Royal tour: Prince Harry and Meghan to launch Invictus Games

Prince Harry and Meghan have arrived at Sydney Opera House for the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games for injured service personnel.

It comes a year after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made their first official public look at the event - started by the prince in 2014.

The start of the rite, the latest stop on the couple's Australian tour, was late by thunderstorms.
Earlier, they salaried their respects to Australia and New Zealand's war heroes.

They were joined by the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison for the opening of a memorial which commemorate those who fell in World War I, as well as conflict includng Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq.


Harry with Meghan then took in the first event of the Invictus Games - the Jaguar Land Rover Driving brave at the city's Cockatoo Island.

The duke offered medals to the appealing teams, as well as testing his motivating skills on the children's remote control car course.

The Invictus sport will see athletes from 18 countries compete in 11 sports over eight days.
The duke, who served in the Army for 10 years, found the Invictus Games in 2014 with the aim of helping wounded service workers and veterans with their physical and psychological rehabilitation.
That year the games were held in London, before title to Florida in 2016 and Toronto last year.


Twelve months on from their first official look together, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have since got married and announce they are expecting a child in spring.
The couple are in the center of a 16-day tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Landmark cancer therapy wins Nobel prize

Two scientists who exposed how to fight cancer using the body's protected system have won the 2018 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

The work by James P Allison, from the US, and Tasuku Honjo, from Japan, has led to treatment for higher, lethal skin cancer.

resistant checkpoint therapy has revolutionised cancer action, said the prize-giving Swedish Academy.

expert say it has prove to be "obviously effective".
Allison, a professor at the University of Texas, and Honjo, a professor at Kyoto University, will split the Nobel prize sum of nine million Swedish kronor - about $1.01 million or 870,000 euros.
Treating the untreatable


Our resistant system protects us from virus, but it has built in safeguards or to stop it from attacking our own tissue.

Some cancers can take benefit of those "brakes" and the move attack too.
Allison and Honjo exposed a way to unleash our resistant cells to attack tumours by turning off proteins that put the brakes on.


And that has led to the increase of new drugs that offer hope to patients with advanced and previously untreatable cancer.

Immune checkpoint therapy is being used by the NHS to treat people with the most serious form of skin cancer, melanoma.

It doesn't work for everyone, but for some patients it appear to have worked incredibly well, getting rid of the tumour entirely, even after it had in progress to spread around the body.

Doctors have also been using the action help some people with lung cancer.
drug is the first of the Nobel Prizes awarded each year.


The writing prize will not be handed out this year after the awarding body was exaggerated by a sexual bad behavior scandal.

Dangerous typhoon Trami strike southern Japan

A Dangerous typhoon has brought serious rain and high winds as it approached southern Japan, leading to flight cancellations and power outages in several cities.

Typhoon Trami, rated Category 2, is the newest storm to threaten Japan in a year of grim weather-related woes, including grueling heat, heavy rains and landslides.

Outlying islands in the Okinawa chain, around 1,000 km southwest of Tokyo, were being crushed by serious rain and high tides on Saturday.

Powerful wind knocked down trees, blew off an outer wall from a building and left 5 people injured in Naha, a city in Okinawa.

About 195,000 households gone electricity on Okinawa and other neighboring small islands, according to Okinawa Electric Power. 

Public newscaster NHK said more than 380 flights were cancelled, mainly those flying in and out of Okinawa.

Churning north across Okinawa on Saturday, Trami is then predicted to move across the islands of Kyushu and the main island of Honshu on Sunday, a path similar to that taken by typhoon Jebi early in September.

Jebi, the most dominant storm to hit Japan in 25 years, brought some of the top tides since a 1961 typhoon and flooded Kansai airport near Osaka, taking it out of service for days.

The season's 24th typhoon "might cause a catastrophe with storm surges, soaring waves, powerful winds and torrential rains," an agency official told a news conference on Friday in Naha, the island's capital, the local Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper reported.

Rainfall of up to 400mm was predict for the Amami island region and up to 250mm for Okinawa by noon Sunday, while the storm could produce waves up to 13 meters high around the regions, forecasters said. 

West Ham fans FINALLY get some good news about new Declan Rice contract

WEST HAM are ‘confident’ they will agree a new contract with Declan Rice, according to a trusted club insider.

Twitter user @ExWHUemployee is a reliable source of West Ham news who broke details of all the big transfer before they happened this summer.

