Muhammad Ali, boxing icon and global goodwill ambassador, dies at 74

Muhammad Ali, the charismatic three-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world and Olympic gold medalist who transcended the world of sports to become a symbol of the antiwar movement of the 1960s and ultimately a global ambassador for cross-cultural understanding, died Friday night at a hospital in Phoenix, where he was living. He was 74.
The Associated Press and other news outlets confirmed the death. The boxer had been hospitalized with respiratory problems related to Parkinson’s disease, which had been diagnosed in the 1980s.
Mr. Ali dominated boxing in the 1960s and 1970s and held the heavyweight title three times. His fights were among the most memorable and spectacular in history, but he quickly became at least as well known for his colorful personality, his showy antics in the ring and his standing as the country’s most visible member of the Nation of Islam.


When he claimed the heavyweight championship in 1964, with a surprising upset of the formidable Sonny Liston, Mr. Ali was known by his name at birth, Cassius Clay. The next day, he announced that he was a member of the Nation of Islam, a move considered shocking at the time, especially for an athlete. He soon changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

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Photos: ptegnant african migrant rescued at sea gives birth to a baby boy aboard the rescue ship

One of the African migrants rescued from the Mediterranean sea went into labour aboard MSF sea rescue ship, Aquarius and gave birth to a baby boy yesterday may 25th. The proud father( on the left) named him Alex,after the ship's captain ( on the right) both mother and child are in good health.

                                        

Pope Francis offers hope to divorced Catholics, says no to gay marriage...

He called for divorced and remarried Catholics to participate more fully in church life. But he closed the door on gay marriage. He quotes Jorge Luis Borges and Jesus Christ. There is an entire chapter on Love.
But more than anything, Pope Francis’s long awaited document on family life, released Friday by the Vatican, amounts to an exultation of traditional marriage while recognizing that life, in his own words, isn’t always “perfect.” Yet rather than judging, he commanded, the church should be a pillar of support.

Mills’ ghost haunting NDC executives - Ken Agyapong

The ghost of Ghana’s former President, John Evans Atta Mills is said to be haunting some top gurus of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). 

According to New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, the ghost of the late leader, whose cause of death is yet to be made public, has been preventing many of top NDC gurus from having a good night sleep. 

“Mills’ ghost is working a lot oo, you have no idea…some people now can’t sleep, they wake up at mid-night and start screaming ‘woreba oo, woreba oo’ [to wit: he is coming after me]….,” he alleged on Oman FM on Tuesday. 

Prof Mills died suddenly on July 24, 2012 when he was preparing to seek a second term in office but the circumstances surrounding his death have still not been made public.

Four years down the line, the NPP legislator claims he has information to the effect that the ghost of the late law professor has been going after some top members of the NDC. 

The situation, he claimed, had made many of them turn to drinking heavily before going to bed as a panacea to avoiding seeing the apparition. 

“As early as 3:00pm, some of them start drinking…then in the middle of the night they wake up and start screaming, calling for help…their wives have no option apart from calling friends to tell them of their predicaments…”, he said. 

Ken Agyapong could not however tell the source of his information.

Five injured In fight with cutlass over missing cow

Five persons at Buipe in the Northern region are in critical condition at the Yazuri Hospital, following injuries they sustained during a bloody machete clash over a stolen cow Saturday afternoon, local police have said. 

The victims include three Fulani herdsmen and two local farmers, an eyewitness said. 

According to the Central Gonja district deputy Police commander, ASP Kwame Boadi the victims hacked themselves with cutlasses in a disagreement over a cow. 

ASP Boadi narrated to Starr News that the Fulani herdsmen were searching for their lost cow when they found the two locals in a bush at a community called Lito butchering an animal.

The herdsmen upon suspicion confronted the farmers and according to ASP Boadi, a confusion ensued and the five violently attacked themselves with cutlasses and inflicted wounds to very sensitive parts of their bodies. 

"The Fulanis own the cattle and the two locals; one Gonja and one Dagomba stole their cow, so when they were looking for the cow, they saw these two men who had started cutting the meat of the animal, they confronted them and a fight ensued between five of them and they hacked themselves," ASP Kwame Boadi. 

The five are currently being treated for first degree wounds at the hospital. 

The Police said they will face investigations after they recuperate.

I did not ask my wife to sleep around

Former Ghanaian international, Nii Odartey Lamptey has rubbished rumors that, he asked his former wife to sleep with other men to get pregnant because he was impotent. 

Speaking for the first time since his marriage to his former wife collapsed due to infidelity in 2013, the former Anderlecht Star said he never asked his wife to sleep around. 

“Never, never…which man in his right senses would say that,” Odartey Lamptey told Starr FM in an interview. 

The 41-year-old after sensing marriage infidelity on the part of his wife proceeded to conduct a DNA test only to realize that, all the three children were not his biological children. 

And according to Lamptey, the case is still in court and is hoping that a ruling is delivered soon. 

“I don’t think if you are married to a woman and you leave for even two years it is not justified for the woman to cheat…I have always been with her in all the countries I played football so there is no justification,” he said.

Asked how he managed to find out about his former wife’s infidelity, the former U-17 World Cup winner answered,”I am more than Anas.” 

During his career he played as a striker from 1990 until 2008 notably for Aston Villa, PSV Eindhoven, Coventry City and the Ghana national football team. 

He is known foremost for his erratic career, in which he became a superstar as a teenager and then suffered a long string of failures which burnt him out well before his time. 

Lamptey has been used as a byword for a cautionary tale of putting too much pressure on young players to be successful. 

He also played for Anderlecht, Venezia, Unión Santa Fe, Ankaragücü, União Leiria, Greuther Fürth, Shandong Luneng, Al-Nassr, Asante Kotoko and Jomo Cosmos.