Cristiano Ronaldo won't face charges over alleged rape

Football star Cristiano Ronaldo will not face charges after being accused of sexual assault, US prosecutors say. Kathryn Mayorga, 34, had alleged that the Juventus player raped her at a Las Vegas hotel in 2009.She reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with the Portuguese star in 2010, but sought to reopen the case in 2018. He denied the allegations.

'I will quit if Johnson becomes Prime Minister' - UK finance minister, Philip Hammond says

British finance minister Philip Hammond has said he would make a point of resigning before Boris Johnson became prime minister, saying he could never agree to his Brexit strategy.   Johnson is widely expected to win the governing, centre-right Conservative Party’s leadership contest on Tuesday and be named as prime minister once Theresa May resigns the premiership on Wednesday. 

AlIwobi warns Arsenal, says he'll leave the club if they sign Wilfried Zaha to take his place

Super Eagles and Arsenal attacker, Alex Iwobi has told the London club he may be forced to quit if they sign Wilfried Zaha to take his place.  The Crystal Palace and Ivorian winger is Arsenal's No 1 transfer target this summer and his club has placed £80million price tag on him.
 'I am not one to chicken out. I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough', Iwobi told The Sun.

Odion Ighalo retires from Super Eagles

Odion Ighalo has retired from international football , after a successful outing at the 2019 African Cup of Nations.  The Shanghai Shenhua striker had limped off in the 44th-minute of the third-place match against Tunisia on Wednesday, after scoring the only goal that gave the Super Eagles team the bronze medal.
 Ighalo's retirement is coming after he made his national team debut under Daniel Amokachi in 2015, and playing his first World Cup competition in 2018 in Russia. Sports journalist Osasuo reported that Ighalo agreed with Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr, not to make a public statement before the third-place playoffs with Tunisia.
Though retiring, he is also a strong contender for the 2019 Golden Boot award at AFCON with five goals as Senegal’s Sadio Mane and Algeria’s Adam Ounas are closest with three goals.

New York Giants Super Bowl winner, Mitch Petrus dies from heatstroke at the age of 32

Former New York Giants offensive lineman Mitch Petrus has died of heatstroke at the age of 32. As temperatures soar to record-breaking levels in the US, the 2012 Super Bowl winner fell ill after working out in the heat at his parents' shop in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Thursday.
He died in hospital later that evening.

Kenya arrests finance minister for corruption

Kenya's Finance Minister Henry Rotich and other treasury officials have been arrested on corruption and fraud charges related to a multimillion-dollar project to build two massive dams, police said.
Rotich, his principal secretary and the chief executive of Kenya's environmental authority handed themselves in to the police on Monday, hours after the country's chief prosecutor ordered the arrest and prosecution of Rotich and 27 other top officials.

South African soldiers deployed in Cape Town to help fight gangs

South African soldiers were deployed to gang-ridden Cape Town suburbs on Thursday to help quell escalating violence that has killed hundreds this year and that officials have likened to a war zone, a Reuters cameraman and community activists said.
Bloodshed over the past seven months in mainly poor black and mixed-race areas has killed more than 2,000 people, almost half gang-related, Western Cape provincial officials said.

Beyonce's dad goes into marijuana business

Beyonce's dad Matthew Knowles has revealed his bizarre new career move as he switches one kind of greatest hits for another. Mr Knowles has partnered with Bangi Inc which buys and rents real estate for weed farms.
He recently told the New York Post Page Six, that despite smoking the drug for "medicinal reasons", the company doesn't actually handle the marijuana itself, just leases the land to the growers.

French submarine missing since 1968 with 52 sailors onboard is only sadly found now

A French submarine that has been missing for more than 50 years has been located by a search team. French Defence Minister Florence Parly tweeted the announcement on Monday, describing the discovery as a "relief and technical feat".
Fifty-two sailors were on board the Minerve when it vanished near the port of Toulon, on the French south coast, in January 1968.

Albert Flick, a 77-year-old murderer released for being too old to be violent, kills another woman

Albert Flick, the murderer released in his late 60s after being deemed too old to be dangerous, struck again by stabbing a woman to death in front of her twin sons 11 times in broad daylight.
 Before being released 9 years ago, the 77-year-old murderer had already served more than 25 years in prison for violent crimes against women. The first murder committed by the Army Veteran who had spent 19 years working at a doughnut shop in Westbrook, Maine, occurred 40 years ago after his wife served him with divorce papers.

