendant, in his statement to the Commission , admitted that majority of the funds found in his account were from the first defendant, Bakare, who confessed to being into Business Email Compromise, BEC, between 2009 and 2020 and also hacking into the accounts of KLM, Turkish Airlines and British Airways.
The fraudster were subsequently arraigned before Justice O. A Taiwo of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja on five-count amended charge bordering on conspiracy and retaining stolen property, an offence contrary to Sections 411 and 328 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.
One of the counts reads: “Tobilola Ibrahim Bakare and Alimi Seun Sikiru, sometime in 2020 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, conspired to commit felony to wit: retaining cumulative sum of about $1,000.000,00( One Million United States of America Dollars ) property of KLM, Turkish Airways and British Airways.”
Another count reads: “Tobiloba Ibrahim Bakare and Alimi Seun Sikiru, sometime in 2020 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court , with a dishonest intent, retained four -bedroom detached duplex situated at Ologolo Jakande, Lekki, Lagos.”
They pleaded ‘guilty’ to the charges preferred against them.
Delivering judgment, Justice Taiwo noted that the action of the defendants was “responsible for giving Nigeria a bad image globally, whereby the average Nigerian is looked upon as being untrustworthy and fraudulent”. She convicted and sentenced Bakare, to three years imprisonment on counts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, with the option of fine of N3m (Three Million Naira).
The Judge also convicted and sentenced Sikiru, to three years imprisonment on counts 1 and 5 with an option of fine of N1 million (One Million Naira).
Justice Taiwo also held that the five bedroom duplex situated at Ibrahim Eleto Street Osapa London, Lekki, Lagos, four bedroom semi-detached duplex situated at Ologolo , Jakande, Lekki, Lagos and another four bedroom semi-detached duplex in Southern View Estate, Mayor Court, Chevron Alternative Road, Lekki, Lagos recovered from the first defendant be forfeited to the Federal Government.
The Judge further held that the sums of N196, 741, 216.82 recovered from the second defendant’s company, Alvine International Resources Ventures account domiciled in a Bank and N7, 054, 852. 01 recovered from the second defendant’s account domiciled in a Bank be forfeited to the Federal Government.
Two vehicles, a Mercedes Benz E500 and a Toyota Hilux 2020 recovered from the first defendant were also ordered forfeited to the Federal Government.
Disgraced R&B singer, R Kelly has asked a judge through his lawyers to dismiss charges claiming he knowingly exposed two people to a sexually transmitted disease.
Kelly is facing a wide array of sex trafficking charges in New York and will also be tried in both Illinois and Minnesota for a series of unrelated abuse crimes. Kelly also stands accused of having sexual contact with an underage boy in 2006.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Kelly and his legal team are attempting to throw out STD charges by claiming that herpes is not a recognised sexually transmitted disease. He also denies the charges.
Using the World Health Organisation and New York State Department of Health as a guide, Kelly and his lawyers are arguing that herpes is in fact a virus and not a bacterial venereal disease, so believe the charges should be dropped.
His legal team also argued that charges – including bribing a Chicago clerk to allow Kelly to marry singer Aaliyah even though she was underage – should be dropped because the statute of limitations had passed.
“To allow the government to move forward with those counts would be to allow a clear mischaracterisation and interpretation of the application of the statute, considering the statute clearly does not incorporate herpes,” Kelly’s lawyer, Thomas Farinella, wrote.
Kelly stands accused of running a racketeering enterprise that trafficked women and girls across state lines. He allegedly had sex with numerous minors and made child pornography, prosecutors say. He also forced his victims to call him “Daddy”, and did not allow them to eat or leave rooms without his permission, prosecutors will argue.
Opening statements will begin on 18 August after Kelly fired his original legal team
A pregnant woman gave birth to her son three months earlier than her due date after being left in a near-fatal coma by covid-19.
Kassidy Hazelton, from Arizona, delivered her son Kash on May 31, just a couple of weeks after she contracted Covid-19 after she refused to get a vaccine because she was pregnant.
Initially when the 37-year-old caught the virus, she developed pneumonia, ending up in a coma and forcing doctors to deliver her baby via an emergency c-section.Speaking to Fox News, Kassidy said she was unsure about getting the jabs because of possible side effects knowing fully well she was pregnant at the time.
She said: ‘Once my temperature started to get out of control, that’s when I started to get worried. I was scared.’
‘Vaccines were just released and I did not feel comfortable yet’, she said on a fundraising page set up to help with medical costs.
‘Within five months of pregnancy I contracted it and became very ill.
‘I had to be sedated and put in induced a coma while pregnant.’
With doctors scared she won’t make it, they decided to deliver her baby at just 28 weeks, almost three months early, by c-section.
‘They kept the baby in there as long as they could, but I wasn’t getting better and in order for me to survive or even him they had to take him out’, Kassidy said.
Kash weighed just under 1kg when he was born and was immediately rushed to a neonatal intensive care unit, where he will remain until at least his due date of August 20.
Kassidy added: ‘I was still in a coma when he was born.
‘This has been tremendously hard on me and our family.’
She survived and Kassidy came back from the coma. But her battle with Covid meant she was unable to meet her son until weeks after his birth.
Kash is still being closely monitored due to his premature birth and the pressure on his lungs
In total Kassidy remained in hospital for seven weeks and while she is ‘getting better every day’, is still suffering from breathlessness, along with PTSD and anxiety.
‘I can’t breathe at times and I’m concerned things will get harder’, she said.
?’Covid has wrecked my first pregnancy and I was very close to death. We’re very lucky to be alive.’
Kassidy added that she regrets her decision not to get vaccinated and has urged other mothers to make sure they take up the jabs when they’re offered to them.
‘Mothers need to take this seriously and there were mothers that did not make it… protect yourself and your baby because it can, and it will kill you’, she said.
‘Everyday I get told we’re miracles and I hate to think of it like that, but we really pushed through something unimaginable. I had a tracheotomy which they cut a hole.
‘I was knocking on death’s doors and I’m still shocked I’m here today.’
Scientists believe that pregnant women who contract Covid are at a greater risk of serious illness and pregnancy complications, including miscarriage and pre-term labor.
A 29-year-old female police officer was shot and killed while another was seriously wounded in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop in Chicago over the weekend.
The officer killed Saturday night, August 7, was identified as Ella French. She is the first female cop to be fatally shot on the job in more than three decades, according to the Chicago Police Department.
Police Officer Ella French End of Watch: August 7, 2021
We will #NeverForget the true bravery she exemplified as she laid her life down to protect others.
Please hold her family, loved ones and fellow Chicago Police officers in your thoughts as we grieve the loss of this hero. pic.twitter.com/kEUlNTv0Z4
‘We will never forget the true bravery she exemplified as she laid her life down to protect others,’ the department said of French in a Facebook post on Sunday evening.
The department added that fellow officers will ‘grieve the loss of this hero’ and that it requested support for French’s ‘wounded partner, who is in the hospital fighting for his life’.
Two Chicago brothers have been charged in the shooting, the Chicago Police Department announced in a Monday press release. Emonte Morgan, 21, is charged with first-degree murder, as well as attempted murder and other charges. Eric Morgan, 22, faces charges of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and obstruction of justice.
The two brothers and a woman were in a vehicle that had been stopped by police on Chicago’s South Side on Saturday night when gunfire erupted. The one-page release offered no details about why the vehicle was stopped or what unfolded before the shooting started.
Eric Morgan
The brothers are scheduled to appear in a Cook County bond court on Tuesday August 10.
Samuel Jimenez, 38, was the last Chicago officer to be shot to death in the line of duty on November 19, 2018.
Officer Irma Ruiz was the last female officer shot to death in uniform, inside of an elementary school in 1988.
An eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in Pakistan after being accused of intentionally wetting himself in a religious library.
The child has become the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country, a charge which can carry the death penalty.
The boy was accused of “intentionally urinating on a carpet” in the library of madrassa last month, where religious books were kept.
The boy’s family is currently in hiding and many of the Hindu community in Punjab have fled the area after a group of Muslims attacked a Hindu temple in outrage following the accused boy’s release on bail last week.
The Hindu Temple attacked by Muslims
Soldiers were deployed to the area to help maintain peace.
On Saturday, 20 people were arrested in connection with the temple attack.
Speaking to The Guardian from hiding, one of the boy’s family members said: “He [the boy] is not even aware of such blasphemy issues and he has been falsely indulged in these matters. He still doesn’t understand what his crime was and why he was kept in jail for a week.
