THIERRY HENRY ATUNDIKA NJUMU
Mshambuliaji wa zamani wa Arsenal na timu ya taifa ya Ufaransa Thierry Henry ametangaza kustaafu kucheza kandanda baada ya miaka 20. Henry, aliyeshinda Kombe la Dunia mwaka 1998, na ambaye amepachika mabao mengi zaidi kwa klabu ya Arsenal, aliondoka klabu ya New York Red Bulls mwezi huu. Kulikuwa na tetesi kuwa huenda angekwenda kuchezea timu nyingine.
"Imekuwa ni safari ya kusisimua," amesema Henry, 37. Thierry Henry sasa anajiunga na kituo cha TV cha Sky Sports kama mchambuzi wa soka. Mfaransa huyo, ambaye pia aliwahi kuichezea Monaco, Juventus na Barcelona, alipachika mabao 175 katika ligi kuu ya England na ni wa nne katika wafungaji bora.
Henry alishinda makombe mawili ya Ligi Kuu ya England, makombe matatu ya FA akiwa na Arsenal aliyoichezea kati ya 1999 hadi 2007.
Aliongeza Kombe la Klabu Bingwa Ulaya akiwa na Barcelona mwaka 2009 na alirejea Arsenal kwa mkopo, wakati akiichezea Red Bulls mwaka 2012.
Rapper J.cole has taken shots at white entertainer who he claims are stealing black craft.
The rapper feels like Eminem, Macklemore and Iggy Azalea who beat Drake and Eminem for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album & Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist at this year’s American Music Awards are the root of the robbery.
In a new song he named Fire Squad, the half cast rapper said: “History repeats itself and that’s just how it goes / Same way that these rappers always bite each other’s flows / Same thing that my ni**a Elvis did with rock ‘n’ roll / Justin Timberlake, Eminem, and then Macklemore,”
INGAWA baadhi ya wanachama wanakomaa kwamba Mbrazili mpya wa Yanga, Emerson Roque, asisajiliwe mpaka watakapojiridhisha na uwezo wake, Kamati ya Usajili imetamka kwamba kiungo huyo yupo kwenye ubora wake.
Viongozi hao wamejiridhisha kwamba mchezaji huyo atakuwa na manufaa baada ya kuangalia video zake ambapo mmoja wao amemfananisha na kiungo wa zamani wa Yanga na Taifa Stars, Athuman Idd Chuji wakati alipokuwa kwenye ubora wake enzi za nyuma.
Emerson aliwasili nchini juzi Jumatano akiwa na kocha wake, Marcio Maximo, ambaye pia anaamini kwamba atafanya vizuri endapo uongozi wa Yanga utajiridhisha katika majaribio yake yatakayomfanya apewe mkataba.
Kigogo mmoja mwenye ushawishi mkubwa kwenye usajili wa Yanga, aliliambia Mwanaspoti kuwa wameona video mbalimbali za mchezaji huyo akiwa na timu alizowahi kuzichezea nchini humo na kutamka kwamba wamepata kiungo mahiri anayestahili kupewa mkataba kuziba nafasi ya Genilson Santos ‘Jaja’.
Jana Alhamisi asubuhi Emerson katika Uwanja wa Shule ya Sekondari Loyola alifanya mazoezi na wenzake, lakini Maximo alimpa mazoezi mepesi ya kukimbia akiwa na Andrey Coutinho ambao walichelewa kuanza mazoezi ya pamoja na wenzao walioanza Jumatatu.
“Emerson ana nafasi kubwa ya kusajiliwa kwani tumeona video za mechi zake alizocheza, ni mchezaji mzuri kama alivyokuwa Chuji enzi za ubora wake, kama ataweza kuendana na mfumo wa ligi yetu pamoja na viwanja basi tutakuwa tumepata mbadala wa Chuji au Domayo,” alisema kiongozi huyo mwenye rekodi za aina yake kwenye uongozi wa Yanga ingawa hapendi kutajwa kwenye vyombo vya habari.
“Sisi hatuangalii mchezaji ametoka wapi, tunachojali ni kiwango cha mchezaji husika na kama kocha amemkubali.”
