Bayern Munich announced Juventus will activate their option to buy Douglas Costa at a cost of €46m. It was confirmed during Friday night’s shareholder’s meeting by chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. Douglas Costa made the move on loan with option to buy that could be activated by June 30, 2018. However, the Press release on the transfer…

Während eines Machtkampfs innerhalb der prorussischen Separatisten in der Ostukraine ist der Anführer der selbsternannten Volksrepublik Luhansk, Igor Plotnizki, nach den Worten seines Geheimdienstchefs zurückgetreten. Leonid Passetschnik teilte mit, Plotznizki habe seinen Posten aus gesundheitlichen Gründen abgegeben. Bis zu Neuwahlen wird Passetschnik demnach selbst amtierender Republikchef sein. Plotnizki hatte am Montag versucht, seinen Innenminister Igor…

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The prospect of Michael Flynn’s cooperation with federal prosecutors raises the possibility of new lines of inquiry and potentially valuable evidence in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 elections, legal experts said. Lawyers for Flynn, who was fired as national security adviser in February, have stopped sharing information with President…

Google FiberAT&T and Comcast have convinced a federal judge to nullify an ordinance that was designed to bring more broadband competition to Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Metro Council last year passed a « One Touch Make Ready » rule that gives Google Fiber or other new ISPs faster access to utility poles. The ordinance lets a single…

Meantime, Adobe found fewer purchases originating from desktops. « On both Thanksgiving and Black Friday, the gap between mobile traffic and revenue is closing, » Mericle added. A separate survey by Salesforce also found more shoppers migrating to mobile devices to ring up purchases on Turkey Day. Shoppers placed 48 percent more orders on phones on Thanksgiving…

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Australia 4 for 165 (Smith 64*, Marsh 44*) trail England 302 (Vince 83, Malan 56, Stoneman 53) by 137 runsnScorecard and ball-by-ball details An absorbing Ashes contest will go into the third day with neither side having made a convincing grab for the upper hand, but with Australia’s captain, Steven Smith, firmly ensconced as the…

Britain’s cheapest house is up for sale for just one pound- as a perfect Christmas stocking filler. The three-bedroom terraced house with neighbouring woodland has recently installed new double-glazed windows and a gas central heating system but finds itself in the bargain bucket. Set in the former mining town of Tonypandy, Rhondda, the property comes with…