“We have left our shops and work, the entire community is scared and we fear backlash. We don’t want to return to this area.
“We don’t see any concrete and meaningful action will be taken against the culprits or to safeguard the minorities living here.”
Legal experts are shocked at the blasphemy charges being filed against the child.
Ramesh Kumar, a lawmaker and head of the Pakistan Hindu Council, said: “The attack on the temple and blasphemy allegations against the eight-year-old minor boy has really shocked me.
“More than a hundred homes of the Hindu community have been emptied due to fear of attack.”
Kapil Dev, a human rights activist, said: “I demand charges against the boy are immediately dropped, and urge the government to provide security for the family and those forced to flee.
“Attacks on Hindu temples have increased in the last few years showing an escalating level of extremism and fanaticism. The recent attacks seem to be a new wave of persecution of Hindus.”
A Catholic priest was murdered on Monday August 9th in the French western region of Vendée, by a Rwandan refugee who was giving him shelter, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter.
A suspect handed himself over to police and said he had killed the priest, a source close to the case told AFP news agency.
The suspect, Emmanuel Abayisenga, 40, was on bail and awaiting trial for setting fire to Nantes Cathedral last year but confessed to the killing of 60-year-old Father Olivier Maire in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre earlier this morning.
In an act of compassion, Olivier had welcomed Abayisenga, a devout Catholic, into his community of missionaries in May when he was released from prison on bail.
‘He was recently placed under judicial control, and went to live in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre,’ said an investigating source. ‘He is said to have carried out the killing on Monday morning, before handing himself into police.
‘Early evidence suggests he beat his victim to death,’ the source added.
Abayisenga was living with the Montfortian community, which is made up of missionaries devoted to Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort.
Local prosecutors are leading the investigation, indicating the killing is not being treated as an act of terrorism. BFM TV reported the Rwandan had received treatment in a psychiatric hospital in July.
Following today’s attack, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted: ‘All my support for the Catholics of our country after the dramatic murder of a priest in the Vendée region.’
Christian faithfuls in Maiduguri gathered on Sunday, August 8, to hold service surrounded by the ruins of their demolished Church.
EYN church in Moduganari, Maiduguri, Borno state, was demolished on August 5 by officials of Borno Geographic Information System (BOGIS) and the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), leaving church members without a place for service.
Also, during the demolition of the Church on August 5, 29-year-old Mr Ezekiel Bitrus Tumba, a son of Ecwa Church pastor, was allegedly killed.
But worshippers were undeterred and chose to hold service at the scene of the demolition.
Sharing photos from the church service, Hausa Christians Foundation, HACFO, wrote on Facebook: “They demolished the building, thinking it is the CHURCH. The Church is Forever unstoppable and indestructible.
“Jesus Said, I will build my church, and the gate of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop williams Naga has condemned in strong terms the killing of Mr Ezekiel Bitrus Tumba, a son of Ecwa Church pastor, and demolition of Local Church of Brethern in Nigeria.
Naga said at a press briefing on Saturday, August 7: “The incident which occured on Thursday August 5, 2021 which was the demolition of the EYN LCB Maduganari and killing of a brother, 29 years old Ezekiel Bitrus Tumba, and injuring of five others working at the Church premises by Civilian JTF was tragic, condemnable.
“Officials of Borno Geographic Information System (BOGIS) led by its Executive Secretary, Engr Adams Bababa, brought CJTF to the Church not only for demolition but also ended up killing our brother and son.
“The reaction by youths which followed was report caused by the seizure of peoples’ mobile phones and refusal to return same phones to the people by BOGIS.
“The entire Christian Community has been thrown into mourning mood as brother who was a bread winner of his family was sent to his early grave by zealous BOGIS head and CJTF for simple reason of stoppìng Church expansion in the state.
“Unfortunately, we the Christians in the state have been denied Certificate of Occupancy to build Church by the state government since 1979, but we acquire lands/plots by ‘Deed of Assignment to build our places of worship’.
“It appears BOGIS with these latest activities is out to ensure no church is allowed to exist in the state, fuel tension and caused disatisfaction among peace loving Chritians and Muslims in a fragile state as Borno.”
Secretary to New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned amid a sexual harassment scandal involving her boss.
Melissa DeRosa, secretary to Cuomo, announced her resignation on Sunday, August 8, saying working for the people of New York “has been the greatest honour of my life”.
This comes after a report released last week claimed Mr Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women.
Cuomo denies any wrongdoing and has vowed to stay in office, however, with the Democratic party, Senate leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and even president Joe Biden asking him to resign, he is set to face impeachment by the New York House of Reps.
The report by the state’s Attorney General Letitia James found that Cuomo had sexually harassed multiple women and violated state and federal laws.
Investigators spent five months speaking to nearly 200 people, including staff members and some of those who made complaints against him. Tens of thousands of documents, texts and pictures were reviewed as part of the inquiry.
His secretary, DeRosa was mentioned in the report 187 times in the 168-page report. She was accused of efforts to cover up the governor’s actions and retaliating against one of his accusers.
Her resignation statement on Sunday August 8, did not address the allegations.
“Personally, the past two years have been emotionally and mentally trying. I am forever grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such talented colleagues on behalf of our state,” she said.
On Monday, August 9, the New York State Assembly/s Judiciary Committee is set to meet to address potential impeachment proceedings.
The International Police has arrested a Nigerian alleged to be running a human trafficking ring from Ghana, Togo, Benin to Nigeria.
The Nigerian, who was not named, was intercepted by officers in Ghana.
The suspect had been placed under a Red Notice by Spain during an operation against cross-border crimes.
He was caught when the officers conducted a check on a passenger manifest during an operation tagged, “Smuggling Training and Operations Programme.”
A statement from the Interpol website reads: “Operation STOP (Smuggling Training and Operations Program) included training provided to 20 frontline officers to optimize the use of INTERPOL’s policing capabilities – including its criminal and stolen and lost travel documents databases – to better track the movement of criminals and identify potential victims.
“After the training session, officers from various enforcement services including aviation security, customs, immigration, narcotics and Ghana’s INTERPOL National Central Bureau were deployed to Accra Airport where they carried out almost 33,000 checks against INTERPOL’s databases.
“In this respect, the detection from a passenger manifest of a Nigerian national wanted internationally under a Red Notice issued by Spain on human trafficking charges further underlined the role of INTERPOL’s policing tools to help secure borders by identifying wanted individuals.
“The hit on the Spanish Red Notice was generated by checking names and passports against INTERPOL’s databases using I-Batch, an application that processes bulk data from passenger manifests in a very short time.”
Apart from the Nigerian suspect, 286 human trafficking suspects were also arrested worldwide by the global agency in July.
A firefighting plane crashed during an emergency landing on a Greek island, as the country battled the sixth day of devastating wildfires.
The cause of the Sunday crash was not immediately known, a police official said.
The pilot of the plane which crashed during an emergency landing on Zakynthos, escaped without serious injury.
The police official said the Pezetel aircraft was on its way to a small-scale blaze on the Western island and the cause of the crash is being investigated.
British firefighters have been sent to Greece to help battle the blazes, which have ravaged parts of the country in the worst heatwave in decades.
The 21-strong British team was put together within 24 hours of the initial request by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who visited Greece this week.
Tyson Fury, 32, has become a dad for the sixth time as his wife Paris gave birth to a baby girl today.
The married couple already have five other children.
Tyson announced the arrival of daughter Athena on social media, writing: “Please can everyone pray for my baby girl who was born this morning. Athena Fury born 8/8/21.”
The WBC champion now has three daughters, with his new baby girl joining Venezuela, and Valencia Amber.
Fury and childhood sweetheart Paris also have three sons, eldest Prince Tyson Fury II, Prince Adonis Amaziah, and Prince John James.
As Paris was in the hospital to have her child, she hilariously shared a video of Tyson watching proceedings at Eddie Hearn’s Fight Camp from the hospital last night.
She wrote: “Even in this situation he’s watching the boxing.”
Fury claimed last month that he wants another five kids with Paris ahead of the birth of the couple’s sixth child.
When asked how many more kids he will have, he told The Daily Mail: “Paris became my girlfriend when she was 15 and me 16.
“When time came for marriage, I asked her how many children she wanted. She said 10.
“I said that will do for me. Now we’ve decided to go for one more. Make it 11.
“Let’s have a mixed football team playing on the pitch at Morecambe.”
Kwek Yu Xuan was just 212g (7.47oz) – the weight of an apple – when she was born and measured 24cm long.
She was delivered at just under 25 weeks – 15 weeks short of the average 40.
