MAYWEATHER RELEASED

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been released from a Las Vegas detention center after serving two months of a three-month sentence for a domestic violence conviction, a detention center official said early Friday. Video from CNN affiliate KVVU showed Mayweather leaving the facility. The official from the Clark County Detention Center said Mayweather was no longer in custody. No explanation of why Mayweather was released before the end of his sentence was given. The undefeated boxer was convicted last year after the police said he punched the mother of his children at his home. The high-profile athlete was to be kept in isolation from the facility's 3,000 other inmates, the police said when he was booked into the detention center in June. "He...

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83 MILLION FACEBOOK USERS ARE FAKE!

The number of fake accounts on Facebook is roughly the size of Egypt's population and larger than most of the world's countries, the company disclosed this week. In a 10-Q filing, Facebook acknowledged that a total of 8.7% -- or 83 million -- accounts on the network are bogus. Of that 8.7%, 4.8% are duplicate accounts, 2.4% are user-misclassified accounts and 1.5% are "undesirable" accounts, a.k.a. spam. The figure is a bit higher than the company's previous estimates. In a March filing, Facebook claimed about 5% to 6% of its accounts -- or 40.3 million to 50.7 million -- were fake. The company also says it bans at least 20,000 accounts daily and estimates about 600,000 accounts per day are compromised. Taking the latest figures into account,...

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CHEVROLET MANCHESTER UNITED STRIKES NEW SHIRT DEAL

Chevrolet will be the new name on Manchester United's shirts from the 2014-15 season. Chevrolet, the club's official car partner, will become only the fifth shirt sponsor in the club's 134-year history from the 2014-2015 season, in a seven-year agreement that has been signed for an undisclosed amount. United's commercial director, Richard Arnold, told the club's official website, www.manutd.com: "This is a fantastic, long-term deal for the club. We have been partners with Chevrolet for only six weeks, but already they have produced some fantastic ideas that will benefit both the partnership and our 659 million followers around the world." Arnold added: "They are a key partner on our current tour and I know they have enjoyed experiencing the buzz...

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FERDINAND CHARGED OVER TWITTER COMMENTS

Rio Ferdinand has been charged by the Football Association over comments he made at the end of the John Terry trial. Following Terry's acquittal for allegedly racially abusing Ferdinand's brother Anton, the Manchester United defender responded to a tweet that characterised Terry's Chelsea teammate Ashley Cole - a defence witness in the trial - as a "choc ice". The term is commonly understood to mean "black on the outside, white on the inside" and was a reference to Cole's testimony in court, in which he said he never heard Terry make a racist remark towards Anton Ferdinand during a match at Loftus Road in October. An FA statement said: "The FA has today charged Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand with improper conduct in relation to comments...

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50 NIGERIANS EVACUATED FROM SYRIA

Mr Olugbenga Ashiru, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Monday said about 50 Nigerians had so far been evacuated from Syria following the ongoing crises in the country. Ashiru said in Abuja that the evacuees complied with government's directive to leave Syria and he advised others to vacate the Middle East nation. "We have evacuated quite a lot of Nigerians from Syria, it was not an airlift exercise like we did in the case of Libya because they are very few. "From the report I got, those moved so far are less than 50, long before the situation deteriorated we advised them to move. "Some have decided to stay behind but it is their choice.'' The minister also said that the families of the Charge d'Affairs and officials at the embassy had been relocated...

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THE ARSENAL TRIO VISITS NIGERIA

The Arsenal players (Photo Source: Bada Akintunde J) Over the weekend, the trio of Bacary Sagna, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski of Arsenal FC of England were in Nigeria to meet with a select group of fans, at the Malta Guinness Low Sugar Workout launch in Lagos. Czech midfielder, Tomas Rosicky who was scheduled to come along, pulled out of the trip, after sustaining an injury in a pre-season game. The Gunners who arrived in Lagos on Saturday morning, were taught steps of the rave-of-the-moment Azonto dance, by Guinness World Record holding dancer, Kaffy and her crew, at the launch which took place at the Ball Room of the popular Eko Hotel, on Sunday. They were presented Nigerian national team shirts, bearing their names, upon...

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CHINA WINS LONDON 2012 FIRST GOLD MEDAL

China's world number one Yi Siling won the first gold of the London Olympics in the women's 10m air rifle competition at London's Royal Artillery Barracks on Saturday. China's Yi Siling In a tense contest watched by International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge, Poland's Sylwia Bogacka took silver after a fierce battle for the top spot while Yu Dan of China clinched bronze. Yi, 23, who won the title at the 2010 world championships in Munich, had a total winning score of 502.9, 0.7 points ahead of Bogacka, on 502.2. Yu finished with 501.5. Defending Olympic champion Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic finished fourth. Yi, who was well off her own world record of 505.6, said it felt good to be the first gold medal winner of the 2012...

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CASH IN OVEN!

A Sydney man who hid $15,000 in cash in his oven was left with a colourful melted mess after his wife turned it on. The Merrylands father-of-two, who did not want to be identified out of embarrassment, sold his beloved Toyota Supra sports car for $15,000 on Saturday afternoon and stashed the wads of notes in his kitchen oven. He said he believed the cash would be safe in the oven because his wife never used it. It was a decision he regretted yesterday after his wife struggled to tell him the money had literally gone up in smoke. She had turned on the oven to pre-heat some chicken nuggets for their two girls and inadvertently cooked the cash. Ascol...

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NUPENG SUSPENDS STRIKE!

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Jetties and Petroleum Tank Farm Owners Association (JEPTFON) on Friday suspended it two-day old strike. This is contained in a communiqué jointly signed by NUPENG, JEPTFON, the Group Managing Director of NNPC, the Executive Secretary, Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), the Minister of State for Finance and the Minister of Labor. The NUPENG President Igwe Achese and JEPTFON's Enoch Kanawa, signed for the unions, while Chief Emeka Wogu, Dr Yerima Ngama, Mr Andrew Yakubu and Mr Reginald Stanley, signed for government. The communiqué made available on Saturday stated the Ministry of Finance had commenced the payment of the Petroleum Subsidy for 2012. It also...

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