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Have you ever wondered how much it would cost for your kid to be a Premier League Mascot? Or how easy it is as a Nigerian for your kid to be a mascot? For most Premier League Clubs your child would need to join a supporter club as a 'junior member'. Arsenal, for example, charge a yearly fee of £25 (₦11,550). Mascots are then chosen at random from the pool of Junior Gunners to be a match day mascot. Therefore, unless you live in the UK or are wealthy enough to fly your child to the UK at short notice in time for a match, it's not easy!

What about costs? See below how much your football club would charge for your kid to be a mascot:



West Ham United £700 (₦320,000)

Leicester City £600 (₦275,000)

Tottenham Hotspur £405 (₦185,000)

Wolves £395 (₦180,000)

Crystal Palace £375 (₦175,000)

Brighton £350 (₦160,000)

Burnley £300 (₦140,000)

Fulham £270 (₦125,000)

Cardiff City £255 (₦118,000)

Watford £250 (₦115,000)

Bournemouth £185 (₦85,000)

FREE:

Arsenal, Everton, Chelsea, Huddersfield, Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Newcastle United and Southampton.

Logicalincrements.com to check various prices of different PC builds. The main advantage of building your own is that you have full control over the quality of parts. Pre-built will often skimp on certain things (e.g. an unbranded power supply. Works out cheaper building yourself too.

He was possibly killed by his own to while trying to stop other soldiers from fleeing. It is a common but sad fact from many past wars that soldiers will choose self preservation and an officer will die by 'friendly fire'. It even happened with the Americans many times in Vietnam when officers were too over-zealous.

An Italian football supporter has died of his injuries after being knocked down by a van amid violence ahead of a match in Milan against Napoli.

The 35 year-old man, who was with a group of Inter Milan fans, was taken to hospital in the northern city on Wednesday evening but died in hospital.

The clashes took place not far from Milan's San Siro stadium before a Serie A game.

Four Napoli fans were hurt and one of them was stabbed, police said.

What happened before match?

The clashes took place in a street a few minutes' walk from the San Siro stadium, reports said.

Around 10 minivans carrying Napoli supporters arrived around an hour before the match and evaded police security checks near the stadium.

The vans were surrounded by more than 100 people armed with sticks. Two people appeared to be knocked over, and one of them taken to hospital with critical injuries.

The man who died has been described as an "ultra" from the town of Varese to the north of Milan who was given a ban six years ago for his part in clashes at another Inter match. Italian reports named the victim as Daniele Belardinelli, aged 35.

It is unclear how he was knocked down.

Police told reporters he had not been hit by a minivan from Naples and that they were studying CCTV footage of a dark SUV at the scene.

What have police said?

At a news conference on Thursday, city police chief Marcello Cardona said he would seek to ban Inter fans travelling to away matches.

He was also seeking a five-game closure of a section of the San Siro stadium known as the Curve that hosts the Inter ultras.

Three Inter fans were arrested over the clashes that took place ahead of the game, he said.

What happened inside San Siro?

Tensions were high inside the stadium as well, where Napoli boss Carlo Ancelotti accused Inter Milan fans of repeated racist chanting.

Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly, who was sent off, had been targeted to such an extent, said Ancelotti, that the coach had asked three times for the match to be suspended.

Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala apologised for the fans' abuse of Koulibaly, saying, "Those boos against Koulibaly were a disgrace."

Napoli and Inter are second and third respectively in Serie A, some way behind Juventus.

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted that in 2018 "you cannot die for a game of football".

He promised to convene a meeting of supporters' leaders from the two top flights of Italian football to ensure that "stadiums and the areas surrounding them become a place of fun not violence".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46692182

More amazing pics. What are those crazy oyinbos doing? All it takes is one flying rock.

More photos from aftermath of earthquake.

Finally, see this amazing picture of the island of Sicily from the International Space Station. Etna can clearly be seen.

An earthquake of 4.8 on the Richter Scale also hit parts of Sicily.

More Pics from the Port of Riposto.

More pictures:

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake has hit Sicily around Europe's most active volcano Mount Etna, injuring at least two people, Italian media report.

Some buildings were reportedly damaged in what was the latest in dozens of tremors since Etna erupted on Monday.

Volcanic ash had earlier covered nearby villages, and flights to and from Catania airport had to be halted temporarily.

