Month: July 2017

Man crashes $260k Ferrari one hour after purchase

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A man in Britain has survived a major crash in his Ferrari, an hour after he bought it. CBS news quoted Local police as calling the man’s survival a “miracle escape,”, The car was not so lucky. South Yorkshire Police posted Twitter photos of the smoking, wrecked car, saying it “went airborne (and) burst into flames” beside a highway in northern England. The Ferrari 430 Scuderia, worth about $260,000 new, ended up a burning heap in a field. The police said in a Facebook statement that the driver “only had…

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West Brom want to sign Arsenal centre-back Vermaelen

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West Brom are keen on signing Barcelona defender Thomas Vermaelen, Sky Sports report. The Belgium international left Arsenal for the Nou Camp in 2014 but has endured three years of injury problems. Vermaelen still has two years left on his Barcelona contract but was allowed to join Roma on loan last season, where his injury problems continued. The 31-year has also reportedly attracted interest from Crystal Palace as Premier League clubs assess whether he would be a viable signing. West Brom are keen on signing Barcelona defender Thomas Vermaelen, Sky…

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Osinbajo condemns deadly Boko Haram ambush

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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN said the Nigerian governments is not only “on top of the situation, “, in Borno State, but will also win the peace and the war against Boko Haram. Osinbajo gave the assurance in a statement by his SSA, Laolu Akande today. He spoke days after a deadly ambush by Boko Haram terrorists in the North-east led to the deaths of dozens of NNPC and University of Maiduguri staff, out on an oil exploration in the Lake Chad Basin. Osinbajo described the ambush as appalling. Prof.…

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Galaxy signs Dos Santos on transfer from Villarreal

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L.A. Galaxy has signed Mexico midfielder Jonathan dos Santos from Spain’s Villarreal in a bid to turn around their season, the Major League Soccer club said on Thursday. Dos Santos, who represented Mexico at the Confederations Cup, began training with the Galaxy on Friday before being unveiled at a media conference. The move reunites Dos Santos, 27, with his older brother Giovani dos Santos, who joined the Galaxy in July 2015, also from Villarreal. La Galaxy Coach Sigi Schmid said “Yes I mean obviously he’s a good player, I mean…

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11 jailed for faking baby popular formula brands

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Eleven people have been sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison for faking and selling popular baby formula brands. They were found guilty by a Shanghai Third Intermediate People’s Court on Friday. The convicts were said to have been involved in producing and selling counterfeit baby formula imitating popular foreign and domestic brands. The court found five people, including Chen Mingjiang and Gu Chuansheng, guilty of manufacturing milk powder cans that copied the designs and logos of Beingmate and Abbott, filling them with cheap and inferior formula from…

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Overweight Couple remarry after they lost weight

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A married couple were overweight when they first got married, went back to renew their vows after they had lost weight – shedding a combined 14 stone. The couple identified as Janice and William Robertson piled on the pounds as they shunned exercise and gorged on fast food before getting married first time around. But when 36-year-old William was diagnosed with diabetes the couple decided to turn their lives around. The pair looked at their wedding pictures and realised that they weren’t happy with the way they had looked on…

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Magu soars as Nigeria anti-graft war gets endorsement

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The anti-graft war of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been endorsed by 25 countries, prompting a soaring profile of the Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu. The Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on Friday that the endorsement was the outcome of an opinion poll conducted by UK-based Global Peace Movement International. The poll came a week after Transparency International (TI) released its latest transparency index, he said. According to him, Nigeria for the first time in over a decade, moved up in the…

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Trump replaces chief of staff Priebus with retired general Kelly

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President Donald Trump replaced his White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus on Friday, installing retired General John Kelly in his place. Trump announced the move in a tweet a day after his new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, accused Priebus of leaking information to reporters in a profanity-laced tirade. Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in an interview on Fox News said he offered to resign and that he was not asked to resign hours after President Donald Trump replaced him after only six months on the job,…

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World’s highest paid comedian nets $69m

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American comedian Jerry Seinfeld has emerged world’s highest- paid comedian by earning 69 million dollars in one year. The 63-year-old stand-up comedian and actor topped the list of 10 highest paid comedians released by Forbes Magazine on Friday. According to Forbes, the rating is based on the Hart’s total earning between June 2016 and June 2017. The magazine reported that a huge Netflix stand-up deal boosted Seinfeld’s bottom line to the whopping 69.0 million dollars. Seinfeld’s pal Chris Rock is second on the list with a 57 million dollars, followed…

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After North Korea test, South Korea pushes to build up its own missiles

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The United States agreed to start negotiations to allow South Korea to build more powerful ballistic missiles in order to counter North Korea’s fast-advancing missile technologies, the office of the South’s president said on Saturday. President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, long considered a dovish leader, called for arms buildup talks with Washington hours after the North launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, that experts said had a range long enough to reach the West Coast of the United States and potentially target Chicago and New York. The White House quickly accepted the…

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