Alabama coach Nick Saban dismisses UCF’s claim to the national title, saying « self-proclaimed is not the same as actually earning it. » He says UCF isn’t being fair to those who went through the system and earned it.

Die EU und der Iran haben sich auf einen Arbeitsplan verständigt, um einen Erhalt des von den USA aufgekündigten Atomabkommens zu ermöglichen. Irans Außenminister Mohammed Dschawad Sarif sprach nach einem Treffen in Brüssel von einem « guten Start ». Die EU-Außenbeauftragte Federica Mogherini nannte die Gespräche « konstruktiv » und eine Reihe möglicher Schritte, um die Auswirkungen von wiedereingeführten…

Image copyright EPA Image caption The Farnese Blue diamond passed down through generations of royal families A rare blue diamond that has spent the past 300 years in Europe’s royal houses has been sold at auction in Geneva for $6.7m (£5m). The Farnese Blue was given as a wedding present to Elizabeth Farnese, daughter of…

Jose Mourinho will try to tempt Milan captain Leonardo Bonucci to Manchester United, claims Tuttosport. According to Wednesday’s edition of the Turin-based newspaper, Mou has his heart set on Bonucci as the ideal reinforcement for his back line. The centre-back turned 31 this month and had a difficult first year with the Rossoneri, at times…

Status as Belt and Road posterchild at risk as Mahathir vows to review Chinese projects

The Exodus project is led by HTC’s newly appointed Decentralized Chief Officer Phil Chen, who is best known for starting the VR project that eventually became the Vive. « I want to see a world where the end consumers can truly own their data (browsing history, identity, assets, wallets, emails, messaging, etc) without the need for…

A teacher sacked after showing the horror film Halloween to a class of teenagers should get more than £600,000 compensation for disability discrimination, top judges have ruled. Philip Grosset was praised for his work as head of English at the Joseph Rowntree School in York, despite his suffering from cystic fibrosis. But the 47-year-old’s work…

Chimpanzees have much cleaner beds – with fewer bodily bacteria – than humans do, scientists have found. A study comparing swabs taken from chimp nests with those from human beds found that people’s sheets and mattresses harboured far more bacteria from their bodies than the animals’ beds did from theirs. The researchers say their findings suggest that our…

Berlin – Tomek Kaczmarek (32) sollte die Herzklappe eines Rinds transplantiert werden. Bei dem Eingriff wurde sein Herzbeutel verletzt. 14 Stunden lang rangen drei Oberärzte um das Leben des Patienten. Gerettet hat ihn am Ende nicht nur deren Können, „sondern auch das Blut von vielen Spendern“. 30 Konserven – mehr als zehn Liter – bekam…

CBRE Group President and CEO Bob Sulentic is seeing a trend emerge in the commercial real estate market that he hasn’t witnessed in decades. « In my entire career, which is approaching 35 years now, we’ve never been this deep into an expansion and had so little vacancy in markets around the world, » Sulentic, whose company…