Arsenal: Giroud's great escape Hat-trick inspires incredible away win as Arsenal pip Olympiacos to keep Champions League dream alive

The Frenchman struck a sensational hat-trick in the Gunners' 3-0 win at Olympiacos on Wednesday night to book their place in the last 16 of the Champions League.

Olivier Giroud has been scrutinised and criticised for so much of his Arsenal career, but he delivered when his side needed him more than ever in the Champions League on Wednesday night.

The striker’s hat-trick secured a 3-0 win here at Olympiacos that completed the Gunners’ great escape as they booked a place in the last 16 of the competition for

Arsene Wenger says Norwich player's shove 'could have killed' Arsenal's star man Alexis Sanchez last week

Arsene Wenger believes Norwich defender Ryan Bennett "could have killed" Alexis Sanchez when he pushed him into the Carrow Road camera pit last weekend.

The Chile forward landed heavily in the cameraman's area on the touchline during an incident in the first half and was later forced off with a hamstring injury.

With Sanchez now likely to be sidelined for a number of weeks, Wenger defended his decision to play the 26-year-old in the 1-1 draw against Norwich on Sunday.

Having felt his hamstring after the Champions League victory over Dinamo Zagreb, Wenger said all of the club's medical tests showed he was in peak fitness to start at Carrow Road.

While the Frenchman said he is happy to take the blame for the number of injuries being accrued by his squad - he also pointed to Sanchez being pushed into the camera area as a potential reason for this latest blow and feels it could have been worse for the former Barcelona man.

"First of all it's dangerous to have a camera there," Wenger said.

"He could have killed him. Secondly, he (Bennett) didn't need to push him like he did. I think the camera position was absolutely dangerous.

"When he was pushed into the boards on the side of the field that did not shock anybody. That injury can come from that as well. I'm not expert enough to know but if you want to blame me I'm okay with it."

Bennett tweeted after the match to give his side of the incident, writing: "Genuinely was trying to stop not push Sanchez just to clear that up."

By the time Sanchez then limped out of the contest in the second half, Arsenal had already lost Laurent Koscielny to a hip injury while Santi Cazorla was playing on despite taking a blow to his knee.





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California,San bernardino massacre suspects could have terror links

The radicalized San Bernardino gunman clashed with a Jewish co-worker over religion just two weeks before he and his Pakistani wife stormed an office holiday party where they massacred 14 people.

Syed Farook, 28, got into a heated argument with colleague Nicholas Thalasinos, a Messianic Jew who was identified today as one of the victims of Wednesday’s rampage.

It came as FBI agents discovered a huge arsenal of weapons and pipe

Emmanuel Adebayor still earning £100,000 every week from Tottenham despite not playing since March

Emmanuel Adebayor will pocket a total of £5.25million by the end of June next year earned from not playing for football clubs, if he does not join another side.

Spurs are still paying him £100,000-per-week, which will continue until the end of his contract there, which runs until June 30.

As part of the deal which took him to the club in 2012, Manchester City also agreed to remunerate him for the £75,000-per-week wage cut he took, which the club claim they paid him a final settlement for last year. 

Manchester City refute claims the figures are this high and

Oscar Pistorius found guilty of murder by SA Supreme court

South Africa’s Supreme court of appeal has found Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder in the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The presiding judge, Justice Eric Leach, in his ruling this morning, ordered the original trial judge to impose a harsher sentence.

The minimum sentence for murder is 15 years in prison. Pistorius is currently living under house arrest at his uncle’s home in Pretoria, having been freed from prison after serving less than a year behind bars.

It is not yet clear whether he will return to prison immediately, or if he will be allowed to remain in correctional supervision until a new sentence is handed down.

Pistorius shot and killed Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day

FIFA vice-presidents 'arrested in dawn raid' on five-star Zurich hotel over alleged bribes worth millions

Police have arrested two high-ranking FIFA officials on suspicion of 'having received bribes of millions of dollars' in a dawn raid on Zurich's Baur au Lac hotel.

Sources inside FIFA say as many as 16 football officials may be arrested, or have already been arrested, on Thursday in the latest purge of football corruption by the US Department of Justice.

FIFA vice-presidents Alfredo Hawit of Honduras and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay are reported to be the two men who were

Dokpesi- I collected N2.1bn from Dasuki for GEJ's election campaign

Chairman of Daar communications, owners of AIT and Raypower, Raymond Dokpesi says the N2.1 billion he collected from embattled former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki was for the media campaign of former President Goodluck Jonathan during the last election. Dokpesi said this in a statement he released through his company yesterday December 2nd. The statement which was released to the News Magazine reads in part

“Dokpesi explained to the EFCC officials that the

Tyson Fury is the heavyweight champion of the world after defeating Wladimir Klitschko by unanimous points decision on one of the greatest nights in British boxing history

The Gypsy King of England is amazingly, wonderfully, sensationally – and tearfully – the new heavyweight champion of the world.

