Real laughed all the way to the bank with €30m flop Jese The 26-year-old has only managed four Ligue 1 appearances for Lyon this season, having struggled to break back into the team following a shin injury in September. He is expected to join Luciano Spalletti’s side on an initial loan deal, with Roma reported to have the option of making the move permanent for a €3.5 million fee at the end of the season....
REVEALED: Full Ballon d’Or list France international Griezmann overcame formidable competition for the prize and won the nod over the likes of Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, despite not featuring in the running for the best striker award and failing to win a place in the division’s team of the season, which was named in June. Cristiano Ronaldo headed the list of 30 nominees for the Ballon d’Or alongside Messi, Suarez and Griezman earlier on Thursday, following his successes with Real Madrid and Portugal in the Champions League and at Euro 2016 respectively, but he was surprisingly not recognized in any category at the Liga awards amid a somewhat contradictory collection of individual winners....
Oh, a master’s degree? Nope, got that while playing in the NBA. Try a doctorate, in leadership studies. Griffin is currently an assistant coach with the Bulls under Tom Thibodeau, and if all goes well, he could soon be Dr. Adrian Griffin to you and me. If all goes really well, he also could soon be Dr. Griffin, NBA head coach. “It’s definitely my goal,” Griffin said of head coaching aspirations....
The Grizzlies got off to a slow start but after rattling off a 15-3 run in the second quarter they never looked back, handling the Bulls to come away with a dominant 119-106 win. Desmond Bane was the Grizzlies’ catalyst to open things up, tallying 25 points on an efficient 10-for-17 shooting night. But of course, it was star guard Ja Morant who slammed the door shut on the victory, capping off a 25-point performance with a must-see 360 layup in the closing minutes....
On Tuesday morning, Christy Clark, a Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s House of Representatives, posted on Twitter that she was “disappointed” with two styles of koozies that were being sold in a store. She asked Harris Teeter and Kroger to discontinue selling them. One of the koozies Clark raised issues over depicts a bald eagle holding a gun that reads “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.” Another shows an individual holding a military-style assault rifle with “Arms Change, Rights Don’t”....
On the night of May 22, Kushwaha was kidnapped from his wedding venue by three men and taken by motorcycle to an orchard. In the orchard, the men threatened to shoot him at the mandap—a structure akin to an altar, according to brides.com—if he did not call off the engagement and abandon his fiancé. They even made him call up his future in-laws and tell them he had lost all interest in marrying their daughter, a spokesperson for the police department told The Times of India....
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. essentially invented the private equity industry in the late 1970s. Using some cash and a lot of borrowed money, KKR snapped up moribund industrial firms, retailers, and consumer-products companies, aligned the interests of top executives and owners, whipped the firms into shape, and sold them off—reaping huge profits for KKR’s happy few partners and their investors, many of which were public-employee pension funds. As the go-go 1980s hurtled along, the deals got big—KKR’s first billion-dollar deal came in 1984—and then unfathomably huge....
It functioned more as a Rorschach test. For presidential candidate John Edwards, it was “just another example of how corporate greed is squeezing the middle class.” American Petroleum Institute spokesperson Karen Matusic noted that oil’s hitting the century mark should spur efforts to “explore for more oil and natural gas. After all, 80 percent of our potential domestic resources are cut off from drilling.” For Renewable Fuels Association president Bob Dinneen, the event highlighted (wait for it!...
A problem with the ground beef sold at La Michoacana Meat Market—the local branch of a Hispanic-themed chain of specialty stores and grocery stores that can be found across the country—was discovered during routine product testing. A sample of the ground beef sold at the Greenville market tested positive for the presence of the bacterium E. coli O157:H7. This bacterium, a specific strain of E. coli, is usually associated with raw or undercooked beef—especially ground beef—and unpasteurized milk....
Bears like Sams don’t get much sympathy in this stock-happy era. As Delphi Management’s Scott Black says, “only fools try to time” their stock sales and purchases according to the market’s ups and downs. But being a bear doesn’t have to mean being a loser. Some of the biggest market pessimists have excellent records. Despite last year’s stumble, Sams has delivered an average 16.9 percent per year for the last 15 years (ending March 31), nearly 2 percentage points better than the Standard & Poor’s 500 index....
A brace from Ilkay Gundogan either side of first-half goals from Bernardo Silva and Sergio Aguero saw the runaway Premier League leaders shrug off a shaky opening in the last-16 tie at St Jakob-Park and turn in their latest dazzling attacking display of the campaign. Next month’s return leg is now a virtual formality and the match could serve as relative respite from City’s bid for honours across four fronts....
Angry Pep shuts down Aguero questions Aguero has scored four goals and registered two assists in his last two City appearances to help inspire them to victories over Monaco and Huddersfield Town. The Argentina striker admitted this week that he has had no assurances over his long-term future, however, with Guardiola having dropped him from the starting line-up in favour of Gabriel Jesus last month, only for the Brazilian to suffer a broken foot....
There were always going to be bumps in the road as Guardiola tries to get City playing his way but few expected them to put in one of the worst performances of the last five or six years, as they did at Leicester City, along the way. City were 2-0 down within five minutes at the King Power Stadium as their defence was pulled apart. By the 20-minute mark it was 3-0 and the backlash against Guardiola, his signings and his entire approach to football was already in full swing....
Police found five guns at the scene—two semi-automatic weapons, two shotguns and a lever-action firearm. The alleged gunman Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian, had acquired a New Zealand gun license in November 2017, and had collected these weapons legally. New Zealand’s political response was swift. Briana Spainhour, 20, regional organizing director for the student-led March for Our Lives movement formed in the wake of the killings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said: “It took just days there to do something that in America we have been working on my entire life....
Guy Reffitt, 49, of Wylie, Texas, was the first of the hundreds of defendants to stand trial in connection to January 6. He was found guilty of all five charges—two counts of civil disorder, and one count each of obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a firearm, and obstruction of justice—in March, and was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Monday....
H1N1 swine flu is a type of pandemic influenza that began circulating and caused a worldwide outbreak in 2009. It is caused by a specific strain of the influenza virus. Cause Occasionally, a strain of influenza that usually causes illness in one species of animal mutates and starts making humans sick. When this occurs, if transmission occurs easily between humans, it can cause a flu pandemic, even outside of the typical flu season....
In a new episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, which is set to be released on Wednesday, Hailey Bieber, 25, is seen discussing her relationship with pop heartthrob Justin Bieber, 28, to whom she has been married since 2018. “How has being married to someone with that level of fame impacted your identity?” host Alexandra Cooper asked the model, prompting her to respond: “Where do I start?” The 55-second trailer then cut to a discussion about speculation that her relationship with Justin Bieber overlapped with his and Gomez’s romance....
“What other place do I have?” Moise told WPLG in an interview broadcast on Wednesday evening. “Home is home. Home may be hell, but it’s home.” Moise came to Miami, Florida to receive medical treatment for injuries she sustained during a July 7 assassination attempt which killed her husband, slain President Jovenel Moise. She has mostly stayed in the U.S. since, though she also returned to Haiti for her husband’s funeral....
Tapachula stands as one of the most prominent crossing points for individuals hoping to migrate from Central and South America to Mexico and the United States. Because Mexico’s asylum system requires that cases be processed before individuals can leave their point of entry, migrants have been confined to Tapachula and some have been waiting in the city for great lengths of time. Mexico’s Commission for Refugee Assistance has seen a backlog in applications as the country struggles to handle a wave of migration that has seen asylum requests jump to a total of over 123,000 in 2021 as opposed to the over 41,000 posted the year prior....
