FOOTBALL: MANCHESTER CITY SIGN BVB IKAY GUNDOGAN

Pep Guardiola makes his first buy in Manchester City signing Borussia Dortmund's midfielder Ikay Gundogan on a four-year long deal for £21m.

See Gundogan's official statement after the cut

 'I’m thrilled to have signed for Manchester City.When I learned of City's interest my heart was set on coming here and things have moved very quickly. 

 'I have loved my time with Borussia Dortmund and I would like to thank the club and the supporters for the five very happy years I spent there. They gave me a platform to play on and I became a better player because of the belief, patience and trust they showed in me.Now I have a new challenge and that is to achieve great things with City. The opportunity to work with a coach like Pep Guardiola is something I am really looking forward to and I am flattered to be the first signing the club has made this summer.

'I can promise the City fans I will give everything to help us win titles both in England and the Champions League. These are exciting times.

I have my best years ahead of me and I think we can achieve great things together. I can’t wait to begin this new chapter in my career.'

He shared the post on his FB timeline

source: lindaikejisblog

Cuase Of Prince's Death Revealed...

The music legend died of opioid overdose.

Read the exclusive report from TMZ after the cut

"Prince died from an opioid overdose ... it's now official from the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office, and the drug is even more powerful than Percocet.

The M.E. performed toxicology tests on the singer and determined the singer died of an accidental overdose of Fentanyl -- a powerful synthetic opiate that is more potent than morphine ... often used for cancer patients to deal with severe pain.

Fentanyl is a very strong opiate used to treat cancer patients who aren't responsive to Percocet and morphine.

Reports had it Prince was either HIV+ or cancer.

RIP PRINCE!

KUWTK Exes: Tyga set to launch his own reality show featuring some Kardashian exes... Hustle!!

Tyga is not letting go that easily... Gotta profit from being around for a while.

Sources tells In Touch

      "He's trying to launch his own reality              show called Tyga's den. He's promising        potential appearances by Scott Disick    and Lamar Odom" and that's left the Kardashians furious. 

U.S.A: New York: Couples discover decomposing corpse in there newly rented apartment

Couples from Bronx, New York were led to a decomposing body wrapped in plastic and sheets in a cupboard in their newly rented apartment with a note apparently left by the killer that reads:
"sorry for the smell"
The decomposing body was later confirmed to be 64 year-old Sidney Harris; he lives in the apartment.
The apartment was only rented to the couples when nobody knew of his (Harris) whereabout.
A neighbour of Harris said he thought Harris went to the hospital.
Preliminary report suggests he died from multiple skull fracture.
A murder investigation is underway.

SPORT AND BUSINESS: FC BARCELONA STAR NEYMAR PICTURES WITH FORMER NBA STAR AND LIVING LEGEND MICHAEL JORDAN

FC Barcelona footballer Neymar Jnr (left) and former Chicago bulls Star and NBA living legend Michael Jordan(right) just recently teamed up to produce a new line of nike football boot.

INDIA: CRIME: NIGERIAN MAN ARRESTED IN INDIA FOR ALLEGEDLY RAPING A LADY AT KNIFE-POINT...

Nigerian man KK(not real name) arrested in Goa, India for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 31-year old lady at knife-point.
KK was arrested while on his way out of Goa in a train meanwhile his accomplice's still on the run from the Police.
KK has reportedly been arrested before on charges of rioting and overstaying in India in 2012.

As per the complaint, the woman was travelling towards Parra, on her bike. She was waved down by two Nigerians. When she halted, one of the two men sat on her bike, asking her at the knife-point to travel to his room.

The frightened woman rode to his room at Assagao where the Nigerian raped her.

The police have filed a case under sections 365, 506, 342, 376 of the Indian Penal Code.

The rape had caused outrage in the state, with Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar accusing Nigerians of trying to deceive the Indian legal system and committing crimes on purpose to prolong their stay in the country, using the judicial process as cover.

source: lindaikejisblog

ERRMM!: Incredible family includes 7ft Bear who sits at dinner table, helps with household chores and even cuddles

Russians, Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko adopted 23 year old Stepan, a 7ft tall and 21 stone bear and have domesticated him, and just like any ordinary family member, Stepan eats at the dinner table, watches TV with his parents, cuddles and does his fair share of household chores.

According to the bear's 'parents' his favorite meal is milk and he loves football
They also say he is extremely gentle and can often be found cuddling up to them on the sofa.

Svetlana said: "Stepan likes nothing more than to cuddle up with us on the sofa at night while we're watching television.

