Mason Mount has been announced as Chelsea's Player of the Year for the 2020/21 campaign by the fans.
The 22-year-old England international was confirmed as the winner of the Player of the Year award on Tuesday morning, May 18, making him the first Chelsea academy graduate to win the award since John Terry in 2006.
Mount has already reached 100 senior appearances for the club in less than two seasons at the club, an incredible achievement for an academy graduate.
Manchester City goalkeeper, Ederson Moraes has won the Premier League Golden Glove for the second year in a row. The 27-year-old Brazilian retained his award for the most clean-sheets, having kept 18 clean sheets, made 63 saves, had 1,198 touches of the ball and played over 900 passes in Manchester City’s 37 League matches so far this season.
Kelechi Iheanacho’s 76th-minute goal for Leicester City against Chelsea on Tuesday night, May 18, confirmed Ederson’s latest accolade. His nearest challenger was Chelsea’s Edouard Mendy, who can now only achieve a total of 17 clean sheets.
In winning the award, Ederson has also become the first goalkeeper to win back-to-back Golden Glove awards since Joe Hart between 2010 and 2013.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States has announced that fully vaccinated Americans can return to life without masks in a major step toward returning to pre-life. CDC Director, Rochelle Walensky made the announcement at a White House briefing Thursday, May 13.
"If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic," Walensky said, announcing the sweeping change. "Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing."
Cristiano Ronaldo has fulled speculation regarding a possible summer exit from Juventus, after having his seven supercars transported away from his luxury home in Turin, Italy.
Footage has emerged online of Ronaldo's multi-million-pound vehicles being loaded onto a truck of a well-known Portuguese moving company headed to Lisbon, Portugal.
Italian publication, Tuttosport published the video posted online by Per Semper Calcio, in which a group of men could be seen loading the cars onto a Rodo Cargo haulage vehicle.
The operation was carried out at 3 o'clock in the morning away from prying eyes. The Portuguese superstar could leave Juventus a year earlier than the end of his contract, which is set to expire in June 2022.
The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school — one of the institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.
Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc First Nation said in a news release that the remains were confirmed last weekend with the help of ground-penetrating radar.
More bodies may be found because there are more areas to search on the school grounds, Casimir said Friday.
In an earlier release, she called the discovery an “unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.” It was the once the site of Canada’s largest residential school.
Ellen DeGeneres is reportedly set to end her eponymous talk show after 18 seasons, following accusations that she allowed a toxic work environment. After 18 seasons on air and huge ratings, the talk-show host is expected to make an announcement explaining why she’s pulling the plug today, May 12, according to The Daily Mail.
The publication have said that a source told them it’s because Ellen "has had enough and told her team that she’s done".
The insider said: "She's promised one more season after this one and will exit at the end of the 2021/2022 season. This comes as several former and current employees of The Ellen Show accused the 63-year-old host of ignoring "bullying" by executives.
The employees in question also accused the star of fostering a "toxic" work environment in general.
Ellen had apologized following the accusations.
A train company has apologised for not being inclusive after a conductor welcomed passengers on board by saying, "Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls".
The London North Eastern Railway (LNER) issued an apology after passenger Laurence Coles complained that they neither identify as male nor female.
Coles took to Twitter to complain about the announcement, writing: "'Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…' so as a non-binary person this announcement doesn’t actually apply to me so I won’t listen".
Laurence’s friend Charlotte Monroe, 28, also contacted the company, saying: "I was sat with Laurence when this tweet was sent. Both of us are non-binary, and we were both alarmed and uncomfortable by the lack of inclusion."
According to sports news site The Undefeated, Cole arrived in Kigali on Saturday and is currently in quarantine ahead of Sunday's game.
A shooting at a high school in the central Russian city of Kazan on Tuesday May 11, has left 7 students mostly children and a teacher dead. The attack happened 820km (510 miles) east of Moscow, in the mainly Muslim republic of Tatarstan. Rustam Minnikhanov, Governor of Tatarstan republic where Kazan is the capital, said that four male and three female eighth-grade students died in the shooting. Minnikhanov’s press service later added that a teacher was also killed.
