Sports - Louis van Gaal troubled with Premier League's stacked festive timetable as the Manchester United manager confronts choice issue ahead of Stoke City clash on Tuesday.

Directing just 13 matches in his initial four months in control, Louis van Gaal has now left on a run of nine games in 36 days that will shape his debut season at Manchester United.

The games come thick and quick with Stoke City next at Old Trafford on Tuesday and the Dutchman has some enormous choices to make — most strikingly whether Robin van Persie ought to keep his spot with Radamel Falcao back on his feet.

For a Mangaer who has based his whole career on careful preparation, Van Gaal is condemning of the unbalanced fixtures.

‘I’m not happy but I cannot change it,’ Van Gaal said. ‘I don’t agree with it because I don’t think that it is good for the players that they play another match within two days. In December, it shall be like that.

‘We also have families. I also have a wife and kids and grandchildren and I cannot see them this Christmas.

'But I want to work in the Premier League, I have to adapt and I shall adapt. But I don’t think it is good for players, neither for the families.’ At least United go into their hectic period in a Champions League spot after a run of one defeat in eight games.

United's circumstance has been downsized from worst to bad despite the fact that Angel di Maria tweaked a hamstring and would be on the stands during the Stoke fixture alongside Luke Shaw, Daley Blind, Rafael and Phil Jones, while Wayne Rooney, James Wilson and Jonny Evans must be evaluated.

Rooney hobbled off at full-time after kicks to his calf and knee but has informed his manager that he is prepared to play.

On the bright side, Michael Carrick, Marcos Rojo and Falcao all came back from injuries with the reappearance of the £265,000-a-week Colombian giving Van Gaal a real choice difficulty.

Van Persie reacted to recent criticism by setting up Rooney for united's second goal and scored the team's third goal himself, however Van Gaal insisted that the striker's performance could improved.

Van Gaal is restless to see what Falcao can do with United as he needs to choose by April whether to sign the Monaco loanee on a parmanent basis.

‘Because I played with two strikers on Saturday I needed Falcao on the bench,’ said Van Gaal. ‘But it was not normal because he was not fit to play 90 minutes but for 20 minutes. Now, I can use him because he has trained for a full week with the first team.’

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Bizarre - Indian brothers murder sister over pregnancy.

Police on friday said that An eight months pregnant teenager was allegedly strangled to death by her two brothers and her body thrown into the Ganges canal in the Uttar Pradesh city of Meerut in a suspected honour killing.

According to the Hastinapour police station office-in-charge P.K. Singh, the recovery of the 19 year old's body from the canal brough this incident to light.

The victim was allegedly having an affair with a man from the same village. When she fell sick her parents took to a doctor who confirmed that she was eight-months pregnant.

Sports - 62 year old Mickey Rourke wins exhibition Boxing match.

Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke has won an exhibition boxing match in Moscow after fighting for the first time in 20 years. The 62 years old wrestler star defeated a 29 years old former California Golden Gloves champion - Elliot Seymour.

Rourke sent Seymour to the canvas twice in the second round before the referee stopped the fight. The Oscar nominated actor was an amateur boxer before featuring in Hollywood movies such as 9 1/2 Weeks which increased his popularity.

The organisers of the match said the boxers were receiving "large amounts of money" in fees but refused giving details on the exact amount. Rourke before the fighted expressed happiness as he, in his words thanked God for letting him fight. When asked about his motivation to fight again he declined answering, but told Russian TV boxing had "sort of saved me from myself".

Seymour is ranked 256th in the United States and before the fight with Rourke had one knockout and nine losses in 10 bouts. Rourke returned to boxing as a professional in the 1990s and was undefeated in eight fights, with six wins and two draws. However he suffered a number of facial injuries, which required surgery and changed his appearance.

In 2008 Rourke won a Bafta and Golden Globe for his role in the film The Wrestler, which told the tale of a former wrestling professional who decided to return to the sport. Is he trying to replay his movie role in real life ?, well , who knows ?.

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World News - Many fear dead as bomb blast rocks Mosque in Kano State, Nigeria

An explosion tore through the central mosque in Nigeria’s second-largest city on Friday, and officials feared the casualty toll would be high.

