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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits they cannot hope to coast to the Premier League title beating every side in their way.
Liverpool failed to take full advantage of Manchester City’s slip-up in the title race as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Leicester.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp expects to go toe-to-toe with Manchester City until the bitter end of the title race irrespective of who has the advantage in the fixture schedule.
Glasgow Rocks’ miserable run continued on Sunday when they slipped to a 10th successive defeat in the BBL final.
Jurgen Klopp insists his players will welcome the help from new signings rather than fear competition.
Liverpool have been drawn against Italian side Roma in the semi-finals of the Champions League.
European heavyweights Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are the big-hitters in Friday’s Champions League semi-final draw but Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp does not under-estimate surprise package Roma.
Former Aberdeen FC goalkeeper Danny Ward could be sent out on loan again - just four months after his loan spell with the Dons was cut short.
A leading Brexiteer has admitted he "led people up the garden path" during the referendum campaign, during a fiery clash with MPs investigating so-called "fake news".
Leave.EU founder Arron Banks said it had used "alternative methods" to influence the Brexit vote, as he and its communications chief Andy Wigmore were grilled by MPs over the conduct of their campaign in the 2016 EU referendum.
In a robust and occasionally confrontational display at the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee the pair admitted using spin and exaggeration.
But they criticised the evidence given by alleged whistleblowers including Brittany Kaiser and Chris Wylie, saying they were "not particularly credible witnesses".
Mr Banks confirmed Leave.EU had on Tuesday lodged an appeal against an Electoral Commission finding the organisation breached spending rules during the referendum.
He also confirmed to the committee investigating "fake news" the Brexit-backing group held talks with controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica and intended to use its services if it had been selected as the official Leave campaign - which it was not.
Setting out the campaign's approach, Mr Banks said: "We were not above using alternative methods to punch home our message or lead people up the garden path if we had to."
Mr Wigmore added that "the piece of advice that we got, right from the beginning, was remember referendums are not about facts, it's about emotion and you have got to tap into that emotion".
He was challenged on a previous claim that Leave.EU had "AI machine learning developed in Bristol by 20 mathematicians and actuaries with input from Cambridge Analytica at the very beginning and then executed by [US political consultancy] Goddard Gunster".
He replied: "There was probably a bit of boastfulness. I'm an agent provocateur, my job is to spin.
"I would be guilty of being an agent provocateur, slight exaggerating in the message - quite often - I'm guilty of doing that, absolutely."
- Walked out of the hearing before the MPs had finished their questions after the committee over-ran, saying they had a lunch appointment.
Mr Banks also addressed reports from the Sunday Times claiming he held a series of undisclosed meetings with Russian embassy officials around the time of the 2016 referendum campaign.
The paper said it had seen emails showing he also discussed a potential business deal involving six Russian gold mines with ambassador Alexander Yakovenko after being introduced to him by a suspected Russian spy.
Mr Banks admitted seeing the ambassador twice, and then the mines owner but declined to get involved after being advised it could be "problematic".
Mr Banks told the committee: "I have got no business interests in Russia and I have done no business deals in Russia."
"We met with him - I'm a businessman, why shouldn't I? I thought it was interesting."
This afternoon, it was reported that Take That and Robbie Williams have reunited for the first time since the singer quit the band 15 years ago.
A reunion of all five members has been rumoured for the last few days, but the BBC have now confirmed that they have already recorded a new album together, which contains songs written by all five.
In the official statement, Williams said he was “embarrassingly excited” about reuniting with the group, that it “felt like coming home”.
His friend and fellow band member, Mark Owen, told the BBC that, “Getting the five of us to be in a room together, although always a dream, never actually seemed like becoming a reality.
Nobody Else (1995) was the last album that Take That collaborated on before Williams’s departure.
It was just yesterday that Microsoft decided to treat us to a video in which the company’s Surface 2 tablet was compared against the likes of the iPad Air. This was shortly after Microsoft’s latest Scroogled campaign and also shortly after Nokia released a video of their Lumia 2520 that poked fun at the iPad Air as well. In any case it looks like Microsoft is back again and this time they’re basically taking the same ad but are comparing it against the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, a tablet released by Samsung several months ago.
