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Records are made to be broken, but not usually by such an absurd margin. In a U-20 World Cup match between Norway and Honduras, 18-year-old Erling Braut Håland scored a "hat trick of hat tricks," netting nine goals in 83 minutes (he scored his first in the seventh minute) to shatter the previous record for goals in a match at the tournament; the previous record was six. Norway's 12-goal margin of victory is also a record for the U-20 World Cup. Håland's (which can also be spelled Haaland) nine were part of a 12-0 thrashing that Norway put on the CONCACAF squad, in a match it had to win to advance to the Round of 16 (it did). While Håland isn't a particularly well-known prospect on the international stage, he's not completely under the radar, either. Håland currently plays for Austrian power Red Bull Salzburg, having previously broken out at Norwegian side Molde, where he was coached by current Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, among oth

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday. Kim Hyok Chol was executed at Mirim Airport in Pyongyang, along with four foreign ministry executives, in March after they were all charged with spying for the United States, the Chosun Ilbo reported, citing an unidentified North Korean source. "He was accused of spying for the United States for poorly reporting on the negotiations without properly grasping U.S. intentions," the source was quoted as saying. The summit in Hanoi, the second between Kim Jong Un and Trump, failed to reach a deal because of conflicts over U.S. calls for complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and North Korean demands for sanctions relief. Kim Yong Chol, Kim Jong Un's right-hand man and the counterpart of U.S. Secretary of

Trump attacks Mueller as a 'true never-Trumper' after admitting for first time that Russia helped elect him President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked special counsel Robert Mueller while speaking to reporters outside the White House, calling him a "true never-Trumper" and saying that he never should've been tapped as special counsel. "I think Mueller is a true never-Trumper," the president said. Trump's comments came one day after Mueller's first public remarks on his nearly two-year Russia investigation. Mueller said on Wednesday that if his team "had confidence that (Trump) clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so." Earlier Thursday, Trump tweeted that he had "nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected." But he walked back that statement while speaking to reporters shortly after the tweet, saying that "Russia did not help me get elected." "I helped me get elected," Tru

A Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on Thursday ruled that Senator Ademola Adeleke was qualified to contest the September 2018 governorship election. It was reportes that the three-man panel of the court made the pronouncement in a unanimous judgment which upheld the appeals by Adeleke and his party, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Justice Emmanuel Agim, who read the lead judgment of the Court of Appeal, awarded the cost of N3m against the plaintiffs who instituted the suit before the FCT High Court — Wahab Raheem and Adam Habeeb — who were respondents to the appeals filed by Adeleke and the PDP. Adeleke’s and his party’s appeals had challenged the April 2, 2019 judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, which had declared Adeleke ineligible to contest the election on the grounds that he forged his secondary school credentials submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission in 2018. A judge at the FCT Hi

Mr Babajide Sanwo Olu, Governor of Lagos State whilr reading the inaugural speech, earlier today The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has identified Traffic Management andTransportation as one of the cardinal programmes of his administration as captured in the administration’s T.H.E.M.E.S pillars for the development of the State. The acronym T.H.E.M.E.S represents Traffic Management and Transportation, Health and Environment, Education and Technology, Making Lagos a 21st Century Economy, Entertainment and Tourism as well as Security and Governance. The Governor who made the declaration during his inaugural speech stated that operations of all modes of transportation in the State would be harnessed with a view to addressing challenges in the sector and ease traffic gridlocks in all areas. Towards the achievement of this framework, Sanwo-Olu said further that “Traffic Management and Transportation” is planned to implement the transport masterplan that will full

After days in detention, a court in Lagos has granted musician, Naira Marley bail.   Naira Marley   The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi has granted bail to Nigerian Musician Azeez Fashola.   His bail came more than 7 days after he was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.   At the resumed bail application, his lead defense counsel Olalekan Ojo for the singer apologized for his absence at the initial arraignment on May 20 due to heavy down poor.   Ojo urged the court to accept the bail application Prima Facie based on the presumption of his innocence in accordance with Section 162 (1)   The defense also pleaded that a liberal approach is taken in hearing the bail application.   The prosecution counsel, led by Rotimi Oyedepo, however, argued that it is not the temporary release of the singer that mattered but the final judgment.   He, therefore, urged the court to grant accelerated hearing rather than bail.  

Former U.S. President Barack Obama spoke Tuesday morning at a marketing and business conference in Colombia, and it’s no surprise that, as an avid sports fan, he waded into one of the big sports stories in South America for the past decade: Lionel Messi and the World Cup. “Even people that we consider geniuses work with other people in order to develop their style,” Obama said at the EXMA Conference, via Diario AS. “In Argentina, even though Messi is wonderful, they have problems winning the World Cup. “My advice to young people is that we have to recognize very few people achieve great things on their own.” Obama’s comments come on the back of Messi absorbing a lot of anger and rage for Argentina’s failure to win a World Cup during his career. Since making his international debut in 2015, Messi and Argentina have failed to win both the World Cup and Copa America, coming in as runners-up in Russia in 2014, and in South America in 2004, 2007, 2015 and 2016. Messi, always the bri