A 19-year-old Syrian man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a bomb attack. The man, identified as Yamen A, is suspected to have "concretely prepared an Islamist-motivated attack using very powerful explosives", police said. Several apartments were searched in the town of Schwerin, in north-eastern Germany, where he was arrested....

The Flag Officer Commanding Central Naval Command, Rear Adm. Bello Al-Hassan, said the Navy had deployed seven ships and 37 patrol boats for maritime security drill in the Niger Delta. Al-Hassan told the News Agency of Nigeria at the Federal Ocean Terminal, Onne, that the command had commenced a sea/backwater exercise code named: ‘Octopusgrip’ in...

Manchester City will "be in trouble" if they fail to improve on their mid-season performance levels during the last two Premier League campaigns, according to former Manchester United defender Gary Neville. Neville believes they will struggle to win the title yet again if they do not learn from their mistakes. He said, "They are at an outstandingly...

Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren has revealed that a supporter has targeted his family in a death threat message sent on social media. The Croatian centre-back has attracted criticism in recent weeks for his performances for the Anfield club, with his showing against Tottenham at Wembley seeing him withdrawn after just 31 minutes. The 28-year-old has...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday expressed delight over the World Bank’s latest “Doing Business” report that saw Nigeria moving up 24 places to 145th and recognising the country as one of the top 10 most improved economies in the world. He congratulated all stakeholders who worked with the Federal Government to achieve what he described as...

A military court in Cameroon sentenced an opposition leader to 25 years in prison, his lawyer and Amnesty International said and denounced the trial as politically motivated. The court convicted Aboubakar Siddiki, the president of northern Cameroon's main opposition party, of hostility against the homeland as well as revolution and contempt of the...

At least three people have been killed and 13 injured in a powerful explosion in central Kabul, Afghan officials say. Ambulances have been ferrying victims of the blast in the capital's diplomatic zone to hospital. The number of dead and injured is expected to rise. A Reuters TV crew counted eight people who appeared dead. It is not clear what caused...

A strong earthquake with a 6.3 magnitude struck eastern Indonesia Tuesday, causing some damage to buildings and sending people running from their homes. The quake struck at a depth of 32.4 kilometres (20 miles) and was centred 32km west of Hila on the island of Ambon, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. There were no immediate reports of injuries...

Australia will trial red and yellow cards for coaches and other team officials starting this weekend in an effort to improve behaviour on the sidelines at A-League matches, Football Federation Australia said on Tuesday. Red card offences would include throwing a water bottle in a “dangerous or aggressive manner”, spitting, the use of insulting or...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the former National Publicity Secretary to the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Olisa Metuh, to pay N1 Bn to cover his travel expenses to appear as a defence witness in Metuh’s trial. At the resumed trial of Mr Metuh on Tuesday, Jonathan’s counsel, Mr Mike Ozekhome, asked...

Australia's Senate president has revealed he could be a dual citizen, meaning he may join five others in becoming ineligible for office. Stephen Parry, who is part of the government, may have inherited UK citizenship through his father. Politicians with dual citizenship cannot be elected in Australia. Mr Parry has said in a statement that he will...

Sergio Ramos hopes Barcelona will remain in La Liga amid Catalonia fight for independence.    Barca's future in the Spanish top flight has become the subject of speculation as the region continues to push for autonomy. The possibility of the Camp Nou outfit leaving La Liga should independence be granted has been raised, and it is unknown...

A member of the House of Representatives during the Second Republic, Dr Junaid Muhammed, has revealed that the newly appointed Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, is a first cousin to Babachir Lawal. “Before you begin to celebrate the appointment of Boss Mustapha as the new SGF, do you know that he is in fact, Babachir Lawal’s...

More than 200 people are feared to have died when a tunnel caved in at North Korea's nuclear test site after its latest detonation, a Japanese news report said on Tuesday. A tunnel collapsed at Punggye-ri in early September, days after North Korea conducted its sixth and largest underground nuclear test on September 3, TV Asahi said, quoting unnamed...

Gareth Bale will not be reunited with Tottenham in the Champions League after missing out on a place in Real Madrid’s travelling squad.    The Blancos have named a 19-man party for the midweek clash at Wembley Stadium. Bale had been hoping to make the cut, allowing him to face his former club, but he has only been able to return to light...

John Obi Mikel will lead Nigeria senior national team against Algeria and Argentina in November. The Super Eagles have already booked their place in the 2018 Fifa World Cup billed for Russia and will face Rabah Madjer’s men on November 10 in their last qualifying game which is a mere formality. Four days later, they face the South Americans...

