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West Ham won their first major European trophy since 1965 with a 2-1 win over Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday, 7 June, 2023. Jarrod Bowen’s dramatic 90th-minute goal secured the win for West Ham. It is the club’s second European trophy after they won the now defunct Cup Winners’ Cup 58 years ago with a team including England World Cup heroes Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst. Bowen picked up a superb through ball from Lucas Paqueta, before sending a low shot past a helpless Pietro Terracciano in the Fiorentina goal. “We had a dream, we haven’t…
America’s Got Talent Season 5 winner, Michael Grimm, has been hospitalized and sedated following a mystery illness last week. The blues musician is holed up in intensive care as of Wednesday morning, according to his wife Lucie Zolcerva-Grimm. Taking to Instagram, Lucie shared an update with fans about Grimm’s worrying condition. In the clip shared with his 7,000 followers on the platform, Lucie said her husband, 44, was looking “sickly” and was behaving in a “fussy” way. Lucie said Michael, who hails from Mississippi, is finally breathing on his own again but “remains unconscious.” She said that he will be…
Susan Louise Lorincz, a 58-year-old woman accused of shooting and killing her 35-year-old black neighbor, Ajike “AJ” Owens, has been arrested in Marion County, Florida, for manslaughter. Lorincz, a white woman killed Owens, a mother-of-four, over a dispute involving the latter’s children, four days ago. She was charged on Tuesday with manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery, and two counts of assault, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said. “The justice we have all been seeking has been served,” Sheriff Billy Woods said in a video posted Tuesday on social media. The arrest came amid growing pressure from Owens’s family…
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth has revealed how he wants to be remembered when he dies after discovering he is genetically predisposed to Alzheimer’s. The movie star recently lost his grandfather Martin to Alzheimer’s at the age of 83, and spoke to British GQ magazine this week about how he wants to be remembered when it’s his time to go. Hemsworth said he was touched to hear people talking fondly about Martin at his funeral, and hopes the same will happen for him when he dies. “My uncle specifically said, “he’s remembered as a good bloke”. And if he knew, or…
Egyptian authorities have banned Dutch archaeologists from the country after an exhibition was launched which portrays black American singers, comedians, and musicians as the rulers of ancient Egypt. Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in Leiden were condemned by the authorities in Cairo following the launch of their exhibition titled ‘Kemet’. Kemet, which means ‘black land’, explores the ancient civilization through jazz, soul, and funk music to show the ‘significance of ancient Egypt and Nubia in the work of musicians from the African diaspora’. The exhibition shows a number of black American stars as popular historical Egyptian figures. READ ALSO:…
A Nigerian man named Cyril Kenneth, who is studying in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has been arrested for allegedly trying to date and have ‘sexual relations’ with minors. Cyril Kenneth was apprehended after some people found out he was having sexual conversations with their 15 year old niece. The Nigerian man who arrived the country in February this year, said he started chatting with the 15 year old and other teenage girls because he needed friends as he is new in the country. He also claimed he was asking them the sex-related questions so as to guide and advise them not…
A state funeral has been held in Tuesday, for a 3-year-old Palestinian who died days after he was shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. 3-year-old Muhammad Haitham al-Tamimi is the latest victim of spiraling bloodshed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has prompted fears of a return to full-scale fighting. Since the start of 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 156 Palestinians across Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. About half of the casualties were civilians, including 26 children, according to media tallies. At least 21 Israeli nationals, a Ukrainian and an Italian have been killed in…
A civil trial involving American actor Cuba Gooding Jr. and a woman who accused him of raping her in a New York City hotel a decade ago, began on Tuesday, 6 June. Gooding Jr., however, denied the accusation and said it was consensual after the two met at a nearby restaurant. The trial was scheduled to begin with jury selection in Manhattan federal court as the Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star confronts allegations that he met the woman in Manhattan, persuaded her to join him at a hotel, and convinced her to stop at his room so he could change clothing.…
The Russian-installed administration of Kherson region in Ukraine, has commenced evacuation in three districts – Nova Kakhovka, Golo Pristan and Oleshky, after a dam blast in one of the districts. The latter two lie across the mouth of the Dnipro River from the Ukrainian-held regional capital, also named Kherson. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from settlements along the southern stretch of Ukraine’s Dnipro River after water burst through the breached Nova Kakhovka dam, submerging streets and town squares. The collapse of the structure at the southern tip of the vast Kakhovka Reservoir unleashed a torrent of water on Tuesday,…
A suicide bomber has killed the acting Governor of an Afghan province, months after the region’s Police chief was killed in a similar attack claimed by the Islamic State group. The bomber drove a car filled with explosives into the vehicle carrying Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi — the Governor of northern Badakhshan, — in the provincial capital Faizabad. Ahmadi, was the deputy Governor before stepping up as acting governor last month. “The target of this attack was the vehicle carrying Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi,” said Muazuddin Ahmadi, the head of culture and information in the province. In August 2021, the Taliban ousted…