Serena Williams withdraws from Miami Open through injury

Serena Williams has been forced to withdraw from the Miami Open due to a knee injury.
Williams, who won the most recent of her eight titles at the tournament in 2015, recorded a hard-fought victory over Sweden's Rebecca Peterson in her opening game.
Two weeks ago, the 23-time grand slam champion retired from her third-round Indian Wells match against Garbine Muguruza citing "extreme dizziness and extreme fatigue," which tournament organizers later identified as a virus.

Nigerian football legend Emmanuel Amunike makes history as he qualifies Tanzania for AFCON after 39 years

Nigerian football legend, Emmanuel Amunike who is the coach of Tanzania national team has guided them to the next Africa Cup of Nations for the first time since 1980 after a 3-0 win over Uganda.
The Tafia Stars defeated the Cranes of Uganda 3-0 at the National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, on Sunday to claim a spot in 2019 Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 39 years.
Goals from Simon Msuwa, Erasto Nyoni, and Aggrey Morris secured the win for the hosts.
Amunike won the African Cup of Nations with Nigeria in 1994 and the Olympic gold with the Super Eagles two years later, signed a two-year deal with the Tanzania national team to replace former coach Salum Mayanga in August 2018.

Mel B reveals she had sex with bandmate Geri Halliwell during Spice Girls era in bombshell interview with Piers Morgan

English singer and former Spice Girls star, Mel B, made a bombshell revelation admitting she had sex with bandmate Geri Halliwell back in the days.
 She made the shock confession on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, that she slept with Geri, who is now married to Formula One boss Christian Horner and has two children.
PIERS: There were rumours you and Geri were more than just good friends. You had a little dabble?
Anything you want to share with the group?

Europe and Canada are investigating the Boeing 737 Max themselves rather than trusting the US — another apparent snub of American regulators

European and Canadian regulators plan to conduct their own reviews of a new safety update to Boeing's 737 Max jets, rather than solely relying on those by US regulators. It appears to be a snub to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who is also analysing the jet's safety. Boeing is an American company.

Felicity Huffman and William H Macy’s 21-year marriage is under pressure after cheating scandal

They have always been held up as one of Hollywood’s enduring marriages but these days Felicity Huffman and William H Macy’s 21-year union is taking strain. According to insiders the couple are feeling the pressure from the college admissions cheating scandal, which saw Felicity getting arrested recently.
"The situation has been very trying on Felicity and William's marriage," a source told Entertainment Tonight. "They love each other but they've been arguing a lot."
The public shaming of the Desperate Housewives actress and her family has left Shameless star Macy "heartbroken", with a source telling Us Weekly, "He's been in tears."

Dubai denies there were plans for an R.Kelly concert

The Government of Dubai on Sunday denied a claim by R&B singer R. Kelly that the embattled artiste had planned concerts in the sheikhdom after he had asked permission from a judge to travel despite facing sexual-abuse charges.

Photos: Samuel L Jackson is such a big fan of himself he collects T-shirts with his own face on them

Samuel L Jackson is all about self-love, so much so that he collects T-shirts with his own face on them. During an interview on Live Kelly and Ryan the 70-year-old's Captain Marvel co-star, Brie Larson, revealed he wore a different T-shirt with his face on it to work every day.

Dr. Dre celebrates his daughter getting into USC 'on her own'

Hip-hop luminary Dr. Dre took to Instagram on Sunday to celebrate his daughter's acceptance to the University of Southern California and throw shade at other rich families caught up in a national admissions scandal.
The rapper, whose real name is Andre Young, posted a picture with his daughter, Truly Young, and her acceptance letter to the school.
"My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own," the rapper wrote in the caption. "No jail time!!!!"

Felicity Huffman: Desperate Housewives star charged in exam cheat plot

Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman is among more than 40 people charged in a US college cheating scam, according to unsealed court records. The alleged scheme involved helping students cheat on entrance exams, as well as getting non-athletic students admitted on fake athletic scholarships.

Brazil’s ex-president Michel Temer is arrested

Brazilian law enforcement officials on Thursday arrested former President Michel Temer, local news outlets reported. The officials did not immediately disclose the charges that led to the detention of Mr. Temer, 78, whose term expired in January. He was taken into custody at his home in São Paulo, according to the news reports.
As he was being taken into custody, Mr. Temer was reported to have told a journalist who reached him on his cellphone that he was being arrested in connection with a case handled by a federal judge in Rio de Janeiro who is involved in high-profile corruption matters.
In 2017, Mr. Temer was charged with corruption and obstruction of justice after investigators obtained a recording of a conversation in which he can be heard condoning the payment of a bribe.