More than 20 others, mostly children were reportedly wounded. A 19-year-old suspect was detained. Minnikhanov said;
“The terrorist has been arrested, (he is) 19 years old. A firearm is registered in his name. Other accomplices haven’t been established, an investigation is underway."
Tom Cruise has returned all three of his Golden Globe trophies after NBC canceled the HFPA's award broadcast for 2022 amid an outcry over lack of diversity. The Mission Impossible star, 58, won Best Actor for Jerry Maguire in 1997, Best Actor for Born on the Fourth of July in 1990, and Best Supporting Actor for his role in Magnolia in 2000.
According to reports from Deadline, the action star has given back the three awards that he was given by the organisation because of its failure to reform its lack of diversity.
Tom is the latest in a growing list of actors and companies, including Netflix, Amazon, and NBC, that are protesting the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Facebook has revealed when its long-anticipated decision on the fate of former President Trump's Facebook account will be announced. The company suspended Trump's account on Facebook and Instagram following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in a bid to overturn the 2020 election results. Twitter and YouTube also suspended the former President citing an ongoing risk of violence and incitement.
"We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote at the time.
On Monday, May 3, Facebook said that its Oversight Board will announce its long-anticipated decision on the fate of former President Trump's Facebook account at 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday.
Sierra Leone's government will move to abolish the death penalty in the West African state, deputy justice minister Umaru Napoleon Koroma said on Wednesday.
No execution has taken place in the country since 1998, and death penalties are often commuted.
Sierra Leone, which is still recovering after decades of civil war, has frequently come under fire from rights groups for keeping capital punishment on the books.
"Once the legislation goes to parliament and gets approved, that ends the story of the death penalty," Koroma told AFP.
Italian soccer federation president, Gabriele Gravina has said Juventus faces expulsion from the country’s top league if they do not withdraw from the European Super League. While AC Milan and Inter Milan have already pulled out of the controversial bid to form a breakaway competition, Juventus remains the only Italian club still pushing for the move.
'The rules are clear. If Juventus is still part of the Super League when it enters next season, it can't participate in Serie A,' Gravina told Naples radio station Kiss Kiss.
'I would be sorry for the fans but rules are rules and they apply to everyone.'
Real Madrid and Barcelona are also still holding onto the project, despite the risk of being banned from the Champions League.
Drake has been announced as the recipient of an artist of the decade award and will receive the top honor at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards.
The 34-year-old Canadian rapper will be honored with the Artist of the Decade Award at the ceremony, which is broadcasting live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 23.
Drake, who holds the title for most Billboard Music Awards with 27, is receiving the award after being ranked the best-performing artist of the last 10 years, based on activity on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and the Billboard 200 albums tally, as well as social media data and touring revenue from Billboard Boxscore, from Dec. 5, 2009, through Sept. 28, 2019.
Israel is on the brink of "full scale war," the UN has warned, after escalating violence in the region claimed at least 35 lives. Israel has deployed 80 fighter jets, tankers and foot soldiers to its Gaza border after Hamas fired around 130 rockets at targets in Israel on Tuesday May 11, following the destruction of a tower block in Gaza in an Israeli air strike.
Israel has also declared a state of Emergency in the city of Lod as three synagogues, numerous shops and dozens of cars were set alight as Israelis and Palestinians clashed following bomb attacks from Hamas. Throughout Tuesday May 11, continuous bombing by Israeli jets occurred in different parts of Gaza. Gaza’s police headquarters was also destroyed by air strikes from Israel, in what appeared to be some of the most intense fight between Israel and Hamas since their 2014 war.
Chelsea loanee, Fikayo Tomori has set a new Serie A record for himself after he scored for AC Milan in their 3 - 0 victory against Juventus at the weekend. The England defender nodded in a third goal as Stefano Pioli's side clinched all three points over Juventus, placing a major dent in their hopes of qualifying for next season's Champions League.
The on-loan Chelsea defender, 23, jumped a staggering eight feet and seven inches inside the Allianz Stadium to surpass Ronaldo's record, set last season against Sampdoria.
Mountaineers and authorities at Everest base camp in Nepal have told the BBC they are seeing rising numbers of climbers with Covid-19 symptoms and rising numbers of positive tests, raising fears of a serious outbreak.
