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Milan have held talks with Diego Costa’s agent Jorge Mendes about a move to Italy.
Costa is destined to leave Chelsea this summer after being frozen out by Antonio Conte and replaced by Alvaro Morata.
Costa wants a return to Atletico Madrid but they are under a transfer ban and couldn’t sign him until January.
And Italian newspaper Gazetta dello Sport say he could end up at Milan, who have held talks with his representative Mendes.
Milan managing director Marco Fassone and director of sport Massimiliano Mirabelli have been in Sardinia, where Portuguese agent Mendes is on holiday.
Gazetta also speculate about Radamel Falcao’s future, with the Monaco striker also a client of Mendes.
Renato Sanches is another player under the stable of Jorge Mendes who could be on his way to the San Siro.
French newspaper L’Equipe claim Sanches is set to join Milan’s revolution on a four-year contract.
Last week Sky Sports reported Milan were in talks with Torino over a move for striker Andrea Belotti.
Milan turned to the Italy international after missing out on Alvaro Morata to Chelsea and being frustrated by Borussia Dortmund for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Belotti has a massive £88m release clause in his contract, but this only applies to foreign clubs.
Sky Sports add Belotti wants to move to Milan, despite Torino insisting he will not be sold.
Milan have offered Torino £35m plus two players - forward M'Baye Niang and defender Gabriel Paletta, but Torino have asked for much more.
They want £53m plus three players - Niang, Paletta and midfielder Manuel Locatelli - which appears to have seen a potential deal go cold.
Wade Hargrove, the group's longtime attorney, said broadcasters invited both Senate campaigns to debate and that Hagan's accepted while Dole's did not.
Dole had accepted an earlier invitation to keynote the broadcasters' convention.
"The U.S. government has direct regulatory authority for the broadcast industry," Hargrove said. "We would have invited her whether there was a campaign or not."
Brian Nick, Dole's chief of staff, said the debate proposal came up late.
FAYETTEVILLE, AR—Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Andrew C. Judkins, age 42, of Bixby, Oklahoma, formerly of Fayetteville, was found guilty on two counts of Bank Fraud following a five day jury trial. During the trial, the jury was presented with over 300 exhi...
According to evidence presented at the trial, in June of 2008, Judkins executed a scheme to obtain money and funds owned by and under the custody and control of First Security Bank by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises. Namely, Judkins submitted a fake invoice representing A. Camp Equ...
Judkins was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in December of 2013. Sentencing will be held at a later date. The maximum penalty for each count is not more than 30 years’ imprisonment, not more than $1,000,000.00 fine, or both imprisonment and fine. The defendant’s sentence will be determined by the court after review of...
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Assistant United States Attorneys Kyra Jenner and Steve Snyder prosecuted the case for the United States.
Related court documents may be found on the Public Access to Electronic Records website at www.pacer.gov.
Blanco GmbH and SPIEGEL terminate top level domain names.
Two companies have notified ICANN that they no longer wish to operate their dot-brand top level domain names.
Blanco GmbH is a kitchen company that sells faucets and sinks. It is terminating the .blanco top level domain name.
Publishing company SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG separately informed ICANN that it wishes to terminate .spiegel.
Neither company appears to have used their top level domain names other than to create the mandatory nic.TLD website.
Both of the companies only applied for one domain name, so this marks their complete withdrawal from the new TLD program.
A complete list of companies to withdraw top level domain names is here.
Company wants to terminate its contract with ICANN to run .Vista.
Promotional and custom products maker Vistaprint has informed ICANN (pdf) that it no longer wishes to operate the .vista top level domain name. The domain name was delegated to Vistaprint in June 2015 but the company hasn’t done anything with it.
The company also applied for and was granted .Vistaprint. Likewise, it hasn’t done anything with that top level domain.
A third domain the company applied for, .webs, was held up in a weird contention set with .web. .Webs is still showing a status of “on hold” at ICANN. Webs is the brand name of a do-it-yourself website maker that Vistaprint bought in 2011.
.Vista always seemed like an odd domain for Vistaprint to go after. I assumed it was some sort of defensive play.
Another company, Statoil ASA, recently informed ICANN that it would like to terminate its .statoil top level domain.
Best of all, it’s been an opportunity to connect with everyday readers who’ve called and emailed to share their experiences, from dealing with tax troubles or predatory auto-title loans, to coping with scammers and those annoying robocallers. Some of their stories were unexpected: the frustration of trying to find home...
Today, thankfully, the recession is well behind us. And more personal finance tools than ever are readily available at our fingertips.
Now it’s time to try my hand at something new. Starting in mid-June, I’ll be joining The Sacramento Bee’s health reporting team. And starting next Sunday, my colleague Cathie Anderson will bring her regular business column to the Sunday business section.
Look for it here May 24.
It’s long been known that women exert enormous control over family finances. Sometimes those lessons are learned the hard way. In honor of Mother’s Day, eight businesswomen share the best money advice from their moms.