The argument Microsoft made is the same as the one they made with the iPad Air, which is basically highlighting how the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 does not sport a full-sized USB port, but rather a micro USB one that is only used for charging. Granted for productivity reasons, having a full-sized USB port means you will be able to transfer documents and files from a flash drive or external hard drive, but in today’s day and age, cloud storage is a way we can retrieve files from one location on multiple devices, unless of course internet is not available which could pose a problem then, but what do you guys think? Is the lack of a full-sized USB port a valid argument?
Filed in Tablets. Read more about Surface 2.
The 56-year-old Japanese actor has been diagnosed with early stage stomach cancer.
Oscar- and Tony-nominated Japanese actor Ken Watanabe will postpone his return to Broadway's The King and I, after undergoing surgery for early stage stomach cancer.
Watanabe was diagnosed in January during a routine medical checkup. According to the 56-year-old star's Facebook page, he underwent a successful laparoscopic surgery to remove the tumour, and is now recuperating in hospital in Japan.
On Tuesday, Watanabe released a statement through his publicist, saying: "I am preparing myself in earnest for the stage. I would like to ask for your understanding that the start of my performance in New York will be a little delayed."
Ken has undergone laparoscopic surgery after having been diagnosed with stomach cancer in January. His surgery was successful but his return to Broadway will be postponed.
Watanabe was initially scheduled to return to the stage in March. He made his American stage debut last April in the Tony-winning revival of The King and I, and was subsequently nominated for his first Tony in the show last year, for Best Performance by a Leading Actor.
In the beloved tale, Watanabe plays the leading role King Mongkut of Siam, and the story follows the unlikely relationship he forms with an English teacher during the early 1860s.
This is not Watanabe's first battle with cancer. In 1989, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and after treatment, returned to acting the following year.
Watanabe is perhaps most recognised for his roles in Christopher Nolan's Inception and Batman Begins, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2004 for his turn as Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai.
STRAUGHN — Alex Wilcox had three RBIs, and Lainey Welles scored three runs in the Brantley softball team’s 11-6 win over Straughn on Monday. Emory Bush and Gracie Free each scored two runs. Kassidy Wilcox had two RBIs.
Leanna Johnson was the winning pitcher.
The Bulldogs (29-9) will compete in postseason play May 3.
ELMORE — Aleigha Walden scored three runs and had six stolen bases for Catholic. Jessie Clark had two RBIs. Nikki Walker scored two runs. Alex Jolley pitched a complete game with seven strikeouts and two earned runs.
TALLASSEE — Sissy Atchley had three RBIs. Kathryn Fallen and Aliyah Hamilton each drove in runs.
PCA (43-5) plays at Trinity at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
HOLTVILLE — The Bears (22-13) downed the Bulldogs (24-16) in the third game of a first-round Class 4A series. Holtville has not won a playoff series since 2009.
TROY — Tessa Evans led St. James with two goals in the Trojans’ season finale. Brooke Engles, Carly Mattox, Annie Skoneki, Taylor Meadows and Isabel Blancett also scored.
Goalkeepers Maddie Olszewski and Annie Skoneki combined for the shutout.
Alabama State’s Dillon Cooper was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s player of the week.
The outfielder hit .538 last week with five runs scored with two home runs and nine RBIs.
The Trinity boys and girls teams, along with the St. James boys, competed at Arrowhead Country Club on Monday.
The boys will compete in the South substate tournament in Jasper next week.
In the Class 4A boys sectional, Trinity (313) finished second and St. James (332) third. Trinity’s Phelps Williams shot a 73. For St. James, Chase Hastey and Cooper Sharp each shot 76s. Catholic’s Drew Smith (73) and LAMP’s Stewart Tankersley (80) advance to substate as individuals.
The Trinity girls finished third, led by Sophie Burks’ 76. Nayoon Kang of St. James and Alabama Christian’s Karlie Hughes also advanced to substate. The girls will play their substate at Lagoon Park next week.
Auburn’s Emily Carosone is the Southeastern Conference co-player of the week.
Carosone last week had seven RBIs and scored seven runs. Carosone tied a school record by scoring four runs in Auburn’s 12-3 win over Georgia on Saturday and leads the SEC with 61 runs.
Her hit-by-pitch career total increased to 77 for the fifth highest in NCAA history and third among active players.
Alabama State senior Maddie Phelps was named the SWAC pitcher of the week, and third baseman Kendall Core was named the conference’s player of the week.
Phelps earned her league-leading 15th win of the season against Mississippi Valley State on Saturday. She allowed a run and struck out seven.
Phelps had a 3.32 ERA and struck out 15 and continues to lead the league with a 2.86 ERA.
Core last week batted .412 with a home run, two doubles, seven RBIs and three runs scored.
AUM senior Taylor Powell earned her second straight Southern States Athletic Conference player of the week honor Monday.
Powell allowed just 10 hits in 14 1/3 innings, striking out 18 last week. He posted a 0.98 ERA last week.
Powell sports a nation-high 26 wins, while ranking second in ERA at 0.75.
AUM will compete in the SSAC Tournament at 6 p.m. Thursday at Fain Park.
Look, we get it. Recreating a celebrity's likeness in wax, or any material (aren't some of them 70 percent wax already?), is hard. But it shouldn't be this hard, should it? See 11 times that wax sculptors missed the mark, from Ryan Gosling, to Justin Timberlake, to Beyoncé, Beyoncé, and well, Beyoncé.
