Outgoing Manchester United manager, Ralf Rangnick has confirmed he will not continue in his role as a consultant for Manchester United.
The initial agreement that saw Rangnick take over as interim manager at Old Trafford included a clause that he would help shape the club's strategy in an advisory role.
Rangnick was also appointed Austria coach last month and his side will take on Croatia, Denmark and France in the Nations League.
At least two people are dead and another eight wounded in a deadly mass shooting near a McDonald's in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood.
The shooting occurred at about 10:40 p.m. on Thursday by the McDonald's restaurant in the 800 block of North State Street, which is next to the Chicago Avenue subway station, Chicago police said.
According to police, five adult gunshot victims were transported to area hospitals. The two fatally wounded were both men. Two other men and one woman were last listed in serious condition, officials said. One gun was recovered and a suspect is in custody, police say. An investigation is ongoing.
Russia has halted its supply of natural gas to Finland, the Finnish state-owned energy firm Gasum has said. After the EU and US sanctioned Russia over the war, Russia said "unfriendly" countries must pay for gas using the Russian currency, a move the EU considers blackmail.
Finland imports most of its gas from Russia but gas accounts for less than a tenth of the country's energy consumption and Finland said it will not pay for its supplies in roubles.
Also, Finland and Sweden early this week applied to join western Transatlantic military alliance, NATO.
After 23 years away, Nottingham Forest will now be playing Premier League football following a narrow win over Huddersfield Town in the Championship play-off final – a victory worth about £170m – at Wembley on Sunday, May 29.
Nottingham Forest's promotion back to the premier league caps a brilliant turnaround to their season, which had started with six defeats in seven. In the second half of the season, the club's football improved greatly earning them a place in the promotion playoffs.
The FBI has halted a plot by an Iraqi citizen to assassinate former US president, George W. Bush.
Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, who lived in Columbus, Ohio, has been charged with aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former United States official, as well as an alleged attempt to illegally bring foreign nationals to the United States, according to the Justice Department
Court documents reportedly described how Shibab did reconnaissance work by driving to the neighborhood of Bush's residence in Dallas. He is also alleged to have planned to smuggle four Iraqi nationals as part of the plot.
Shibab was arrested Tuesday, May 24, the Justice Department announced.
Jack Dorsey will reportedly leave Twitter's board of directors today May 25 - 16 years after co-founding the firm. He is expected to stand down ahead of the $44billion takeover by Tesla magnate, Elon Musk. According to the business news website The Street, Dorsey was set to leave Twitter on Wednesday May 25.
Dorsey stepped down as CEO of the company in the fall, handing the reins to Parag Agrawal. He founded Twitter with Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in 2006.
News of Jack Dorsey leaving the Twitter board comes after a former company veteran and ex-director accused him of stabbing his company’s board in the back by serving up the social media platform on a platter to Elon Musk.
Egyptian midfielder, Mohamed Elneny has signed a new contract with Arsenal football club of England. The Egypt international has scored five goals in 147 appearances since arriving at the Emirates from Swiss club Basel in 2016.
Elneny made 14 top-flight appearances this season as Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League, while also helping his country reach the final of the Africa Cup of Nations, where they were beaten on penalties by Senegal.
He lifted the FA Cup during his first season in north London and spent the 2019/20 campaign on loan at Turkish club Besiktas.
Apple will raise the starting pay for its US employees, the iPhone maker said on Wednesday, as companies face a tight labor market and a surge in unionization efforts amid rising inflation.
The starting pay for the company's US team members will rise to $22 per hour, or higher based upon the market, a 45% jump from 2018 levels, Apple (AAPL) said in a statement to Reuters.
"This year as part of our annual performance review process, we're increasing our overall compensation budget," a company spokesperson said.
Apple has informed some workers their annual reviews would be advanced by three months and the new pay will take effect in early July, the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the changes in compensation, said.
José Mourinho had described Roma as “a giant club" lacking a trophy room to match the team's social dimension and passionate fan base.
Well, the Giallorossi claimed their first European title in more than six decades Wednesday to crown Mourinho’s first season coaching in the Italian capital.
Nicolò Zaniolo scored in the first half, goalkeeper Rui Patrício made some big saves in the second and Roma beat Feyenoord 1-0 to win the inaugural edition of the third-tier Europa Conference League.
