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© Getty Images Joshua Kimmich Germany.Germany have confirmed their place at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar after a 4-0 victory over North Macedonia.They are the first side to qualify for next year’s tournament other than the hosts, who qualified automatically. A double from Timo Werner, sandwiched between second half goals for Chelsea teammate Kai Havertz and starlet Jamal Musiala, secured Hansi Flick’s side a resounding win in Skopje. It leaves them safely through from UEFA qualifying Group J with an eight-point lead over Romania with two games to play. Elsewhere in European qualifying action, Wales took a vital step forward as they look to secure second in Group E…

Following a break of over 5 years, Big Brother Mzansi viewers will be delighted to hear that the show is returning. According to entertainment blogger and commentator Phil Mphela, Mzansi Magic is working on re-launching the show however auditions have not yet taken place. Mphela’s sources said the fate of the show’s return will be decided upon today, “Multichoice is working on bringing the popular reality show back. Sources have informed me that a final brief on the status of the show’s return will be made today. No official audition channels have been approved yet.” he reports. Following a break…

After R. Kelly was found guilty of sex crimes and racketeering, one would think his music sales would also suffer but in direct contrast, the opposite is happening. The disgraced R&B legend’s music sales have jumped up by 517 percent since a jury delivered a guilty verdict in Kelly’s federal sex crimes case on Sept. 27, the Rolling Stone reported. Audio and video streams for the 54-year-old have also seen a surge of 22% and 23% respectively in comparison to the week before the guilty verdict was announced. Streaming averages this year have been more than those of 2017 before his sexual…

Egyptian Striker Mohamed Salah and Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez have been named on the 30-man shortlist for the men’s 2021 Ballon d’Or award. Salah and Mahrez are the only two African players to contend for the prize handed out by France Football this year. Salah scored 22 league goals last season and has notched six, joint leader with Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy, at the moment this season. He has emerged as one of the most fiercest striker across the globe and drawn comparison with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi who have also been listed. Liberia’s George Weah is the only…

Crested Cranes head coach George Lutalo has summoned a provisional squad of 27 players to start preparations ahead of the forthcoming 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations Qualifiers. Uganda will face Ethiopia at the second qualifying phase with the first leg slated for 20th October 2021 at St. Mary’s Stadium, Kitende. The return leg will then come six days later in Bahir Dar with the winner on aggregate facing either South Sudan or Kenya at the final qualification hurdle. The squad named is largely a composition of the team that played at the just concluded COSAFA Women’s Championship where Uganda…

A US navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to sell nuclear secrets to what they thought was a foreign state. Jonathan Toebbe and his wife Diana were arrested in West Virginia on Saturday, the Justice Department announced. They allegedly tried to sell nuclear submarine design data, hidden in a peanut butter sandwich, to someone they thought represented another country. In fact, it was an undercover FBI agent. According to the statement, Mr Toebbe and his partner – 42 and 45 respectively – have now been charged under the Atomic Energy Act. Mr Toebbe worked in…

Burkina Faso edged closer to clinching the Group A  2022 World Cup play-offs ahead of Algeria after a 2-0 win over ten men Djibouti on Monday. The Stallions maintained their unbeaten run in the group with another convincing win to sit atop. After claiming victory on matchday three, Burkina Faso made it a third win in four games with goals in both half. Issoufou Dayo scored in the  first half to give his side the lead before Abdoul Tapsoba doubled the lead in the 63rd minute. Djibouti were later reduced to 10-men after Aptidon Saad Daher was sent off in…

M Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock View Gallery6 PHOTOS. Cassie Gill SENIOR WEEKEND EDITOR Just two weeks after going Instagram official, ‘RHOC’ alum Meghan King is officially married to Joe Biden’s nephew Cuffe Biden Owens! Congratulations are in order for Cuffe Biden Owens, 42, and Meghan King, 37! President Joe Biden‘s nephew and the Real Housewives of Orange County alum tied the knot in an intimate affair in Pennsylvania on Monday, Oct. 11, BRIDES magazine confirmed. The couple married at the home of Cuffe’s parents in Kennett Square during an “intimate and simple gathering” with “no major frills, no overthinking, [and] no drama” according to the magazine, who also confirmed that…

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct 11 – A maximum of 2,000 spectators can attend a World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Ethiopia in Johannesburg on Tuesday as the republic eases Covid-19 restrictions introduced last year. “The (government) has approved that a limited number of spectators will be allowed back into the stadium,” a national football association statement said. All sport in South Africa was cancelled in March 2020 as the first wave of the coronavirus hit the most industrialised African nation. Play resumed five months later in empty stadiums. The lack of spectators inflicted severe financial hardship on the three most popular…

NEW YORK, USA, 11th October 2021, (PSCU) – President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday held bilateral talks with the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the UN Headquarters in New York. President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday held bilateral talks with the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guteress at the UN Headquarters in New York. The Head was accompanied to the meeting with Mr Guteress by Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the UN Amb Martin Kimani The President, who is in the US on a two-day official visit, and the UN boss discussed several subjects of global importance among them the…