Kuhusu usajili wa wachezaji wengine aliowapendekeza Maximo, alisema kuwa jana Alhamisi jioni viongozi wa Yanga walitarajia kukutana na kocha huyo ili kujadili mambo mbalimbali ya timu ikiwa ni pamoja na utekelezaji usajili wa wachezaji wa ndani ambao ni viungo Jabir Aziz wa JKT Ruvu na Sabri Makame wa Mgambo Shooting.
“Kocha hajazuia wachezaji kuja kufanya majaribio, ametoa uhuru kwamba kama kuna kiongozi ameona mchezaji mzuri amlete ili ajaribiwe, hivyo hata hao wachezaji wengine wa kigeni kama watakuja hakuna tatizo, watajaribiwa ila nani atakatwa itajulikana baadaye kwani Kiiza (Hamis) hawezi kuachwa ameonyesha kiwango kizuri ila hakujapata nafasi tu,” alisema.
Wachezaji wengine wa kigeni wanaotajwa kuja kufanya majaribio Yanga ni Jonas Sakuwaha kutoka TP Mazembe (Jamhuri ya Congo), Yunus Sentemu kutoka AS Vital (Burundi) na Mohamed Traorre wa El Mereikh (Sudan) ambaye anatajwa kupewa mkataba moja kwa moja bila majaribio.
Mpaka sasa Yanga ina nafasi moja ya kujaza katika wachezaji wa kigeni kwani tayari inao wanne; Kiiza, Coutinho, Mbuyu Twite na Haruna Niyonzima. Yanga inaamini kwamba Emerson ana uwezo wa kukaba kwa nguvu pamoja na kutoa pasi za mabao akiziba pia nafasi ya Domayo aliyetimkia Azam FC.
Wakati hilo likiendelea, Maximo ameliambia Mwanaspoti kuwa katika kutaka kukipima kikosi chake kinachojiandaa na mechi dhidi ya Simba ya Nani Mtani Jembe ya Desemba 13, anataka kupata mechi mbili ngumu za kimataifa.
“Nilishawapa kazi hiyo viongozi, ningependa kutafutiwa mechi zitakazotupatia kipimo kabla ya kucheza na Simba. Desemba 13,”alisema Maximo.
Barcelona Legend Johan Cruyff has rubished claims from former President Joan Laporta that links current Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho and Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo with a move to the Catalan club.
Laporta who is said to be eyeing Barcelona Presidency once again is said to have met super agent Jorge Mendes recently to discuss the issue but according to Cruff, it is highly unlikely.
“I don’t think there’s much to them, they’re just idle comments,” Cruyff told reporters.
“When you talk about something you know nothing about, you end up kicking up a storm for no reason.
“Sport is a game which holds many possibilities, but in this case they are unlikely to be feasible. I don’t imagine that Laporta would bring in Mou and Cristiano.” he concluded.
Uganda Cranes returned to winning ways with a 1-0 win over Ghana in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier in Kampala on Saturday.
The Cranes had lost their last home game to Togo last month. Defender Savio scored the lone goal in the 10 minute with a well taken header off a corner kick.
The win improved Uganda’s chances of qualifying for the the event after missing out since 1978.
Kabugo who was starting his fifth game for the Cranes in the campaign nodded in a well taken Mike Sserunkuma corner kick. Newly appointed Ugandan Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda graced the game as chief guest.
In the absence of injured skipper Asamoah Gyan, the Black Stars who took part in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil lacked a lead player who could plan for the team. Stand in skipper for the Ghana team Andrew Ayew and Christian Atsu failed to go past the Ugandan defenders and were substituted by coach Maxwell Konadu.
The visitors who lead still lead Group E with eight points tried to fight back in the second half, but the home side stood firm. Uganda now moved to seven points before they travel to face Guinea next week in Casablanca, Morocco.
Cranes coach Militin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic told reporters after the game that he was happy with this win and thanks the fans for the support. He however said they now have to plan for next week’s tricky game against Guinea.
The Cranes who last qualified for Afcon in 1978 had five players booked. Skipper Andrew Mwesigwa, Junior Yunus ssentamu, Brian Majwega, Isaac Isinde and Daniel Sserunkuma were all booked. In their first leg clash in Kumasi, Uganda held Ghana to a 1-1 draw.
