Wales captain, Ashley Williams has officially announced his retirement from professional football.
The 36-year-old defender retires as captain of his country, after being a free agent since leaving Bristol City in June 2020 when they opted against renewing his deal at Ashton Gate.
Wolverhampton-born Williams made more than 700 appearances for clubs throughout his playing career for Stockport County, Swansea City Everton, and Bristol City.
In a statement released via his social media channels, Williams wrote: 'After consideration of recent offers to continue playing, I would like to announce my retirement as a professional footballer.
LeBron James became the oldest LA Lakers player to score 40 points in a game since Kobe Bryant's farewell appearance in 2016 as the Lakers beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-108 on Monday night in the US.
The 36-year-old, playing on the eve of the first anniversary of Bryant's death, finished on 46 points, a season high for James who many thought would have retired by now.
It was his second-highest total as a Laker and the most against Cleveland, LeBron's first NBA team.
Adding to the 46 points scored, the legendary basketballer added eight rebounds, six assists, two steals and two blocks.
Facebook Inc took down a popular Wall Street discussion group, Robinhood Stock Traders, in a move that its founder on Thursday described as backlash for conversations buoying shares of GameStop Corp and other companies this week. GameStop, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc and BlackBerry have been at the center of a market battle as individual investors coordinating on social media including Reddit, and using trading apps such as Robinhood, bought shares and squeezed hedge funds that had bet big on those struggling companies to tank.
It looks like former US president won't be convicted by the US Senate after the Senate tabled an effort by Sen. Rand Paul Tuesday to force a vote on the constitutionality of former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
In order to convict Trump at his trial, at least 17 Republicans will need to vote with all Democrats when the trial begins next month.
Paul's motion saying convicting a president who isn't in office is unconstitutional was killed on a 55-45 vote, with five Republicans joining all Democrats, meaning 45 Republicans voted for Paul's effort.
Sekou Smith, a NBA reporter and analyst for more than two decades, has died from Covid-19. He was 48.
Smith worked for NBA TV and wrote for NBA.com since 2009.
"We are all heartbroken over Sekou's tragic passing," Turner Sports, which broadcasts and operates NBA TV ad NBA.com, said in a statement. "His commitment to journalism and the basketball community was immense and we will miss his warm, engaging personality."
Smith covered the NBA for more than twenty years, including 11 years with Turner Sports, which, like CNN, is owned by WarnerMedia.
An influencer has died after reportedly being shot by her husband in front of their daughter during an argument over a TikTok video. After shooting her dead, her husband is believed to have then committed suicide at the family barbecue in the district of Nova Itamarati in the Brazilian municipality of Ponta Pora, on January 24.
The lifeless bodies of Alejandro Antonio Aguilera Cantallupi, 41, and Eliane Ferreira Siolin, 35, were found on the back porch of the rural property where the barbecue took place.
Eliane's body was found with at least 14 gunshot wounds and her right arm was apparently broken, and Antonio's body was found with a single gunshot to the head.
The police seized a gun, a number of bullets and a spare magazine found close to the bodies.
Emotional-support animals are no longer free to roam about the cabin on Southwest Airlines either. The airline said Monday that it will let passengers bring trained service dogs in the cabin, but it will no longer accept support animals, starting March 1.
Customers who want to bring a dog or cat on board as a pet will have to pay a fee, and the animal must be kept in a carrier that fits under an airplane seat.
The move follows a Transportation Department decision to reverse a yearslong regulation and let airlines ban animals that owners claim provide emotional support. Airlines said some passengers abused the old rules to avoid pet fees.
Egypt began its Covid-19 immunisation program Sunday, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to vaccinate its citizens, with a doctor and a nurse receiving the Chinese-made Sinopharm jab.
Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country with over 100 million people, received its first batch of the vaccine in December. The inoculation will be available to all health workers for free, Health Minister Hala Zayed said Sunday.
“All healthcare workers will receive it for free, it’s their right,” Zayed told a press conference at Abu Khalifa Hospital in the northeastern city of Ismailia.
She also paid tribute to over 330 doctors in Egypt who have died from the virus.
People with chronic diseases and the elderly will be next in line for the jab, but the minister said citizens “who have the means should pay for the vaccine” in the coming months.Egypt has registered over 160,000 novel coronavirus infections, including nearly 9,000 deaths.