And Ex - as he is more usually known - yesterday exposed that the club believe Rice will sign a new deal to stay at the London Stadium.

Rice has nearly three years remaining on his current deal but the two party haven’t settled an extension.

Rice open on Sunday that West Ham are now "buzzing" after putting their dreary start to the season behind them.

The Hammers, who lost their gap four matches, got their first points on the board by thrashing Everton last weekend and follow that up with Sunday's goalless draw at home to high-flying Chelsea.

The Blues had won their preceding five games but were fortunate to escape with a point from the London Stadium after Andriy Yarmolenko miss a golden chance with a late header.

Teenager Rice, who excel in his deep-lying midfield role, said: "devoid of a doubt we could have had three points, with the odds we missed in the first half and clearly Yarmolenko's header at the end was a crucial turning point in the game.

NBA news: Kawhi Leonard to Lakers revelation made by Paul George after secret talks

Leonard’s future under enemy control the offseason after his association with the San Antonio Spurs worsen.

There were strong information of Leonard wanting to head home to California and play for either the LA shears or Los Angeles Lakers.

But they be put off by San Antonio’s trade demands, with the spur keen to trade him to the Eastern meeting.

Toronto then emerge as surprise contenders and Masai Ujiri bit the shot by trading away franchise star DeMar DeRozan in a multi-player deal for Leonard.

The Raptors now have 12 months to try and convince the 27-year-old to re-sign by way of them in free bureau after that year.

George undergo a similar situation in 2017 when it became clear he wanted a move to the Lakers, only for the Oklahoma City Thunder and Russell Westbrook to convince him to stay at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.

And the five-time NBA All-Star has exposed he spoke with Leonard ahead of his possess free agency decision this summer, admit the duo were both dreaming of linking up in Los Angeles.
"Actually me and Kawhi are pretty close,” George said.

Death Cab for Cutie to play their quintessential indie rock Monday

Death Cab for Cutie will bring the different sounds of Northwest-bred indie rock Monday to the Hult Center.

The band formed in Bellingham, Wash., in 1997 and free their ninth LP, “Thank You For Today,” in August. It is the first album since founding member and instrumentalist Chris Walla left the band in 2014 and latest members Dave Depper and Zac Rae joined.

Death Cab for Cutie lead singer and founding member Ben Gibbard is known for his lyrical voice and melancholic songs.

The band establish international success after their hit song “A Movie Script Ending” appeared on an episode of the 2000s TV series “The O.C.” Their 2005 hit song “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” has been covered by multiple other artists and featured on the TV series “Grey’s Anatomy.” The band has been chosen for a Grammy eight times, including for best rock album for 2015′s “Kintsugi.”

Death Cab for Cutie will perform at 8 p.m. Monday at at the Hult Center, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street. Tickets range from $38.50 to $48.50

Sol Bamba says Cardiff need to cut out mistakes

Cardiff first win of the season will come if they cut out the mistakes, according to Sol Bamba.
Neil Warnock's side are outer surface the base three only on goal difference after behind three and drawing two of their first five games back in the Premier League.

Champions Manchester City call south Wales on Saturday and Bamba believes they need to attach to the essentials.

Speaking at a Cardiff City FC Foundation and Premier League Primary Stars event at a local school, Bamba said: "We've got to do improved at the back that's for sure since at this level every error gets punished.

"When we get a chance we need to take it and I think that's been the disparity so far.

"We need to keep the fundamentals, to be physically powerful and make sure we are hard to beat and then I'm sure we will have a chance.

"We have played top quality resistance so it was always going to be difficult but I think if we carry on in concert like we have been then we are definitely going to win more games than we lose."
It's a view echoed by Junior Hoilett, who also attend the event.

"It's been a difficult start but we've been in sports competition and played some tough teams but it's small details that defines wins and losses," he said.

"We're operational on it in training and I'm sure we'll get it right. It's just the small details we need to fix and the little mistake. I'm sure we'll get the first win soon."

Samba believes Warnock is key to getting Cardiff out of trouble: "I think one of the gaffer's best qualities is his man running," the Ivory Coast global added.

"He can read my mind, he knows how we feel and how we're going to do and I think that's a big strength.

"On the football side he knows how to adapt, he plays the way we play since he knows what we're good at.

"If we had the players to play the way Manchester City play I'm sure the gaffer would want to play that way.

"But with all due respect to my team-mates and myself we don't have those qualities so we play to our strengths.

"Our strength are to be physical and make it hard for the opposition and difficult to hit and when we get a possibility we need to attain."