It’s Roma’s first European trophy since winning the 1961 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup — a tournament considered to be the precursor to the UEFA Cup and Europa League. It’s also the first title of any kind for Roma since winning the 2008 Italian Cup.
Eleven newborn babies have died in a hospital fire in the western city of Tivaouane in Senegal, the president of the country said late Wednesday May 25.
President Macky Sall announced on Twitter that 11 infants had died in the fire at Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital.
"I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of 11 newborn babies in the fire at the neonatal department of the public hospital," he tweeted.
"To their mothers and their families, I express my deepest sympathy," Sall added.
The tragedy was caused by "a short circuit", according to Senegalese politician Diop Sy.
"The fire spread very quickly," he said.
A former classmate of the Texas school shooter has disclosed that Salvador Ramos was bullied at school over his clothing and because his family was poor.
The former classmate, who asked not to be identified, told CNN he and Ramos, 18, were somewhat 'close' and used to play Xbox together.
He said Ramos began showing up to class less and less as other kids bullied him about his clothing and his family's financial situation.
'He would, like, not go to school...and he just, like, slowly dropped out. He barely came to school,' the friend said.
A jury in the United States has convicted a self-published romance novelist who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband” of fatally shooting her husband four years ago.
The jury found Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, guilty of second-degree murder on Wednesday after deliberating over two days in chef Daniel Brophy’s death.
Mr. Brophy, 63, was killed on June 2, 2018, as he prepped for work at the Oregon Culinary Institute in Southwest Portland. Lisa Maxfield, one of Crampton Brophy’s attorneys, said the defense team plans to appeal.
Prosecutors told jurors that Crampton Brophy was motivated by money problems and a life insurance policy.
A gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in a rural Texas elementary school, a state police official said, in the deadliest American school shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary a decade ago.
The slayings took place just before noon at Robb Elementary School, where second through fourth graders in Uvalde, a small city west of San Antonio, were preparing to start summer break this week. At least one teacher was among the adults killed, and several other children were wounded.
A teenager has died and his younger sister sustained injuries after they became trapped in the sand when a hole they dug collapsed on them, police said.
Levy Caverley, 18, and his 17-year-old sister were digging a large hole in the sand at a beach on the Jersey shore when the ground gave way.
Police and emergency medical services personnel in Toms River responded to the beach just after 4pm Tuesday, May 17.
Women referees will make World Cup history this year by officiating games at a major men's tournament for the first time in Qatar.
Three women referees and three women assistant referees were announced on Thursday by FIFA among 129 officials selected for World Cup duty, including one man who caused controversy when refereeing a chaotic African Cup of Nations game in January while experiencing heatstroke.
French referee Stephanie Frappart officiated men's games in World Cup qualifying and the Champions League, after handling the 2019 Women's World Cup final. She also refereed the final of the men's French Cup this month.
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane has pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd’s killing.
Lane is one of three former Minneapolis police officers convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights.
As part of Wednesday’s plea deal, Thomas Lane will have a count of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder dismissed.
Lane, along with J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, has already been convicted on federal counts of violating the civil rights of Floyd.
Netflix has made about 150 staff redundant, a month after the streaming service said it was losing subscribers for the first time in a decade.
The redundancies, announced by the entertainment giant on Tuesday, will mainly affect its US office in California. They account for about 2% of its North American workforce.
Netflix said the job losses were due to the slump in the company's revenue.
The streaming service is battling an exodus of viewers this year.
"These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance, which makes them especially tough as none of us want to say goodbye to such great colleagues," the company said in a statement.
Roman Abramovich has reportedly struck a deal with the UK government which will push through Todd Boehly's takeover of the club and finally bring an end to his ownership of Chelsea.
The Russian billionaire and his legal team are said to have found a resolution to the issues that had prevented the takeover from being finalised. As reported by the PA News Agency, the two parties have now struck an agreement over how his £1.5bn loan will be handled.
Following years of pressure from female national football players, the US men's and women's national soccer teams will receive equal pay under a "historic" agreement announced by the US Soccer Federation on Wednesday, May 18.
The move makes the US Soccer Federation the first in the world to equalize World Cup prize money awarded to men's and women's teams, it said.
US Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone said: "This is a truly historic moment. These agreements have changed the game forever here in the United States and have the potential to change the game around the world."
Employees of the U.S. embassy in Ukraine have raised the U.S. national flag at the embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital three months after shutting down the embassy over Russia's invasion.