People on the mountainside were told to escape quickly.

The earthquake struck at 03:19 local time (02:19 GMT) on Wednesday near the municipality of Viagrande.

Italian media report panic among local residents, many of whom ran out into the streets.

There were also reports of buildings shaking in Catania, a city of more than 300,000 people.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46683091


First two pictures are from Catania.

Update:

A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with a string of drone sightings which brought Gatwick Airport to a standstill.

Sussex Police said the pair were arrested in the area at about 22:00 GMT on Friday.

Flights were grounded for more than a day after drones were seen near the runway.

Investigations into "criminal use of drones" continued, police said, as they appealed to the public for information.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46657505

A video appearing to show the murder of one of two tourists killed in Morocco is almost certainly real, Norwegian police have concluded.

The bodies of university students Maren Ueland and Louisa Vesterager Jespersen were found on Monday near a popular tourist spot in the Atlas mountains.

The men in the video claim the murders were in revenge for events in Syria.

Police say four men arrested this week appeared in a separate propaganda video recorded before the murders.

Nine further arrests were made on Thursday and Friday for "suspected links to the perpetrators of the terrorist act", Moroccan officials said.

The women's bodies were flown from the Moroccan city of Casablanca to Denmark on Friday.

Who were the victims?


Ms Jespersen, who was 24 and from Denmark, and 28-year-old Norwegian Ms Ueland had been studying outdoor activities at the University of Southeastern Norway.

They had arrived on a month-long holiday in Morocco on 9 December and had travelled to the foothills of Mount Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak, 10km (6 miles) from the tourist village of Imlil, south of Marrakesh.

Their bodies were found in their tent.

Both women had taken full precautions ahead of their trip, Maren Ueland's mother said.

Thousands of Moroccans are expected to pay tribute to the women on Saturday, in a vigil outside the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Rabat.

Why the videos are significant

A video apparently showing the beheading of one of the women was shared on social media by supporters of so-called Islamic State, and Norwegian authorities said on Friday that while it still had to be analysed further, it seemed genuine.

"So far, there is nothing concrete to show that this video is not real," the crime investigation service Kripos said in a statement.

In the video, the killer is heard saying: "This is in revenge for our brothers in Hajin," a reference to a town in eastern Syria lost by so-called Islamic State (IS) to US-backed forces this week.

After that video was circulated, a second low-quality video emerged showing four men in front of a flag claiming to be IS supporters.

Moroccan authorities have told Norwegian police that the four men in detention are the same men who appeared in the second video.

Prosecutors say the video was recorded last week, before the murders.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46645348


Pics below show victims, Morocco police operations and the three suspects.

A two-year-old British boy has been left infertile after surgeons operated on the wrong testicle, his family says.

The boy was admitted to Bristol Royal Hospital for Children earlier in the week to treat an undescended testicle.

He had one healthy testicle and one that did not function. His father said surgeons operated on the wrong one by mistake and have "castrated him".

University Hospitals Bristol has apologised and said it has launched a serious incident investigation.

The boy's father, whose name has not been used to protect his son's identity, said his son's undescended testicle was discovered during a routine check up.

The toddler boy was referred to a specialist and on Monday he was booked in for an operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

'No more tears'

The family said they were told it was "just a minimal operation" with "minimal risk" and it would be over in around 30 minutes

"We were waiting and waiting," his father said.

"After two and a half hours the manager, surgeons and consultants they came and I knew something was not right.

"Me and my wife started panicking, they called us into the office and told us things didn't go right and the operation wasn't a success."
Image caption The operation took place at the Bristol Children's Hospital

The couple said they were told a surgeon had mistakenly inserted a camera "into the wrong side" and now their son's healthy testicle would "never work".

"I was very distressed, it was an awful disaster for a simple operation they destroyed everything and they ruined my son," his father said.

"They castrated him and now my son's future life has dramatically changed."

The boy's mother said it was "absolutely horrible" what the surgeons had done.

"They broke my heart and they basically destroyed his future," she said.

"I can't find the words to explain how I'm feeling - there are no words. Even tears, I have no more tears.

"We just hope for a miracle, this is what we hope."

'Deeply sorry'

In a statement, University Hospitals Bristol apologised saying it was "deeply sorry".