London violence: Man stabbed to death on Islington street

A man has died in a stabbing on a north London street, police have said.

The casualty, 25, was found hurt after police were called to Corinne Road, Tufnell Park, at 21:27 BST on Tuesday.

He was known first aid by officers and paramedics from London Ambulance overhaul but died at the scene at 22:07, the city Police said.

The man's next-of-kin have been up to date although he has not yet been officially branded.

A murder analysis has been launch and a post-mortem assessment will be under arrest in due course.

Police said extra officer will be in the area as local CCTV footage is recovered and forensic analysis continues.

There have been no arrests. A crime scene leftovers in place.

Chelsea team news: Predicted Europa League line up vs PAOK – Sarri confirms striker choice

Maurizio Sarri will rotate the majority of his Chelsea starting XI to kick off the 2018/19 Europa League campaign against PAOK on Thursday night.

The Italian superior is set to make a string of change to keep his group fresh and content, with plenty of competition for places.

Sarri has confirmed one starter by now with Alvaro Morata set to go in front the line for Chelseadespite being dropped against Cardiff at the weekend.

Morata has struggled for shape so far in 2018/19, with Olivier Giroud pending into the line-up at the weekend, but Sarri insists the battle isn't over.

language after the Cardiff game: "I don't know [who will be the Premier League starter in the future]."

"In the last two weeks I have seen four match of Cardiff and four matches of PAOK Salonika and for me, yesterday I thought Giroud was more suitable for this match and Morata more appropriate for the other."

Eden Hazard twisted a scintilating display against the Bluebirds but will be rested for the trip to Salonika, with youngster Callum Hudson-Odoi in line for another chance to impress.

Willian, Cesc Fabregas and Ross Barkley are all probable to come into the team as well as a pair of beyond, big-money signings.

Full-back pair Davide Zappacosta and Emerson Palmieri are out-of-favour at Stamford Bridge but could be handed a lifeline by Sarri this week.

Italian ace Zappacosta made a six-minute character part against Cardiff, while Palmieri is yet to feature in 2018/19.

Willy Caballero is predictable to start in place of world record goalkeeper signing Kepa Arrizabalaga.

Arsenal news live: Ivan Gazidis confirms Milan move with emotional message, Kroenke speaks out

Welcome to the Arsenal live blog, where we'll bring you the latest Gunners news.

The Unai Emery era is well and truly happening, with two wins in the previous two games.
It feels similar to an age ago that Arsenal laboured to a 3-2 win in excess of Cardiff City, with goals from Shkodran Mustafi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette.

Emery achieved back-to-back away victories for the first time this period with a solid, if unspectacular, win away at Newcastle United.

There are abundance of positives on the pitch but off it, bulk shareholder Stan Kroenke is set to take full control of the club, buying Alisher Usmanov’s 30% bet of the club.

Ivan Gazidis has confirmed that he will leave for AC Milan in the pending months and the Gunners have announced their replacement already.

We'll keep on top of all the response to the breaking news, as well as all the latest transfer rumor from north London all through the day.

We want you to get involved too - tell us your opinion on what's happening at Arsenal by tweeting us at @ArsenalFC_FL.

Pakistan's Imran Khan pledges citizenship for 1.5m Afghan refugees

Imran Khan has pledged to grant nationality to 1.5 million Afghan refugee who have lived on the margins of Pakistan’s society for decades.

According to the UN, Pakistan has the principal refugee population in the world, regularly made up of 2.7 million refugee from Afghanistan. Many fled the Soviet invasion in 1979, while others came across the edging due to violence and economic turmoil.

In a revelation announcement on Sunday at a civic event in Karachi, the Pakistani prime minister said: “Afghans whose children have been raise and born in Pakistan will be settled citizenship inshallah (God willing) because this is the established practice in countries around the world.

“They are human. How come we have destitute them and have not set for offering them national identification card and passport for 30 years, 40 years?”t

According to UN surveys, about 60% of the Afghan refugee people was born in Pakistan, gist almost 1.5 million people stand to benefit. Khan also promise the same treatment for Bengali refugees, which would include the Rohingya minority.

Pakistan’s citizenship act of 1951 guarantees nationality to anyone born in the country.

However, bureaucratic hurdles, ethnic rivalries and the exception against children whose parents come from “alien” or rival nations has made it close to impossible for Afghan and Bengali refugees to secure their rights, along with the Pakistani passport they would bring.