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Monday it will not make contributions from its political action committee this election cycle to any Congress member who voted against certifying the results of the presidential election.
Earlier this month, following the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol, the tech giant had paused all political contributions to reassess its policies toward political contribution.
“Following that review, the NetPAC board has decided that it will not be making any contributions this cycle to any member of Congress who voted against certification of the election results,” a Google representative said in a statement.
Islamic State claimed responsibility early on Friday for Baghdad’s suicide attack, via the group’s Amaq news agency on its Telegram channel.
Two men blew themselves up in a crowded Baghdad market on Thursday, killing at least 32 people in Iraq’s first big suicide bombing for three years, authorities said, describing it as a possible sign of the reactivation of Islamic State.
The encrypted messaging app Telegram has registered 25 million new users in the past 72 hours, its Russia-born founder Pavel Durov said Tuesday, on the heels of WhatsApp announcing a change to its privacy terms. Durov, 36, said on his Telegram channel that the app had over 500 million monthly active users in the first weeks of January and “25 million new users joined Telegram in the last 72 hours alone”.
The surge in downloads comes after WhatsApp, which boasts over two billion users, introduced controversial changes to its privacy conditions that will allow it to share more data with its parent company Facebook.
At least 32 people have been killed and 100 others injured in a twin suicide bombing in a busy commercial area in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, officials say. The bombers blew themselves up among a crowd of shoppers at a second-hand clothes market in Tayaran Square.
The last deadly suicide attack in the city was in January 2018, when 35 people were killed in the same square.
No group has said it carried out the latest attack, but suspicion will fall on the jihadist group Islamic State.
The Iraqi government declared victory in its war against IS at the end of 2017.
US President Donald Trump received a warning from his legal team over the weekend not to issue pardons to himself, his family and Republican Lawmakers who helped incite the mob attack on the capital, a new report claims.
In his final Saturday night in the White House, Trump's legal advisers warned the pardons he once hoped to bestow upon his family and even himself would place him in a legally perilous position, convey the appearance of guilt and potentially make him more vulnerable to reprisals if he carries them out.
American Golf legend, Tiger Woods has put his season on hold after undergoing back surgery for the fifth time in his career. The 15-time major winner, last played at the PNC Championship in December, where he felt "discomfort" in his back.
A statement on his social media channels said he has had a "procedure known as a microdiscectomy to remove a pressurized disc fragment that was pinching his nerve".
Doctors said the surgery was successful but Woods, 45, will miss a number of PGA Tour events.
Alibaba Group founder and CEO, Jack Ma has made his first appearance since the Chinese government started cracking down on his business empire. Suspicions about the whereabouts of China's richest man, were raised earlier this month, when he missed the recording of Africa's Business Heroes, a television show on which he was a judge.
Last month, China's central bank arrested executives from Ant Group, owned by Ma and ordered a major shake-up of the company's operations.
Before ordering the shakeup of the company, regulators had already stopped Ant Group's listing on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges.
One Ahmed Umar Bolori shared a photo of Kanuri-British Rahma Monguno drinking camel urine in Borno. Rahma is the son of late former Nigerian minister and influential Borno politician, Shettima Ali Monguno, who died in 2016.
According to Bolori, Monguno encourages people to drink camel urine, milk and eat the meat for health benefits..
"Meet Kanuri-British Rahma Monguno (the man pictured below sipping Camel Urine). He drinks and encourages the 'sipping' of Camel Urine and drinking of the Milk as well as eating the meat for health benefits. He however caution people to first seek medical advice. One man's meat is another's poison. I've tried the urine twice but the milk and meat severally along with Rahma." he wrote.
Common reactions to the vaccine, including fever and nausea, "may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients," New York Post quoted Sigurd Hortemo, chief physician at the Norwegian Medicines Agency, as saying in a statement on Friday.
While officials aren't expressing serious concern, they are adjusting their guidance on who should receive the vaccine.
More than 30 000 people in Norway have received the first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine since late last month.
The agency's medical director Steinar Madsen has stated that the "agency is not alarmed by this."
Uganda Election Commission has declared incumbent Yoweri Museveni the winner of the Thursday presidential election. Chairman of the commission, Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, said Museveni won 5.85 million votes, or 58.64 percent, while main opposition candidate Bobi Wine got 3.48 million votes or 34.83 percent.