Before her birth , the previous record holder was a girl in the US who weighed 245g at birth in 2018 according to the University of Iowa’s Tiniest Babies Registry.
The baby’s mother gave birth to her by emergency C-section four months ahead of schedule after she was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia.
After spending over a year in hospital, Yu Xuan now weighs a much healthier 6.3kg (14 pounds).
The baby girl had a “limited chance of survival” according to Singapore’s National University Hospital (NUH) where she was born.
“Against the odds, with health complications present at birth, she has inspired people around her with her perseverance and growth, which makes her an extraordinary “Covid-19″ baby – a ray of hope amid turmoil,” the hospital said in a statement.
During her time in hospital, Yu Xuan was given multiple kinds of treatment and relied on different kinds of machines to survive.
Doctors say she has progressed very well under their care and she is now well enough to be discharged.
The baby still has chronic lung disease and will need help with her breathing at home. However, NUH doctors say she is expected to get better with time.
Her mother, Wong Mei Ling, told local media that the baby’s birth and size came as a shock because her first child – a four-year-old boy – was delivered at term.
A baby thought to be the world’s smallest at birth, Yu Xuan, has been discharged from a Singapore hospital after 13 months of intensive treatment.
Kwek Yu Xuan was just 212g (7.47oz) – the weight of an apple – when she was born and measured 24cm long.
She was delivered at just under 25 weeks – 15 weeks short of the average 40.
Before her birth , the previous record holder was a girl in the US who weighed 245g at birth in 2018 according to the University of Iowa’s Tiniest Babies Registry.
The baby’s mother gave birth to her by emergency C-section four months ahead of schedule after she was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia.
After spending over a year in hospital, Yu Xuan now weighs a much healthier 6.3kg (14 pounds).
The baby girl had a “limited chance of survival” according to Singapore’s National University Hospital (NUH) where she was born.
“Against the odds, with health complications present at birth, she has inspired people around her with her perseverance and growth, which makes her an extraordinary “Covid-19″ baby – a ray of hope amid turmoil,” the hospital said in a statement.
During her time in hospital, Yu Xuan was given multiple kinds of treatment and relied on different kinds of machines to survive.
Doctors say she has progressed very well under their care and she is now well enough to be discharged.
The baby still has chronic lung disease and will need help with her breathing at home. However, NUH doctors say she is expected to get better with time.
Her mother, Wong Mei Ling, told local media that the baby’s birth and size came as a shock because her first child – a four-year-old boy – was delivered at term.
American actress, Tichina Arnold is officially calling it quits.
“The Neighborhood” actress, who got married to Rico Hines, a player development coach of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association in 2012, has now filed for a divorce.
The actress & Sacramento Kings staff coach split in 2016. It was reported that there was an alleged sex tape scandal with her husband and another woman.
At the time Tichina said; “I had that feeling of, you know, beyond him being my husband, this is supposed to be my friend, my confidant. Somebody who I can trust. And when you can’t trust the person that you sleep with every night, there’s a problem. I could no longer trust him. I could no longer lay with him. And it doesn’t make him a horrible person. We all make mistakes, but not with me and not on my time and not in my life.”
According to TMZ, Tichina filed for divorce from Rico Hines this week, citing the usual irreconcilable differences. She lists the separation date as January 12, 2016, and she’s asking to block the court’s ability to award spousal support to either of them.
Rollout of the second batch of vaccines has been postponed by the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19.
PSC’s spokesperson, Willie Bassey said the vaccination exercise which was scheduled for Tuesday August 10, was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.
Bassey also failed to give a new date for the rollout of the vaccines. The statement read;
“This is to announce the postponement of the national flag-off exercise of phase 11 vaccination programme earlier scheduled for Tuesday this week due to unforeseen circumstances.
Bishop David Oyedepo, the General Overseer of the Living Faith Church International aka Winners’ Chapel, has advised women against joining the feminist movement.
He said this on Sunday, August 8, while preaching about total obedience to the word of God.
He lamented that women now feel they are wiser than God when the issue of submission comes up and he blamed this on the feminist movement. He warned the women in his church that feminism leads to frustration and devastation.
He said that when the Bible says “submit yourself to your husband in everything,” women respond saying, “No, not today, that was before. Right now, nobody can do that. We are co-heirs, male and female, no difference.”
He added: “Right now, there is a feminine revolution. And then you get into feminine frustration and destiny devastation.”
He continued: “You know something, no book on earth will ever overtake the Bible in currency. It is the eternal truth. While the earth remains, the truth of scriptures remains in force, you either choose to follow or go your way.
“For we can do nothing against the truth, no matter what civilisation we are talking about, but for the truth at all times.
“So, if feminist revolution is your vision, don’t attempt to get married, because it won’t work.”
An Ariana Grande fan who attended the Manchester Arena concert in 2017 has been found dead in her bedroom after experiencing depression and PTSD following the bombing.
Eve Aston, 20, was found dead by her father in her bedroom in Finchfield, Wolverhampton, last month. But the cause of her death remains unknown, the family said she had struggled with loud noises and sleeping since the concert.
Writing on her GoFundMe page, Eve’s mother, Amanda Aston, said: “The Manchester attack took its toll as Eve was present, however, the strength of Ariana Grande’s music got her through it alongside her dad who was with her at the time and guided her out.”
She described Eve as “loud, funny, beautiful and caring” adding: “Everyone that she knew would always be put before herself, she was such a selfless person.”
Aston told the Birmingham Mail her daughter had always been a “jolly soul” with lots of friends, but that she began suffering PTSD after attending the Manchester Arena concert, where she had been on the other side of the venue from where the bomb was detonated.
Eve had returned to the venue to lay flowers to commemorate the 22 deaths, she said.
Aston added that Eve had been interested in working with cars but had struggled to launch her career due to depression. She said in recent weeks she had “seemed to be getting back to her old self” and had lost a lot of weight.
She said: “We’re heartbroken, it’s like a bad dream. It’s like she’s going to walk back through the door and say: ‘Got ya!’”
An inquiry into the police and security response to the Manchester Arena attack that concluded this summer identified a number of failures that had cost lives on the night, notably that there had been multiple opportunities to identify the suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, as a security threat.
Italian police are investigating a disturbing death threat addressed to Pope Francis in Rome.
Law enforcement confirmed an envelope containing three bullets was sent to the Vatican.
The suspicious package was intercepted by staff at a mail sorting facility before it reached the Pope and had been sent from France, according to the carabinieri provincial command in Milan.
A handwritten address on the envelope read: ‘The Pope, Vatican City, St Peter’s Square, Rome’.
According to Italian police, the three bullets are presumed to be for a pistol and the envelope also contained a message alluding to financial operations at the Vatican.
Representatives of the Holy See are yet to comment and an investigation is ongoing.
This comes weeks after Pope Francis spent 10 days in hospital after having half of his colon removed in a pre-planned surgery.
Human remains, believed to be the body of a woman who disappeared in 1978, were discovered in a car at the bottom of a river on Friday, August 6.
A 1972 Pontiac LeMans was found submerged with a license plate ‘OB610’ found close by – the exact one registered to Alberta Leeman, who mysteriously vanished over 43 years ago.
Authorities have not yet been able to identify if the remains are in fact those of Leeman, who was 63 when she went missing on July 25, 1978, WMUR reports.
New Hampshire State Police said they believe the vehicle had been submerged in the Connecticut River for decades.
The family of the missing woman had spent 43 years looking for answers and following up possible sightings everywhere only to be let down when nothing came back.
“You never give up,” her daughter Nancy Mclain told the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Nancy and her daughter, Roxanne McLain, have been living in Vermont just a few miles from the site where Leeman’s car was discovered on Friday.
“We never thought she was here,” said Roxanne, who was just 16 when Leeman went missing.
“They had looked in Maine, they were getting sightings in New Hampshire. The sightings were terrible at the time They spotted her everywhere.”
Police have said they are not treating Leeman’s disappearance as suspicious and they do not believe there is any threat to the public.
New Hampshire Fish and Game dive team are continuing to search the area surrounding the vehicle, the Daily Mail reports.
The discovery of the car comes around three years after Conservation Officer Joe Canfield found out about Leeman’s disappearance and dedicated all of his time to solve the case.
The founder and senior prophet of Christ MercyLand Deliverance Ministry, Warri Delta State, billionaire Prophet, Jeremiah Omoto Fufeyin has insisted that there is miracle money across churches in the country.
Fufeyin said even Jesus performed wonder of miracle money by locating money in the mouth of a fish to settle taxes.