The decision to send a small contingent of U.S. diplomats back to Kyiv as part of a soft reopening of the embassy is a signal that the United States stands with Ukraine against Russia.
The US says the embassy reopening is a move U.S. lawmakers from both parties, as well as Ukrainians, have been asking for. But was delayed by Joe Biden's administration over security concerns. The American embassy’s reopening was confirmed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a statement on Wednesday, May 18 after the U.S. flag was once again raised at the facility.
He called it a “momentous step.”
Belarus dictator, Alexander Lukashenko has introduced death penalty for political opponents accused of bogus 'attempted terrorism' charges. Lukashenko signed a law permitting the death penalty for 'attempted terrorist acts', the RIA Novosti news agency says.
The law is expected to come into effect 10 days after its publication.
Belarus' parliament backed expanding the death penalty's use after activists tried to sabotage parts of the railway network to make it harder for Russia to deploy forces into Ukraine for its invasion.
Russia used Belarus, a close ally, as a staging ground to launch its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Minsk denies involvement in the conflict but acknowledges that its territory was used for the invasion.
The European Union has unveiled a €210 billion ($221 billion) plan to completely shed itself off Russian oil, coal and gas.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the EU has sought to reduce its dependence on Russia's vast energy exports which has helped fund Vladimir Putin's military in its war against Ukraine. The EU agreed to ban Russian coal starting in August, and by last month had cut Russia's share of EU natural gas imports to 26% from 40% last year.
A Pennsylvania, US high school teacher was caught by her husband, having affair with a teenage girl.
Police said Olivia Ortz, 26, had a relationship with a 17-year-old girl who attended Wilmington High School, the New Castle News reported.
Olivia Ortz was the music and choir teacher at the school about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh and Cody Ortz, her husband discovered the relationship after a group music trip to Florida in April and immediately reported it.
According to the NewCastle News, Police said Olivia Ortz’s relationship with the teen girl began in March and lasted till May even after her husband found out. Police said Olivia Ortz and the teen met for physical sexual encounters several times while Cody Ortz was not home.
For the first time in 50 years, The US Congress held a congressional hearing on UFOs also known as unidentified flying objects or unidentified aerial phenomena, with the Pentagon saying the mysterious sightings are a 'national security concern'
On Tuesday, May 17, the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie showed declassified footage during his opening remarks at a historic open House hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena.
The presentation happened in a House Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee with the Pentagon showing declassified photos and video of UFOs including a flying object without a "specific" explanation" – as lawmakers pressed military officials on the mysterious sightings. In one brief and shaky video, a small object appeared to zip past a military pilot. In a separate video and a similar photo taken at a different time, glowing triangles can be seen in the night sky.
Health officials in Massachusetts have detected a monkeypox infection in a man, making it the first case of the rare virus detected in the United States this year.
According to a release from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the patient is an adult male who recently traveled to Canada. The department completed initial testing Tuesday and was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"The case poses no risk to the public, and the individual is hospitalized and in good condition," MDPH stated in a press release. "DPH is working closely with the CDC, relevant local boards of health, and the patient’s health care providers to identify individuals who may have been in contact with the patient while he was infectious."
The China Eastern plane that crashed into a mountainside in March 2022, killing 132 people, appears to have been an intentional act, according to a report on Tuesday, May 17.
Flight data from the doomed plane suggests someone in the cockpit pushed the Boeing 737-800 into a "near-vertical" descent while cruising at a high altitude on March 21, 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with US officials’ preliminary assessment.
Data from a black box recovered at the crash site near the city of Wuzhou in the southern province of Guangxi indicated that controls in the cockpit led the plane into its deadly dive, sources told the newspaper. "The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit," one source close to the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Chinese authorities have yet to cite mechanical or flight control issues in the March 21 crash that killed everyone onboard, the source added.
UK health authorities have confirmed two more monkeypox infections as health chiefs scramble to find the source of the outbreak. The patients are said to be Britons who live in London and the South East, and have no links to other cases or travelled to hotspots.
That brings the total of the latest outbreak, which began on May 6, to nine. It's understood that most patients are either gay or bisexual men and officials say the pattern of transmission is "highly suggestive of spread in sexual networks".
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the two latest cases may have acquired the virus though community transmission.