"The electoral commission declares Yoweri Museveni… elected President of the Republic of Uganda," he said.
He said turnout was 57.22 per cent of the almost 18 million registered voters.
Byabakama urged the population to "remain calm and accept the outcome of these elections" while reminding those celebrating to be mindful of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Over 4,400 people were reported dead from COVID-19 across the nation on Tuesday — the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. The coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in the U.S. as the nation reported a record number of people dying from COVID-19 in a single day — again.
More than 4,400 people across the country were reported dead from the virus on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University’s count. The previous record for daily deaths was hit only last week, when over 4,100 people died in one day.
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The US House of Representatives impeached American President Donald Trump on Wednesday over his role in allegedly inciting a violent riot at the US Capitol that resulted in five deaths. The article of impeachment against Trump charged him with "incitement of insurrection."
Multiple Republican lawmakers broke ranks and sided with their Democratic colleagues in the impeachment vote.
Trump is the first American President to be impeached twice.
The events that led up to the Capitol riots were set in motion months before January 6, as the president fed his loyalists a steady diet of lies and disinformation about the election. He falsely insisted that the only way he would lose the election was if it was fraudulent, that the race was "stolen" from him, and that he was the legitimate winner despite losing the popular vote and Electoral College vote.
They've been behind the camera for 15 years, filming the footage that turned the Kardashians into multi-millionaires. And as Keeping Up With The Kardashians wrapped its final day of filming last week, Kim and her family gave their loyal crew members a taste of the high life they now live - gifting Rolex watches all round.
The family splurged a whopping $300,000 on 30 watches for the crew members, according to TMZ.
Momager Kris Jenner oversaw the treat as she celebrated the end of an era alongside daughters Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner.
Wayne Rooney has ended his illustrious playing career to take up a job as full-time Derby manager, the Championship club announced on Friday. Derby confirmed the 35-year-old former Manchester United and England forward had agreed to a permanent deal until 2023, having succeeded Phillip Cocu on an interim basis in November.
“We are delighted to confirm the appointment of Wayne Rooney as our new manager,” Derby County’s Chief Executive Officer Stephen Pearce said in a statement on the club’s website.
“Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City.
The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” after a mob of his supporters stormed the United States Capitol last week, marking the first time in US history that a president has been impeached twice.
The House resolution, which passed by a vote of 232-197 on Wednesday afternoon, states that Trump’s actions and remarks ahead of the storming of the Capitol building in Washington, DC incited the rioters.
Hollywood actor, Bruce Willis has admitted he made an "error of judgement" after reportedly being asked to leave a Los Angeles drug store for refusing to wear a face mask. The Die Hard actor, 65, was pictured entering and leaving a California pharmacy without a face covering on Monday January 11.
In 2020, the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti ordered that face coverings must be worn at all times outside of the home to help fight Covid-19, with certain exceptions - including children under two-years-old and people with certain disabilities.
Many Twitter users reacted to Willis's flouting of the regulation, with some labelling him a "Covidiot".
Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has hit back at Mesut Ozil after the Arsenal playmaker fired a parting shot Spurs’ way as his exit nears. Ozil, 32, has become a divisive figure during the latter stages of his tenure at the Emirates. Despite Mikel Arteta’s side recently struggling for creativity, Ozil was not brought back in from the cold.
With just six months remaining on his current deal, Ozil is expected to depart in the January transfer window. Fenerbahce are the current front runners, though MLS side DC United are also in the mix.
Ozil has become more vocal on social media in recent years, and recently hosted a Q&A for his followers. When quizzed on whether he would rather play for Tottenham or hang up his boots, the Express cite him as saying: “Easy question. Retire!”
US Olympic swimming gold medalist Klete Keller was charged by the Justice Department Wednesday with participating in the January 6 attack on Congress by supporters of President Donald Trump. Keller was filmed as part of the crowd that illegally entered the huge Rotunda hall of the Capitol after violent protesters broke through police lines and forced their way in.
A statement accompanying formal charges unveiled Wednesday said police identified the three-time Olympian first by what appears to be an official team jacket bearing the large logo “USA” on the back and an arm patch that read “United States Olympic team.”
