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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NASA announces its Orion spacecraft has reached the Moon, will now go farther from Earth and return in December
The Orion spacecraft swooped just 130 kilometres above the lunar surface on November 21, the closest a capsule designed to hold people has been to the Moon in half a century. In the lunar darkness the capsule, which launched as part of the Artemis I mission last week, flew directly...
UN, EAC forces start combing troubled eastern DR Congo to flush out rebels, restore normalcy
Hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have seen troops from two East Africa Community (EAC) countries deployed as part of a reaction force with resident UN peace mission troops conducting heightened patrols in provincial capital Goma. There is a South African military presence in the region with the...
Tech giant Apple lines up $7 billion Man United takeover that’d make Red Devils richest club
Apple are interested in a £6 billion ($7.2 billion) takeover of Manchester United in a deal that would make the Red Devils the richest club in the world. The California-based firm are the largest tech company in the world and could be set to add United to their portfolio as...
Hate or love it, processed food is here to stay if the world is going to feed 8 billion people
The stigma against processed food is growing, but there’s no way to sustainably feed eight billion people without it. Say “processed food” and most of us picture unhealthy, cheap junk. Fresh food straight from the garden or the field is good. Once we’ve put it through a processing plant or...
