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A footballer has been arrested for attacking a referee and appearing to render him unconscious during a match in Brazil.

William Ribeiro, who plays for state-league club Sao Paulo RS, committed the attack while playing against Guarani on Monday.

His team had just fallen a goal behind in the game when he violently kicked official Rodrigo Crivellaro, who was quickly rushed to hospital after being knocked out unconscious.

It remains unclear why Ribeiro lost his cool on the night, with both sets of players forced to restrain him as he booted a helpless Crivellaro in disgusting fashion while he laid on the pitch.

An ambulance quickly drove onto the field and took the referee to hospital in Venancio Aires, near Porto Alegre in southern Brazil.

Fortunately reports emerged later that evening confirming he was conscious while being looked after by doctors at the hospital.
Ribeiro was detained inside the stadium by military police before being driven to the station.

The match between Sao Paulo RS and Guarani was abandoned with half-an-hour still to play and is expected to resume at 5pm on Tuesday.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/ribeiro-arrested-referee-crivellaro-brazil-25139193

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Facebook's hours-long outage on Monday left its nearly 3 billions users unable to connect with each other on the service, and apparently not everyone was content to wait for the social networking giant to work out its problem.

The company behind Telegram, an instant-messaging-app rival to Facebook's Messenger, said Tuesday that it added 70 million users while Facebook was offline Monday, in what Telegram's founder and CEO described as a "record increase in user registration and activity" for the service.

"I am proud of how our team handled the unprecedented growth because Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our users," Pavel Durov wrote on his Telegram channel, adding that the service wasn't without its own hiccups on Monday.

"That said, some users in the Americas may have experienced slower speed than usual as millions of users from these continents rushed to sign up for Telegram at the same time," he added. Released in 2013, Telegram has roughly 500 million monthly users.

Facebook said late Monday that the company believes a "faulty configuration" change caused a widespread outage that lasted roughly six hours.
Rival messaging app Signal also reported Monday that "millions of new people" joined its service on Monday as well.

The massive outage may've cost Facebook more than users; Fortune and Snopes estimate that the world's largest social network lost at least $60 million in revenue after its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, went offline Monday morning.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/telegram-says-it-added-70-million-users-during-facebook-outage/