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Swansea City have appointed former Sheffield Wednesday manager Carlos Carvalhal as their new permanent boss. Player-coach Leon Britton had been in temporary charge of Swansea since the Premier League’s bottom side sacked Paul Clement on 20 December. Carvalhal, 52, was dismissed by Wednesday on Christmas Eve, with the Owls 15th in the Championship table. The Portuguese joins Swansea initially until the end of the season with the option of an extension. Carvalhal, the Swans’ fifth permanent manager in two years, led Wednesday to the Championship play-offs in the past two seasons. Read Also Bishop of Liverpool criticises Christians backing Trump…

At least 40 people have been killed and 30 wounded in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul. A Shia cultural and religious organisation and media offices of the Afghan Voice agency were hit. The interior ministry told the BBC a suicide blast was followed by another two explosions in the area. No-one has yet said they were behind the attack. In recent months, so-called Islamic State has been carrying out attacks on Shia targets across the country. What do we know about the attack? Both the Tabayan cultural centre and offices of Afghan Voice were at the location…

The Indian government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament aimed at prosecuting and jailing Muslim men who divorce their wives through the “triple talaq”, or instant divorce. Indian muslim women have complained that ‘triple talaq’ violates their right to equality. In August, the Supreme Court ruled as unconstitutional , the religious practice which allows Muslim men to divorce their wives simply by uttering the word “talaq” three times. Muslim women had petitioned the court, arguing that husbands who divorce them through “triple talaq”, including by Skype and WhatsApp, not only violated their rights but left many women destitute. “Only…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Atiku Abubakar sent early messages to sympathize with President Muhammadu Buhari over the motorcycle accident of his son, Yusuf. Yusuf, first son of President Buhari, was involved in a bike accident on Wednesday night but he is in stable condition and the family is receiving goodwill messages from political friends and foes. Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, sent a sympathy message to President Buhari’s family over the accident. Abubakar, who dumped Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) early in the month said in a tweet, “ commiserated with the first family through his…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan and ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar sent early messages to sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari over the motorcycle accident of his son. Yusuf. Yusuf, first son of President Buhair, was involved in a bike accident on Wednesday night but he is in stable condition and the family is receiving goodwill messages from political friends and foes. Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, sent a sympathy message to President Buhari’s family over the accident. Abubakar, who dumped Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) early in the month said in a tweet, “ commiserated with the first family through his…

The son of President Muhammadu Buhari, Yusuf Buhari, has been flown abroad following a fatal motorcycle accident in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Tuesday, 26 December. He was flown to an unnamed hospital in Germany. Chronicle NG reported that Yusuf had survived a fatal bike accident which occurred last night around Gwarimpa area in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity said in a statement on Wednesday that the victim Yusuf Buhari, survived the accident and is now in a stable condition. Shehu also said Buhari junior broke a limb and…

Birmingham City have made a firm enquiry about Nigerian international midfielder Shehu Abdullahi. The 24-year-old is into the final year of his contract at Cypriot club Anorthosis Famagusta. Abdullahi recently helped the Super Eagles qualify for the World Cup in Russia next summer and would be available for £500,000 in January with his side reluctant to lose him for nothing in the summer. Birmingham, currently bottom of the Championship, will give manager Steve Cotterill funds to try and get out of relegation trouble. They have registered their interest in Abdullahi, who has 23 caps for his country and is also…

MTN Group, Africa’s biggest telecommunication operator, said on Thursday it had assigned a $231 million shareholder loan to phone tower group, IHS Holding Ltd, impacting its 2017 profits. MTN, which returned to profit in the first half of its financial year in the absence of one-off charges related to a $1.1 billion Nigerian fine, said the assignment of the loan to IHS will lead to a loss of 2.8 billion rand ($228 million) on transfer of the carrying value of the loan. The loss on transfer will impact headline earnings per share (HEPS) for 2017, the main profit measure in…

A Church of England bishop has criticised American religious leaders who support Donald Trump, saying they cannot justify their Christian faith. In a Guardian interview, Paul Bayes, the Bishop of Liverpool, said some evangelical leaders were “uncritically accepting” of things said by the US president and his allies. He said it amounted to collusion with a system that builds walls not bridges. Mr Trump has previously said he is proud to be Christian. Mr Bayes told the newspaper: “Some of the things that have been said by religious leaders seem to collude with a system that marginalises the poor, a…

Manchester United will not rival Barcelona’s interest in 26-year-old Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann. (Marca) Paris St-Germain are monitoring Marouane Fellaini’s situation at United and would be keen to sign the 30-year-old midfielder on a free transfer next summer. (Mirror) Liverpool flew a team of doctors to assess Southampton’s 26-year-old defender Virgil van Dijk so they could complete his £75m signing as quickly as possible – and before Manchester City could rival their interest. (Liverpool Echo) Atletico Madrid are happy to sell winger Yannick Carraso, 24, in the January transfer window. (AS) Chelsea failed in a bid for the Belgium…