Tyson Fury ended the decade long reign of the great Wladimir Klitschko with a display of astonishing nerve and virtuosity – just as he said he would.

The 27-year-old Mancunian giant made the near-40-year-old Klitschko

Kidnappers release Samson Siasia’s mother

The Septuagenarian was held for almost two weeks but has now regained freedom after the sum of six hundred thousand Naira was paid

Goal has learnt that Madam Beauty Ogere Siasia, mother of Nigeria U23 coach Samson Siasia, has been released by her abductors 12 days after she was kidnapped.
The coach had cried out that he wasn’t a rich man and there was no way he could have raised the initial N150 million naira asked for, which was later cut to

Breaking News: Paris under siege: Dozens killed and injured in series of coordinated terrorist attacks after Kalashnikov-wielding gunman goes on the rampage in the capital, 100 hostages are taken at concert hall and explosions are heard near national stadium

Paris has been gripped by terror after three coordinated terror attacks in the heart of the city killed at least 40 people.

There was a shootout inside a restaurant on the Rue Bichat, two explosions near the Stade de France sports stadium and another shooting at the Paris Bataclan concert hall where terrorists are said to be holding 100 people hostage.

U.S. security officials believe the attacks were coordinated.

It is thought that at least 11 were killed in the restaurant, close to where the Charlie Hebdo shootings occurred in January, and another 15 in the

The Golden Eaglets brought down Les Aiglonnets in Vina del Mar to lift the U17 World champions for a record fifth time

Mali’s dream of lifting a first ever Fifa U17 World Cup faded in thin air in Viña del Mar as they crumbled 2-0 to Nigeria at the Estadio Sausalito.
Second half strikes from Victor Osimhen and Funsho Bamgboye were all the Eaglets needed to become world champions for a record fifth time, and the second country to successfully defend their title after Brazil






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Kim Kardashian showcases her bump in lacy see-through jumpsuit at star-studded LACMA Film + Art Gala

She will soon be welcoming her second child.

And Kim Kardashian showed off her bump and cleavage in a sexy nude-hued and lace jumpsuit when she attended the 5th Annual LACMA Film + Art Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday.

The 35-year-old stood out among the celebrity-filled crowd as she tenderly placed a hand upon her belly, vamping it up in a long black blazer with a glossy lapel and delicate lace hem.




Kim's jet black hair was slicked back into a chic 'do, putting her famous and flawless face front and centre.

Her glowing complexion shone with foundation, while plenty of mascara and edgy, dark red lips rounded off the look.

Glamming up the already head turning look was a thick and sparkling choker.

Only one day earlier, Kim was partying it up in a Great Gatsby themed birthday bash for her mother Kris Jenner.

But it seems the festive soiree did little to dampen her

Should I leave or stick around?

My boyfriend and I have been together for a year and almost 2 months. We have had many problems in the past.
But now he talks to another girl who was always flirting with him and he usually flirts back. The thing is that both of us are big flirts by nature.
She used to be my friend but she goes around from guy to guy a lot and she has always had her eye on my guy. She pisses me off. But they are like best friends. I’m not sure if I should be jealous and make a big deal about it.
That’s just one of the problems.
Also recently we have been fooling around (we don’t have sex) but I let him go down on me and we have been naked on his bed and I also let him finger me but he has never really pushed me into sex with him or anything. But it scares me because what if when we do have sex, he leaves me?
This is the first guy I have ever been so serious with. I don’t want to have

Chiwetalu Agu -- What acting wicked characters did to my life

Popular Nollywood actor, Chiwetalu Agu, often acts the role of a wicked man in movies. And his depictions are so real that many fans believe that is his real character. In this chat with Showtime Celebrity, he explains that the negative reaction of fans towards his wicked roles is what actually led him into acting comic roles. Excerpts…

You seem to have an affinity for comedies; why is that?

I wouldn’t call it affinity. Years ago, I found out that most of the scripts that were brought to me didn’t have comic relief; I was always given roles of a wicked

man and I got to understand that most of my fans were not pleased with it. Some of them felt it was something real, and the consequence was that whenever I stepped out in public,

Don Jazzy storms Rome for ‘Gentleman’s Wager II’

MULTIPLE award-winning producer and founder of Mavin Records, Don Jazzy recently signed a deal as Johnnie Walker Joy Ambassador for Nigeria. He attended the premiere of the ‘Gentleman’s Wager II’ movie premiere in Rome, with global joy ambassador and Oscar-nominee Jude Law, as well as highly influential media professionals from different parts of the world.

*Don Jazzy

Don Jazzy was treated to a luxury welcome dinner hosted by Oscar-nominee, Giancarlo Giannini and veteran Grammy Award winning artist, Tom Jones and a