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posted on 16/1/20

Manchester United have agreed a £1.28m (1.5m euros) fee with Inter Milan for defender Ashley Young.

The 34-year-old had previously told United of his desire to join Inter and has not been involved in the club's past three games.

It is understood the deal includes an add-on fee, which will be activated if Inter win Serie A this season.

The agreement brings to an end Young's eight-and-a-half-year stay at Old Trafford.

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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr is subject to an arrest warrant from New Orleans police on a charge of alleged simple battery.

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The name “turkey” wasn't held by the Meleagris gallopavo (the scientific designation of the domestic turkey) until much after “Turkey” was used to refer to the region occupied by the Turks as far back as the 1300s.

posted on 16/1/20

Turkey, which has no native turkeys, does not call turkey "turkey." The Turks “knew the bird wasn’t theirs,” Forsyth explains, so they “made a completely different mistake and called it a hindi, because they thought the bird was probably Indian.”

posted on 16/1/20

So what is the bird called in India? It may be hindi in Turkey, but in Hindi it’s ṭarki. Some Indian dialects, however, use the word piru or peru, the latter being how the Portuguese refer to the American fowl, which is not native to Peru but may have become popular in Portugal as Spanish and Portuguese explorers conquered the New World.

posted on 16/1/20

Aztec peoples domesticated the turkey more than a millennium before Columbus reached the New World (the Aztecs called the bird huehxolotl). There are numerous Native American words for the bird, including the Blackfoot term omahksipi’kssii, which literally means “big bird.”

posted on 16/1/20

Labour leadership: Don't just blame 2019 campaign, Starmer warns

posted on 16/1/20

Microsoft has pledged to remove "all of the carbon" from the environment that it has emitted since the company was founded in 1975.

Chief executive Satya Nadella said he wanted to achieve the goal by 2050.

To do so, the company will become "carbon negative" by 2030, removing more carbon from the environment than it emits.

posted on 16/1/20

Next up: AOL to retrieve all of their disks from landfill.

posted on 16/1/20

Well, glad you find it so amusing M and H, the rest of the country are pretty appalled by your behaviour

posted on 16/1/20

I like to sing, draw, cook, and have fun? Yeah, I’m terrible at these lol.

posted on 16/1/20

How does he get anywhere near the first team, people seem to have bags of patience with the guy, presumably hoping he will come good but I don't see it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2hA8g1cNvQ

posted on 16/1/20

Saracens are facing relegation from the Premiership if they are found to have breached the salary cap again.

The defending champions received a 35-point deduction and a £5.3m fine in November, having broken the cap for the past three seasons.

However, there is widespread belief they will once more struggle to get under the £7m limit this season.

The BBC has learned Saracens have been told to comply with the rules immediately or face relegation.

posted on 16/1/20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jQKpse7Yw

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5 Most Haunting Facts About The Titanic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3UUwc-TBc

posted on 16/1/20

Two years ago today, 2002 FIFA World Cup winner Ronaldinho Gaúcho announced his retirement from football. What's your favourite Ronaldinho memory?

posted on 17/1/20

Teeth

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Nicholas Lyndhurst stars as Gary Sparrow in this time-travelling comedy series. Gary Sparrow lives in London with his wife during the 1990s, but after discovering a time portal he finds he can go back to the 1940s, to the same area, at the time of the Second World War.

posted on 17/1/20

Goodnight Sweetheart

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The latest episode of Love Island came to a dramatic end when it was revealed that one girl will be dumped from the villa for good.

posted on 17/1/20

South Africa v England: Ben Stokes and Ollie Pope give tourists edge

posted on 17/1/20

Australian Open 2020: Margaret Court to be 'recognised' - why is she such a divisive figure?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/51105556#

posted on 17/1/20

"Pretty Green Eyes" is a song originally written and recorded by Force & Styles featuring Junior. A remixed version appeared on their debut album All Over the UK (1996) and the song was released as a 12-inch single in 1997. The song achieved mainstream popularity in 2003 when it was covered by Ultrabeat and peaked at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

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