For over 11 years, the Wildlife Conservation Society surveyed gorilla and chimpanzee habitats in western and central Africa and in rare positive news for the Hominidae family, it seems like there are twice as many gorillas and chimps than previously estimated.
As of 2013, the researchers concluded, there were 361,919 weaned gorillas and 128,760 weaned chimpanzees in the region. Previous estimates had ranged as low as 150,000 gorillas and 70,000 chimpanzees.
Sixty percent of gorillas and 43 percent of chimpanzees live in Congo; Gabon is home to 27 percent of gorillas and 34 percent of chimpanzees. Most of these animals live outside protected areas.
While the new figures provide a slightly better outlook for our primate cousins, their populations are still being threatened. Along with poaching and loss of habitat, Ebola—with a mortality rate as high as 25 percent—has killed of chimps and gorillas in large numbers. In 2015, the Daily Beast reported on efforts by the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada to procure an Ebola vaccine for western lowland gorillas, but at the time, the focus was on helping human populations hit by the deadly disease.
Gorilla populations have been declining at a rate of 2.7 percent a year since 2013, which means it could be as low as 300,000 by 2020. While the new census means that the Great Apes are slightly less in peril than previously thought, the situation remains dire.
Santa wouldn't need Rudolph to find downtown Abilene Monday night. He could follow the red glare of fireworks.
You could say the 30th annual City Sidewalks started with a bang as fireworks filled the sky north of the Abilene Convention Center, just minutes after a Christmas tree was lighted on the south side of the building.
The event drew an enthusiastic crowd, many of whom stopped to take photos and selfies in front of the giant tree.
The crowd then moved to the north side of the Convention Center for the 10-minute fireworks show where oohs and ahhs and thunderous explosions were heard instead of Christmas carols. WesTex Connect put on the show, a miniature version of its Fourth of July spectacular.
City Sidewalks continues Tuesday with musical entertainment downtown beginning at 5:30 p.m., the lighted Christmas parade at 6:30 and the lighting of the tree inside the Convention Center at 7:30.
Facebook is celebrating its twelfth birthday by creating a virtual holiday called Friends Day and giving its users friendship-themed videos as a gift. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is reminiscing about simpler times ironically over on Twitter.
#BeforeFacebookI started trending last night as people on Twitter decided to look back at what life was like before the social network existed.
Remember when protecting yourself was as easy as locking the front door or wearing a helmet?
I would say 90 percent of the tweets celebrated how easy Facebook has made stalking. Thank you for that, Mark Zuckerbeg.
#BeforeFacebookI could have gotten arrested for "poking" a stranger.
It’s true. And we certainly didn’t ask strangers to come and crush candy with us before Facebook either.
Ah, sleep. I miss that.
What do you miss most about life before Facebook? Tweet us @TheNextWeb and let us know.
Don’t forget to Like TNW’s Facebook page while you’re celebrating Friends Day!
From the shots fired between Jay-Z and Kanye West on their respective albums, anyone with a brain could have surmised that there was beef over money.
Who Didn’t Jay-Z Come for in 4:44?
And now TMZ is reporting that West has left Jay-Z’s Tidal music service, saying the company owes him more than $3 million.
Allegedly, the beef Ye has with Jigga is twofold: His The Life of Pablo album, which was not available anywhere but Tidal when it dropped, resulted in 1.5 million new subscribers to the service, for which West was supposed to get a hefty bonus. Ye also says that Tidal reneged on reimbursing him for music videos.
Tidal’s position is that Kanye didn’t deliver the videos required by the contract, to which Ye reportedly responded, I’ll deliver the videos when you run me my check.
Lawyers for the two superstars, who collaborated on 2011’s Watch the Throne, have been going back and forth, but alas, they could not come to mutually agreeable terms.
Tidal allegedly sent a letter to West saying that if he tries to go with another streaming service, it would sue him. And West, of course, says he’ll sue right back.
Watch the Throne might morph into Game of Thrones in a minute. Stay tuned on this one.
THE first match between AEL and APOEL was played in 1931, making the duel the oldest one in Cypriot football as the two sides go head-to-head on Saturday at 7pm in the second round of the national championship at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol.
“This is the first important match of the season for us against a very good team such as APOEL. We need to be very serious because this is a crucial game for us. Although it is only the second round of the league it will give us a good picture of our potential,” said AEL midfielder Georgios Eleftheriou.
Defending champions APOEL have the upper hand in matches against AEL, with the Nicosia giants winning 33 times, while AEL have won 24 matches and 19 ending in a draw.
“I hope we have a good match. We worked really well this week preparing for APOEL and we have our game plan and we should do well,” said AEL’s Brazilian defender Diego Gaucho.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits they cannot hope to coast to the Premier League title beating every side in their way.