Capt. Ikechukwu Eze said the Friday blast occurred at the main mosque in the city of Kano. Hundreds had gathered to listen to a sermon in a region terrorized by attacks from the militant group Boko Haram.

Witnesses say heavy smoke could be seen in the sky from a long distance away. Immediately after the blasts, hundreds of angry youths took to the streets in riots, throwing stones,hitting with sticks and shouting at security officials. The palace of the Emir of Kano is near the central mosque. Palace officials said that the Emir, one of the highest ranking Islamic figures in Nigeria, is currently out of the country.

The militant group Boko Haram has carried out numerous of these form of attacks in northern Nigeria and Kano has been repeatedly hit. In September, two suicide bombers killed at least 15 students at a government college. In July, five suicide bombings were carried out over the course of a week. More than 1,500 have been killed this year in the insurgency.

Meanwhile, a police anti-bomb squad defused six bombs planted near a mosque and a market in Maiduguri on Friday, according to Borno state Police spokesman Gideon Jubrin.

Fears are running high in Maiduguri after two female suicide bombers detonated explosives on Tuesday at a commercial center. At least 70 people were killed.

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World News - India still searching for 39 workers abducted in Iraq

On Friday, India said it was still searching for 39 construction workers abducted in Iraq in June, denying a report claiming they had been executed by the Islamic State group.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj families of the workers, despite not knowing the whereabouts of the men who were rounded up by jihadists in Mosul city.

In a speech to parliament, Swaraj said six sources based in Iraq had assured her that the workers were still alive.
“At least six sources have told us they have not been killed. We have not got any proof of this but then there is no proof either that they are dead,” she told parliament amid uproar from opposition MPs over the report.

TV network ABP News late Thursday quoted two Bangladeshi workers who claimed the jihadists had executed all 39 Indians.
The Bangladeshis, who had also been kidnapped but were later released, claimed to have spoken with one of the Indians who escaped from the jihadists and who witnessed the killings.

“We have not been able to establish direct contact with the hostages. But I urge everyone not to accept reports of their deaths,” Swaraj told the upper house. “The Bangladeshi nationals who are being quoted in reports are not eye-witnesses… We will continue with our search even if there is just one percent chance of them being alive. “Our efforts to find them are on day and night.”

Freed in july, were 46 Indian nurses also trapped in the conflict, but there has been no breakthrough in the search for the construction workers, who are mostly from poor families in Punjab and Haryana states. The jihadists have carried out a series of mass executions and other atrocities against locals and foreigners since June.

Iraqi security forces wilted under the initial onslaught, but are now backed by US-led air strikes, international advisers, Shiite militiamen and Sunni tribes, and have begun to claw back some areas. But three key cities — Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah — are still in militant hands, as are a number of villages and other areas.

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World News - US hostage moved by Qeada militants ahead of Yemen raid.

Al-Qaeda militants holding an American journalist in Yemen moved him and two other foreign hostages just days before a raid to free him, a Yemeni defence ministry website said.

The journalist as well as a British national and a South African are among several hostages held by Al-Qaeda in the violence-wracked country, according to the ministry's 26Sep.net news website.

On Tuesday, Yemeni special forces, said to have been backed by US commandos, raided an Al-Qaeda hideout in Hajr As-Saghir, in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, to free the captives.

The ministry website reported late Wednesday that hours before the raid the militants moved the American journalist, the Briton and the South African. A Yemeni hostage and a fifth person believed to be Turkish were also moved, said the report, quoting a member of the Yemeni special forces who had spoken to one of the freed hostages.

The special forces member was identified as Abu Maruf, but the website provided no further details or official confirmation.

The report, quoting American and Yemeni officials, said on Wednesday that US Special Operations commandos carried out a raid with Yemeni troops to try to free the American captive.

"But when the commandos swooped in on the mountain cave where they believed the American was being held, they found eight other hostages, including six Yemenis, but not the American," it said.

The newspaper added that it had initially withheld the information "at the request of the Obama adminstration," out of concern for the safety of the American hostage.

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Tech - Phone App Makes eye testing seem like just taking a Photograph

Ever Heard of star trek Tricorder?, that my friend is where smartphones of this recent times are heading to And with the development of PEEK (an acronym for Portable Eye Examination Kit), I think it has almost gotten to its destination.