A three-year fight to save a Lord of the Rings style eco-house in Pembrokeshire has finally been lost.
The owner of the turf-covered roundhouse at Brithdir Mawr at Newport has had his appeal over planning permission refusal dismissed.
Tony Wrench has decided not appeal against an enforcement order to demolish the self-made building and it will have to be pulled down within the next six months.
Mr Wrench and his partner Jane Faith say they will move to Spain to build a similar dwelling.
The roundhouse, which was originally built without planning permission, was spotted by a plane carrying out a survey of the area for the national park.
Mr Wrench was ordered to pull it down by Pembrokeshire National Park but was given temporary planning permission for 18 months so he could find alternative accommodation.
That period came to an end in July and a second enforcement order was issued.
Mr Wrench had asked for an extension to the planning permission but that was also turned down.
A Welsh Assembly inspector said: "The dwelling house is unacceptably harmful to the character of the area."
The roundhouse was used as a case study by the assembly in research into low impact housing.
Mr Wrench said he is now resigned to the fate of the building.
He said: "We need places like this so that people can live and work in the countryside causing little impact.
"The reasons of the planners are not good enough.
"The assembly says it wants a sustainable country but this proves it is not willing to take important decisions.
"Planners think sustainability has nothing to do with them."
Mr Wrench sais he was so disappointed by the decision that he and his partner will move to Europe.
He added: "I am giving up on the UK.
"Friends from Wales are already living in Spain so we will set up something to live simply and hopefully establish a similar community there."
Tina Turner’s tumultuous rock ‘n’ roll life will be told in feature-documentary form for the first time, with buyers being introduced to the project at the Cannes market.
“Tina Turner” (working title) hails from Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin, the filmmakers behind the Emmy Award-winning “LA 92” and Academy Award-winning “Undefeated.” They are reuniting with Simon Chinn (“Man on Wire”) and Jonathan Chinn (“LA 92”) at Lightbox.
Erwin Bach, record producer and Tina Turner’s husband, will executive produce alongside Tali Pelman of Stage Entertainment, which launched “Tina Turner the Musical” in London’s West End last month. The film will feature Turner herself as well as friends and collaborators. It promises previously unseen footage of the st...
Altitude has international sales and will also distribute it in the U.K. and Ireland. Will Clarke, Andy Mayson and Mike Runagall will serve as executive producers for Altitude. It previously partnered with Lightbox on Kevin Macdonald’s “Whitney,” which is being screened at Cannes.
Tina Turner joins another rock star, Liam Gallagher, on Altitude’s Cannes slate. Altitude has boarded “Liam Gallagher: As It Was,” a Lorton Entertainment-produced documentary on the singer who rose to prominence as the front man of Oasis. Charlie Lightening will direct and Steven Lappin (“Springsteen and I”) will produ...
WASHINGTON -- Beyond the monuments and museums of the National Mall , this city's Northwest neighborhoods are attracting visitors with a vibrant music scene and pulsing night life.
Adams Morgan and the U Street Corridor, bohemian in contrast to Washington's more refined areas, are enjoying a transformation after decades of decline and neglect. Bistros and cafes sprout up alongside decades-old eateries and dive bars. New music venues and historic jazz clubs compete for customers by letting their r...
On a recent visit, we headed first to 18th Street, Adams Morgan's main corridor, just as the sun was setting. When Washington became the first big US city to integrate its schools in the 1950s, civic leaders renamed the area after two elementary schools: historically white Adams and black Morgan. From the 1960s to the ...
The current urban renewal has brought hip sidewalk cafes and rooftop restaurants, but the biggest dining draw seems to be Meskerem, a tri-level Ethiopian restaurant. Diners sit on low leather hassocks around a mesab, a basket-like wicker table, for communal eating.
From our table on the second floor, we had a bird's-eye view of a room full of hungry Westerners chowing down on meat and vegetable stews with their bare hands, as is customary in Ethiopian culture. We ordered a sampler of braised lamb, beef, chicken, and vegetables. The food was served on a large plate lined with inje...
One choice for after-dinner music is Madam's Organ, a playfully named, easy-to-find blues club ; the outside has a mural of a voluptuous redhead with the club's name emblazoned across her cleavage. World music fans can visit Bukom Cafe, which serves Ghanaian cuisine along with live reggae and West African beats. Jazz i...
The U Street Corridor, like Adams Morgan, is undergoing a renaissance after years of decay. Once known as "Black Broadway," it was a center for African-American night life from the 1920s to the late '60s. The area suffered after the 1968 riots sparked by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. But the opening of th...
Duke Ellington, whose childhood home is a block from the U Street/Cardozo stop, is commemorated with a large, elegant mural on the Metro station's wall, painted by local artists and students. "The Duke" got his start playing on U Street before decamping to Harlem in 1926. One of the venues he frequented was Crystal Cav...
