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Swansea City set asking price of £50m for Gylfi Sigurdsson

Swansea City have set an asking price of £50m for Gylfi Sigurdsson after rejecting an offer worth around £40m from Leicester for the midfielder. The Icelan...

Alleged Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A Specifications and Retail Packaging Surface Online

Now, a photo of the Redmi Note 5A box is surfacing on Weibo. Now, we still do not know what spec sheet to expect here, considering no info has been shared by ...

Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE:DBD) Position Cut by UBS Group AG

In terms of Buy, Sell or Hold recommendations, Diebold Nixdorf Inc (NYSE:DBD) has analysts' mean recommendation of 2. Brokerages expect Diebold Nixdorf Inc (N...

Google Doodle honoured Eva Ekeblad - Who Made Alcohol With Potatoes

Born on July 10 1724, Ekeblad was a Swedish scientist, agronomist and Countess. Ekeblad is mainly remembered for her success in extracting starch from potat...

Seth Rollins Confirms WWE 2K18 Is Coming To Nintendo Switch

If you preorder the game you'll be able to play as Kurt Angle. Punch! Bosh! Blart! Wrestling is coming to Nintendo Switch in the six-packed shape of WWE 2K18...

Smart home device alerts New Mexico authorities to alleged assault

Also, a SWAT team and crisis negotiation team arrived to take Barros into custody. The device remains unidentified at the time of this writing - though the repo...

UP youth arrested for terror strikes in Jammu and Kashmir

Bashir Lashkari was recently killed in an encounter with forces. "He was a criminal who later got in touch with Lashkar". Inspector General of Police (IGP),...

Neymar: Paulinho would be welcomed with open arms at Barcelona

Further, the 28-year-old midfielder urged Guangzhou to be "flexible" so as to allow him his dream move. Josep Maria Bartomeu remains locked in talks over a deal...

Tamil Nadu CM Palaniswami Calls New Lankan Law 'a Set Back'

India will play three Tests, five one-day internationals and one T20 in Sri Lanka in eight years. Palaniswami said: "The new Legislation of Sri Lanka was aime...

Pre-race favourite Porte crashes out of Tour de France

It's a blow to Team Sky and Chris Froome, who's bidding to win his fourth Tour crown this year. Organizers said on their official twitter feed that Thomas, wh...

Jon Rahm and Daniel Im share third-round lead at Irish Open

Not many people would have tipped the former Walker Cup player to be the leading light from this island come the end of the tournament but it has been a week to...

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: Final Release Delayed

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds took the world by storm with its free-for-all gameplay where you have to find weapons and gear to be the last man or woman standi...

Players blast courts at Wimbledon for being too slippery

Mladenovic added: 'There was a huge hole on the sides where Pam (Whytcross), the referee, came to actually take pictures of it. "I realized that because at the ...

Aaron Judge Passes Yankees Legend Joe DiMaggio for Rookie Home Runs

It's the first of what will surely be many milestones Judge will reach this season. Only Mark McGwire hit more home runs (33) as a rookie before the All-Star...

Novak Djokovic and Gulbis Meet for the First Time on Grass

He has been gaining momentum on grass, however. Djokovic, seeded two, looked fired up throughout the contest, telling the umpire to "focus" early on after som...

Iraq 'set to announce victory' over Islamic State in Mosul

The channel's correspondents embedded with security forces battling in the Old City. Isis fighters are putting up a fierce resistances with suicide bombers, sni...

Ex-US Intelligence Official: No evidence others besides Russian Federation meddled in election

Sally Yates took to Twitter to say that Donald Trump's "refusal" to believe Russians hacked the United States election might mean it could happen again. A ...

Police stop leaders outside North 24 Parganas

Police said Ganguly and 19 other leaders were detained close to the airport and brought to the airport police station. "Even as the Darjeeling hills were in t...

U.S. to seek new United Nations sanctions after N.Korea 'escalation'

North Korea must refrain from any further provocations that further increase regional and worldwide tensions. Still, some Korean-Canadians say they aren't ra...

Waymo drops most patent claims in vehicle tech fight with Uber

The bulk of Waymo's case is not over patents, but trade secrets. "Waymo's retreat on three of their four patent claims is yet another sign that they have ov...

Nintendo Rules Out Move into PC Publishing

While iconic Nintendo franchises like Mario are already making their way to Android and iOS, don't expect the world's most famous Italian plumber and company ...

Nokia smartphones to feature Zeiss optics

HMD Global's CEO, Arto Numella said, " Collaborating with ZEISS is an important part of our commitment to always deliver the very best experience for our custom...

Only court order can halt Melaye's recall - INEC

The majority of opinion is that the current process when Melaye approached the court should be maintained. The Independent National Electoral Commission , IN...

Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought

In lab tests on Earth, the compounds known as perchlorates killed cultures of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis , a basic life form, a research duo from the Unive...

Knights of the Frozen Throne is Hearthstone's next expansion

A string of assets has since been pulled from its website, however it did showcase the card 'em up's nine heroes with accompanying text that (when loosely trans...

One of the world's biggest ice sheets may soon split from Antarctica

While Sentinel-1 is monitoring the crack in the ice, the CryoSat is tracking the changes in the thickness and height of the iceberg . It's not clear how long i...

Destiny 2 open beta begins on July 18th

All PvP in Destiny 2 and its open beta will pit two teams of four against each other. Character subclasses include the Dawnblade Warlock, Arcstrider Hunter ...

New Jersey election officials reviewing Trump request

Stung by the lack of evidence for this claim, from states with Republican election officials in charge, the president created a 15-person "Election Integrity ...

Naval Chief hosts reception for victorious Pakistan cricket team

PCB recently demanded money due to the losses suffered by the board after the series wasn't played, BCCI though stuck to its guns and said that it could not be ...

Telangana SSC Class 10 Supplementary Results 2017 declared, check yours at bse

The SSC Advanced Supplementary examinations 2017 were held from 5th June to 19th June 2017. Now, Students can check the Telangana 10th Class Supply Results 20...

Chinese police launch probe after Baidu CEO rides in driverless auto

First announced in April , Apollo is an open platform that allows access to the technology behind its autonomous vehicles. In addition to the vehicle manufac...

Shadow of Mordor Update Brings Your Top Nemesis to Shadow of War

You'd defeat a boss, only to see him show up again stronger, more pissed off, and probably immune to whatever trick or strategy you used to defeat him the first...

Sensex Rises 124 Points On Earnings Hopes; Nifty Ends At 9675

After a strong opening, the BSE 30-share index hit 31,460.70 intra-day, before closing at an all-time high of 31,369.34, up 123.78 points, or 0.40 per cent. "...

Horizon Zero Dawn Update Adds Ultra Hard Difficulty, New Game+

Patch 1 .30 adds a number of things, including bug fixes of course, but also New Game+ and an Ultra Hard Mode . In fairly standard fashion, this allows you to ...

Rare Pikachu Coming To Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go is celebrating it's one year anniversary with a brand new event. We'll also note that we correctly predicted that Ash Hat Pikachu would appear i...