Liverpool failed to take full advantage of Manchester City’s slip-up in the title race as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Leicester.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp expects to go toe-to-toe with Manchester City until the bitter end of the title race irrespective of who has the advantage in the fixture schedule.

Glasgow Rocks’ miserable run continued on Sunday when they slipped to a 10th successive defeat in the BBL final.

Jurgen Klopp insists his players will welcome the help from new signings rather than fear competition.

Liverpool have been drawn against Italian side Roma in the semi-finals of the Champions League.

European heavyweights Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are the big-hitters in Friday’s Champions League semi-final draw but Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp does not under-estimate surprise package Roma.

Former Aberdeen FC goalkeeper Danny Ward could be sent out on loan again - just four months after his loan spell with the Dons was cut short.

A leading Brexiteer has admitted he "led people up the garden path" during the referendum campaign, during a fiery clash with MPs investigating so-called "fake news".

Leave.EU founder Arron Banks said it had used "alternative methods" to influence the Brexit vote, as he and its communications chief Andy Wigmore were grilled by MPs over the conduct of their campaign in the 2016 EU referendum.

In a robust and occasionally confrontational display at the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee the pair admitted using spin and exaggeration.

But they criticised the evidence given by alleged whistleblowers including Brittany Kaiser and Chris Wylie, saying they were "not particularly credible witnesses".

Mr Banks confirmed Leave.EU had on Tuesday lodged an appeal against an Electoral Commission finding the organisation breached spending rules during the referendum.

He also confirmed to the committee investigating "fake news" the Brexit-backing group held talks with controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica and intended to use its services if it had been selected as the official Leave campaign - which it was not.

Setting out the campaign's approach, Mr Banks said: "We were not above using alternative methods to punch home our message or lead people up the garden path if we had to."

Mr Wigmore added that "the piece of advice that we got, right from the beginning, was remember referendums are not about facts, it's about emotion and you have got to tap into that emotion".

