Hours after Man United dumped ace Ronaldo, a Saudi club has offered him $369 million deal

Hours after Man United dumped ace Ronaldo, a Saudi club has offered him $369 million deal

Cristiano Ronaldo has only been officially on the market for a matter of hours and he already has a big-money offer to go and play in the Middle East. Ronaldo was released by Manchester United on Tuesday evening after the club reacted decisively to his controversial interview with Piers Morgan....

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US Navy seize 2,530kg of illicit drugs in Gulf of Aden as multinational force cracks down on narcotics

US Navy seize 2,530kg of illicit drugs in Gulf of Aden as multinational force cracks down on narcotics

The US Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze has seized an estimated $20 million worth of illegal drugs from a fishing vessel while patrolling the Gulf of Aden. The USS Nitze was operating in support of Combined Task Force (CTF) 153, established by the Combined Maritime Forces in April to boost...

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Hungry Senegal’s Teranga Lions serve Qatar for late lunch as they feast greedily on hapless the Gulf Annabi

Hungry Senegal’s Teranga Lions serve Qatar for late lunch as they feast greedily on hapless the Gulf Annabi

That is the way the Koukhi crumbles lads…and the reason you’re set to become the first to leave your own World Cup party. The hungry Lions of Terango marooned Qatar’s Annabi in the gulf, leaving little room for the ‘emirs’ to advance from the group stages of the World Cup...

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Arsenal and After-My Story: Ex-Gunners’ midfielder’s memoir details how racism stalks Blacks in English sports

Arsenal and After-My Story: Ex-Gunners’ midfielder’s memoir details how racism stalks Blacks in English sports

Paul Davis, an Arsenal midfielder who played almost 450 times for the club and swept the board with domestic honours, was one of English football’s black trailblasers. Having emerged from the club’s apprenticeship scheme at the start of the 1980s, Davis came of age during the height of English football’s...

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Anti-Taliban revolt: Afghanistan’s shadowy new conflict sets off new displacement, new civilian abuses

Anti-Taliban revolt: Afghanistan’s shadowy new conflict sets off new displacement, new civilian abuses

Six months ago, Sadullah’s life changed forever. His family, including his eight children, had made do with life under the Taliban. That was until the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), an armed opposition movement, tried to wrest control from Taliban fighters in Panjshir, and their once-peaceful province became the...

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At long last, some positives about Ronaldo: He’s the first man in history to score at five World Cups

At long last, some positives about Ronaldo: He’s the first man in history to score at five World Cups

It was always going to be about him. Even if it had been 90 minutes of unrelenting tedium, with no shots and no goals, he would have been the focus after what, by his own inimitable standards, has been an extraordinary week. But, this being Cristiano Ronaldo, there was always...

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Over 48,000 academics at University of California strike for higher pay,  protection against harassment

Over 48,000 academics at University of California strike for higher pay,  protection against harassment

Research has ground to a halt across the University of California (UC) as tens of thousands of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and non-faculty academic staff members went on strike. Since November 14, around 48,000 academic workers across UC – which has 10 campuses and nearly 300,000 students — have stopped...

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Qatar World Cup: Brazil’s stylish win against Serbia sends strong warning to dreamers of glory

Qatar World Cup: Brazil’s stylish win against Serbia sends strong warning to dreamers of glory

The man who can’t get a start at Spurs showed exactly why it is he, not Neymar, who is the golden boy of Brazil to so many with an opening-game double. When you consider Neymar, Vinicius junior – remember him, Liverpool fans? – and Raphinha could have finished with at...

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