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  AC Milan said has announced that investment fund RedBird had completed the acquisition of the Italian champions from rival US group Elliott Management for 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion). Serie A giants Milan said in their statement Major League Baseball giants the New York Yankees will also have a "minority equity stake" in Milan, who won their first Serie A title in 11 years last season, through their owners Yankee Global Enterprises. "We will support our talented players, coaches and staff to deliver success on the pitch," said RedBird's founder Gerry Cardinale in the statement. "We will look to leverage our global sports and media network, our analytics expertise, our track record in sports stadium developments and hospitality to deliver one goal -- maintaining Milan’s place at the summit of European and world football." RedBird's purchase of Milan comes after they bought a minority stake last year in Fenway Sports Group, the owners of Liver...

  Barcelona striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang said on Wednesday his jaw was injured during a violent armed robbery at his home but he expects to recover "in no time". "On Sunday night some violent cowards broke into our home and threatened my family and my children, just to steal some stuff," Aubameyang tweeted. "They injured my jaw but I will recover in no time, and thank God no one else was physically harmed," the 33-year-old added. "The feeling that we are no longer safe in our own home is hard to understand and describe, but as a family, we will overcome this and stand stronger than ever." At least four men broke into Aubameyang's home in Castelldefels, near Barcelona. They entered through the garden, and threatened the player and his wife with guns and iron bars, and hit him, Spanish media reported on Monday. The thieves fled by car after forcing the former Gabon international to open a safe and making off with jewels that were inside, a...

  A UK judge on Wednesday discharged the 11-person jury in the domestic violence case against former Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, after it failed to reach a verdict despite days of deliberations. Judge Hilary Manley dismissed the jury of seven women and four men, which had been given the option of delivering a majority verdict, after determining there was no "realistic prospect" of a decision following almost 23 hours of consideration. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which oversees prosecutions in England and Wales, were given a week to decide whether to retry the case following the four-week trial at Manchester Crown Court. "I have permitted the prosecution a short period of time to consider their position," Manley told Giggs shortly after discharging the jurors, adding "more will be clear in a week's time". The CPS must consider the public interest of a retrial of the 48-year-old former footballer, who until recently served as coach of t...

  Huge Heffner's girlfriends have come forward to say that while they lived in the famous Playboy Mansion, they had to participate in unprotected sex orgies with him otherwise they would be gaslit and not invited back to Heffner's inner circle and lose their privileges. Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt were both part of Huge Heffner's inner circle and they both dated him and were his "main girlfriends,". According to A&E's 10-episode documentary called "Secrets of Playboy," the playmates had a very different perspective and experience than what people perceived living in the famous mansion meant. Furthermore, both Playboy bunnies opened up at a can of worms on Heather McDonald's "Juicy Scoop" podcast by claiming that they had to have unprotected sex with more people "I was still just gonna watch and then [one of the other Playmates] was like, 'Aren't you gonna go?' It was like, 'You need to go.' And I was...

  Meghan Markle has recounted the horrifying moment a fire broke out in her son Archie's nursery while the family were on tour in South Africa. The first episode of Meghan's podcast Archetypes dropped today, August 23. In the podcast, Meghan tells Serena Williams about the horror moment she was told Archie's nursery had caught fire in 2019. Meghan and Harry were visiting the South African township of Nyaga when officials told Meghan "there was a fire in the baby's room". Meghan had just finished giving a speech when she got the news. She and Prince Harry raced home to find their then-nanny - named only as Lauren - in tears. Meghan said: "The moment we landed, we had to drop [Archie] off at this housing unit that they had had us staying in. "He was going to get ready to go down for his nap. "We immediately went to an official engagement in this township called Nyanga, and there was this moment where I'm standing on a tree stump and I'm gi...

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognized Togo as the first country globally to eliminate four Neglected Tropical Diseases. The WHO made this known during its Regional Committee for Africa meeting held in Lomé on Monday, August 22. Between 2011 and 2022, Togo has successfully eliminated dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease), elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis),  human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), and trachoma. NTDs are a group of 20 preventable and treatable diseases, but 1.7 billion people worldwide still require NTD interventions. Many NTDs debilitate, disfigure and disable by preventing children from going to school and adults from being able to work. In a statement by Associate Consultant, Kingsley Ochieng of the Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases, he noted that as the first country acknowledged by WHO as having won its fight against four NTDs, Togo eliminated all four diseases in just eleven years. “Togo previously achieved transmissi...

  Top boxing promoter,  Eddie Hearn has claimed that Anthony Joshua has 'lost faith in the system' after he threw Oleksandr Usyk's world heavyweight titles out of the ring after his rematch defeat last weekend.  Joshua failed to reclaim his WBO, WBA, IBO, and IBF titles to Usyk which he lost in their first encounter last September at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. After losing a split-decision on the judges' scorecards, an emotional AJ  confronted members of Usyk's team and threw his rival's titles out of the ring before conducting a bizarre post-fight speech. Speaking about the incident, Hearn told IFL TV: “He’s held onto those belts for a long time, and those governing bodies have charged him a lot of money and put a lot of mandatories on him.”  “And I think he’s lost a lot of faith in the system and I think he started to not be interested in fighting for belts anymore. I think he just wants to fight for enjoyment and to challenge himself. “Of course, he...