Using a combination of the biblical text and an ancient Egyptian text, the researchers were then able to refine the dates of the Egyptian pharaohs, in particular the dates of the reign of Ramesses the Great. The results are published in the Royal Astronomical Society journal Astronomy & Geophysics. The biblical text in question comes from the...

Three leading Venezuelan opposition parties have said they will not take part in December's municipal elections. Leaders from the Justice First, Popular Will and Democratic Action say the electoral system is biased. Julio Borges, the leader of the Justice First party and president of the National Assembly, said the government of Nicolás Maduro had...

Refugees held by Australia in Papua New Guinea have launched legal action over the closure of a detention centre. Australia holds asylum seekers arriving by boat in camps on PNG's Manus Island and the small Pacific nation of Nauru. The Manus Island centre is scheduled to close on Tuesday after a PNG court ruled it was unconstitutional. Detainees...

China's ambassador on Monday brushed off the Trump administration's complaints that Beijing is employing predatory trade and economic practices to bully and intimidate neighbours, suggesting that the United States "look in the mirror because they might be describing themselves." Ambassador Cui Tiankai's comments during a briefing with reporters came...

A fresh nuclear test at North Korea's mountainous testing site could trigger a leak of radioactive material, South Korea's chief meteorologist has warned. A hollow space of up to 100m in length in the bottom of Mount Mantap could implode, Nam Jae-cheol said. Pyongyang's last nuclear test in early September appeared to have triggered several landslides....

Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the last two years. The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced before and after the 2016 presidential election. Most of the posts focused on divisive social and political messages Facebook released the figures...

The race to produce ever-faster laser pulses has set a new record, and it could lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of atom-level physics. A team at ETH Zurich has shortened an X-ray pulse to just 43 attoseconds (10-18 seconds), which is quick enough that you can observe electrons moving in slow motion. That, in turn, makes it realistic to...

The Chief of Army staff of Nigeria, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai has said the Nigerian Army is people oriented and will never do anything to harm Nigerians. Buratai said this at the closing ceremony of Exercise Crocodile Smile II in 6 Division after the community responsibility activities of the Division in Igwurruta, Port Harcourt, Rivers State...

A US federal judge has temporarily blocked Donald Trump's attempt to bar transgender people from the military. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly overruled a presidential memo issued by Mr Trump, which sought to reverse an Obama administration policy change. Ms Kollar-Kotelly's injunction returns the US military to the status quo - allowing transgender...

The youth wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC), under the aegis of Save APC Democracy Youth Vanguard, on Monday besieged the National Secretariat of the ruling party in Abuja, demanding the immediate sack of the National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun. The youths, wielding banners and placards, said they were protesting the gross violation of...

Sacked Catalan President Carles Puigdemont has gone to Belgium, a lawyer he has hired there says. The lawyer, Paul Bekaert, did not comment on reports that Mr Puigdemont could be preparing an asylum claim. Spanish prosecutor have called for rebellion charges to be brought against him and other organisers of Catalonia's banned independence referendum. Theo...

Tiger Woods announced on Monday he will make his return to competitive golf at the Nov. 30-Dec. 3 Hero World Challenge at Albany in the Bahamas. "Albany is the perfect setting and it will be great to join this outstanding field..." The 41-year-old American has only played six competitive rounds in the past two years while trying to recover from multiple...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the suspended Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr Ayodele Oke. The President has appointed Mr Boss Mustapha as the new SGF. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said in a...

Hong Kong will host the 2022 Gay Games, fighting off bids from cities in the United States and Mexico to become the first Asian city to stage the sports and cultural event. The news comes after Taiwan's constitutional court declared in May that same-sex couples have the right to legally marry, the first such ruling in Asia, providing a shot in the...

The Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is aware of the reinstatement of a former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Commission, Mallam Abdulrasheed Maina, into the civil service. She, however, said she warned the President against it. Oyo-Ita said that her warning was based on the implications...

Britain's Olympic and world champion Mo Farah has split with long-time coach Alberto Salazar because he wants to move back to London with his family, he said in an interview on Monday. "I'm not leaving the Nike Oregon Project and Alberto Salazar because of the doping allegations," Farah, 34, said. He ended his track career this year to concentrate...

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte is set to call on fit-again midfield pair N'Golo Kante and Danny Drinkwater for Tuesday's crunch Champions League clash away to Roma.    The Blues can move five points clear in Group C with a win at Stadio Olimpico, where both of Roma's league defeats have come this term.    Kante has been sidelined...

