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The attacker asked to be taken off at halftime during his side’s win over Marseille on Wednesday, prompting fears that his injury may be a bad one. Paris Saint-Germain coach Unai Emery is hoping Kylian Mbappe has escaped a serious injury after sustaining an ankle knock during Wednesday’s Coupe de France quarter-final win over Marseille. PSG have already been dealt ...

The newly appointed head coach of Kotoko, Paa Kwesi Fabin has decided to drag his former trainee and a media house in Kumasi to court over the bribery accusation the former made against him. The former Asante Kotoko striker, Kwadwo Poku in an exclusive interview with Kumasi-based Silver Fm accused his former boss Paa Kwesi Fabin of taking bribe during ...

A businessman has taken Google to the High Court in London in what is being seen as a landmark case over “the right to be forgotten”. He is challenging Google’s decision not to remove a criminal conviction he has from the 1990s from search results. People can ask for online information to be removed from searches if they feel it ...

A missing Nigerian masterpiece found in a “modest north London flat” has sold for more than £1m at auction. Ben Enwonwu’s 1974 painting of the Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, known as Tutu, became a symbol of reconciliation after Nigeria’s Biafra conflict. The painting, expected to fetch £300,000, sold for £1,205,000 – a record for a modern Nigerian artist. Novelist Ben Okri ...

Germany is investigating a security breach to its defence and interior ministries’ private networks, a government spokesman has confirmed. A notorious Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bear, or APT28, is being widely blamed in German media. They are thought to be behind a number of cyber-attacks on the West, including breaches in the 2016 US election. The hack was ...

 A smartwatch that uses the back of its wearer’s hand as a display is on show at the Mobile World Congress tech expo in Barcelona. The gadget manages to squeeze a projector into the device’s side to offer something unique to the wearable tech market.   Source:BBC Share on: WhatsApp

Scientists say they have observed a signature on the sky from the very first stars to shine in the Universe. They did it with the aid of a small radio telescope in the Australian outback that was tuned to detect the earliest ever evidence for hydrogen. This hydrogen was in a state that could only be explained if it had ...

Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving advisers, is to step down, the administration says. The 29-year-old former model and ex-Trump Organization employee has been by Mr Trump’s side for years. She is reported to have told colleagues she felt she had accomplished all she could in the White House. She is the fourth ...

About 700 churches have been closed down in Rwanda for failing to comply with building regulations and for noise pollution. Most of them are small Pentecostal churches. One mosque was also closed. A government official told the BBC that some of the more than 700 buildings shut down have already reopened after they were approved by inspectors. According to a ...

EDEN HAZARD has reportedly decided not to renew his contract with Chelsea and will instead hold out on a move to Real Madrid. Eden Hazard has long been linked with a switch to the European champions with Zinedine Zidane desperate to bring him to the Bernabeu. Madrid’s disastrous defence of their La Liga title will see club president Florentino Perez ...