Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has yet to commit his future to the Premier League club despite the Swede saying he has fulfilled the requirements needed to extend his contract. The 35-year-old has silenced critics who suggested he may struggle to adapt to the pace and intensity of the English game, scoring 20 goals since moving to Old Trafford from Paris St Germain on a free transfer in July.
Day: February 13, 2017
It’s A Dirty Job, But IWK Does It Without Fail
By Nurul Halawati Mohamad Azhari KUALA LUMPUR — Every day, Malaysians use an average of 65 litres of water a day, which will ultimately become sewage water that needs to be treated by Indah Water. Has anyone ever wondered what happens to the sewage water from their bath, laundry and other domestic chores? Imagine what would happen if the sewage was left untreated.
Penarth Acoustic Club welcome Whiskey River Boys for first performance
PENARTH Acoustic Club returns on Friday, February 17, for their first session of 2017 and will welcome back Irish troubadour Wayne Brennan, poet Stephen Payne and welcome for the first time at the club, the Whiskey River Boys. Wayne Brennan is a singer/songwriter and recording artist from Offaly, Ireland.
Berlin Connects Refugees With Locals for Market Training, Movie Screenings
The festival is living up to its reputation as the most socially conscious annual film event. Says one refugee: “Here is safety and you can live in peace.”
BRIEF-Ipsen acquires a portfolio of select consumer healthcare products from Sanofi
TOKYO, Feb 13 Asian stocks rallied to 1-1/2-year highs on Monday, helped by renewed hopes over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax reform plans, generally upbeat global economic data and a rebound in some commodities.
Regus Davao’s sales surpassed by 90%
DAMOSA Land Inc.’s service office spaces, Regus Davao, surpassed its sales targets, beyond what was expected since it opened last September 8, 2016. Regus itself is in 3,000 locations worldwide in 120 countries and has 25 locations in the Philippines of which 21 are in Metro Manila.
Price freeze on petroleum products takes effect in quake-hit Surigao
THE Department of Energy said that it is imposing “price freeze” on petroleum products in earthquake-hit Surigao province. This as Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi ordered the concerned agencies to ensure “adequate, reliable and secure” supply of energy and to “execute fair pricing of petroleum products,” such as gasoline, diesel, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas .
La Salle stuns Tay Tung for NBTC reg’l crown
REIGNING champion Bacolod Tay Tung High School forgot to play defense and University of St. La Salle capitalized on that miscue to take the title of the National Basketball Training Center Regional Championships with a 90-79 stunner at the Natalio G. Velez gym in Silay City Monday, February 13. The win gave the Ryan Nabor-mentored La Sallians the ticket to the national finals on March 13 to 16, 2017 at Mall of Asia Arena. BTTHS, which dominated the Bacolod Leg and were eyeing for a repeat, lived and died with center Miggy Corteza while USLS had a good shooting percentage from the perimeter and the arc and worked hard on defense.
NZ-SA
South Africa travel to New Zealand for almost a month-and-half long tour. The teams will lock horns for a Twenty20 International , five One-Day Internationals and three Tests.
UN to hold urgent meeting on North Korea missile launch
The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting today on North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch after a request by the United States, Japan and South Korea. North Korea launched the missile into international waters early on Sunday, its maiden test of the year and the first since Donald Trump assumed the US presidency.
75,000 evacuated to defuse WWII bomb in Greece
Military personnel of the Hellenic Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team stand at the site of the bomb in Kordelio. Pic/AFP Thessaloniki: Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki evacuated an estimated 75,000 people yesterday so army experts could defuse a 227-kg unexploded World War II bomb found under a gas station.
PMA closed; public advised not to panic
BAGUIO. A PMA security officer stand on guard at the main gate of the academy following its closure after the termination of peace talks by President Rodrigo Duterte with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front .
Energreen to complete diesel plant in March
ENERGREEN Development Corp. has announced that its four-unit diesel generator plant located in Barangay Calumangan, Bago City will operate on its 26-megawatt full capacity this coming March. David Tan, executive director of Energeen, said in a press briefing Saturday, that they will supply the Central Negros Electric Cooperative 18.9 megawatts for peak load at P7.50 per kilowatt hour based on their 15-year contract that will expire in 2032.
Didn’t remember how she got in driver’s seat
When police found a 50-year-old woman sitting in a car in Lurgan they discovered she was very intoxicated, Craigavon Magistrates Court heard last Friday. For being drunk in charge of a vehicle with excess alcohol in her breath she was fined 250 and given ten points.
Had to be taken to the ground and restrained
After he was arrested for disorderly behaviour a 24-year-old man struggled with police and had to be restrained with handcuffs. Mark James Devlin, whose address was given to the court as Moorefield, Banbridge, admitted using disorderly behaviour at Scarva Street, Loughbrickland, on November 5 last year.
Clean-up call as scheme starts
There has been a call to clean up graffiti around Shillington’s Quay as a 2.6million public realm scheme gets set to start in Portadown town centre today . DUP councillor Darryn Causby said that in recent months there had been a dramatic increase in the amount of graffiti around the town, but in particular by the River Bann.
Council tax payers to face further hikes as Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service proposes rise
COUNCIL tax payers could continue to face hikes in their bills as Staffordshire Fire bosses look to save A 4.8m in the next three years. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Authority is set to agree at a meeting on Wednesday to raise its council tax precept by 1.75 per cent from April.
Turkmenistan’s leader wins presidential election
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov garnered nearly 97.7 percent of the vote in the gas-rich Central Asian nation, Election Commission chairman Gulmurat Muradov told reporters. Muradov said the results from Sunday’s election are preliminary and that election authorities still have to count ballots cast in Turkmenistan’s embassies abroad.
Trump moves spark Iraqi anger, calls against future alliance
Reverberations from President Donald Trump’s travel ban and other stances are threatening to undermine future U.S.-Iraqi security cooperation, rattling a key alliance that over the past two years has slowly beaten back the Islamic State group. Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has sought to contain any backlash from public anger sparked by Trump’s executive order banning Iraqis from traveling to the U.S. Also breeding resentment and suspicion are Trump’s repeated statements that the Americans should have taken Iraq’s oil and his hard line against Iran, a close ally of al-Abadi’s government.
Roadside bomb kills 3 paramilitary soldiers in NW Pakistan
Pakistan’s military says a roadside bomb attack has killed three paramilitary soldiers in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border. A military statement Monday said the three men were wounded during a search and cordon operation in the Zarmilan area late Sunday night and later died at a hospital.
Nobel laureate visits Dornsife’s speaker series
Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, commenting on society’s most basic structural elements, said that “the rules of property and modern conventions have ancient origins.” Commerce has existed since prehistoric times, and even primitive tribes increased their economic wealth through methods like specialization.