Shamed ex-footballer Adam Johnson banned from seeing 4-year-old daughter alone

Adam Johnson's father has been spotted driving a blacked-out car from jail, as it is revealed that the ex-footballer will no longer be permitted to spend time alone with his daughter after his release from prison today. Dave Johnson was seen in the black Mercedes van coming out of the prison in Doncaster just after midnight last night.

Glacier melt on Everest exposes the bodies of dead climbers

Mount Everest expedition operators are finding increasing numbers of climbers' dead bodies on the world's highest peak as high temperatures melt glaciers and snow. More than 200 mountaineers have died on the peak since 1922, when the first climbers' deaths on Everest were recorded. The majority of bodies are believed to have remained buried under glaciers or snow.

How drugs, tobacco and mobile phones were smuggled into a UK prison stuffed inside dead rats

It has just been discovered that drugs, tobacco and mobile phones were smuggled into a UK prison stuffed inside dead rats.    The items were sewn inside the bodies of three rats found by officers in early March in the grounds of HMP Guys Marsh near Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was the first recorded instance of rats being used in that way, the Prison Service said.

Mother runs over her drunk son after he dared her to

A mother ran over her drunk son with her car after he lay on the floor and dared her to. Cynthia Grund's 37-year-old son lay down on the dirt driveway and blocked his mother's car from passing on Monday afternoon.
"Why don't you just run me over?" he told her.
Well, the mother did just as he suggested.

John McCain's daughter, Bridget speaks out for the first time about President Trump's attacks on her father

Bridget McCain, the youngest child of late Sen. John McCain has publicly spoken out against President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on her father for the first time.   The 27-year-old has typically kept herself out of the public eye, both before and after her father died last August, but she tweeted two messages Thursday in which she tagged the President. 

'Obscene' beer label causes row in Russia

A beer bottle label has caused a row in Russia over its use of sado-masochistic imagery, exacerbated by the decision of a state agency to run an online poll for or against it. The Kopytov Brewery in Barnaul, a city in the Altai region of Siberia, launched its new Pryanik Imperial Stout with a stylised close-up of a woman with a ball-gag in her mouth, designed to look like a traditional Russian pryanik honey cake, Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports.

Cyclone Idai: More bodies under floodwater - UN

The UN has said the final casualty figure after Cyclone Idai tore through southern Africa more than a week ago will only be known once the flood waters have receded.  At least 417 people have now been declared dead in Mozambique, Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia has said.
The new figure puts the overall death toll at about 700 people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. It is expected to rise further.

Over 100 Mali villagers killed by gunmen

More than 100 people have been killed in an attack on a village in central Mali by armed men wearing traditional Dogon hunters' clothing, reports say. Gunmen surrounded the village before attacking people in their homes in Ogossagou in the country's Mopti region, a local official said. The attack on Saturday targeted members of the Fulani ethnic community.
Ambassadors for the UN are currently in Mali addressing the increasing levels of ethnic and jihadist violence.
The victims of Saturday's deadly attack were "killed with guns and machetes", a local security official told AFP news agency.
The mayor of the neighbouring village of Ouenkoro, Cheick Harouna Sankare, described the attack as a "massacre".
Source: BBC

Cardi B files paper work to trademark and own "Okurr" and "Okurrr"

Cardi B, 26, who made the work "Okurrr" popular, has filed paperwork with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark her "Okurrr" catchphrase for "paper goods, namely paper cups and posters."
 According to records obtained by Page Six, the rapper also plans to put the phrase on "clothing, namely, T-shirts, sweatshirts, hooded sweatshirts, pants, shorts, jackets, footwear, headgear, namely hats and caps, blouses, bodysuits, dresses, jumpsuits, leggings, shirts, sweaters, undergarments."

Kenyan man who spent KSh 500,000 on son’s birthday now soliciting for financial help

Douglas Otieno Owila, a Kenyan man who stole the limelight in September 2016 after splashing KSh 500,000 (about $5,000) on his son's birthday is now in deep financial distress. According to reports, Owila was arrested and detained at Kodiago GK Prisons where he spent the night on Tuesday, March 19, after he failed to raise KSh 100,000 bond to secure release of a friend.