He backed his statement by making reference to John 14:12: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”
According to him, if Jesus did it and said his followers will do greater works, only spiritually ignorant people criticizes such spiritual things they have no explanation to.
Fufeyin said there were enormous powers loaded within believers which could be comprehend without ignorant.
Fufeyin, who was responding to a trending allegation against Apostle Johnson Suleman, a televangelist and the senior pastor and general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International said it would be difficult for someone without spiritual understanding to know how miracle money works.
“This is not the first time that miracle money started. Jesus Christ got miracle money when he was confronted by tax collectors. He sent his disciples into the river telling them that they will catch a fish. He told them to open the mouth of the fish for the miracle money. He used that money to pay tax,” he said.
Fufeyin clarified that miracle money is however not stealing or robbing a financial institution but praying to reality what already belongs to an individual but obstructed by spiritual forces.
He said people could even get much more than they ever bargain with prayer, noting that if people could get jobs miraculously and get healing by prayers, the same prayer could produce favour in form of money.
“Many prophets and pastors have been doing it before today. It did not start with Apostle Suleman.
“Miracle money doesn’t come from CBN or jump down from no where. They are monies that rightly belong to you. There are people who should favour you but are not willing to. It takes miracle for God to compel them to release much more than what they should give you,” Fufeyin said in a video made available online.
According to him, miracle is real and people must be convinced because the angel of God, on account of prayer will go trouble some people to release certain financial blessings.
Using a practical example, Fufeyin asked people to consider how they may not be willing to help some people even when they have what the person is looking or asking for.
He added that it is only the favour and angel of God that could make people to be remembered and provided with much more than what they ever imagined or asked for.
A US inmate has been sentenced to 24 additional years behind bars after murdering his cellmate, the paedophile who abused his sister – in an act of bloody revenge.
An administrative error saw 26-year-old Shane Goldsby assigned to the same cell as Robert Munger before the fatal beating in June 2020.
Munger, 70, was serving a 43-year sentence at the Airway Heights prison in Washington State for child molestation and child pornography offences.
Local news station KHQ reported that Goldsby discovered that his younger sister was one of Munger’s victims.
“I had so much stuff going on in my head,’ he told the station. “I wasn’t stable at that point. I wasn’t. I was getting to that point, because [Munger] kept wanting to give me details about what happened, what he did – about the photos and the videos of him doing this stuff. It was building up.”
Goldsby said he couldn’t believe that he had been assigned to the same cell and made a request to the authorities that he be moved, which was ignored.
“I’m completely feeling like this is what they wanted to happen,” he said.
“I was in shock,” he added. “I was like, ‘what the f***?’… This stuff doesn’t happen. You’re talking the same institution, the same unit, the same pod in the same cell as this dude. That’s like hitting the jackpot in the casino seven times.”
“They put me in a position that I shouldn’t even be in. This shouldn’t have happened, at all. You’re talking about this dude, who did some sick twisted things to my little sis. My family. My blood. My life. And you want to put me face-to-face with this dude?” Goldsby told KHQ.
Goldsby eventually snapped, attacking the older man in a common area in the jail.
Court documents reveal what happened next, showing how Goldsby hit “Munger in the face and head area about 14 times, [stomped] on his head at least four times and [kicked] a couple more times before walking away and being taken into custody.” He died three days later.
The Washington Department of Corrections has policies to prevent connected inmates being assigned together but reportedly missed the connection in this case because Goldsby and his sister have different last names.
“There was no clear indication in the documentation regularly reviewed for housing assignments that there was a potential conflict,” DoC spokeswoman Janelle Guthrie told the Spokesman-Review newspaper.
“You put me in the same cell as this dude,” Goldsby said. “I feel set up. I’m the victim.”
At his sentencing last week, Goldsby was too emotional to read a statement and his lawyer spoke on his behalf.
“I’m ashamed of my actions, I was put into a situation that I don’t wish on nobody,” she said on Goldsby’s behalf. “I got a lot of fixing to do.”
In addition to the additional 22 years, Goldsby must also pay restitution to Munger’s family.
“I cannot imagine what it would be like to lose a loved one in this kind of way,” Goldsby said through his lawyer.
“To his wife and his whole family I apologise. I am so sorry and I hope you are able to heal from what I caused.”
The agitation for the creation of more states in the country has entered a new phase following a proposal by the Senate Committee on Constitution Review.
According to the Nation, the Senate Committee on Constitution Review has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to conduct referendum for the creation of the 20 new states. The committee’s decision was reached after considering various factors including the ability of civilian administration to create states.
A highly placed source said the Senate panel will soon meet with the House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review for joint consultations on some of the approved amendments. Creation of new states tops the list of amendments to the 1999 Constitution.
Some of the states proposed for creation include ITAI State (from Akwa Ibom State); State status for the FCT; Katagum State from Bauchi State; Okura State from Kogi East; Adada State from Enugu State; Gurara State from Kaduna South; and Ijebu State from Ogun State.
Others include Ibadan State from Oyo State; Tiga State from Kano State; Ghari State from Kano State; Amana State from Adamawa; Gongola State from Adamawa; Mambilla State from Taraba State; Savannah State from Borno State; Okun state from Kogi State, Etiti State from the South East Zone; Orashi State from Imo and Anambra states; Njaba from the present Imo State or the excision of Aba State from Abia State; Anioma State from Delta State; Torogbene and Oil River States, from Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states; and Bayajida State from parts of Katsina, Jigawa and Zamfara states.
A 37 years old single mum of two, Joy Sunday, has been arrested by men of Ogun state police command for pouring hot water on the face of another woman Justina Ameh who accused her of sleeping with her husband.
According to a statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Agbado divisional headquarters by the elder sister of the victim l, one Kelechi Samuel.
Oyeyemi said Samuel reported that she went for a vigil at the Spring of Life Global Ministry situated at Giwa area of Agbado with her younger sister when the suspect came into the church with a container of hot water and poured it on her sister’s face thereby causing her grievous harm. She stated further that while she was trying to hold the suspect, she was also stabbed on her left hand by the same suspect.
Upon the report, the DPO Agbado division, CSP Kehinde Kuranga, detailed his men to the scene, where the suspect was promptly arrested.
”On interrogation, the suspect, Joy Sunday explained that, the victim has been accusing her of sleeping with her husband for quite some time now, and all efforts to disabuse her mind from it proved abortive.
On that fateful day, while they were in the church, the victim came as usual and started raining curses on her.
While she tried to walk away from her, the victim pulled her back with her cloth and tore the cloth. It was that annoyance that made her to go home and boiled water which she brought back to the church and poured it on the victim’s face.
When asked whether or not she is dating the victim’s husband, the suspect said she can swear with anything that there is nothing between her and the victim’s husband.” Abimbola said
The police spokesperson added that the victim has been taken to Strong Tower Hospital for medical treatment. He said the state Commissioner of Police, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, has directed that the case be properly investigated with the view of charging it to court as soon as possible.
Ghanaians can now to travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) without visa following the approval of Visa Waiver Agreement between the two countries.
The agreement to offer visa free entry to Ghanaians and UAE passport holders was approved by Parliament on Thursday, August 5, 2021.
The agreement, which was contained in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Ghana and the UAE on mutual exemption of entry visa requirements, is in respect of diplomatic, service/special and ordinary passport holders.
The agreement was executed on November 18, 2019 with the object of waiving the visa requirements for these passport holders in Ghana and the UAE, who can stay for a period not exceeding 90 days.
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, presented the MoU to the House on May 26, 2021, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs for consideration and report in accordance with Order 140(4) and 183 of the Standing Orders of Parliament.
Chairman of the Committee, Bryan Acheampong indicated that during a presentation of their report that Ghana/UAE had had fruitful cooperation, indicating that the two countries were desirous to take the bilateral relations to another level.
According to him, the agreement constitutes a comprehensive framework on visa regimes for both countries and does not impose obligations on the two parties to admit people who are considered to be of questionable character into their territories.
He reported that neither did the MoU impose any financial obligation on the two countries nor provided direct financial gains from its implementation.
The Abetifi MP said the agreement had been fashioned in a way to create a win-win situation for both countries, and added that relaxed visa entry requirement is expected to yield tremendous benefits to citizens of Ghana and UAE through improved relations, trade and bilateral co-operation.
Mr. Acheampong stated that visa waiver arrangements to facilitate the movement of diplomats and government officials are common, except that this one makes ordinary passport holders beneficiaries.
Manchester United star, Jesse Lingard is set to miss the start of the new season after testing positive for Covid-19.
