Archive For: The Crunch
July 30, 2015 Four Chelsea fans have received a five year ban from participating in sporting activities following a racism charge. The incident occurred in February when the Chelsea supporters refused to allow Souleymane Sylla, a black Frenchman, board a train, while chanting “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it”. The happy-to-be-racist trio, ... Read More
July 30, 2015 Children at the M’bwetu Community Based Childcare Centre in Malawi were delighted to welcome Roger Federer on a very special visit to their centre. The Roger Federer Foundation helps to provide education for young children in Switzerland and southern Africa and the center is one of many across southern Africa that it ... Read More
July 28, 2015 The Obama visit to Kenya recorded somewhat of a blip following a very unfortunate choice of words that has led to a stern response. Following CNN’s reference to Kenya as a “hotbed of terror” Kenya’s interior minister, Joseph Nkaissery, has demanded an apology from the network. The organization made the unfortunate reference ... Read More
July 28, 2015 Pro-China Hung Hsiu-chu has been nominated by Taiwan’s ruling Nationalists as presidential candidate for the country’s elections in January 2016. This brings to an end months of division in the party following heavy losses at local elections. Over 1,000 members of the party, also known as Kuomintang or KMT, cheered and clapped ... Read More
July 28, 2015 Former U.S. diplomat to Cuba Wayne Smith, has said that more serious problems need to be resolved, after the normalization of diplomatic ties between the United States and Cuba. He said this in an exclusive interview with CCTV in Washington D.C, after U.S. President Obama formally announced on July 1 that his ... Read More
July 28, 2015 Forbes has released a list of 50 most valuable sports team, according to a poll made up mostly of National Football League franchises. Spanish soccer club Real Madrid retained the top spot although a statement from Forbes states that the value of the 10-times European champions fell five percent from last year ... Read More
July 28, 2015 Elections which held in Camp Nou on July 18 have unveiled Josep Maria Bartomeu as winner, and subsequently president of FC Barcelona with 54.63 percent of the votes of 25,823 members behind him. Former incumbent Joan Laporta, president of the Catalan club from 2003 to 2010, took 33.03 percent, Agusti Benedito was ... Read More
July 27, 2015 A suburb in Manila has broken a Guinness World record for the largest Zumba class held in a single venue. Zumba is a dance fitness activity created by a Colombian dancer in the 1990s, and involves aerobic exercises and dance choreography. The record breaking event saw a total of 12,975 participants in ... Read More
July 27, 2015 Bike lovers from the Teesta Thumpers Motorcycle Club set off on a rally from the eastern city of Siliguri, to raise awareness of female foeticide and to promote gender equality with a theme “Save the girl child” The seven bikers are travelling from Siliguri in West Bengal to the Himalayan region of ... Read More
July 27, 2015 President Obama’s highly anticipated trip to Kenya has come and gone, but it seems that a certain group of people were singularly unimpressed by a visit seen as a homecoming by many Kenyans. The village of Kogelo in western Kenya is President Barack Obama’s ancestral homeland, with schools and businesses getting named ... Read More
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