With estimated recoverable resources of 8.2 TCF and 234 MMbbl of gas and condensate respectively, the Ryder Scott Company, has confirmed Innoson Oil & Gas Ltd.’s own findings from a rigorous hydrocarbon exploration campaign it’s been engaged in, in the Sierra Leonean basin since 2020.
A recently concluded independent third party evaluation, by the Ryder Scott Company, revealed an SPE-PRMS P50 estimated unrisked gross prospective recoverable resources of 8.2 TCF and 234 MMbbl of gas and condensate respectively, attributable to the Innoson Oil & Gas (IOG) concession offshore Sierra Leone.
Angel Di Maria is set to make a move to Juventus on a free transfer, according to Football Italia sources.
The Argentina winger’s contract at Paris Saint-Germain expires at the end of the season and he is expected to leave the club after seven seasons in France.
Juve have been heavily linked with a move for Di Maria and Football Italia has revealed a deal is close.
Di Maria will receive a one-year contract with the option of a further 12 months and a salary of €7 million net per year.
Barcelona icon, Lionel Messi is reportedly set to join Inter Miami in the MLS once his contract at Paris Saint-Germain expires, according to Alex Candal of DIRECTV Sports.
Messi joined the French giants on a free transfer from Barcelona ahead of the 2021/22 season with the Argentinian international signing a two-year deal at the Parc des Princes.
PSG have an option to extend his deal until 2024, but new report has claimed that the Argentina superstar will acquire 35% of Inter Miami shares in the MLS and will join them in 2023.
President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has dissolved Guinea-Bissau’s parliament and said early parliamentary elections would be held this year to resolve a long-running political crisis.
Tensions between parliament and the presidency have gripped the West African state for months. Embalo cited “persistent and unresolvable differences” with parliament, which he described as “a space for guerrilla politics and plotting”, in a statement on Monday.
“This political crisis has exhausted the capital of trust between the sovereign institutions,” he said. “I have decided to give the floor back to Guineans so that this year they can freely choose the parliament they wish to have.”
McDonald’s Corp. said it would quit Russia and sell its business there, ending more than three decades in the country over its invasion of Ukraine.
The company said it expected to record a charge of between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion in connection with the move.
McDonald’s said it was pursuing the sale of its entire portfolio of restaurants in Russia to a local buyer. The restaurants there have been closed since early March. The company said it was continuing to pay the salaries of its employees in the country, of which there are about 60,000.
Sweden has officially signed her country's application to join NATO, following Monday's announcement to proceed with the move.
Sweden's s foreign minister Ann Linde, said on Tuesday, "It feels very big, very serious, and it feels like we have arrived at a conclusion which is the best for Sweden. We don’t know how long it will take, but we calculate that it could take up to a year. Now, this week, this application will be submitted, together with Finland, in a day or so, and then it will be processed by NATO."
The news comes two days after Finland's President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin officially declared the country's intention to also join the alliance.
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin has warned Europe that the continent will pay a high price for energy if the West imposes an embargo on Russian oil.
EU members are negotiating a proposed oil embargo on Russia over Ukraine, but talks failed this week because of a veto from Hungary, which is heavily dependent on Russian oil imports.
Putin said talk of a possible embargo had already prompted a rise in global oil prices.
Speaking with Russian oil chiefs and government officials, in a televised address on Tuesday, May 17, about the impact of Western sanctions on the energy industry, Putin claimed the sanctions, which were introduced following Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, had been established by the West for political reasons.
World football governing body, FIFA, has celebrated Super Falcons striker and captain, Asisat Oshoala for finishing as top scorer in the Primera Iberdrola (Spanish women’s first division).
Oshoala ended the season with 20 goals and three assists in 19 games despite a three month injury-induced layoff.
She had some tight competition before clinching the award. Geyse Ferreira of Real Madrid scored 20 goals but did it in 27 appearances and recorded one assist compared to Oshoala's record in 19 games.
Reacting to Oshoala’s top scorer’s award, FIFA described her performance for Barcelona this term as perfect.
“20 goals and a perfect club season.
Turkey has given Russian president, Vladimir Putin a boost by saying it wont support Finland and Sweden’s bid to join Nato accusing both countries of being a ‘hatchery’ for terrorist organisations.
Speaking on Monday night, May 16, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told delegates from Finland and Sweden not to bother visiting Ankara for planned negotiations to address Turkey’s concerns.
It is a welcome news for Putin, who has claimed any expansion of Nato could be seen as a sign of Western aggression.