The England international, 28, had featured in all three of Manchester United’s pre-season friendly fixtures but is not available for the final test against Everton on Saturday lunchtime.
United confirmed his absence in a statement on their club website ahead of kick-off although there is no time frame given over his possible return.
“Unfortunately, Jesse Lingard is unavailable after testing positive for Covid-19,” the statement read. “He is isolating in line with Government and Premier League Guidelines.”
Lingard joins goalkeeper Dean Henderson who is still recovering from Covid-19 after he had tested positive weeks back.
The police in Osun state have arrested two siblings, Faseun Afolabi and Fadare Afolabi, alongside their four complices for killing a man and selling his heart for fifteen thousand Naira alongside his other bodyparts.
Parading the suspects before newsmen, the state Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, said that on May 24, the victim’s mother lodged a complaint to the Police that her son Fasesan Ayoade Moses, 35, left her home for his studio and did not return home.
Olokode said upon the receipt of the report, police detectives from the Anti Kidnapping unit swung into action and conducted a diligent intelligence-led investigation which yielded the arrest of one Faseun Afolabi.
The police boss said the suspect who initially denied having knowledge of the whereabouts of the victim but confirmed that he knew him, finally confessed to have conspired with two of his cohorts Fadare Afolabi, his brother, and Taiwo, surname yet unknown, to kill the victim.
”They also confessed to have butchered and sold the heart to Adeleke Kabiru at the cost of N15,000.00 while the head, leg and wrist were sold to Adeleke Kabiru ‘m’, Oloyede Maruf ‘m’, Oseni Mukaila ‘m’ and Badmus Sairu ‘m’. In view of this fact, the investigation team took immediate action and succeeded in arresting all the suspects mentioned except the said Taiwo now at large.
The principal suspect led the detectives to Fidibomi Area of Ikirun where the victim was killed, butchered and the remaining parts buried. The remains of deceased was exhumed and taken to UNIOSUN morgue for autopsy where the mother of the victim identified the last cloth worn by her son (victim).”the police boss said
Olokode said efforts are ongoing to nab the fleeing suspect and the arrested ones will be charged to court after the conclusion of an investigation.
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Saturday, August 7 in Maiduguri, the state capital, received Ruth Ngladar Pogu, one of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted seven years ago at a Government Secondary School in Chibok.
Recall that Boko Haram members had attacked the school towards midnight on April 14, 2014, and abducted the students.
A statement released from the governor’s office, said Ruth, alongside someone she was said to have forcefully been married to during her captivity, surrendered themselves to the Nigerian military on July 28, 2021, at a location in Bama.
Under Governor Zulum’s supervision, security and government officials kept the development secret and used the last 10 days to contact her parents and the association of parents of the missing schoolgirls in order to ascertain her identity.
The spokesperson of the governor, Malam Isa Gusau, said the governor received the Chibok girl at the Government House in the presence of her overwhelmed parents who reunited with her.
An excited Governor Zulum said reuniting with Ruth was a boost to keeping the hopes of parents, other family members and Borno State government alive in the optimism that all others, still in captivity, will be safely found and in good health.
Governor Zulum said the government, in collaboration with Ruth and her parents, will undertake a rehabilitation and reintegration programme that will focus on her health, psychosocial wellbeing, and her chosen path to a productive future, all of which will be determined by her.
“I am extremely excited both as Borno’s Governor and father of all sons and daughters of the state, and also as a father to daughters. I know the feeling of families of those still under captivity but we have to remain hopeful especially with today’s development”the governor said
Chairman of the Chibok Girls Movement, an association of all affected parents, Yakubu Keki, expressed joy over the return of Ruth Nglari Apagu. He said, the people of Chibok appreciate the efforts of security establishments and the concern and support regularly shown by Governor Zulum on the plight of parents whose daughters are still missing.
Karnataka City Crime Branch (CCB) Narcotics wing sleuths have arrested five drug peddlers including a Nigerian national and seized drugs worth over N335m in Bengaluru.
Acting on a tip-off, police personnel raided an apartment in Hennur on Friday morning, August 6, and seized Hashish oil, marijuana, Charas balls and hydro weed saplings worth Rs 6 crore from their possession. Police also seized a car, a bike and mobile phones from their possession.
The arrested drug peddlers are identified as Nabaran Chakma, from Assam, his associates, Mobin Babu, Roland Rodney Rozer, and Tarun Kumar Lalchand.
The Narcotics wing also raided another residence and arrested a Nigerian national identified as Onyeka Emmanuel James and recovered Rs 5 lakh worth 25 MDMA ecstasy pills and 13 LSD strips from him.
Briefing the media, Sandeep Patil, the Joint Commissioner of CCB stated that it is the first time in the state such a huge recovery has been made.
The gang operated from Elite Ashwini apartment, ducking the police department for three years.
According to police, Nabaran Chakma is a native of Assam, who has been selling drugs to students at prominent educational institutions of the city, businessmen and software engineers for the past three years.
Last year, when police raided a house in Ramamurthy Nagar in the city, Chakma managed to give police a slip while his accomplice Sinto Thomas was arrested.
“It has come to our knowledge that in the last one year, Chakma grew his racket and sold drugs through his accomplices,” police said in a statement.
Former Barcelona defender, Dani Alves helped Brazil secure Olympic gold and lifted his 44th title in an illustrious career, extending his advantage as the most decorated footballer of all time.
With the 2-1 win after extra-time over Spain in the Olympics, the 38-year-old Sao Paulo defender has bettered his already incredible record.
The Brazilian, whose career includes stints with Bahia, Sevilla, Paris Saint-Germain, and Barcelona, has now picked up his 44th title.
See Alves’ 44 titles below:
Barcelona: 23 – La Liga (6), Copa del Rey (4), Spanish Super Cup (4), Champions League (3), UEFA Super Cup (3), FIFA Club World Cup (3)
Paris Saint-Germain: 6 – Ligue 1 (2), Coupe de France (1), Coupe de la Ligue (1), Trophees des Champions (1)
Sevilla: 5 – Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Cup (2), UEFA Super Cup
Juventus: 2 – Serie A, Coppa Italia
Bahia: 1 – Copa do Nordeste
Sao Paulo: 1 – Campionato Paulista
Brazil: 6 – Copa America (2), Confederations Cup (2), Olympics, U20 World Cup
England and Tottenham captain, Harry Kane has denied refusing to return to Tottenham to train with his peers amid reports of an impending £150m transfer to Manchester City
The England captain has been the subject of intense scrutiny after failing to report back to Spurs for pre-season following his post-Euro 2020 break, with manager Nuno Espirito Santo revealing earlier this week that he had not even spoken to Kane since he was employed as Coach .
The wantaway star wants to move to Manchester City after spending a decade at Tottenham and in an emotional statement released on Friday, August 6 said that he has ‘never refused to train’ and is hurt by Tottenham fans ‘questioning my professionalism’
In the statement Kane said he will return to Tottenham on Saturday.
‘While I won’t go into the specifics of the situation, I want to clarify that I would never, and have never, refused to train,’ Kane said.
‘I will be returning to the club tomorrow, as planned.’
Kane revealed his hurt at Spurs fans who have criticised their talisman’s perceived poor behaviour in an effort to make his transfer to City happen, saying that for almost a decade supporters at White Hart Lane have ‘shown me total love and support’.
‘That’s why it hurts to read some of the comments that have been made this week, questioning my professionalism,’ Kane said, adding that he ‘wouldn’t do anything to jeopardise the relationship I have with the fans.’
The statement by Kane comes after City boss Pep Guardiola talked about his desire to sign Kane publicly on Friday.
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has no intention of selling Kane – who still has three years left on his Spurs contract – for less than £150million, meaning City would have to break the British transfer record again just after signing Jack Grealish for £100m.
‘If Tottenham don’t want to negotiate, it’s finished,’ Guardiola said. ‘If they are open then all the clubs in the world will want to sign him.
‘It depends on Tottenham. Harry is an extraordinary striker. We are interested in him but if Tottenham don’t want to negotiate, nothing more to say.’
Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle Sr., has revealed that he sent his daughter birthday gifts but she didn’t acknowledge them.
Thomas Marle tells TMZ he sent the Duchess of Sussex a bouquet of roses along with a personalized card that simply said, “Wishing you a happy birthday and brighter days.”
This was on August 4, when Meghan turned 40.
The bouquet Thomas sent featured a dozen red roses with 2 yellow roses in the middle, signifying Meghan and Prince Harry’s 2 children.