Luis Figo believes Paris Saint-Germain demand to be noticed following the club's summer capture of Neymar from Barcelona.  The former Barca, Real Madrid and Portugal star talked up the Brazilian, who joined the Ligue 1 giants this past summer in a record €222 move. "Neymar is one of the best players in the world," Figo told Goal. "He brings...

Alvaro Morata has moved to clarify comments made in a widely-shared interview on Monday, insisting that he is happy at Chelsea.  The Spain international was quoted by a newspaper as saying that he missed playing for Juventus, and that he would like to live in Italy. However, he has now insisted that there was a "communication problem" and that...

Serbia have parted company with coach Slavoljub Muslin, despite him leading them to the World Cup in Russia above the Republic of Ireland and Wales. Muslin, 64, guided his country to the top of Group D as they reached their first major tournament in eight years. But a statement from the country's FA (FSS) said: "The FSS decided to part company with...

John Obi Mikel will lead Nigeria senior national team against Algeria and Argentina in November.    The Super Eagles have already booked their place in the 2018 Fifa World Cup billed for Russia and will face Rabah Madjer’s men on November 10 in their last qualifying game which is a mere formality.    Four days later, they face...

The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says the protests are already causing racial divisions after some demonstrators were seen carrying the flag from the apartheid era, when South Africa was governed by its white minority and black people were not allowed to vote. The protest comes three days after two white farmers were sentenced to more than...

Toyota is very invested in love. The automaker has a central philosophy of making vehicles that inspire ‘Aisha,’ a concept that literally means “beloved car” in Japanese. But the nature of ‘Aisha’ is changing, necessarily, just at the nature of automobiles themselves are fundamentally changing as we usher in automated and semi-autonomous driving. The...

Concentrations of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere surged to a record high in 2016, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Last year's increase was 50% higher than the average of the past 10 years. Researchers say a combination of human activities and the El Niño weather phenomenon drove CO2 to a level not seen in 800,000 years. Scientists...

British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis was accessed more than two million times “from every corner of the globe” within days of it being made available to the public, a media report said on Saturday. Hawking’s 1966 work proved so popular on the day of its release on Monday that it crashed the publications section of Cambridge...

Apple has reportedly fired an engineer after his daughter posted a video showing off the brand new iPhone X. Brooke Amelia Peterson posted a hands-on video of the new gadget to YouTube after visiting the Apple campus to see her father and take a look at the iPhone X. The video went viral and, as a result, Apple dismissed her father for violating...

A recently updated listing on Amazon reveals that the company’s basic Kindle ebook reader will support Audible “in the coming months” via an over-the-air update, according to The Digital Reader. Audible offers a library of more than 375,000 audiobooks (some of them for dogs!), magazines, newspapers, and radio shows, all of which can be streamed wirelessly...

Google may have killed the Pixel name after two models, but the Pixelbook is nothing if not the logical successor to the line. The new device adds some new tricks, including a convertible display, pen functionality and Google Play access. It’s also the first laptop to support Google Assistant built-in, courtesy of a devoted key. But for all intents...

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IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati has declared the just-concluded repeat presidential election was credible, free, fair and credible. The electoral commission is set to declare that Jubilee’s Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected as President, garnering 98 per cent of the valid votes cast in the fresh election held last week and which was boycotted by...

The Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Alleged Fraudulent Activities in Collection, Accounting, Remittance and Expenditure by Revenue Generating Agencies has invited the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, to appear before it. The committee’s Chairman, Sen. Solomon Adeola, in a statement by his Media Adviser, Mr Kayode Odunaro, on Sunday said the...

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has awarded N88 billion damages against the Federal Government for its failure to clear landmines and remains of explosives in the aftermath of the civil war in the South Eastern part of the country. In a consent judgment delivered by Justice Chijioke Nwoke on Tuesday, the court ordered the Federal Government to commence...

George Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser to President Trump, pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to federal officials about his contacts with Russian nationals he believed had ties to the Russian government during Trump's presidential campaign. Papadopoulos, who was named by Trump in March 2016 as a foreign policy adviser to the campaign,...

Alvaro Morata says he cannot see himself living in London very long, admitting he finds England's capital "stressful", ahead of returning to Italy for Chelsea's clash with Roma. The striker left Juventus in 2016 to re-join Real Madrid after the Spanish club activated a buy-back clause in his contract, having won two Serie A titles and helped Juve...