Khan noted in his speech, put out on national television, that a lack of official citations pushed many refugees towards black-market labour or crime.

Human rights groups and commentator across the political spectrum welcomed the announcement as the first real sign of Khan’s promise to tremble up the status quo and bring in a new, progressive Pakistan.

He swept to victory in elections in July as the candidate for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

The pledge marks a reversal of decades of hostility towards Afghan refugees in particular, who are often blamed for producing or shielding terrorists.

 The official government policy has long been to endorse “voluntary” repatriation. In 2016, about 600,000 Afghans were sent back, in a process criticised as rude by Human Rights Watch (HRW).

question were being asked in Pakistan about whether Khan had cleared his proposal with the powerful military, which has traditionally held swing over refugee policy.

The day before the prime minister’s speech, the foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who is seen as close to the army, returned from a visit to Kabul stressing the need for “dignified, sustainable repatriation”.

source within the UN were pleased at the initiative, but spoken some scepticism as to how fully it would be carried out.

Some analysts posited a following incentive for Khan. Afghan refugees belong to the Pashtun ethnicity and Pashtuns, thousands of whom live in Karachi, overpoweringly “voted for PTI” two months ago, said Saroop Ijaz of HRW. Offering more Pashtuns citizenship could cement the party’s hold on the crucial megalopolis, he added.

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MH17: Russia claims to have PROOF Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines jet over war zone

The Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down by a Soviet-made rocket over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

All of the 298 people aboard were killed.
The Netherlands and Australia announce in May that they believe the missile was elated to Ukraine from a military unit in the Russian city of Kursk.

But Russia has always deprived of taking part.

And speaking today, reserve General Nikolai Parshin, chief of the Missile and Artillery Directorate at the Russian Defence Ministry, said the military had studied records at the investigate centre that bent the Buk missiles.

He said the missile in question was ecstatic to a military unit in 1986 and to their knowledge by no means left Ukraine.

The information was obtained from the analysis of the serial number of the missile, the official said, adding that the company the shaped the missile still have ID for it in its archives.

A team of global investigators has always pointed the blame at Moscow, saying videos and other evidence show the missile being transported into a war zone in eastern Ukraine from neighbouring Russia.

The investigators have claim that the missile launcher used in the air tragedy belonged to Russia's martial.

But Russia's Ministry of Defence claims those video are fake, and denies claim that Moscow was involved in the tragedy.

General Konashenkov today provided an audio recording which it claims is "proof" that Ukraine was involved in the air tragedy.

The recording played was of a conversation flanked by Ukrainian military servicemen was made back in 2016 in the Odessa Region during the Rubezh-2016 exercise and published in the Ukrainian mass media.

The Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, a Boeing-777 traveler plane travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot downhill on July 17, 2014, over Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk.

The Joint study Team (JIT) looking into the crash comprises legislative body of the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine.

On May 24, the Team gave an update of the state of affairs in the criminal investigation, claiming that "the BUK-TELAR that was used to down MH17, originate from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile brigade... a unit of the Russian army from Kursk in the Russian Federation."

Russia’s Defense Ministry rejected all the allegation and said that none of the missile systems belonging to the Russian Armed Forces had ever been taken abroad.

Nevertheless, on May 25, Australia and the Netherlands issued a statement proverb that they "hold Russia accountable for its part in the downing of flight MH17."

Chelsea news: Maurizio Sarri will speak to doctor as he considers Eden Hazard decision

CHELSEA boss Maurizio Sarri will speak to the club’s doctor as he weighs up his options for Thursday’s showdown with PAOK Salonika, with Eden Hazard potentially set for a rest.

Chelsea have enjoy a burly start to the new Premier League campaign, collecting most points from their first five fixtures.

And Hazard was on hand to put Cardiff to the foil on Saturday, bag a hat-trick after the company had taken a shock lead.

Chelsea are in for a difficult period, with the rigours of the Europa League contribution a stern test on top of their domestic commitments.

Eden Hazard is a sure-fire hors d'oeuvre having been eased back hooked on the fold next a post-World Cup break.

But Sarri might go away the Belgium international out in Greece with a London derby next to West Ham on the horizon.

Sarri has revealed he is preparation to speak to Chelsea’s doctor regarding the injured Ruben Loftus-Cheek, with resting Hazard also on his mind.

"Loftus-Cheek has a little problem with his right tibia so on Saturday he wasn’t able to play," Sarri said