ANTONIO CONTE has been rejected by Juventus after offering his services to the club, according to reports in Italy. The Chelsea boss is expected to leave Stamford Bridge at the end of the season after failing to match the heights of his debut campaign. Conte claimed he was homesick late last year, and has done little to disguise the fact ...

Google, Amazon and other services inside Russia have been hit by the country’s bids to stop people using the Telegram messaging app. Russia banned the app after the company refused to hand over encryption keys that could unscramble messages. The ban, which started this month, involved Russian regulators blocking many net addresses to cut off access. Addresses used by Google ...

A 14-year-old Everton fan has made history by becoming football’s first “remote” match-day mascot – with the aid of a robot. Jack McLinden, who has multiple health conditions, experienced joining his heroes on the pitch before their game against Newcastle United on Monday. Everton captain Phil Jagielka carried the robot, which fed panoramic live images and sound back to Jack’s ...

Police in Florida have been criticised for allegedly entering a funeral home in a futile bid to unlock a dead man’s smartphone. Linus Phillip, 30, was killed while trying to escape from police at a petrol station in Largo on 23 March. After his body was released to the Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home, his family say, two police officers tried ...

Spotify, the UK’s biggest music streaming service, has started testing a way of filtering out songs which have explicit lyrics. The feature has been introduced on its iPhone and iPad apps – six years after being requested on its online forums. But some users have told BBC Radio 5 live: that the feature does not have enough controls. Rivals such ...

The Presidency’s staff strength of 998 already criticised as “absurd” could hit 1,697. “That is the plan of the Akufo-Addo government for the year 2018”, National Democratic Congress MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, told Joy News Monday. “If Ghanaians are worried about 998, that is not going to be the end of the matter”, he continued. Referring to ...

A man suspected of killing four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee has been arrested by police in Nashville. Police said Travis Reinking, 29, was caught in a wooded area. He allegedly opened fire at the restaurant on Sunday with an AR-15 rifle, before discarding his coat and fleeing naked. A customer, James Shaw Jr, prevented further bloodshed by ...

ALEXIS SANCHEZ struggled to produce a sample for the Wembley dope testers then explained why Manchester United have had wait to see the best of him. The Chile striker was the last player to emerge from a stadium he must wish he could play in every week. Sanchez had underlined the old sporting maxim that while form is temporary, class ...

Justice Amoah aka Patapaa is still in the news after his Vodafone Ghana Music Awards drama. This time, he is not talking about awards – he has said in an interview with Delay on the Delay Show that he doesn’t take alcohol. In the interview he revealed that that until recently he was a bar tender at his mother’s pub ...

European regulators will investigate Apple’s planned purchase of Shazam, the music recognition app that was developed in the UK. The European Commission said Apple could encourage Shazam users to use its music streaming service rather than its competitors’ if the deal goes ahead. Apple Music has about half as many paid subscribers as Spotify, the world’s biggest streaming platform. Shazam ...