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has hailed "untouchable" striker Romelu Lukaku The striker made an electric start to life at Old Trafford as he scored seven times in seven Premier League outings, yet after failing to find the net in his last five matches, he has come in for some criticism. The Belgium international forward moved to United...

The Islamic State militant group have continued their threats into the world of football by sending a message to Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Neymar, Lionel Messi and France head coach Didier Deschamps have all been depicted in the past, and a poster uncovered by terrorism monitoring portal SITE Intel Group shows Ronaldo...

Here are the 🔝-10 highest grossing Hollywood films🎥 from the weekend. Format: Film - Weekend Gross - Total Gross - No.of weeks run 1⃣ Jigsaw $16.3M $16.3M 1  2⃣ Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween $10.0M $35.5M 2  3⃣ Geostorm $5.7M $23.6M 2  4⃣ Happy Death Day $5.1M $48.4M 3  5⃣ Blade Runner 2049 $4.0M $81.4M 4  6⃣...

Meixian Techand have been celebrating promotion to the Chinese second tier in style, with their players rewarded with mountains of cash. The riches on offer in the Chinese Super League have made plenty of headlines in recent times, with some top talent lured to Asia from Europe and South America. Carlos Tevez, Oscar, Hulk, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Demba...

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Neymar paid a surprise visit to his old Barcelona team-mates at a training session on Sunday. The Brazil international turned up at a session at the Ciutat Esportiva as his old club began their preparations for their Champions League trip to Olympiacos. Barca even posted a picture of the 25-year-old on their official Twitter account, with the simple...

The security dilemma being presented to the 2018 World Cup is growing with the usual fear of football hooliganism being overshadowed by ISIS and their graphic threats against the tournament. A number of posters and online images have been created by the terrorist organisation without Neymar and Lionel Messi two players presented in their latest efforts. Furthermore,...

There is nothing worse than being caught short when on the football field - thousands of eyes watching and all you can think of is when you might be able to relieve yourself. For many amateur footballers, the site of players disappearing mid-match to the toilet is not an unfamiliar sight, but those watching Salford City's National League North clash...

President Muhammadu Buhari has been described as the leader Nigeria needs to overcome its challenges, with respect to the Federal Government’s anti-corruption campaign according to the Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima. “No matter what you will accuse Buhari of, nobody can accuse Buhari of corruption,” he said. “He’s a stabilising factor in this...

Saudi Arabia will allow women to attend sports events in stadiums for the first time from next year, officials say. Families will be able to enter the stadiums in three major cities - Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. It is another move towards giving more freedom to Saudi women, who face strict gender segregation rules, and follows the historic lifting...

Ex Manchester United star, Gary Neville has accused Anthony Martial of only ever playing at "85 per cent" of his ability. The forward has enjoyed an encouraging start to the campaign, scoring six times and registering six assists in 14 appearances in all competitions, seven of which have been as a substitute. Neville thinks Martial has the talent...

Zinedine Zidane insists Real Madrid can still win La Liga despite falling eight points behind leaders Barcelona with Sunday's shock loss at Girona. The champions slipped to a second league defeat of their title defence as the home side became the first promoted team to beat Los Blancos in 27 years. The French coach defended the brittle display and...

Iceland's governing coalition has suffered big losses in parliamentary elections with centre-left parties picking up many seats. PM Bjarni Benediktsson's centre-right Independence Party remains the largest but lost nearly a quarter of its seats. The second snap election in a year, called after a paedophile scandal, was held amid deep voter distrust. Coalition...

British Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an investigation into an international trade minister, Mark Garnier, who reportedly admitted to asking his personal assistant to buy sex toys and used a sexual slur against her. May's office confirmed the investigation to CNN after the Sunday Mail newspaper published Caroline Edmondson's allegations...

Girona's 2-1 victory over Real Madrid will have raised a big cheer elsewhere in Catalunya on Sunday, as the Liga new boys broke a drought which had lasted over a decade and ended the visitors' incredible away run in the process. Sunday's upset was the first time a Catalan side other than Barca had beaten Madrid in La Liga for more than 10 years, with...

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insists he has no concerns over Alexis Sanchez's attitude, saying the forward would return to his best. Sanchez is yet to find his best form this season with just one goal and two assists in seven Premier League games. The Chile international, whose contract expires at the end of the campaign, was heavily linked with...

Jose Mourinho has hit out at Manchester United fans for their lack of loyalty to top scorer Romelu Lukaku. The Belgium international has scored seven Premier League goals since signing for Everton during the summer for £75 million. However, despite the striker's immediate impact for the Red Devils, Mourinho believes that the fans are not giving him...

Policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Oyo State Police Command, has injured a man in Ibadan. The policemen also shot a female friend of his, identified simply as Doris, who was with him. The incident took place at the Bodija Market area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Saturday. The graduate of Business Administration, who runs a mobile boutique...

Max Verstappen might have cause to thank the Formula One stewards, even if only as a backhanded compliment, for giving him plenty to get stirred up about ahead of Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix. Demoted off the podium at last weekend's U.S. Grand Prix, and also in Mexico a year ago, the 20-year-old Red Bull driver produced a faultless sporting response...

Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani will step down as president of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region as the political backlash to September's Kurdish independence referendum continues. Barzani's office released a statement Sunday announcing the Kurdish leader will not extend his current term, which ends Wednesday. He will also suspend the post...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has won the latest round in the legal battle to compel the Senate President Dr. Bukola Sakari and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dogara Yakubu to account for the spending of N500 billion as running cost for the legislative body between 2006 and 2016, and disclose monthly allowances...

Jose Mourinho angrily deflected questions about injured Paul Pogba, insisting he has "no idea" when the midfielder will be available for Manchester United. While Pogba has been as active as usual on social media in that interim, there has been little word on when he can return for his club. "I have no idea [when he will return]," the manager snapped...

Hundreds of thousands have attended a rally for Spanish unity in Barcelona after Catalonia was stripped of its autonomy for declaring independence. Many urged the jailing of sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. Mr Puigdemont was dismissed as Spain's central government took control of Catalan institutions. Spain's foreign minister has said that...

An ecstatic Lewis Hamilton became Britain’s first four-times Formula One world champion on Sunday after fighting back from last place following an opening-lap collision with arch-rival Sebastian Vettel at the Mexican Grand Prix. In a race won by 20-year-old Dutch prodigy Max Verstappen, in a Red Bull, the 32-year-old Mercedes driver finished ninth...

One of the twin boys who were conjoined at the head has opened his eyes four days after a historic surgery to separate them in India, a doctor says. Two-year-old Jaga has also responded to simple commands, including moving his limbs. He is on a ventilator and needs daily dialysis due to kidney problems. His brother, Kalia, is not yet conscious and...

Two elite members of the US Navy are being investigated for murder after a 34-year-old special forces serviceman was found dead in Mali in June, officials have told US media. Army Staff Sergeant Logan J Melgar, from Texas, was found at US embassy housing in Mali on 4 June. Reports in US media suggest officials believe the officer died of asphyxiation...

It would appear that Harvey Weinstein's woes might've started to affect his business -- the 1st Weinstein Co. movie released since his scandal made less than $1,000 in theaters. TWC's "Amityville: The Awakening" -- which stars Bella Thorne -- reportedly grossed a meager $742 Saturday after being released in just 10 locations ... 2 weeks after streaming...

The 24-year-old singer-songwriter was announced as the No. 1 seller on Sunday (October 29) on the Billboard 200. Niall sold 152,000 equivalent album units in his first week, with 128,000 of those in traditional album sales. He is now the third member of One Direction to notch a No. 1 record, following Zayn Malik and Harry Styles, matching The Beatles‘...

The 33-year-old This Is Us actress and singer revealed that she may work on a new project, and when she does, chances are a collab with her new fiancé, Taylor Goldsmith! “I live with a musician who’s an incredible songwriter. I wouldn’t be surprised if we make music together,” she said. “In some way I think we’ll write it together and maybe he’ll...

The head of the UN food agency has appealed for aid to avert a humanitarian crisis in the conflict-wracked DR Congo province of Kasai. David Beasley told the BBC that more than three million people were now at risk of starvation. He warned that hundreds of thousands of children could die in the coming months if aid was not delivered. Violence flared...

The Somali government has fired two top security officials after twin blasts and a siege left at least 27 people dead, on Saturday. They came just two weeks after at least 358 people died in another attack, one of the deadliest ever to hit Mogadishu. Police chief Abdihakin Dahir Saiid and the director of national intelligence, Abdillahi Mohamed Sanbaloosh,...

The lawyers were among 13 people arrested on 17 October for taking part in a meeting to discuss challenging a law stopping private health clinics from providing HIV and Aids services. However, Sibongile Ndashe says they had no right to do so, and has accused authorities in Dar es Salaam of holding her and her colleagues “hostage”. The arrests followed...