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Manchester City are ready to make a £70m bid for Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann, 25, but Manchester United and Chelsea are also interested in the France international. (Sunday Mirror) England interim manager Gareth Southgate is expected to be given the job permanently if his side beat Scotland in Friday’s World Cup qualifier. (Mail on Sunday) French champions Paris St-Germain want to sign Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero, 28. (Sunday Express) Arsenal are considering a move for 21-year-old Atletico Madrid defender Jose Gimenez. The Uruguay international could cost the Gunners £54m. (Sun on Sunday) Wayne Rooney, 31, is determined to…

QPR have parted company with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. The Dutchman leaves Loftus Road following today’s 1-1 draw against Nottingham Forest in the Sky Bet Championship. Hasselbaink joined QPR in December 2015 and oversaw 47 matches in charge, winning 14, drawing 18 and losing 15. The club appreciates Jimmy’s efforts during his time in charge and wishes him all the best for the future. According Owing to the international break, the First Team squad will return to training on Wednesday. A further update regarding the club’s managerial situation will be made in due course. In September, undercover reporters working for The…

German league leaders Bayern Munich came from behind to rescue a point as Hoffenheim continued their unbeaten start to the Bundesliga season. Bayern fell behind when Kerem Demirbay’s thundering shot left keeper Manuel Neuer rooted to the spot. It required a slice of fortune for the hosts to equalise, Steven Zuber sending the ball into his own net attempting to clear Douglas Costa’s cutback. RB Leipzig could draw level on points with Bayern on Sunday. Leipzig, promoted to the top tier at the end of last season, have 21 points from nine games. They will join Carlo Ancelotti’s side on…

The Nigerian Army on Saturday handed over Maryam Ali Maiyanga, the Chibok girl, with her ten-month-old son, to the Borno Government after they were rescued from Pulka, Gwoza Local Government Area, by troops. Maj-Gen. Lucky Irabor, The Theatre Commander of 7 Div. of Nigeria Army, disclosed this to newsmen in Maiduguri. Irabor said, ”At about 6:00 a.m., while screening some escapees from Boko Haram terrorists’ hideout in Sambisa forest, we discovered one of the abducted Government Secondary School Chibok girls, named Maryam Ali Maiyanga, among them. “She was discovered to be carrying a 10-month-old son, named Ali. “She revealed to…

Dr Charles Ugwuanyi, a Consultant Neurosurgeon with the Wellington Neurosurgery Centre, Abuja, says that Nigeria loses 1 billion dollars annually to medical tourism abroad. Ugwuanyi made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the ‘Wellington Foundation fourth annual CME Course’ on Saturday in Abuja. He called on the government to create enabling environment in the country to reduce the trend and make more Nigerians visit hospitals within the country to access quality health care. “The country is losing at least one billion dollars on annual basis to medical tourism abroad; if…

Eden Hazard scored twice as Chelsea climbed to the top of the Premier League for the first time since August with a stylish victory over Everton. Hazard put Chelsea ahead with a low angled shot before Marcos Alonso added a second when he slotted through Maarten Stekelenburg’s legs. Diego Costa made it 3-0 from a corner just before half-time and Hazard scored the pick of the goals after the break. Pedro put the gloss on the result when he tapped into an empty net. Everton spent the majority of the game penned in their own half and did not manage…

Marten de Roon’s injury-time equaliser snatched a draw for Middlesbrough as Manchester City were made to pay for a sloppy second-half performance at Etihad Stadium. Sergio Aguero put City ahead, stabbing in Kevin de Bruyne’s cross for his 150th City goal with their 18th shot of the afternoon. Boro were hugely improved after the break and Alvaro Negredo brought a fine save from Claudio Bravo with an audacious lob from the halfway line. Pep Guardiola’s side looked to have withstood the isolated spells of Boro pressure but De Roon’s header from George Friend’s 91st-minute cross denied them. It was the…

Recession and the lingering unfavourable forex regime has continued to reduced the volume of vehicles imported through the Nigerian ports, the Operations Manager, Ports and Terminal Multiservices Ltd. (PTML), Mr Jack Angrish has said. Angrish said that the unstable and high cost of the US dollar over the local currency did not encourage vehicle trade as many vehicle seats remained empty with vehicle importation dropping by 80 per cent from about 30,000 to just 6,000. Angrish told our correspondent on Saturday in Lagos that “this is time for the vehicle business operators to pool their resources together to facilitate domestic…

Boxer Manny Pacquiao, known as the people’s champion in his native Philippines, says he has given away about $200 million on projects to help the less fortunate. “Every income I receive in boxing, almost half of it goes to the less fortunate,” Pacquiao said. “After each fight, half of my income goes to the poor. “But I don’t like to announce it.” According to Forbes, Pacquiao’s income from career purses and endorsements is around $500 million. Pacquiao has a number of projects underway in the Philippines including building 1,500 homes on the island of Mindanao. He also helped to buy…

A Utah bride and her dad surprised the 400 guests at her wedding reception with an epic, choreographed dance mashup in place of the traditional father-daughter dance. Mikayla Ellison Phillips, 25, and her dad, Nathan Ellison, brought the house down at her Oct. 8 wedding near Provo, Utah. The father-daughter pair performed a nearly four-minute dance mashup that started with a slow dance to “Butterfly Kisses” and quickly morphed into a fast-paced medley featuring songs like M.C. Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” and NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye.” “I’m the oldest and the only girl so that was my dad’s only…