PEEK is a project lead by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in conjunction with other medical organizations that hope to bring better medical care to the third world. It's currently being tested on 5,000 people in Kenya who might not have access to an eye doctor. The app uses the smartphone's camera to scan the eye for cataracts and activates the camera flash to scan the back of the eye for disease. It uses a shrinking letter on the screen to conduct eye exams in the field. track of patients progress are stored on the smartphone, as the GPS chip also store information about their location during the test.

Although things are looking promising, The product is only in the trial stage. The research team says that results of an on-going study on the PEEk's eye test have been encouraging, and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness calls PEEK "a huge game changer." if this really interests you, you can contact the PEEK website to try it your self or join the "Test Team".

In recent times, we've seen apps come out that can do everything from scanning your body for skin cancer to monitoring your heart rate. Don't get carried away. Even though your phone now does a lot of things that your doctor does, your phone is not and never will be your doctor. But, i still think we are heading to the times where we could ask " Hey phone, what the hell is wrong with me".

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Health - First Ebola Vaccine Trial from GSK and NIAID Seems to work.

Doctors have reported on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine that the first test of Ebola vaccine in people show that it is safe and appears to be working as anticipated.

A look at the first 20 people injected with the vaccine, which has been shown to protect monkeys from Ebola, shows no dangerous side effects. And it seems to be producing an immune response that would be expected to protect them from infection.

The trial, which began on Sept. 2 will have the volunteers monitored for 48 weeks, this is primarily aimed at assessing how safe the vaccine is. But the immune response offered hope that it would also be effective.

"This response is very comparable to the level of the response that actually protected the animals," said Dr. Tony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which helped develop and test the vaccine. He also stated that The safety profile  for the test is encouraging, as is the finding that the higher dose of vaccine induced an immune response quite comparable to that which has completely protected (lab) animals from Ebola.

NIAID is working with vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline to develop this vaccine, which uses a common cold virus called an adenovirus that normally infects chimpanzees. It does not cause any symptoms in people. It is genetically engineered with a small piece of Ebola virus and, in theory, should enable the immune system's ability to recognize and attack Ebola.

"Based on these positive results from the first human trial of this candidate vaccine, we are continuing our accelerated plan for larger trials to determine if the vaccine is efficacious in preventing Ebola infection," Fauci said.

The worst side-effect was a brief fever in two volunteers who got a high dose of the vaccine."That is not unexpected with some vaccines. In fact you get that with a lot of different vaccines," Fauci said. It doesn't mean anything harmful has happened but shows the immune system has been stimulated. He also ensured to state that the fever was very transient andI lasted less than 24 hours."

Ebola is raging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. more than 15,000 people are infected and 5,000 of them killed. Experts have fast-tracked vaccines and treatments for Ebola because of the epidemic, even though they know they won't be able to use them any time soon to try to control it.

The World Health Organization says 588 health care workers have been infected with Ebola and 337 have died of it. The hope is to be able to make enough vaccine to at least protect health care workers fighting the epidemic.

The same vaccine is being tested at the University of Maryland, in Britain and in Mali. A trial 
of an Ebola vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is scheduled to start in January. Another GlaxoSmithKline vaccine, against the Zaire strain, is undergoing safety trials in England, Mali and Switzerland, 

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Scandal - Mother of 6 commits adultery in church.

An angry husband in Osun State, Nigeria, who caught his wife having sex with their pastor's son right inside the church, would have been charged with double murders as the adulterous duo managed to escape before he could lay his hands on a Weapon.

The man, Olabisi Afolayan, has however, dragged his wife, Folasade, to a divorce court, pleading with the court to dissolve the marriage with a 20 years duration and 5 kids, as he could no longer take the shame she has brought upon himself and his family.

Afolayan told the court that he could no longer condone her "undiscriminating sexual behavior", insisting that his wife is loose,he also states that in 2003 she also ran away with a man, abandoning her matrimonial home for four years. Narrating his ordeal in tears, Afolayan said:

"The cause of our problem is her adulterous ways and she causes problems for me because she once ran away with another man in 2003 and I did not find her until 2007.

By the time she came back, I had married another wife. Attempts at reconciliation were

made but I refused. She invited the police to harass my second wife until she ran away. 

