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Antonio Conte says Chelsea must embrace the challenge of being handed a daunting Champions League tie against Barcelona. Chelsea were pitted with the leaders of LaLiga when the draw for the last 16 took place in Nyon on Monday. “Our reaction must be positive,” said head coach Conte in a news conference ahead of Tuesday’s Premier League meeting with Huddersfield ...

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) is on fire. The cryptocurrency has jumped thousands of dollars in value in the past few weeks, and everyone seems to want to get a piece of that sweet, sweet pie. Including, naturally, cybercriminals. Yes, online crooks are using every trick in the book to exploit the crypto craze. From stealing usernames and passwords to installing malware on ...

FIFA has given all the 32 teams taking part in the 2018 World Cup in Russia January 31, 2018 deadline to decide their bases. The Local Organising Committee General Secretary, Alexey Sorokin, said this on Tuesday, noting that that all the 32 participating teams, including Nigeria, must decide on their World Cup bases by January 31. Super Eagles manager Gernot ...

A court in Egypt has reportedly jailed for two years a singer who appeared in a music video in her underwear while suggestively eating a banana. Shaimaa Ahmed, a 25-year-old known professionally as Shyma, was arrested last month after the video sparked outrage in the conservative country. On Tuesday, she was found guilty of inciting debauchery and publishing an indecent ...

As the popular axiom goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. As present-day internet slang goes … well, the definition is different. Instead, “insane” is a catch-all for any number of adjectives. Ridiculous. Unbelievable. Exciting. Unfair. Incomparable. How else would you describe the pairing of Real Madrid and Paris ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s mistreatment of political prisoners is at least as egregious as that carried out in World War II concentration camps, according to a former international judge who survived Auschwitz. Thomas Buergenthal, a law professor who served for a decade as an International Court of Justice judge, said a new report he helped write documenting atrocities ...

FIFA has fined the Nigeria Football Federation 6,000 Swiss Francs (about N2,177,280) for fielding an ineligible player in a Russia 2018 World Cup qualifying match. The disciplinary committee of the body in a statement on Tuesday said the three-time African champions fielded Shehu Abdullahi who was ineligible for the qualifier against Algeria on November 10, 2017. The committee awarded 3-0 ...

Netflix has defended a tweet that revealed 53 people had watched its new Christmas film every day for 18 days in a row. “Who hurt you?” read the tweet, addressed to them. The tweet caused controversy, with some saying it was “creepy” of the platform to keep such close tabs on its audience, and mock their choices. However, others found ...

REAL MADRID players are reportedly furious at the prospect of the club signing Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea. Real Madrid continue to be linked with a move for Manchester United star De Gea despite missing out on him two years ago. A fee between the two clubs was agreed for the Spain international but, after a faulty fax machine ...

Russian-speaking hackers are suspected of stealing nearly $10m (£7.5m) from 20 companies in Russia, the UK and US. The MoneyTaker group removed overdraft limits on debit cards and took money from cash machines, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Group-IB. It also stole documentation for technology used by more than 200 banks in the US and Latin America. The ...