Newer jazz venues are drawing crowds, too. Cafe Nema recently expanded its space to two floors. The original downstairs with battered brick walls showcases mostly mellow jazz acts, while a glossier upstairs has DJ s spinning house and electronica. Rotating exhibits by local artists adorn the walls and add to the festiv...
A few doors down , a dynamic trumpet solo emanating from a second-floor window drew us to Twins Jazz, a restaurant and lounge. Twins Jazz is owned by twin sisters from Ethiopia and hosts both local and international performers. We sat in the main dining room, a very intimate space with photos of jazz greats on the wall...
A local institution since 1958, Ben's Chili Bowl was still open even after the clubs closed. It claims to have served such legends as Nat King Cole, Cab Calloway, and Bill Cosby, among many others. The bright Formica counters may be a far cry from the warm candlelit jazz venues, but the same crowds head here to nosh on...
The energy on the sidewalks of Adams Morgan and U Street signal that the renaissance is just beginning. While the rest of Washington sleeps, the two neighborhoods reverberate with history and diverse beats.
Contact Diana Kuan, a freelance writer in New York, at dianakuan@gmail.com.
Justice Pritam Pal (retd)-led executive committee, mandated to monitor the pollution level in the Ghaggar, has raided seven water-polluting industries in industrial areas of Panchkula and Chandigarh and found their treatment plants non-functional.
The raids at two places in Chandigarh were conducted on Friday and at five places in Panchkula on Saturday. None of the local officials was taken along. The treatment plants at all industries were found non-operational. The discharge from these industries goes into drains and ultimately into the Ghaggar.
After the submission of the executive committee’s report tomorrow, action will be taken against the industries, which could include fine, sealing or even snapping the power and water supply connections.
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), on August 7, 2018, had appointed Justice Pritam Pal, a former Haryana Lokayukta, as the chairman of the executive committee.
The National Human Rights Commission had taken suo motu notice of a news item published in The Tribune on May 12, 2014, “Stench grips Mansa’s sacred Ghaggar river”. The Ghaggar had turned into a polluted water body on account of discharge of effluents, industrial as well as municipal. On the reference of the NHRC, the ...
“During the raids in Chandigarh and Panchkula, it was found that pollution control board officials of both Chandigarh and Haryana were not checking water pollution. They appear to be hand in glove with the polluting industries. It is dereliction of duty,” said Justice Pritam Pal. The water-polluting industries which w...
Besides carrying out surprise checks, Justice Pritam Pal also visited the Sukhna choe and the N choe on Saturday.
It was found that sources of water pollution were plugged in the Sukhna choe but at the N choe, water appeared brackish. It was ordered that water samples would be taken from the N choe and the report would be submitted to the executive committee.
Both the Sukhna choe and the N choe merge with the Ghaggar.
John Hickenlooper and Jay Inslee are in, Michael Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton are out.
Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper and incumbent Washington governor Jay Inslee are running. The former is relatively moderate, the latter more left-wing and focused on climate change.
Kamala Harris is elbowing out rivals as she courts wealthy Democratic donors in California.
Cory Booker, Harris and Amy Klobuchar are ahead in the “endorsement primary” as measured by FiveThirtyEight .
Michael Bloomberg and Hillary Clinton have decided against seeking the nomination. The former warned Democrats not to allow the primary process to “drag the party to an extreme” that could help reelect Donald Trump.
Ronald Brownstein and John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira on Democrats’ two paths to victory: win back Rust Belt Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by appealing to white working voters or expand the Democratic coalition in the Sun Belt by mobilizing nonwhites. This is essentially the “Ohio versus Arizona” debate I wrote abo...
ABUJA – Ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, a pressure group, the Eastern Peoples Front, EPF, has expressed reservation over the capacity and readiness of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deliver transparent elections.
In a statement issued signed by its national coordinator, Ken Emechebe in Abuja and made available to journalists on Wednesday, the group while lamenting the last minute postponement of the elections last week, said it is taking the pledge by INEC to deliver with a pinch of salt.
“We are surprised about the polls’ shift within less than 24 hours after Professor Mahmood Yakubu reportedly assured the country that there will be no suspension. This, to us suggests foul play capable of disrupting free, fair and credible elections.
“We are equally not too sure about the status of sensitive election materials that have been posted by the commission to some parts of the country, and want a third-party verification of the materials.
“We also think that when an independent body like INEC which has all that it asked for to run the election fails, there is a need to probe and ascertain what truly happened. When did INEC discover it had such sundry logistics challenges and could not go on with the elections?,” it asked.
EPF further further noted that whatever prompted the postponement, is fated to work in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
It continued, “The government and INEC which in our view has little independence, have by the polls’ rescheduling, provided Nigerians a good reason to massively vote out the APC on February 23, and vote in Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr. Peter Obi of the PDP to lead the country for the next four years.
“This is further supported by the huge backing of Atiku and Obi by the Afenifere, Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Northern Elders Forum, Middle Belt Elders Forum, Ohaneze Ndigbo, and other ethnic nationalities.

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