She once told me that she wanted to go and buy bread, and that was how she disappeared for three days. I also came back from work one day and was told she was not around; I later heard her voice and traced her to a church near our house.

When I got there, I found my wife and the pastor’s son having sex. I went to get a cutlass, but before I came back, they had fled. I want the court to know that I am not the father of our sixth child and I am not responsible for the pregnancy she is carrying."

But in her defense, Folasade denied the allegations against her, saying her husband is only trying to dodge fending for his children. Here is what she had to say:

"We have six children and not five and we have been married for 20 years, but we have never lived together because of constant fightings."

Really, what do you think about this man and wife...Leave your comments below.

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World News - Islamic State militants stone gay men to death in Syria.

The Islamic State group stoned two men to death in Syria Tuesday after claiming they were gay, a monitor said, in the jihadist organisation’s first executions for alleged homosexuality.

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“The IS today stoned to death a man that it said was gay,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that the victim was around 20 years old.

He was killed in Mayadeen in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, near the border with Iraq.
The Britain-based Observatory said IS claimed it found videos on his mobile phone showing him “practising indecent acts with males”. 

In a separate incident on Tuesday, an 18-year-old was also stoned to death in Deir Ezzor city after the group said he was gay, the Observatory said. 

Activists on social media said that the dead men were opponents of IS and that the group had used the allegation as a pretext to kill them.

The United Nations said this month the IS had carried out several executions by stoning of women in Syria it accused of adultery.

The jihadists proclaimed a “caliphate” in June after seizing swathes of Iraq and Syria. Activists say IS carries out regular public executions — often beheadings — in areas it controls.

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World News - Chaos in Ferguson After Grand Jury does not indict in Micheal Brown's Case.

Thousands of people rallied in US cities including Los Angeles and New York to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.

World News - US Defence Secretary to Step Down

US President Barack Obama has accepted the resignation of Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel after serving in the pententagon position for two years.

According to US media, Hagel was pressured by Obama to quit, as Pentagon embarks on a new strategy to deal with the Islamic State in Iraq and ISIL.

Announcing the resignation of the defence secretary, flanked by Hagel and Vice president Joe Biden  Obama describe Hagel as "Examplary",  Calling him critical to a number of national security accomplishments during his tenure, and characterized Hagel's resignation as his own choice.

"If there's one thing I know about Chuck it is that he does not make this or any decision lightly," Obama said from the State Dining Room. He was sure to tell that decision does not come easily to Hagel.

The US president said he was "extraordinary lucky" to have Mr Hagel by his side as defence secretary and praised him for forging a strong bond with US troops.

However, Arizona Sen. John McCain, the expected incoming chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said on local Arizona radio station KFYI 550's "The Mike Broomhead Show" that he spoke with Hagel last week and the Defense secretary was "frustrated."'

Hagel's departure has been rumored to be coming for weeks, and as recently as last week he dodged questions about his continued tenure at the Pentagon.

"First of all, I serve at the pleasure of the President," Hagel told PBS, asked whether he'd continue in the position. "I'm immensely grateful for the opportunity I've had the last two years to work every day for the country and for the men and women who serve this country. I don't get up in the morning and worry about my job. It's not unusual by the way, to change teams at different times."

Pressed on whether he felt he still had Obama's confidence, Hagel said, "Well, I don't think I would be here if I didn't. But you'd have to ask him that. I mean I see him all the time."

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#security Nigeria - Prison break in kogi state.

It is no longer news that Nigerian prisons have a very weak infrastructure. coupled with the the Boko Haram insurgents  in the country, a kogi state prison had144 inmates broken out and 1 inmate killed. 

The operation carried by supposed Boko Haram Gunmen yesterday being d 2nd of November a on the  Koton-Karfe federal prison in Kogi State, setting 144 inmates free. 1 inmate was reportedly killed during the break out. Reports from the prison state that 12 inmates who fled the prison have been re-arrested.

National police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu earlier of the prison attack said that there was the use of dynamite(s) in the operation.

The federal prison is said to hold Boko Haram fighters but Ojukwu insists that the attack was a mere criminal activity that isn't linked to the insurgents.

Picture from france24