Thomas said he specifically wanted to incorporate his grandchildren, Archie and Lilibet, in Meghan’s birthday flower arrangement. He added that he wants to be a part of their lives because it seems to him the kids don’t have enough family around them in Montecito.
Thomas added that he didn’t get any response from Meghan after he sent the gift, but he says that’s fine and he’s just hoping she likes the flowers.
Onyeka Onwenu, an award-winning singer, actress and author, granted an interview where she opened up about her life, marriage, children, and suffering depression.
During the interview with Chude Jidonwo, Onyeka Onwenu spoke about her marriage to her ex-husband that produced two sons.
She also spoke about suffering abuse and getting out of the abusive situation.
She went on to address the rumours of all the powerful men she was alleged to have slept with, including the allegation that former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo got married to her secretly.
Chude said during the interview: “There’s a long list of people you’re alleged to have slept with.
Onyeka Onwenu replied: “Absolutely. “
Chude then goes on to name some of the people, saying: “Sony Okosun, Fela –“
“Sony Ade,” Ms Onwenu interjects.
Chude continues: “Obasanjo…”
And Onyeka Onwenu adds: “Yes. They even said he married me. Ahn ahn, what is this? If he’s going to marry me, then we’ll make it public.”
She further spoke about receiving a marriage proposal from the legendary Fela Kuti.
“Fela is a trickster. He knew I’d say no,” she said of Fela’s marriage proposal.
“I think it was his way of thanking me for coming out in support of him when he was jailed,” the singer added.
Asked about her marriage, Onyeka, who authored the book ‘My Father’s Daughter’ said: “I don’t like talking about it but because you raised it and because I’d written about it, I have to expatiate.”
She continued: “The marriage was incredible, but sometimes, when things happen to people, they change. My husband, I pray for him on a daily basis…”
German modern pentathlon coach, Kim Raisner has been kicked out of the Tokyo Olympics for punching horse ‘Saint Boy’ during the competition.
The horse rider, Annika Schleu was struggling to control the horse during the show jumping round of the women’s modern pentathlon on Friday, August 6, so Raisner tried to get the seemingly uncomfortable horse under its control by repeatedly punching it to help her get the rattled nag under her spell.
The coach has now been disqualified from the games for striking the animal.
Hitting the horse, an offense in the sport clearly did no good as rider, Schleu could not get Saint Boy to cooperate and rode around the arena in tears as the animal refused to do any of the show jumping that the Germans were looking for.
Schleu had been in gold medal position after the first two events, and had finished fourth in Rio five years ago. After realising that Saint Boy was not in the mood to comply with her instructioons, she started crying knowing her Gold dreams could not be achieved
As a result of the horse’s disobedience, Schleu tumbled from first to 31st position on the leaderboard.
Horses are randomly assigned to riders ahead of the show jumping and riders get just 20 minutes to try and bond with their new equine teammate.
The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), the governing body for modern pentathlon released a statement confirming Raisner’s punishment.
The statement read: ‘The UIPM Executive Board (EB) has given a black card to the Germany team coach Kim Raisner, disqualifying her from the remainder of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
‘The EB reviewed video footage that showed Ms Raisner appearing to strike the horse Saint Boy, ridden by Annika Schleu, with her fist during the riding discipline of the women’s modern pentathlon competition.
‘Her actions were deemed to be in violation of the UIPM competition rules, which are applied to all recognised modern pentathlon competitions including the Olympic Games.
‘The EB decision was made today at the Tokyo Stadium before the resumption of the men’s modern pentathlon competition.’
Chelsea Billionaire owner, Roman Abramovich, is now reportedly trying to sign Lionel Messi after Barcelona announced this week the superstar player will be leaving the club.
According to reports, Abramovich is said to have ‘requested an urgent meeting’ with Messi’s representatives.
On Thursday, August 5, Barcelona announced that Messi, 34, will leave the club after 21 years, as they will not be able to renew his contract due to financial regulations in Spain.
It means Messi is now a free agent, with Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain in pole position to sign him.
However, PSG may not be able to meet his wage demands and City have just spent £100million on Jack Grealish, while also in pursuit of £150m Harry Kane.
According to the reputable AS in Spain, Abramovich has ‘set his eyes’ on Messi and ‘requested an urgent meeting’ with his team.
The Blues are in the market for a new attacker with Erling Haaland a major target at the start of the summer.
Haaland is now set to stay put at Borussia Dortmund, with Chelsea switching focus to Inter’s Romelu Lukaku.
However, the surprise news about Messi’s sudden availability has now made Chelsea switch focus with the report claiming Chelsea are continuing negotiations for Lukaku while exploring the possibility of signing Messi.
The report also suggests a move to France is ‘almost impossible’ due to high taxes and the club’s need to reduce their wage bill.
It has been speculated that Messi may prefer a move to City, where the legendary forward could link up with former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola. But Chelsea’s new interest could now change the direction because Chelsea is in a stronger financial position to sign Messi.
A jealous student who ran over his girlfriend at a party and left her with life-changing injuries after accusing her of cheating because she had messages from another man, has been jailed.
Lakshmam Samarakoon has been jailed for more than 11 years after he flew into a rage and mowed down his partner in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, with his parents’ car.
Victim Dina Sapra, who was 18 at the time, was left with multiple broken bones in her left leg and injured so severely doctors considered amputating the limb.
Sapra, who was very bright in school, had to put her academic life on hold. She was also good at swimming, playing netball, and tennis, but won’t be able to compete in the sports again.
The Aylesbury Crown Court was told that the 20-year-old defendant had a pattern of controlling behaviour – constantly tracking his girlfriend’s movements on Snapchat, spying on her phone for messages from other boys, checking her pictures to see who she was with, and regularly blocking any male contacts.
When Ms. Sapra went on holiday with her family to Dubai in 2018, Samarakoon told her he would kill himself when he saw pictures of her socializing with other people.
After midnight last July 12, both the defendant and Ms. Sapra went to a mutual friend’s 18th birthday party in Amersham. Ms. Sapra reportedly arrived first and when Samarakoon, then aged 19, got to the party in his parents’ Vauxhall and saw messages from a male friend on his girlfriend’s phone.
Samarakoon accused her of cheating on him, then took her phone and headed back to the vehicle. Ms. Sapra followed, demanding he returned her mobile phone, but Samarakoon reversed the vehicle, forcing Ms. Sapra to jump out of the way.
She ran away up onto the pavement, however, Samarakoon turned the car in her direction, drove onto the pavement, and hit her, leaving his partner lying on the ground, the court heard.
CCTV footage played at Aylesbury Crown Court showed Samarakoon immediately get out of the car and go to Ms. Sapra as she lay in the road while talking on the phone.
The court later learned he had called 999 and confessed to the crime. He asked for police to come and arrest him stating that he had made a “terrible mistake”.
Paramedics arrived at the scene, taking Ms. Sapra to John Radcliffe Hospital for emergency treatment while police arrested Samarakoon.
Claire Robinson, prosecuting, said during Samarakoon sentencing hearing: “He wanted to be the biggest priority in her life.
“There was less trust in her and he wanted to see photos, check her phone and sometimes blocked contact from boys she had contact with on social media..”
Judge Francis Sheridan sentenced Samarakoon to 11 years and eight months in prison after he pleaded guilty to one charge of grievous bodily harm with intent.
Sentencing him, the judge said: “This was a wicked offence driven by jealousy. This was the worst decision you have ever made in your own selfish way.
“This was your girlfriend who you have effectively maimed for life. This was an offence driven by jealousy on a loving girl.
“You believed you deserved to have the ultimate say as to what she did with her own life, you had no right.
“After you crashed into her, when sense descended and you tried your best to prevent whatever you could, she didn’t want you to touch her. Who can blame her?
“It’s not a knife, it’s not a gun, but it was just the same damage when you deliberately drive into somebody.
“It just shows everybody you can destroy someone’s life chances even at slow speeds if you deliberately mow them down.”
Samarakoon also received an eight-year driving ban, which will come into effect when he gets out of prison on licence.
He has also been handed an indefinite restraining order against his victim.
Another charge Samarakoon pleaded guilty to was causing serious injury by dangerous driving and drink driving.
Team Nigeria can only boast of only two medals following its participation in Tokyo Olympics.
Nigeria’s only medals were from Blessing Oborududu and Ese Brume.
Ese Brume, 25, won Nigeria’s first medal in the tournament after finishing third in the Women’s long jump event to claim the bronze medal for Team Nigeria.