Team Line Ups
Uganda: Denis Onyango (GK), Isaac Isinde, Brian Majwega, Andrew Mwesigwa (c), Savio Kabugo, Tonny Mawejje, Mike Sserumaga, Farouk Miya, William Luwagga Kizito, Geoffrey Massa and Yunus Sentamu
Ghana: Razak Braimah, Harrison Afful, Baba Rahman,John Boye, Jonathan Mensah Rabiu Mohammed Christian Atsu,Afriyie Acquah, Majeed Waris Agyemang Badu, Andre Ayew
Building three "Great Walls" across Tornado Alley in the US could eliminate the disasters, a physicist says.
They would cost $16bn (£9.6bn) to build but save billions of dollars of damage each year, said Prof Rongjia Tao, of Temple University, Philadelphia.
He unveiled his idea at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver.
However critics say the idea is unworkable, and would create more problems than it solves.
Threat over 'forever'
Every year hundreds of twisters tear through communities in the great north-south corridor between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountain ranges.
The proposed walls would not shelter towns - they would not be strong enough to block a tornado in motion.
Instead, they would soften the clashing streams of hot southern and cold northern air, which form twisters in the first place, Prof Tao said."If we build three east-west great walls, one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma, and the third in the south in Texas and Louisiana, we will diminish the threats in Tornado Alley forever," he said.
As evidence, he points to China - where only three tornadoes were recorded last year, compared to 803 in the US.
China too has flat plain valleys running north-south, but the difference is they are broken up by east-west hill ranges.
Although only a few hundred metres high, they are enough to take the sting out of air currents before they clash, Prof Tao believes.
Hotspot Back in the US, he notes that the flat farmlands of Illinois experience wildly varying risks of twisters.
"Washington County is a tornado hotspot. But just 60 miles (100km) away is Gallatin County, where there is almost no risk," he told BBC News.
"Why? Just look at the map - at Gallatin you have the Shawnee Hills."
These act like a barrier 200-250m (820ft) high, protecting Gallatin, he says.
"We may not have east-west mountain ranges - like the Alps in Europe - we can build walls."
"We've already been doing computer simulations and next we aim to build physical models for testing [in wind tunnels]."
Rather than create an eyesore, the walls could be "attractively" designed, says Prof Tao.
He cites the Comcast skyscraper in Philadelphia - also about 300m high, and built with a reinforced glass exterior.
"Our tornado wall could even be built of glass too. It could be a beautiful landmark," he told BBC News.
"I spoke to some architects and they said it's possible. It would take a few years to finish the walls but we could build them in stages."
Prof Tao has yet to approach government or environmental agencies with his scheme, but the reaction from meteorologists has been highly sceptical.
Harold Brooks, of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, said the great walls "simply wouldn't work".
Facebook's purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp has been opposed by privacy groups.
Mark Zuckerberg's firm is planning to buy the company for around £11bn.Opponents want US regulators to stop the deal until Facebook provides more information on what it plans to do with the personal data of WhatsApp's users.
But Facebook said it will operate as a separate company and honour existing privacy arrangements, which include not collecting user data for advertising.
"WhatsApp built a user-base based on its commitment not to collect user data for advertising revenue," read a complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It was drawn up by two non-profit groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy.
They added: "Users provided detailed personal information to the company including private text to close friends. Facebook routinely makes use of user information for advertising purposes and has made clear that it intends to incorporate the data of WhatsApp users into the user profiling business model.
"The proposed acquisition will therefore violate WhatsApp users' understanding of their exposure to online advertising and constitutes an unfair and deceptive trade practice, subject to investigation by the Federal Trade Commission."
And the groups, which work on research and consumer protection online, asked the regulators to investigate the deal "specifically with regard to the ability of Facebook to access WhatsApp's store of user mobile phone numbers and metadata".
'Insulate'
Facebook, the world's top social network with 1.2 billion users, generates the majority of its revenue by showing ads that target users by age, gender and other traits.
"As we have said repeatedly, WhatsApp will operate as a separate company and will honour its commitments to privacy and security," Facebook said in a statement seen by Reuters.
Facebook announced its intention to buy WhatsApp, which has 450 million users who are able to send instant messages and other media over mobile, with cash and stock.
There is no charge for individual messages, which are sent using wi-fi or data connections, making it cheaper than SMS messaging in many cases. Other users pay around £0.60 per year subscription.
Referring to the business model, Jan Koum wrote on the WhatsApp website: "When people ask us why we charge for WhatsApp, we say, 'Have you considered the alternative?'"