"As soon as our staff members realised what had happened, they met with the family, told them what happened, and apologised again at that point," a spokesperson said.

"I would like to re-iterate that we take patient safety extremely seriously here and also the quality of our clinical care.

"As a result, a serious incident investigation has been launched. We will keep the family informed and involved in this process."

It is estimated that about one in 25 boys are born with undescended testicles, according to NHS online.

Around one in 100 boys has testicles that stay undescended unless treated.

The NHS said the "relatively straightforward" operation to move testicles into the correct position in the scrotum has a "good success rate".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-46634002

Army deploys anti-drone technology and thwarts another attack today. See pics to see how they did it.

Update:

Gatwick has finally reopened but drone operator is still at large. There are rumours that the chaos was caused by an environmental activist.

stalwart123:
Are these aerial pictures not from the drones too or the watchtower?

Aerial pics are probably taken from a plane a while ago, just give some context of the airport.

Looking at the OP's post history, it is almost 100% Tecno posts. Clearly works for them! I wonder if Nairaland get anything for this ad.

How have passengers been affected?

About 10,000 passengers were affected overnight on Wednesday and Gatwick said 110,000 people were due to either take off or land at the airport on Thursday.

Incoming planes were diverted to other airports including London Heathrow, Luton, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, Glasgow, Paris and Amsterdam.

Crowds of travellers spent the morning waiting inside Gatwick's terminal for updates, while others reported being stuck on grounded planes for hours.


Airports and drones: The law

In the UK it is illegal to fly a drone within 1km of an airport or airfield boundary and flying above 400ft (120m) - which increases the risk of a collision with a manned aircraft - is also banned.

Endangering the safety of an aircraft is a criminal offence which can carry a prison sentence of five years.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46640033



Pictures below. More chaos as police board Cape Verde bound plane to quell passenger unruliness. Pilot waits impatiently for news.

What happened?

The shutdown started just after 21:00 on Wednesday when two drones were spotted flying "over the perimeter fence and into where the runway operates from".

The runway briefly reopened at 03:01 on Thursday but was closed again about 45 minutes later due to "a further sighting of drones".

The airport said at about 12:00 a drone had been spotted "in the last hour".

Gatwick chief operating officer Chris Woodroofe said: "The police are looking for the operator and that is the way to disable the drone."

He said police had not wanted to shoot the devices down because of the risk from stray bullets.

He said it remained unsafe to reopen the airport after the drone had been spotted too close to the runway.

Mr Woodroofe added: "If we were to reopen today we will first repatriate passengers who are in the wrong place which could take several days."

The police operation

More than 20 police units from two forces are searching for the perpetrator, who could face up to five years in jail.

Supt Justin Burtenshaw, head of armed policing for Sussex and Surrey, described attempts to catch whoever was controlling the drones as "painstaking" because it was "a difficult and challenging thing to locate them".

"Each time we believe we get close to the operator, the drone disappears; when we look to reopen the airfield, the drone reappears," he said.

The British Army has deployed "specialist equipment" to Gatwick Airport as the travel chaos caused by drone activity shows no sign of abating.

It comes as Easyjet has cancelled all of its flights from Gatwick for the rest of the day.

The airline, the biggest operator at the airport, said there was "no indication" when Gatwick would reopen.

Tens of thousands of passengers on several airlines have been disrupted by drones flying over the airport.

In a tweet, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson had confirmed the military deployment.

He said: "The armed forces have a range of unique capabilities and this isn't something we would usually deploy but we are there to assist and do everything we can so that they are in a position to open the airport at the earliest opportunity."

Officials from various government departments have been meeting and the prime minister is being kept informed.

Theresa May's spokesman said: "This is a serious incident, it's causing widespread disruption for passengers.

"The intention, obviously, is that it should be brought to a close as soon as possible."

Sussex Police said the drone activity was not terror-related but was a "deliberate act" of disruption, using "industrial specification" drones.

Gatwick chief executive Stewart Wingate agreed it was a "highly targeted activity" and added: "It cannot be right that drones can close a vital part of our national infrastructure in this way. This is obviously a relatively new technology and we need to think through together the right solutions to make sure it cannot happen again."

He is still "not in a position to say when it will be safe to reopen the airport".