Okorodudu, 32, won Nigeria’s second medal after finishing second in the 68kg women’s freestyle wrestling to claim the silver medal. She made history by becoming the first Nigerian wrestler to win an Olympic medal.
On Tuesday, the Federal Government of Nigeria rewarded Oborududu and Brume with the sum of $10,000 and $7500 respectively for their outstanding performance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
A vacancy banner from an unknown church, which is seeking to employ the services of prayer warriors has gone viral on social media.
According to the photo of the church banner which is making rounds online, it is located at Aguda, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria and the prayer warriors are meant to be praying from 7:30am to 4pm each day.
The vacancy notice from the church also indicates a salary well above 30k to be paid to the would-be employees.
Also, two phone numbers were also made available for interested applicants to call and also send in their applications.
The militant Hezbollah group fired a barrage of rockets toward Israel and Israel hit back with artillery in a significant escalation between the two sides on Friday, August 6.
The Friday attacks along the volatile border with Lebanon, is a dangerous escalation of the conflict and makes it the third day of attacks . Ten out of the 19 rockets fires were intercepted by the defense system known as the Iron Dome.
Friday’s exchanges comes a day after Israel’s defense minister warned that his country is prepared to strike Iran following a fatal drone strike on a oil tanker at sea that his country blamed on Tehran.
Israel has long considered Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, its most serious and immediate military threat claiming the country has over 100,000 rockets it can use to fire anywhere in Israel.
Israel said it fired back after 19 rockets were launched from Lebanon, and new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett swiftly convened a meeting with the country’s top defense officials. No casualties were reported.
“We do not wish to escalate to a full war, yet of course we are very prepared for that,” said Lt. Col. Amnon Shefler, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces.
The tensions come at a politically sensitive time in Israel and Lebanon.
In Israel, a new eight-party governing coalition is already trying to keep the peace in a fragile cease-fire that ended an 11-day war with Hamas’ militant rulers in Gaza.
While Lebanon is facing multiple crises including a devastating economic and financial meltdown and political deadlock that has left the country without a functional government for a full year.
During the attack, Sirens blared across the Golan Heights and Upper Galilee near the Lebanon border Friday morning. Hezbollah said in a statement that it hit “open fields” in the disputed Shebaa farms area.
The group said it fired 10 rockets, calling it retaliation for Israeli airstrikes the day before. Israel said those strikes were in response to rocket fire from southern Lebanon in recent days.
Shebaa Farms is an enclave where the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria meet. Israel says it is part of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967. Lebanon and Syria say Shebaa Farms belong to Lebanon, while the United Nations says the area is part of Syria.
Military analysts say Hezbollah’s decision to strike open fields in a disputed area rather than populated areas in Israel was a sign the group didn’t want to escalate the conflict.
A teen mum who left her daughter at home to starve to death, while she traveled to celebrate her 18th birthday, has been jailed for nine years.
Verphy Kudi abandoned 20-month-old Asiah at her flat in Brighton, England, for almost six days while she partied in London and Coventry.
She left her flat on December 5 and traveled to London to spend her birthday with her boyfriend.
On Dec 7, she attended a 1990s music concert in Elephant and Castle, south London, and had a DJ announce her birthday to partygoers while her daughter was alone at home. She stayed out until 4am at the concert.
On Dec 9, she attended another party in Coventry then went back to London before finally returning home on December 11.
Kudi pictured at a concert in Elephant and Castle
Unfortunately, Asiah died from influenza and starvation after being left unattended at the flat, prosecutors said.
Kudi, now 19, returned to her flat on December 11, 2019, and found her daughter lying on the floor. She was “incoherent, distressed, and distraught” as she called paramedics.
Verphy Kudi returning to her home in Brighton on December 11
Medics arrived at 6.12pm on December 11, 2019, before Asiah was rushed to Brighton’s Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital but could not be saved and was confirmed dead on arrival
Verphy Kudi pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court today, August 6.
Sentencing Kudi, Judge Christine Laing QC said: “Asiah was alone in that flat for six days unable to do anything to draw attention to her plight.
“She was a helpless child and relied completely on you as her mother to provide for her needs.
“It is almost unbearable to contemplate her suffering in the final days of her life, suffering that she endured so that you could celebrate your birthday and the birthdays of your friends as a carefree teenager.
Judge Laing added: “It goes without saying that this is a particularly tragic case and it no doubt raises strong emotions in all who hear of it, but everyone should bear in mind that the charge I sentence you for is one of manslaughter, it being accepted that you did not intend to cause Asiah death nor to cause her really serious harm.”
In a statement released by Sussex Police, Asiah and Verphy’s family said: “We are saddened by the current situation and as a family, we have many unanswered questions.
“Verphy has experienced so much at such a young age and we have always done what we can to support her.
“As a family we are in the midst of an unbearable tragedy. Not only are we coming to terms with what has happened today but we are also still grieving for our beloved Asiah.
“We would be grateful if our privacy can be respected at this moment.”
A top scientist has warned that cloth sheet masks are not going to protect people from the fast spreading covid-19 Delta variant.
The warning comes as some US states and cities face the potential of a mask mandate in response to the Delta variant.
Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, says most masks are ineffective .
“When one dawns a cloth mask, microscopic aerosols break through the material whether when people snuff or inhale, Osterholm said in an interview with CNN.
‘You know I wish we could get rid of the term masking because, in fact, it implies that anything you put in front of your face works, and if I could just add a nuance to that which hopefully doesn’t add more confusion is we know today that many of the face cloth coverings that people wear are not very effective in reducing any of the virus movement in or out’, Osterholm said.
He explained that when one wears a cloth mask during a wildfire, you are still able to smell the burning flames, exposing the flaws of a cloth mask.
“Either you’re breathing out or you’re breathing in and in fact if you’re in the upper Midwest right now anybody who’s wearing their face cloth covering can tell you they can smell all the smoke that we’re still getting,” he added.
Last month, Scott Gottlieb, MD, former Food & Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, said that the right quality mask was necessary to protect against a strain as contagious as the Delta variant.
“It’s not more airborne, and it’s not more likely to be permeable to a mask. So a mask can still be helpful,” Gottlieb told host John Dickerson.
“I think, though, if you’re going to consider wearing a mask, the quality of the mask does matter. So if you can get your hands on a KN95 mask or an N95 mask, that’s going to afford you a lot more protection.”
Manchester City have signed Jack Grealish from Aston Villa for £100m in the biggest deal in English football history.
The 25-year-old midfielder joins on a six-year deal after the Premier League champions activated the £100m release clause in his Villa ccontract last Friday, making him both the most expensive English player of all time and the most expensive signing by a Premier League club.
After signing a six-year deal at the Etihad Grealish said: “I am incredibly happy to have joined Manchester City. City are the best team in the country with a manager considered to be the best in the world – it’s a dream come true to be part of this club.
“Over the past 10 seasons, they have won major trophies consistently. Pep coming here has taken them to the next level and the football this team plays is the most exciting in Europe.
“To play for Pep and learn from him is going to be special and it’s something any top footballer would want.
“The facilities are amazing, and I honestly can’t wait to get started, meet everyone and get playing.
Pep Guardiola has been a long-time admirer of Grealish with the player leaving Villa having made 213 appearances over the course of eight seasons, scoring 32 goals.
Man City also confirmed Grealish will wear the number 10 shirt, which was recently vacated by the departure of long-serving striker Sergio Aguero.
Apple has announced new updates to its software for iPhones and other devices saying it will start to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse.
The decision by Apple to start scanning phones drew applause from child protection groups but security researchers say the system could be misused by governments like China, Belarus and Nigeria looking to surveil activities of its citizens.
According to Apple, the messaging app will use on-device machine learning to warn about sensitive content without making private communications readable by the company.
The tool Apple calls “neuralMatch” will detect known images of child sexual abuse without decrypting people’s messages. If it finds a match, the image will be reviewed by a human who can notify law enforcement if necessary.
But not everyone likes the new software update.
Top cryptography researcher, Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins, was concerned that it could be used to frame innocent people by sending them harmless but malicious images designed to appear as matches for child porn, deceiving Apple’s algorithm and alerting law enforcement – essentially framing people.
“Researchers have been able to do this pretty easily,” he said.
“What happens when the Chinese government says, ‘Here is a list of files that we want you to scan for,’” Green said. “Does Apple say no? I hope they say no, but their technology won’t say no.”
Tech companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others have for years been sharing “hash lists” of known images of child sexual abuse. Apple has also been scanning user files stored in its iCloud service, which is not as securely encrypted as its messages, for such images.