Despite assurances by WhatsApp and Facebook that the privacy policies will not change, the groups noted that Mark Zuckerberg's social networking company has in the past amended an acquired-company's privacy policies.
Notably, it did so with the Instagram photo-sharing service that it bought in 2012.
Regulators must require that Facebook "insulate" WhatsApp user information from access by Facebook's data collection practices, read the complaint, which was dated 6 March 2014.
"WhatsApp users could not reasonably have anticipated that by selecting a pro-privacy messaging service, they would subject their data to Facebook's data collection practices," read the filing.
The FTC will decide whether the acquisition can go ahead and, if so, whether or not conditions should be imposed.
Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt and Booker winner Eleanor Catton are among the novelists longlisted for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
The 2014 nominees include four British writers and seven US authors, as well as novelists from countries including Ireland, Canada and Nigeria.
Judge Helen Fraser called the 20-strong longlist "intensely readable, gripping, intelligent and surprising".
"The judges feel that this is a fantastic selection of books of the highest quality... that you would want to press on your friends, and the judges have been doing just that," said Fraser.
The judging panel, chaired by Fraser, includes Professor Mary Beard, newsreader Sophie Raworth and columnist and author Caitlin Moran.
Tartt's The Goldfinch is her third novel. The American author won international fame with her 1992 debut The Secret History.
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood is longlisted for her fourteenth book, Maddaddam, while New Zealand-born Catton's second novel The Luminaries won the Booker prize in October 2013.
The list also includes two previous Orange Prize winners: Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, shortlisted for Americanah and US author Suzanne Berne, for The Dogs of Littlefield.
Fatima Bhutto, niece of the late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, is longlisted for her debut novel The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon.
Also in the running is The Strangler Vine, the debut novel from MJ Carter, who has previously written biographies under the pseudonym Miranda Carter.
Other debuts on the longlist include Lea Carpenter's Eleven Days, Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, Audrey Magee's The Undertaking and Eimear McBride's A Girl is A Half-Formed Thing.
Last year saw US author AM Homes beat the double Booker-winning author Hilary Mantel to the prize with her satire May We Be Forgiven.
Homes became the fifth American writer in a row to win the £30,000 annual prize. The last British author to win was Rose Tremain, for The Road Home, in 2008.
Liqueur company Baileys took over sponsorship of the award last year. The prize was founded in 1996, and was sponsored by communications company Orange until 2012.
The shortlist will be announced on 7 April, and the winner revealed at London's Royal Festival Hall on 4 June.
And these days, businesses need every weapon at their disposal, as bedroom hackers give way to organised criminal gangs.
This week, US retail giant Target Corporation, which suffered a massive theft of customer data last year, offloaded its chief information officer, Beth Jacob, as part of a major overhaul of its security practices.
Stolen details of about 360 million customer accounts are now available on cyber black markets, according to security firms.
External data leaks affected more than 160 million people in 2012, according to KPMG's Data Loss Barometer, a rise of 40% on the year before.
And hacking accounted for 67% of the data loss by number of incidents.
Small needle, big haystack
"Big data is about pushing the needle out of the haystack irrespective of how big the haystack has become or how small the needle is," said Gordon Harrison, an industry consultant at data analytics specialist SAS.
Haiyan Song, vice-president of security at big data analysis firm Splunk, said analysing reams of data to spot security breaches had become essential because of the changing tactics of the criminals.
Hi-tech thieves have changed their tactics because security companies have got so good at spotting malware. Instead, the bad guys are relying on more subtle tactics and strive to slip inside a company unnoticed.
Big data analysis tools could help pick them out of the crowds of data, said Ms Song.
The 22-year-old from Lincoln and her guide Caroline Powell - who are making their Games debut - clocked one minute 34.28 seconds at Rosa Khutor.
They finished 2.73 seconds behind Slovakia's Henrieta Farkasova and her guide Natalia Subrtova.
Britain's other competitor, Kelly Gallagher, finished in sixth place.
There was drama at the end of the race when Etherington crashed into the hoardings after she crossed the line but after a few anxious moments she got back onto her feet.
"I am delighted with the silver medal, I don't think it's sunk in yet," she told BBC Sport.
