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The 29-year-old, arguably Ghana’s hottest commodity in the diaspora, scored five goals for Villa in their hunt to win one of the automatic qualifications to the Premier League next season. The former Bristol City winger scored a brace against Queens Park Rangers and Ipswich Town and found the back of the net against Sunderland. However, he must shrug off competitions from Derby County striker Matej Vydra, Leon Clarke of Sheffield United, along with Wolverhampton Wanderers’ trio Willy Boly, Ivan Cavaleiro and Barry Douglas....

“His owners before me didn’t want him anymore,” Max’s owner Christine Vulpescu said about the rescue. “So he was living in a warehouse. Nobody really took care of him so I took him in as a foster and never gave him back.” She continued: “I fell in love with him immediately. He was so overweight at that time so it was a huge challenge, actually, to get him to slim down....

The team announced its decision shortly before 2 a.m. ET Wednesday. Peterson will be placed on the NFL’s exempt/commissioner’s permission list, which will bar him from all team activities “until the legal proceedings are resolved.” Peterson’s first court appearance isn’t until Oct. 8. MORE: Legislator threatens to strip Washington of tax-exempt status | IYER: NFL shield more Teflon than ever | PHOTOS: Disgraced athletes Wednesday’s reversal took place just over a day after Vikings general manager Rick Spielman told reporters that Peterson would be reinstated for the team’s game Sunday against the Saints....

A little more than a year later, after a lot of fans asked for another men’s singles title, the TNT Championship was born. Back in May, Cody defeated three competitors—including Lance Archer—in the finals to become the inaugural TNT Champion in AEW’s second Double or Nothing show. However, the second-generation wrestler and AEW Executive Vice President doesn’t want fans to see it as a “midcard” title or less than the AEW World Heavyweight Championship—and he’s doing so by defending it against all comers....

Caio and Omar Abdulrahman both scored twice as Al Ain bounced back from their 1-0 first leg defeat in Iran to notch up a 6-2 aggregate win and signal their intent as the competition breaks for the summer. After the game, Abdulrahman revealed that the players had vowed to come back strong after the 1-0 defeat in Tehran and qualify for the next round. “We vowed as players in the locker room at the Azadi Stadium last week, that we would be celebrating qualification to the next round with our fans after the return leg,” the AFC Player of the Year said....

However, he has continued to impress in Asia, quickly assuming the mantle of ‘wrecker-in-chief’ for Shanghai SIPG. This season, on the continent, Hulk has scored six goals and registered five assists which is second only to Omar Abdulrahman and underlines his effectiveness. This week, playing against Jiangsu Suning in the crucial second leg of their Round of 16 clash away from home, Hulk was in his element. The burly Brazilian created the opener for Elkeson with a fantastic through ball which set things up nicely for his side....

The NFL announced last week that in the event of a Bills vs. Chiefs matchup in the AFC Championship, the game would be played in Atlanta. It represents the final part of the league’s contingency plan following the cancellation of the Week 17 Bills vs. Bengals game due to Damar Hamlin’s on-field collapse. The Chiefs retained the No. 1 seed despite playing one more game than the Bills this season, but they will not get home-field advantage if they end up playing Buffalo for a trip to the Super Bowl....

GROUP F: Boeung Ket 0-4 Ceres Negros (Marañon 36’, 38’, 69’ Uesato 84') Ceres Negros assured themselves of a spot in the top two in Group after a 4-0 dismantling of Cambodian outfit Boeung Ket on Wednesday, thanks to a hat-trick from Bienvenido Maranon. Maranon opened the scoring with a strike from inside the area in the 36th minute before doubling his tally two minutes later. He found the back of the net expertly after OJ Porteria had teed him up....