Trekking 10,000km across Africa for a football match

A Zimbabwean nurse travelled from Cape Town to Cairo by road enduring visa delays, internet blackouts and revolutionary protests all for the love of football.
Alvin "Aluvah" Zhakata had intended to make it to Egypt for the opening match of the Africa Cup of Nations on 21 June, when Zimbabwe's Warriors took on the hosts.
But he missed the match because his epic journey took much longer than expected.
Yet thanks to those following his adventures on Twitter, he has now become a celebrity - and the African football boss has presented him with a ticket to this Friday's final between Algeria and Senegal.

Daughter's tearful reunion with parents 30 year after she was abducted and sold

Kidnapped, sold to another family and given a new name. Moving photos show the 33-year-old woman and her parents - Tang Weiqi and Tang Shuqin - hugging for the first time since she was abducted at age three in February 1989.
The daughter, who was renamed Wang Shanshan by her new family, said: "Mum, I've been looking for you forever."

US rapper, TayK,19, found guilty of murder, faces up to 99 years in prison

American rapper, TayK is facing between 5 and 99 years in prison after he was found guilty of murder. A North Texas jury on Friday found Tay-K guilty of murder for his part in a home invasion robbery that left Ethan Walker, a 21-year-old father dead and another man wounded in 2016.
 Jurors also found the 19-year-old guilty of aggravated robbery in the robbery and shooting of Zachary Beloate, who was wounded but survived.

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'I have offered to personally vouch for A$AP Rocky's bail' - President Trump

 American rapper, A$AP Rocky has been held in Swedish police custody for weeks and now President Donald Trump has just revealed that he has been negotiating with the country to secure the New York rapper's release.
 Trump in a Saturday tweet that comes one day after the Stockholm District Court decided the Grammy-nominated rapper should remain in custody for another week while prosecutors finish their investigation, said he spoke with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven to discuss Rocky's case.

Marvel Studios announces Mahershala Ali as replacement for Wesley Snipes in new remake of ‘Blade’

Mahershala Ali has been announced as the new Blade, the half-vampire killer previously played by Wesley Snipes in three films for New Line Cinema.  When New Line opted not to produce more Blade films itself, the rights to the character returned to Marvel Studios, making it possible for him to join characters like Doctor Strange (a natural companion character).

Manny Pacquiao wins WBA welterweight title after stunning victory over Keith Thurman in Las Vegas

Filipino professional boxer and politician, Manny Pacquiao has been crowned the new WBA (Super) welterweight champion after his victory against  Keith Thurman in Las Vegas last night. The 40-year-old secured a split decision victory to hand the American the first defeat of his professional career having previously won all 29 bouts before stepping into the ring with 40-year-old ‘Pac-Man’.
The judges scored fight  115-112, 115-112 and 113-114 in Pacquiao's favour after 12 rounds bout.
After the bout, Pacquiao said: 'I was blessed tonight.'

86 victims of Bosnian war buried 27 years after massacre

Bosnia on Saturday, buried the 86 Muslims killed and dumped in a ravine by Bosnian Serb forces at the beginning of the 1990s Bosnian war.  Victims of the massacre were mainly prisoners from the war-era detention camps for non-Serbs near the town of Prijedor.
Before being lined up by the edge of the ravine and shot in August 1992, the prisoners were told that they were being released in a prison exchange. They were however driven to the Koricani Cliffs in central Bosnia, where the killing took place.

Terror Scare: British Airways cancels all flights to Cairo for a week as a security "precaution"

British Airways has cancelled all flights to the Egyptian capital Cairo for a week as a security "precaution". 
 Passengers who were about to board a BA flight to the city from London's Heathrow Airport were told that it was cancelled and that there would be no alternative flights for a week.   The airline did not specify what the security issue was but a spokesman for Cairo airport told the BBC that the airport had not been notified by BA of any such changes. 

French minister resigns after lobster dinner scandal

A senior French cabinet minister and close ally of President Emmanuel Macron resigned on Tuesday after reports accused him of extravagant state-funded lobster dinners and misusing public housing in a blow to the centrist government.
Francois de Rugy, who was named environment minister in September 2018, announced his departure after a week of revelations from the leftwing website Mediapart.