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Nigeria’s presidency said on Monday it plans to negotiate for the release of 110 girls abducted from a school in the northeastern town of Dapchi last month, rather than use a military operation to free them by force. The kidnapping is one of the largest since the jihadist group Boko Haram abducted more than 270 schoolgirls from the northeastern town ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he had replaced U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, and appointed Gina Haspel to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Gina Haspel was last year appointed as the first ever female deputy director of CIA and has now made more history in her appointment to the highest position ...

BARCELONA have denied claims Neymar will be rejoining the club this summer. Reports in Spain last week suggested the Brazilian was desperate for a Nou Camp return, just seven months after joining PSG for £198m. The 26-year-old has enjoyed a strong season at the Ligue 1 outfit. However, Neymar was forced to rubbish rumours that he was unsettled in the ...

MANCHESTER UNITED players were given a bomb scare as they prepared for their Champions League clash with a Sevilla. Jose Mourinho’s side face the Spaniard in their second round second leg at Old Trafford tonight. But the players were given a fright on Monday when their regular hotel – the Lowry where Mourinho lives – had to be cordoned off. ...

MICHAEL CARRICK knows there will not be many more Champions League nights for him but is confident that he is passing on Manchester United’s midfield baton to a star of the future in Scott McTominay. As Carrick begins the countdown to his retirement this summer after a distinguished 20-year career, McTominay, 21, is just starting out and showing the same ...

“The notion that you can make an artist overnight, that there is nothing but genius, and a dash of temperament in artistic success is a fallacy,” artist Georgia O’Keeffe asserted when she was 40 years old in 1928. The year before, she’d been given her first retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum—an indisputable marker of success. But O’Keeffe, who would live ...

Spanish Youtuber Sonia Sae, who uses her channel to share advice on how to live on a plant-based diet, has come under fire for putting her pet fennec fox on a vegan diet after photos of the shockingly thin animal were shared online. Animal activists and some of Sonia Sae’s own followers have accused her of animal cruelty after the ...

“Just a bit further, round the next bend,” my guide Jim said, as our fishing boat pitched and rolled in the choppy waters of the North Sea. It was hardly reassuring. But as we lurched from side to side, I reminded myself that the purpose of our trip was worth it. We were re-tracing a 230-year-old voyage that forever changed ...

MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho has provided fitness updates on Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial ahead of the Red Devils’ Champions League clash against Sevilla. Manchester United face Sevilla tomorrow night aiming to make the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2014. The Red Devils go into the game knowing they must score, with the first ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been fined £20,000 for wearing a yellow ribbon on the touchline during the FA Cup defeat at Wigan. On Monday, the Spaniard accepted the Football Association charge for “wearing a political message”, a breach of kit and advertising regulations. In November, Guardiola said he wore the ribbon to support imprisoned politicians in his native Catalonia. He ...