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A Russian Orthodox bishop has advised the faithful not to vote for Vladimir Putin when he stands for re-election in March, a nearly unheard of occurrence in the loyal church. The angry statement marked the first time an acting bishop has spoken against supporting the current president, according to the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, but it was motivated by Mr ...

ALEXIS SANCHEZ has officially been confirmed as a Manchester United player – but did Jose Mourinho leak a clue to the signing six months ago? Sanchez finally completed his move from Manchester United to Arsenal, putting an end to one of the biggest transfer sagas in Premier League history, at 6pm on Monday. The deal, which sees Henrikh Mkhitaryan move ...

Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan went to Arsenal in the exchange, landing Sanchez at Old Trafford. “I am thrilled to be joining the biggest club in the world,” Sanchez said in a news release from the club. “I have spent three-and-a-half wonderful years at Arsenal and I bring with me very positive memories of that great club and its fans. The chance to ...

Tens of thousands of Liberians have witnessed the swearing-in of George Weah as the new president of Liberia, at a packed stadium on the outskirts of Monrovia. A former international football legend, George Weah replaces Africa’s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. It’s Liberia’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Also present are heads of state ...

The Gambia’s former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who left the country a year ago after two decades in power, has been accused of many crimes. But one of the strangest was forcing thousands of people with HIV to undergo treatment with a concoction of herbs he had invented himself. An unknown number died, reports Colin Freeman. As the first person in ...

Recent developments in artificial intelligence mean men will not have to wait very long to bring home a “robot wife”, said David Levy. The top robotics expert claims people will legally be able to marry their robotic lovers by 2050, in his book Love and Sex with Robots. The synopsis reads: “The book [is] about how increasing innovation in robotic ...

A pilot was taken off a flight from Gatwick Airport after fears were raised he was drunk. The British Airways flight to Mauritius on Thursday was delayed and the pilot replaced, BA said. An airline source told The Sun: “Cops rushed on to the plane and headed straight for the cockpit. The first officer was cuffed and led away.” A ...

A Nigeria woman gave birth on board a flight after she went into labour a week earlier than her delivery date. Toyin Ogundipe delivered her son, Jake, in mid-air about 35,000 feet above sea level. The 41-year-old and her daughter, 4, were aboard an Air France flight heading to New York. She is a banker resident in the United Kingdom ...

Exiled Zimbabwe opposition leader Roy Bennett and four other people were killed in a helicopter crash in a remote northern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico, officials and his political party said on Thursday. The crash of a private Huey helicopter in rugged terrain near Raton, New Mexico, on Wednesday evening killed Bennett, 60, along with his wife, ...

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday he does not know if he will seek re-election in 2019 and the decision is personal and also for Nigerians. Buhari, 75, was speaking in a radio interview. He was elected in 2015 but spent much of 2017 in Britain being treated for an undisclosed ailment that left him visibly ...