France let their opponents do the hard work on their way to winning the World Cup, running less than most teams and enjoying less than 50 per cent possession throughout the tournament, a FIFA technical report showed yesterday. The report…
‘Passengers’ pretend to pay Lagos Uber driver, snatch car at gunpoint (Punch) * Embattled Adeosun leaves Nigeria (Daily Trust)
‘Passengers’ pretend to pay Lagos Uber driver, snatch car at gunpoint (Punch) An operator of a ridesharing service, otherwise known as Uber, is counting his losses after a three-man robbery gang snatched his car at gunpoint while pretending to pay…
11 emaciated children are rescued from a filthy and heavily armed compound (CNN)
The 11 children were so famished, the sheriff said, they “looked like third-world country refugees.” But they weren’t found in an underdeveloped country. They were discovered in a remote New Mexico compound where an underground trailer kept them hidden from…
Mexico stuns Germany in World Cup opener (WSJ)
There has been a growing fear in world soccer that the game was turning into a series of permanent mismatches between the haves and the have-lesses. The haves would dominate possession, grind down opponents and eventually score. The have-lesses would…
US, Canada and Mexico beat Morocco in vote to host 2026 World Cup (Guardian)
The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico after they beat Morocco by a margin of 69 votes to host the tournament which will be expanded to 48 teams for the first time. The…
Yewande Omotoso on Dublin Literary Award 2018 shortlist
Yewande Omotoso’s novel, The Woman Next Door, is among the 10 in the Dublin International Literary Award 2018 shortlist announced April 5. A statement on the organiser’s website said the list includes two novels by Irish authors, The Lesser Bohemians…