He was challenged on a previous claim that Leave.EU had "AI machine learning developed in Bristol by 20 mathematicians and actuaries with input from Cambridge Analytica at the very beginning and then executed by [US political consultancy] Goddard Gunster".

He replied: "There was probably a bit of boastfulness. I'm an agent provocateur, my job is to spin.

"I would be guilty of being an agent provocateur, slight exaggerating in the message - quite often - I'm guilty of doing that, absolutely."

- Walked out of the hearing before the MPs had finished their questions after the committee over-ran, saying they had a lunch appointment.

Mr Banks also addressed reports from the Sunday Times claiming he held a series of undisclosed meetings with Russian embassy officials around the time of the 2016 referendum campaign.

The paper said it had seen emails showing he also discussed a potential business deal involving six Russian gold mines with ambassador Alexander Yakovenko after being introduced to him by a suspected Russian spy.

Mr Banks admitted seeing the ambassador twice, and then the mines owner but declined to get involved after being advised it could be "problematic".

Mr Banks told the committee: "I have got no business interests in Russia and I have done no business deals in Russia."

"We met with him - I'm a businessman, why shouldn't I? I thought it was interesting."

This afternoon, it was reported that Take That and Robbie Williams have reunited for the first time since the singer quit the band 15 years ago.

A reunion of all five members has been rumoured for the last few days, but the BBC have now confirmed that they have already recorded a new album together, which contains songs written by all five.

In the official statement, Williams said he was “embarrassingly excited” about reuniting with the group, that it “felt like coming home”.

His friend and fellow band member, Mark Owen, told the BBC that, “Getting the five of us to be in a room together, although always a dream, never actually seemed like becoming a reality.

Nobody Else (1995) was the last album that Take That collaborated on before Williams’s departure.

It was just yesterday that Microsoft decided to treat us to a video in which the company’s Surface 2 tablet was compared against the likes of the iPad Air. This was shortly after Microsoft’s latest Scroogled campaign and also shortly after Nokia released a video of their Lumia 2520 that poked fun at the iPad Air as well. In any case it looks like Microsoft is back again and this time they’re basically taking the same ad but are comparing it against the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, a tablet released by Samsung several months ago.

The argument Microsoft made is the same as the one they made with the iPad Air, which is basically highlighting how the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 does not sport a full-sized USB port, but rather a micro USB one that is only used for charging. Granted for productivity reasons, having a full-sized USB port means you will be able to transfer documents and files from a flash drive or external hard drive, but in today’s day and age, cloud storage is a way we can retrieve files from one location on multiple devices, unless of course internet is not available which could pose a problem then, but what do you guys think? Is the lack of a full-sized USB port a valid argument?

Filed in Tablets. Read more about Surface 2.

The 56-year-old Japanese actor has been diagnosed with early stage stomach cancer.

Oscar- and Tony-nominated Japanese actor Ken Watanabe will postpone his return to Broadway's The King and I, after undergoing surgery for early stage stomach cancer.

Watanabe was diagnosed in January during a routine medical checkup. According to the 56-year-old star's Facebook page, he underwent a successful laparoscopic surgery to remove the tumour, and is now recuperating in hospital in Japan.

On Tuesday, Watanabe released a statement through his publicist, saying: "I am preparing myself in earnest for the stage. I would like to ask for your understanding that the start of my performance in New York will be a little delayed."

Ken has undergone laparoscopic surgery after having been diagnosed with stomach cancer in January. His surgery was successful but his return to Broadway will be postponed.

Watanabe was initially scheduled to return to the stage in March. He made his American stage debut last April in the Tony-winning revival of The King and I, and was subsequently nominated for his first Tony in the show last year, for Best Performance by a Leading Actor.

In the beloved tale, Watanabe plays the leading role King Mongkut of Siam, and the story follows the unlikely relationship he forms with an English teacher during the early 1860s.

This is not Watanabe's first battle with cancer. In 1989, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and after treatment, returned to acting the following year.

Watanabe is perhaps most recognised for his roles in Christopher Nolan's Inception and Batman Begins, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2004 for his turn as Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai.