About 110,000 passengers on 760 flights were due to fly on Thursday, but 633 flights were cancelled.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: "We'll do everything we can to ensure that if Gatwick is not open again quickly that we can get [passengers] away from other airports."

He could not confirm whether the perpetrators were close to being caught but added: "There's a huge amount of effort going on - we've got up-to-date technology, we've brought special technology into Gatwick to try and track this down."

UK police won't shoot down drones because of the danger of 'STRAY BULLETS'. Chai! When will be the day that Nigerian security forces use such guidance??

ps. OP - Saying 'photo' on title when all we have is a stock picture of a drone is a bit misleading :/

Pics below: Sniper team ready but ordered not to fire + passenger misery.

Update 2: STRASBOURG MARKET ATTACKER SHOT DEAD

French police have shot dead the man who attacked Strasbourg's Christmas market on Tuesday, the interior minister has said.

A police unit came across Cherif Chekatt in a Strasbourg street and shot him after he opened fire.

Three people have died following the shooting at the market and several more were seriously injured.

Chekatt, 29, had a string of criminal convictions in France and Germany and had become a radical Islamist in jail.


How was Chekatt found?

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said three police officers had spotted a man matching Chekatt's description on rue du Lazaret, in the Neudorf area of Strasbourg at 21:00 local time (20:00 GMT).

As the police moved to stop him, the suspect turned round and opened fire. They fired back and "neutralised" the attacker, said Mr Castaner, who later went to the scene.

Hundreds of French police and security forces had been searching for Chekatt.

A large police operation had taken place in Neudorf earlier on Thursday, but ended apparently without results.

Five people have been arrested in connection with the attack. They include Cherif Chekatt's parents and two of his brothers.

Strasbourg mayor Roland Ries said that finding Chekatt meant the worried people of his city would now be able to return to a normal life.

Mr Castaner thanked security forces in a tweet:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46561574

UPDATE:

Suspect still on the run

Police in the French city of Strasbourg have carried out a security operation in the district of Neudorf as they continue their hunt for the gunman who attacked a Christmas market on Tuesday.

Cherif Chekatt, 29, has been on the run since the attack, which left three people dead and many more injured.

He was dropped off in Neudorf by a taxi which he commandeered to leave the city centre.

Hundreds of police are hunting for him in France and Germany.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46555705

Not very well explained by the OP. The reason it is so disliked because it heavily features non youtube celebrities at the expense of actual top 10 Youtubers.

The Man Utd youth team is full of 'Nigerians': Michael Elechi, Ademipo Odubeko, Ayodeji Sotona and Shola Shoretire

Although comparing the size of Ademipo Odubeko to his oyinbo teammate below, this guy has to be a true Nigerian. I wonder how old he really is?

Look how well that worked out for Zimbabwe. From bread-basket to its current state.

'Weary and deflated'


Strasbourg's famous Christmas market is now a gloomy place.

The lines of wooden huts are all shuttered. The owner of one told us how he had to flee when he heard the gunshots and take shelter in a local bar. "We're all shaken up," he said.

At this time of year, the place should be thronged with people who come from far and wide to sightsee and shop, buying everything from hot sausages to souvenirs. Now there's a weary, deflated feeling. Police stand guard at cordoned off alleyways.

"Everyone was shouting, everyone was running, running, afraid," said one eyewitness who'd seen the gunman shooting randomly.

Strasbourg has been a target for failed terror attacks before. But now it's happened, people here are hurt and outraged. As one said: "It's shameful."


What about the victims?

Thai media have named Anupong Suebsamarn, 45, as one of the dead. He is believed to have been on holiday with his wife.

Not much else is known yet, apart from the fact no children were hurt and one soldier was slightly injured by a ricocheting bullet.

Why is Strasbourg a target?

Strasbourg has been the target of jihadist plots in the past.

Not only does it have one of France's oldest Christmas markets, but it is the official seat of the European Parliament. That parliament was in session at the time of Tuesday evening's attack.

In 2000, the Christmas market was at the centre of a failed al-Qaeda plot. Ten Islamist militants were jailed four years later for their part in the planned New Year's Eve attack.

Security has been tight there ever since the 2015 Paris attacks.

However, MEPs were determined to carry on the morning after the attack, with German MEP Jo Leinen posting a picture of singing and Christmas lights in the European Parliament.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46535552

1st Picture: People take refuge in stadium