GROUP B: Al Rayyan (QAT) 2-1 Vamos FC (IDN) Al Rayyan secured a thrilling 2-1 victory over Indonesia’s Vamos FC in their Group B opener in the AFC Futsal Club Championship Vietnam 2017 in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday. Despite being the first futsal club to represent Indonesia alongside Asia’s elite, Vamos FC displayed confidence well beyond expectations, as they took the game to the Qataris. Thus, it took Al Rayyan a nervy seven minutes to finally break the deadlock with the opener scored by Brazilian import Diego Costa (8’)....

Under head coach Bibiano Fernandes, the junior Indian national team won the SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) U-15 championship in 2017 before qualifying as the second best team in the qualifiers for the AFC U-16 Championship 2018. “I was not expecting a favourable draw because when you come at this stage, no team is easy. Although Iran, Vietnam and Indonesia are in our group, we have to play to our best if we want to qualify for the quarterfinals,” Fernandes told Goal in an exclusive chat....

Many Afghans were upset by the presence of warlords at the recent Loya Jirga. Is your policy to include this group in government? I plan to deliver to the Afghan people what they ask of me. They want a central government, and that authority has to serve them. I’m not here to promote regionalism. I’m not here to promote warlordism. I will not do that. Will the armed groups controlled by warlords be integrated into the national Army?...

While ballots are still being counted, the 32-year-old from the Bronx who grew up in public housing told Newsweek he’s ready to get to Washington, but even before being sworn-in, Torres has a bone to pick—one that has more relevance as the country is roiled by examinations of race and inclusion, and the choices of long-standing institutions are scrutinized more closely. He said as an Afro-Latino, he will formally seek membership in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and lambasted a rule prohibiting him from joining the Congressional Black Caucus at the same time....

Nottinghamshire Police shared video of the chase on social media on Dec. 20, along with an account of the chase and its end. The suspect, Bill Nicholson, reportedly hit speeds of over 80 mph while racing through the villages of Ranby, Barnby Moor and Blyth with two passengers on board. “In a hair-raising display of dangerous driving lasting six minutes, the 18-year-old drove around a blind bend on the wrong side of the road, sped through a red light, took a roundabout the wrong way and nearly slammed into a pedestrian,” police said....

Many believe Chauvin, a former police officer, would never have been convicted if a mobile phone video showing him kneeling on Floyd’s neck had not come out. Meanwhile, the Minneapolis police made no reference to Floyd’s treatment when they first described the incident in a statement issued May 25. Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Sentencing is expected to occur in eight weeks....

And after losing 20-17 Sunday to a two-win Cardinals team, at Lambeau Field, in classically lousy weather, with no margin for error left in their playoff hopes, there was little logic left in dragging it out even one more week, much less four. MORE: Packers candidates to replace Mike McCarthy McCarthy likely didn’t know his fate when he spoke after the game, and obviously, neither did Aaron Rodgers. But they both spoke with such finality, with the postseason run sounding like such a pipe dream, that a swift end felt necessary....

Senate Republicans nixed several Democratic amendments to trial rules established by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Although Fox News hosts and commentators criticized the lack of new evidence as the trial took place, they rarely mentioned why Democrats were unable to present it. “[The Democratic argument] had nothing to do with actually proving the facts,” said former GOP congressman Jason Chaffetz on the Thursday morning edition of Fox and Friends....

“Fahrenheit 9/11” is that rare documentary that’s getting action-flick distribution, opening on 500 screens–and in case you miss it in the theater, the DVD should be out well before the election. Disney’s Miramax division, headed by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, bankrolled the film, but Disney head Michael Eisner refused to release it, citing Disney’s tradition as a “nonpartisan company”–you know, the sort of nonpartisan company whose ABC Radio division gives a forum to Rush Limbaugh....

This article covers the prognosis for aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma and how different factors affect survival rate. You’ll also learn about the scoring system healthcare practitioners use to evaluate each case. Prognosis vs. Life Expectancy vs. Survival Cancer prognosis is an estimate of how well someone with cancer will respond to treatments. You may also hear these terms in discussions about aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma prognosis: Life expectancy is an estimate of how long someone with cancer is expected to live....