STRAUGHN — Alex Wilcox had three RBIs, and Lainey Welles scored three runs in the Brantley softball team’s 11-6 win over Straughn on Monday. Emory Bush and Gracie Free each scored two runs. Kassidy Wilcox had two RBIs.

Leanna Johnson was the winning pitcher.

The Bulldogs (29-9) will compete in postseason play May 3.

ELMORE — Aleigha Walden scored three runs and had six stolen bases for Catholic. Jessie Clark had two RBIs. Nikki Walker scored two runs. Alex Jolley pitched a complete game with seven strikeouts and two earned runs.

TALLASSEE — Sissy Atchley had three RBIs. Kathryn Fallen and Aliyah Hamilton each drove in runs.

PCA (43-5) plays at Trinity at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

HOLTVILLE — The Bears (22-13) downed the Bulldogs (24-16) in the third game of a first-round Class 4A series. Holtville has not won a playoff series since 2009.

TROY — Tessa Evans led St. James with two goals in the Trojans’ season finale. Brooke Engles, Carly Mattox, Annie Skoneki, Taylor Meadows and Isabel Blancett also scored.

Goalkeepers Maddie Olszewski and Annie Skoneki combined for the shutout.

Alabama State’s Dillon Cooper was named the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s player of the week.

The outfielder hit .538 last week with five runs scored with two home runs and nine RBIs.

The Trinity boys and girls teams, along with the St. James boys, competed at Arrowhead Country Club on Monday.

The boys will compete in the South substate tournament in Jasper next week.

In the Class 4A boys sectional, Trinity (313) finished second and St. James (332) third. Trinity’s Phelps Williams shot a 73. For St. James, Chase Hastey and Cooper Sharp each shot 76s. Catholic’s Drew Smith (73) and LAMP’s Stewart Tankersley (80) advance to substate as individuals.

The Trinity girls finished third, led by Sophie Burks’ 76. Nayoon Kang of St. James and Alabama Christian’s Karlie Hughes also advanced to substate. The girls will play their substate at Lagoon Park next week.

Auburn’s Emily Carosone is the Southeastern Conference co-player of the week.

Carosone last week had seven RBIs and scored seven runs. Carosone tied a school record by scoring four runs in Auburn’s 12-3 win over Georgia on Saturday and leads the SEC with 61 runs.

Her hit-by-pitch career total increased to 77 for the fifth highest in NCAA history and third among active players.

Alabama State senior Maddie Phelps was named the SWAC pitcher of the week, and third baseman Kendall Core was named the conference’s player of the week.

Phelps earned her league-leading 15th win of the season against Mississippi Valley State on Saturday. She allowed a run and struck out seven.

Phelps had a 3.32 ERA and struck out 15 and continues to lead the league with a 2.86 ERA.

Core last week batted .412 with a home run, two doubles, seven RBIs and three runs scored.

AUM senior Taylor Powell earned her second straight Southern States Athletic Conference player of the week honor Monday.

Powell allowed just 10 hits in 14 1/3 innings, striking out 18 last week. He posted a 0.98 ERA last week.

Powell sports a nation-high 26 wins, while ranking second in ERA at 0.75.

AUM will compete in the SSAC Tournament at 6 p.m. Thursday at Fain Park.

Look, we get it. Recreating a celebrity's likeness in wax, or any material (aren't some of them 70 percent wax already?), is hard. But it shouldn't be this hard, should it? See 11 times that wax sculptors missed the mark, from Ryan Gosling, to Justin Timberlake, to Beyoncé, Beyoncé, and well, Beyoncé.

For over 11 years, the Wildlife Conservation Society surveyed gorilla and chimpanzee habitats in western and central Africa and in rare positive news for the Hominidae family, it seems like there are twice as many gorillas and chimps than previously estimated.

As of 2013, the researchers concluded, there were 361,919 weaned gorillas and 128,760 weaned chimpanzees in the region. Previous estimates had ranged as low as 150,000 gorillas and 70,000 chimpanzees.

Sixty percent of gorillas and 43 percent of chimpanzees live in Congo; Gabon is home to 27 percent of gorillas and 34 percent of chimpanzees. Most of these animals live outside protected areas.

