Author: Adewale Ade

Stoke City forward Jon Walters has criticised the Premier League’s jam-packed year-end fixture schedule after his side had to play two away games in four days. Matches come thick and fast in England during the festive period, but whereas some clubs…

Public Safety Canada December 30, 2013 16:12 ET OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Dec. 30, 2013) – The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, today announced that the Government of Canada has listed Boko Haram…

The United States is still investigating last year’s attack on its diplomatic mission in Benghazi but has no evidence that “core Al-Qaeda” leaders directed the assault in which four Americans died, a US official said Monday. State Department spokeswoman…

Prosecutors in Paris on Monday launched a probe into whether a French comedian was guilty of inciting racial hatred by joking about “gas chambers” while talking about a Jewish journalist. Dieudonne, who has drawn controversy over an increasingly copied…

The surge into social networks is gaining pace among Americans, with Facebook dominating but with many people using multiple platforms, a study showed Monday. A Pew Research Center survey found 73 percent of Americans over age 18 on the Internet use…

  Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists Luis Suarez should have been booked for the penalty claim at Stamford Bridge during his sides 2-1 win against Liverpool on Sunday. Mourinho believes the match referee should have booked the Uruguayan striker…

  Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger claims he is relieved to return to the top of the Premier League table. With a 1-0 win at St. James’ Park against Newcastle United, Arsenal acquired the necessary three points required to go back on top of the…

Sunderland have agreed a deal to sign Fiorentina defender Marcos Alonso on loan for the rest of the season. Alonso, who had a previous spell in the Premier League with Bolton, completed a medical with Sunderland on Monday and will officially join up…

I love music, I just can’t play it.  But my lack of musical talent is okay, I enjoy music as a fan.  Concerts are great and I’m always stoked when a band I like releases new music.  I even have a friends who are in bands.  And despite my musical…

President Goodluck Jonathan was on Monday urged to hold talks on the future of Nigeria, as the country prepared to mark the centenary of the unification of north and south. The Movement for New Nigeria (MNN), a civil society group made up of a number…

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead seven people and injured five more in a weekend attack on a wedding party in northeastern Nigeria, police said on Monday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire in the mainly Christian village of Tashan Alade, 230…

Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva on Monday said she was devastated and shocked by two deadly attacks that have rocked her hometown of Volgograd in southern Russia. “It is hard for me to talk now,” Isinbayeva told the ITAR-TASS news…

Britney Spears, in the heels of such performers as Celine Dion and Elton John, late Friday opened a two-year sojourn in Sin City with a dazzling performance to a crowd of adoring fans. The former enfant terrible of US pop wowed some 4,600 fans with…

It’s not hard to imagine the stress and strain Brittany Spears is under. For the past four months, the onetime queen of teen pop has been laboring on her new stage show, Britney: Piece of Me, a two-year, 98-gig residency that kicked off Friday at the…

We’ve written a few times about the wickedly efficient (perhaps most efficient car in the world) Volkswagen XL1. I recently got to see the car over at EVS27 in Barcelona. Of course, I didn’t miss the opportunity to take a video and snap a few pics…

By Philippa Nicole Barr On December 30, 2013 Speech is the one of the most important forms of communication between humans. The internet has opened doors for us to communicate with people across the globe – but the technology often leads to misunderstanding…

The families of Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks appealed Monday against the imminent release of long-serving Palestinian prisoners as part of US-brokered peace talks, media reported. The Supreme Court has always rejected such appeals. Israeli…

The eurozone is finally set to return to growth in 2014 but the single currency bloc may not have put its crisis behind it as efforts to shore up its banks could boomerang. After beating back market panic that the eurozone was set to break up, eurozone…

Perhaps I’m just in a good mood, but this video below is great. Aside from being fun and catchy — and very well produced — the video focuses on the fact that technologies evolve, and uses that as a good way of showing that fossil fuels are way…

There are a ton of reasons why electric cars should be the dominant type of car on our roads, reasons why you should really ditch your gasmobile for one. Some of those reasons would slowly sway portions of the market. But logic doesn’t often prevail…