Base camp officials said they had received reports of 17 confirmed cases from hospitals in the capital Kathmandu, where a number of climbers have been sent from the base camp and higher camps to be treated.
And staff at a private hospital in Kathmandu, the CIWEC clinic, confirmed to the BBC that patients had tested positive for coronavirus after arriving from Everest base camp.
After months of being suspended from several social media platforms, former President Donald Trump has launched his own personal media website.
Titled From The Desk of Donald J Trump, the platform appears on the website: www.DonaldJTrump.com/desk.
It features short essay-like posts and videos, as well as links by which website users can share their posts to social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
In a video posted on the platform, Tuesday night, the new communication site is described as “A beacon of freedom, A place to speak freely and safely,”.
Liverpool’s billionaire owner and president of Fenway Sports Group, John Henry has reportedly rejected an astonishing offer of £3billion to sell the club. According to a new report, a bid from the Middle East was submitted to owner, John Henry, before news broke early this week of the club’s involvement in the failed European Super League. According to the Mirror, John Henry rejected the bid.
Liverpool's US owner John W. Henry and his company Fenway Sports Group (FSG) are under pressure to sell the club after supporters protested against the owners this week following the clubs involvement in the highly criticized European super league.
Uganda’s parliament has passed a bill criminalising human sacrifice and prescribing life sentences on conviction for related offences. Until now, the country’s laws did not provide for the crime of human sacrifice and such wrongdoing have over the years been prosecuted as murder or other offences.
The legislation - the Prevention and Prohibition of Human Sacrifices Bill 2020 - proposes a death sentence for any person convicted of committing human sacrifice or financing the practice.
It also criminalises the possession of human parts, their use in medicine for sale or personal use. A person convicted for the offence faces life imprisonment.
Any person who spreads belief in human sacrifice for financial gain, encourages anyone to use a human body in any ritual, on conviction will also receive a life sentence.
A member of the Hirak protest movement in Algeria has been sentenced to two years in prison for offending Islam and insulting the president. Activists say that Amira Bouraoui has not been detained while she awaits an appeal against the sentence.
A gynaecologist and mother of two, Ms Bouraoui served a short prison sentence last year but was provisionally released last June.
At least 70 people are reported to be currently held in jail in Algeria in connection with the mass protests against the authorities which unseated the former president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, or other cases related to freedom of expression.
Manchester United chief, Ed Woodward, has apologised to fans for his role in the European Super League and told them the club no longer has plans to go ahead with the breakaway competition.
This comes days after United chairman Joel Glazer apologised to supporters following the ESL's collapse, and Woodward, who is stepping down from his position has now apologised.
It comes ahead of planned protests at Old Trafford before Sunday's match against Liverpool.
Speaking at fans' forum on Friday morning to discuss the doomed ESL breakaway, Ed Woodward said: 'I know that you will feel angry and let down by the lack of consultation and by the way the proposal failed to recognise the vital principle of open competition. Proper discussion would have helped us avoid the mistake we made.
Premier League clubs have reportedly been told to prepare for up to 500 away fans for the last two rounds of matches this season. According to Sportsmail, the Public Health England signed off on the principle of away fans at fixtures this term, on Thursday, April 29. The news marks a victory for the Premier League, which has been working to secure the green light to have fans back in stadiums after a ban because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Under the government's roadmap out of lockdown, clubs are already preparing to allow up to 10,000 fans to return to stadiums - or 25 percent of the capacity.
Bill Gates, one of the world’s richest men has been removed from Bloomberg's billionaire list after news of his divorce from Melinda Gates. The business platform took the action shortly after news of Gates divorce to his wife of 27 years went viral.
Before being taken off the list, Gates was fourth on the index with a net worth of $145 billion, having gained over $13 billion in 2021 alone.
Anne Douglas, the widow of Kirk Douglas and stepmother of Michael Douglas has died at the age of 102. Douglas died at her home on Thursday, April 30, in Beverly Hills, according to an obituary provided by spokeswoman Marcia Newberger. No cause of death was given.
Her death comes more than a year after her husband Kirk, who was known for "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and other iconic films died on Feb. 5, 2020. He was 103.
The couple, who both met in Paris while he was filming “Act of Love” and she was doing publicity, were married for more than 65 years after tying the knot in May 1954.