While the new figures provide a slightly better outlook for our primate cousins, their populations are still being threatened. Along with poaching and loss of habitat, Ebola—with a mortality rate as high as 25 percent—has killed of chimps and gorillas in large numbers. In 2015, the Daily Beast reported on efforts by the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada to procure an Ebola vaccine for western lowland gorillas, but at the time, the focus was on helping human populations hit by the deadly disease.

Gorilla populations have been declining at a rate of 2.7 percent a year since 2013, which means it could be as low as 300,000 by 2020. While the new census means that the Great Apes are slightly less in peril than previously thought, the situation remains dire.

Santa wouldn't need Rudolph to find downtown Abilene Monday night. He could follow the red glare of fireworks.

You could say the 30th annual City Sidewalks started with a bang as fireworks filled the sky north of the Abilene Convention Center, just minutes after a Christmas tree was lighted on the south side of the building.

The event drew an enthusiastic crowd, many of whom stopped to take photos and selfies in front of the giant tree.

The crowd then moved to the north side of the Convention Center for the 10-minute fireworks show where oohs and ahhs and thunderous explosions were heard instead of Christmas carols. WesTex Connect put on the show, a miniature version of its Fourth of July spectacular.

City Sidewalks continues Tuesday with musical entertainment downtown beginning at 5:30 p.m., the lighted Christmas parade at 6:30 and the lighting of the tree inside the Convention Center at 7:30.

Facebook is celebrating its twelfth birthday by creating a virtual holiday called Friends Day and giving its users friendship-themed videos as a gift. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is reminiscing about simpler times ironically over on Twitter.

#BeforeFacebookI started trending last night as people on Twitter decided to look back at what life was like before the social network existed.

Remember when protecting yourself was as easy as locking the front door or wearing a helmet?

I would say 90 percent of the tweets celebrated how easy Facebook has made stalking. Thank you for that, Mark Zuckerbeg.

#BeforeFacebookI could have gotten arrested for "poking" a stranger.

It’s true. And we certainly didn’t ask strangers to come and crush candy with us before Facebook either.

Ah, sleep. I miss that.

What do you miss most about life before Facebook? Tweet us @TheNextWeb and let us know.

Don’t forget to Like TNW’s Facebook page while you’re celebrating Friends Day!

From the shots fired between Jay-Z and Kanye West on their respective albums, anyone with a brain could have surmised that there was beef over money.

Who Didn’t Jay-Z Come for in 4:44?

And now TMZ is reporting that West has left Jay-Z’s Tidal music service, saying the company owes him more than $3 million.

Allegedly, the beef Ye has with Jigga is twofold: His The Life of Pablo album, which was not available anywhere but Tidal when it dropped, resulted in 1.5 million new subscribers to the service, for which West was supposed to get a hefty bonus. Ye also says that Tidal reneged on reimbursing him for music videos.

Tidal’s position is that Kanye didn’t deliver the videos required by the contract, to which Ye reportedly responded, I’ll deliver the videos when you run me my check.

Lawyers for the two superstars, who collaborated on 2011’s Watch the Throne, have been going back and forth, but alas, they could not come to mutually agreeable terms.

Tidal allegedly sent a letter to West saying that if he tries to go with another streaming service, it would sue him. And West, of course, says he’ll sue right back.

Watch the Throne might morph into Game of Thrones in a minute. Stay tuned on this one.

THE first match between AEL and APOEL was played in 1931, making the duel the oldest one in Cypriot football as the two sides go head-to-head on Saturday at 7pm in the second round of the national championship at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol.

“This is the first important match of the season for us against a very good team such as APOEL. We need to be very serious because this is a crucial game for us. Although it is only the second round of the league it will give us a good picture of our potential,” said AEL midfielder Georgios Eleftheriou.

Defending champions APOEL have the upper hand in matches against AEL, with the Nicosia giants winning 33 times, while AEL have won 24 matches and 19 ending in a draw.

“I hope we have a good match. We worked really well this week preparing for APOEL and we have our game plan and we should do well,” said AEL’s Brazilian defender Diego Gaucho.