A Chinese scientist, popularly called batwoman, has issued a stark warning that more deadly Covid variants are coming.
Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli is one of the world’s top researchers on coronaviruses and has discovered dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves.
She studied samples taken from some of the first people to become infected with the new and then-mysterious respiratory illness in China in December and found it was similar to SARS.
Now, in a new interview, she has warned that more deadly variants of Covid could sweep the globe amid fears of a catastrophic fresh mutation.
Speaking to People’s Daily the scientist said: “As the number of infected cases has just become too big, this allowed the novel coronavirus more opportunities to mutate and select.
“New variants will continue to emerge.”
It comes after claims that a new Covid mutant could emerge which could kill more than a third of the people it infects.
Documents published by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said that future strains of the novel coronavirus could be as deadly as MERS.
In such a scenario, the virus could kill 35 per cent of those it infects.
The panel, which advises the government on its pandemic response, warned that such mutations are most likely to occur when the virus is widely spread.
A 35-year-old Nigerian national has been arrested for illegal possession of drugs worth Rs 94,000 (N522,563.26) in Anjuna, Goa.
The accused identified as Chizoba Boniface Okeke was caught red handed when he came to deliver drugs to his prospective customers on Thursday, August 5.
The Anjuna police team led by LPSI Sneha Sawal, Head constable Shyamsundar Parekar along with police constable Sudesh Kerkar, Raj Parab, Rajesh Gokharnkar, Godhish Goltekar conducted a raid between 00.45 am to 3.40 am near a bar at Assagao and caught the Nigerian who had come to deliver psychotropic drug Ecstasy worth Rs 13,000 and amphetamine worth Rs 81,000 all worth Rs 94,000.
Police said that the raid was conducted on reliable information and the accused had concealed drugs in the scooter bearing Registration no. GA-03-AN-2662.
An offence was registered under Section 22 (b) of NDPS act and the accused was arrested. Anjuna police is investigating the case further.
Anjuna police also arrested an Ivory Coast national identified as Dion Albert,31, for possession of narcotic drugs suspected to be Cocaine worth Rs 17,000.
The Taliban have executed 900 people in six weeks in just one province as its fighters overran government troops, a police chief has claimed
The victims included police officers, tribal elders, civil activists, and even a popular comedian who were dragged from their homes and killed in southern Kandahar province, the region’s former head of police Tadin Khan said.
The police chief also disclosed that the Islamist fighters have recaptured much of the province and have laid siege to the regional capital – also named Kandahar – as they push to retake control of the country following US troop withdrawal.
Many of the deaths occurred in the town of Spin Boldak, on the border with Pakistan, Khan told Afghan news outlet TOLO.
‘The people have suffered enormously,’ he said. ‘The brutality that occurred in Boldak is unforgivable.’
Among them was comedian Nazar Mohammad, who previously served in the Afghan police, who had his throat slit before images of his body were posted online.
Other targets of the Islamists have been Afghan soldiers in hiding, some of whom may have surrendered to the Taliban rather than fight on the promise they would be allowed to return safely home.
Religious scholars, government employees, and anyone thought to be a supporter of the government has also been targeted, Khan said.
CNN has fired three employees for entering its New York headquarters without being vaccinated for protection against COVID-19.
This was disclosed in a memo from the cable news network’s president.
“In the past week, we have been made aware of three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated,” said the memo sent to CNN staff on Thursday August 5 and obtained by the Times.
“All three have been terminated. Let me be clear — we have a zero-tolerance policy on this,” added the memo. “You need to be vaccinated to come to the office. And you need to be vaccinated to work in the field, with other employees, regardless of whether you enter an office or not. Period.”
The names of the dismissed employees were not revealed, according to two staffers at the WarnerMedia unit. Vaccinated employees have been allowed to return to CNN offices voluntarily.
WarnerMedia Passcard requires employees to attest to vaccinations, but showing vaccine cards has not been mandatory.
Zucker wrote that the return date “no longer feels appropriate” given the rise in Covid cases across the country. He projected a new return date of mid-October.
“We always said that we would be flexible with our decisions on all of this – as evidenced by the recent change to the Atlanta date,” he wrote. “This is another example of that. As new information is made available, we are constantly evaluating our decisions.”
Zucker also said that employees in Washington, Los Angeles and Atlanta would be required to wear masks in the office. He wrote that “it goes without saying that even in places that we don’t mandate it, anyone who wants to wear a mask should absolutely do so. These decisions can be very personal for people – no two situations are the same. Everyone should do what feels most comfortable for them, without any fear of retaliation or judgment from co-workers.”
Romelu Lukaku has reportedly agreed terms on a five-year contract with Chelsea, worth around £212,000-a-week.
The Belgian goal machine is now edging closer to sealing his return back to west London following his departure in 2014.
Despite failing with a bid of £85.3m plus Marcos Alonso, multiple reports suggest that Chelsea will eventually get a deal over the line with Lukaku open to another spell at Stamford Bridge.
According to football. london, an agreement is already in place with regards to a five-year contract for the Belgium international. All that is left to resolve in the final fee between the two clubs with negotiations now nearing a conclusion.
Inter are now expected to sell up after Lukaku himself made it known that he wanted to join Chelsea.
Lukaku has scored 64 goals in all competitions during his first two years at San Siro.
Tuchel refused to comment on Chelsea’s pursuit of Lukaku on Wednesday night following the 2-2 draw with Tottenham.
“I will not talk about players who don’t play in my squad,” the former PSG boss said. “He is a fantastic player but a player from Inter and with all due respect I will not talk about him. Not everybody but I can imagine a lot of players want to come and join [Chelsea] but we don’t comment on that.”
Lionel Messi is reportedly shocked by Barcelona’s departure announcement
On Thursday, the Spanish giants announced that the captain will no longer stay at the club after 21 years with a bombshell statement, claiming that La Liga rules made it impossible for Barça to register Messi’s contract,
According to Mundo Deportivo, Messi and his family were quite taken aback by Barcelona’s announcement. Having been on a holiday in Ibiza since the conclusion of Argentina’s Copa America campaign, Messi had returned from the vacation to sign his contract on Wednesday.
Reports in the media as well as the comments from the Barca board assured fans of Messi’s stay, with only the signature of the Argentine forward keeping them from making an official announcement.
Barca, on Thursday, August 5, called Messi to inform him that they could not register him as a player due to La Liga’s restrictions. The club, hence, was forced to say goodbye to Lionel Messi, their greatest player ever.
“Despite FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi having reached an agreement and the clear intention of both parties to sign a new contract today, this cannot happen because of Spanish LaLiga regulations on player registration.
As a result of this situation, Messi shall not be staying on at FC Barcelona. Both parties deeply regret that the wishes of the player and the club will ultimately not be fulfilled.
FC Barcelona wholeheartedly expresses its gratitude to the player for his contribution to the aggrandisement of the club and wishes him all the very best for the future in his personal and professional life.” — FC Barcelona said in a statement on Thursday.
Messi, as has been understood, had no intentions of leaving Barcelona and was looking forward to spending the coming years with his boyhood club. The 32-year-old hasn’t made any public reaction to the development and isn’t expected to do that anytime soon either.
Messi has won the Ballon d’Or six times and is Barcelona’s record goalscorer with 672 goals in 778 appearances.
The Argentina international has won 35 major titles at club level since making his debut in 2003 – 10 La Liga titles, four Champions League crowns, seven Copa del Rey trophies, three Club World Cups, three European Super Cups and eight Spanish Super Cups.
The developments come a year after Messi handed in a transfer request with 12 months of his Barca deal remaining, but was stopped from leaving at the time because of the €700m (£629m) buy-out clause in his contract.
A man in Ukraine was crushed and almost suffocated to death when he tried to get into his ex-girlfriend’s house through her window to beg for sex after she asked him to go away.
The former couple were reportedly hanging out at the woman’s house when the man began making sexual advances. The woman refused his advances and this led to an argument.
The man, who was reportedly drunk, refused to leave the area despite the woman’s request, reports The Sun.
Despite being asked to leave, the man tried to gain entrance into his ex-girlfriend’s house by squeezing through a window but he became stuck.
As time passed, the man began suffocating due to restrictions to his airways.
The Police trying to save him
Emergency services arrived at the scene where police found the man in extreme difficulties.
A police insider said: “The man’s lower body was sticking out the window. He was unconscious and hardly breathing.
Medics who attended the incident confirmed that the man nearly suffocated to death and was rushed to hospital for further treatment.
Police said that it was only the prompt arrival of officers that prevented the man from an early grave.