"When we adopted him, he was only three-months-old and had been found by hunters in the forest having lost his mother."He was in a very bad condition. 

"He absolutely loves people and is a really sociable bear – despite what people might think, he is not aggressive at all.We have never been bitten by Stepan. 

"He's got so many talents and loves a picnic. "It's a wonder he doesn't eat us out of house and home."

More photos...

source: lindaikejisblog

RUSSIA: 120-year-old woman claims she's the world's oldest person alive

A great-grandmother named Tanzilya Bisembeyeva, who lives with her family in the village of Alcha in Krasny Yar district, Astrakhan, southern Russia and has celebrated her 120th birthday, claims she is the world's oldest living person.

Bisembeyeva who survived the Russian Revolution, World War I, World War II and two husbands, is said to have been born in 1896. If her claims are true, she beats the current Guinness World Record holder, Italian Emma Morano, by more than three years. She lived her whole life in the region she was born, worked in the fields for 60 years and currently depends on a small pension...

source: lindaikejisblog

U.S.A: Killing of gorilla to save 4-year-od boy at Ohio zoo sparks outrage, over 2,000 people sign a petition

The killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday after a 4-year-old boy tumbled into the ape's enclosure triggered outrage and questions about safety, but zoo officials called the decision to use lethal force a tough but necessary choice, Reuters report.

Over 2,000 people signed a petition on Change.org that sharply criticized the Cincinnati Police Department and the zoo for putting down the animal and called for the child's parents to be "held accountable for their actions of not supervising their child."

Cincinnati police on Sunday said the parents had not been charged, but that charges could eventually be sought by the Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Authorities did not identify the child or his parents. The family could not be reached on Sunday. A Facebook page titled "Justice for Harambe" had more than 3,000 likes by Sunday afternoon, a day after the 400-pound (181-kg) gorilla was shot dead about 10 minutes after encountering and dragging the child.

The animal, named Harambe, was a Western lowland gorilla, an endangered species, and the zoo said it had intended to use him for breeding.

"If we think it's acceptable to kill a gorilla who has done nothing wrong, I don't think our city should have gorillas," Manvinder Singh posted on the Facebook page.

A blog post on the website for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals questioned why it was necessary to kill the gorilla and whether zoos could meet the needs of such animals.

"A 17-year-old gorilla named Harambe is dead, and a child is in the hospital. Why?" blogger Jennifer O'Connor wrote. "Western lowland gorillas are gentle animals. They don't attack unless they're provoked."

Witnesses told local television that the boy repeatedly expressed a desire to join the gorilla in the zoo habitat. Moments later, the boy crawled through a barrier and fell about 12 feet (3.7-meters) into a moat surrounding the habitat, where Harambe grabbed him, zoo officials said.

It was the first time in the 38-year history of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden's gorilla exhibit that an unauthorized person was able to get into the enclosure, zoo president Thane Maynard said on Saturday.

"They made a tough choice and they made the right choice because they saved that little boy's life," he said, adding that a member of the zoo's Dangerous Animal Response Team fired the shot that killed the ape.

Maynard said the team decided to use deadly force instead of tranquilizers to subdue the gorilla because it could have taken some time for the drug to take effect when an animal was in agitated state.

The child was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Hospital officials, citing privacy laws, declined to say on Sunday whether the child had been released or to disclose any details about his injuries.

The Cincinnati zoo was open on Sunday, although Gorilla World was expected to be closed indefinitely. Neither the zoo nor the fire department responded to a request for comment.

source: lindaikejisblog

MEXICO: Kidnapped Mexican footballer Alan Pulido released after 24hours, meets state governor

A Mexican football star, Alana Pulido who was kidnapped in Mexico on Saturday night has been rescued by authorities, according to state officials. Pulido was rescued shortly before midnight Sunday in "a city operation in conjunction with the federal government," according to a statement from the Tamaulipas government. 

25 year old Pulido plays for Olympiacos in Greece and was rescued shortly before midnight Sunday in "a city operation in conjunction with the federal government," according to a statement from the Tamaulipas government.

Family members told authorities that six armed men snatched Pulido around dawn in his home town of Ciudad Victoria in the northwest of the country.

Military and police forces had been searching for the 25-year-old in Tamaulipas, which shares a border with the US.

"I'm good, I'm good, thank you," Alan Pulido with an injured hand,said as he faced reporters alongside the governor of Mexico's Tamaulipas state, Egidio Torre Cantú, in a video posted on Twitter.

"Pulido is currently being medically evaluated and more details on the rescue operation will be sent out later," the statement said.