"We knew going down that it was a solid run, despite my little jump and crash at the end, but that's all fine and I'm really happy to get down and glad to have that confidence boost for the next four races."
It is Britain's first Winter Paralympic medal since the wheelchair curlers won silver at the Turin Games in 2006 and a first skiing medal since 1994.
Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board. The airline said in a statement that flight MH370 disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday).
It had been expected to land in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT). The plane went off the radar south of Vietnam, according to a statement on the Vietnamese government website. Its last known location was off the country's Ca Mau peninsular although the exact position was not clear, it said.
Malaysia Airlines said it was "currently working with the authorities who have activated their search and rescue team to locate the aircraft".
The Boeing B777-200 aircraft was carrying 227 passengers, including two children, and 12 crew members.
In a brief press conference on Saturday, Malaysia Airlines chief executive Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said the company was still working to establish the location of the plane.
He said the company was "deeply saddened" at the situation and that it would provide regular updates.
Both teams have four points in this year's Six Nations and meet again at Twickenham in World Cup Pool A in 2015.
"We play Wales twice before the World Cup and Wales play Australia [who are also in Pool A] - psychologically there will be things there," Lancaster said.
"It's a big game and we need to make sure we deliver on the field."
England have lost their last three internationals against Wales, who clinched last year's Six Nations title with their highest winning margin against England, a 30-3 triumph at Cardiff.
With two matches remaining in this year's tournament, Ireland and France also have four points, with the Irish team top of the table on points difference.
Lancaster's team recovered from a last-gasp opening 26-24 defeat in France to defeat Scotland 20-0 and Ireland 13-10 and are seeking their first Triple Crown since 2003.
Victory against Wales would also put them in position to win the Six Nations for the first time since 2011, with a visit to Italy in their final match the more favourable of the final fixtures amongst the leading teams. "You use every defeat as motivation on how to improve. We lost to New Zealand in the autumn and that was difficult to take, as was losing to France last month," Lancaster said.
"But we've bounced back from those games and learned, liked we learned from Wales last year. We've moved on since then.
"We respect Wales as opponents, the quality and experience they have and how well they are set up. It will be a tough game, but we're ready.
"All the talking is fine, it's the team that delivers on the day that matters."
The GB team were led by 15-year-old visually impaired skier Millie Knight.
"I call upon all those who experience these Games to have barrier-free minds," said International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven.
"Dreams do come true and, since winning the Games seven years ago, this part of Russia has undergone a monumental transformation.
The Ukraine team only confirmed on Friday morning they would take part in the Games after fears they would boycott the event following Russia's occupation of Crimea.
Ukraine Paralympic Committee president Valeriy Suskevich warned that any escalation of military conflict would result in the team leaving Sochi.
The Ukraine team were only represented in the athletes' parade by their flag-bearer Mykailo Tkachenko, with a number of his team-mates opting not to take part though they were elsewhere in the stadium.
The scenes of the ceremony were linked by the journey of the firebird, a mythical bird from Russian folklore said to be a symbol of wealth and happiness.
Featured performances came from 25-year-old Yulia Samoylova, the runner-up in the Russian version of the X Factor, Faktor A, who has been in a wheelchair since childhood, and blind accordionist Alexey Levchuk.
The show culminated in a huge ice scene, featuring an Icebreaker ship crashing easily through blocks of ice, before a spectacular lighting of the flame.
Sir Philip added: "If London 2012 has its Games Makers, then you the Sochi 2014 athletes, volunteers, officials and staff will be the Change Makers."
The British flag was carried by 15-year-old Mille Knight, making her Paralympic debut as the youngest member of the team, who said of the experience as: "That was the best moment of my life!
"The feeling of coming out of the tunnel is impossible to put into words. When they called out Great Britain, it made the moment real for me.
"Up until that moment, it hadn't sunk in that I was going to lead out my country onto such a huge stage, but tonight has just been amazing. I am so proud to have had this honour - only a few people can say they were a flagbearer and I'm so excited that I'm one of them.
"All my friends and family were watching at home and I just want to thank them for their support over the years."
Action starts on Saturday and runs until Sunday 16 March and the Games will feature 547 athletes from a record 45 countries, with 72 gold medals up for grabs across the five sports - biathlon, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, ice sledge hockey and wheelchair curling.
The event is taking place less than two weeks since the Sochi Winter Olympics closed.
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