Celtic and Rangers continued their shootout at the top of the Scottish Premiership thrashing Ross County and Hearts respectively on Sunday.
Just one goal separates the Glasgow giants as Celtic won 4-1 in the Highlands for a 10th straight victory, then Rangers responded with a 5-0 hammering of managerless Hearts at Ibrox.
Celtic midfielder Ryan Christie took his tally for the season to 15 with a first half brace either side of Ross Stewart’s leveller for County.
Tom Rogic then made it 3-1 as his deflected effort found the bottom corner 23 minutes from time.
US superstar Mikaela Shiffrin won the women’s alpine World Cup slalom at Killington Sunday in dominant style, beating Slovkian Petra Vlhova by 2.29 seconds.
Shiffrin, the three-time overall World Cup champion, took a stranglehold on the race in the opening leg, flying down an icy course in front of delighted home fans in Vermont in 51.98sec — 1.13sec faster than Vlhova.
Shiffrin’s second run of 58.47sec was more than enough for victory with a total time of 1:50.45 as Vlhova clocked 59.63 to take second in 1:52.74.
Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson delivered a superb second run of 58.38 to take …
A passenger bus plunged off a bridge onto a frozen river in Siberia on Sunday, killing 19 of the more than 40 people on board, authorities said.
A tyre on the bus burst as it was crossing the bridge over the Kuenga river in eastern Siberia’s Zabaikalsky region.
The vehicle, which was travelling from Sretensk to Chita and carried 40 passengers, skidded off the road and onto the ice.
“Nineteen people died and 21 received various injuries,” the office of the governor of the Zabaikalsky region said in a statement.
Two preschool-aged children were reportedly among the dead.
National television …
There was a major crack among the country’s opposition political parties on Sunday after 55 national chairmen of political parties rejected the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) call for the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
The PDP had last Thursday asked the INEC chief to resign over statements allegedly credited to two INEC Commissioners; Festus Okoye and Haruna Mohammed, that the “card readers were circumvented” in elections conducted by the Commission.
The party, in a statement issued on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the statements were admissions that …
The pair were set to meet on Sunday evening at Stade Louis II, but will now face off at a later date after the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes in southeastern France were issued with a red alert for rain and floods.
The red level is the highest in the French meteorological scale, and indicates that “hazardous phenomena of exceptional intensity” are expected, and that members of the public must follow safety instructions issued by the public authorities.
“Following a decision by the
He replaced Ante Covic as Hertha Berlin manager on Wednesday last week but lost his first match 2-1 at home to Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. But the defeat has not dulled Klinsmann’s great feeling about returning to manage a Bundesliga side.
“It was a wonderful feeling, being back, being back in our capital, Berlin, was something special,” Klinsmann who was first appointed
Rangers played the entire second half with a man down after skipper Tope Olusesi was sent off late in the first half.
The Flying Antelopes took the lead in the 28th minute through Ibrahim Olawoyin.
The visitors however rallied back with three goals in the second half.
Mohamed Farouk levelled scores for the Egyptians from the
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has applauded the indictment of Air Peace Chairman, Allen Onyema, in a $21m fraud by the United States of America.
Onyema was indicted by a federal grand jury in the US on November 19 on multiple charges bordering on criminal conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering and faces a jail term of 105 years if found guilty.
MEND posited that the Niger Delta amnesty program was built on a fraudulent foundation from inception, starting with the grossly exaggerated figure of militants put at 30,000, a figure that was a key element …
The sanctions are starting to come in now, the modifications and exceptions; Ring girls have been banned from the Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua Saudi Arabia bout in line with the strict Islamic laws that govern that region.
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It is still unclear if alcohol and booze will be allowed at the venue as Saudi Arabia has been known to be a very closed society prior to this time but the kingdom seems to be welcoming foregners and opening its borders to the world with events such as this.
The bout …
