Southampton have promised to ban supporters involved in mocking the death of Emiliano Sala by making aeroplane gestures during their match at home to Cardiff City.
The Premier League fixture Saturday was Cardiff's first since the Argentinian striker's body was formally identified by an English coroner on Thursday, a day after it was recovered from underwater wreckage in the Channel.
However, after the game video on social media appeared to show two men in the home section of St Mary's Stadium seemingly making aeroplane gestures in the direction of the away supporters.
Southampton confirmed both fans had been spoken to by police and intended to take "an extremely firm stance" over the incident.
"Southampton Football Club can confirm that two fans were detained and had their details taken by police during our match against Cardiff City on Saturday," said a statement from the club.
"The club will continue to work with Hampshire Police to identify any individuals deemed to have made ...

Southampton vow to ban fans over Sala 'aeroplane' mockery

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Fleeing the political, economic and humanitarian crisis in their country, Venezuelans have arrived in Spain in their thousands, some of them penniless, others so rich they are buying sumptuous flats.
Fran Leal, 36, came to Spain from Maracay in northern Venezuela two months ago with his wife and two children.
"Do you have a small suitcase? I'm going to Toledo, I've found a job," he asks as he enters the Casa Venezuela, an association that helps struggling Venezuelans in Madrid.
An electrician, he is going to the city south of Madrid to work illegally for six months.
"I don't have a choice as I don't yet have ID papers and I have no more savings," he says, as the crisis in Venezuela deepens with opposition leader Juan Guaido's self-proclamation as interim president.
Unlike Leal, Juan Leonardo Lopez has not found a job since he arrived three months ago.
"Before the crisis, I wasn't a millionaire but I lived fine, I had a great car and everything I needed," he says at a Venezuelan ...

Rich or penniless, Venezuelans flock to Madrid

Malaysia's toppled leader Najib Razak will go on trial this week over an extraordinary financial scandal that contributed to the downfall of his long-ruling coalition and reverberated around the world.
The former prime minister and his cronies are accused of stealing USD 4.5 billion from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB in a mind-boggling fraud that stretched from Switzerland to the Seychelles.
The money was purportedly used to fund a global shopping spree - a USD 250-million super-yacht, high-end real estate, and Monet and Van Gogh artworks were among the items allegedly bought with cash plundered from public coffers.
The scandal ensnared celebrities, with the fraud's suspected mastermind seen partying with Leonardo DiCaprio and Paris Hilton, while the new Malaysian government has accused Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs of stealing billions during its work with 1MDB.
Public revulsion at the graft allegations played a large part in the election defeat of Najib - who set up the ...

Malaysia's toppled leader to go on trial over 1MDB scandal

Players from Italian club Cagliari missed their flight to Milan for Sunday's top flight game after being locked inside their training ground by local farmers protesting over milk prices, according to reports in Italy.
The Sardinian team had been due to fly out to Milan on Saturday evening before Sunday's game against AC Milan at the San Siro.
But the players were unable to leave their Asseminello training ground in the south of the Mediterranean island after all the exits were blocked by a group of 100 local farmers.
Coach Rolando Maran and the club's director general Mario Passetti negotiated with the protestors to allow the team bus to leave for the airport.
But only after Sardinian-born player Nicolo Barella and Brazilian teammate Joao Pedro joined in the protest and were filmed kicking over milk pails in a gesture of solidarity.
"We simply want to defend our rights," a protestor told Gazzetta Dello Sport.
"We produce milk at 1 euro ($1.3) plus VAT and we aren't going back. If they 

It's a cream game: Cagliari players stalled by farmers' milk price protest

Cardiff City captain Sol Bamba dedicated his goal and a 2-1 victory over Southampton to Emiliano Sala after an emotional match for the Welsh club.
Saturday's fixtures were the first round of Premier League games since the player's death was confirmed earlier this week.
The Argentinian striker's body was formally identified by an English coroner on Thursday, a day after it was recovered from underwater wreckage in the Channel.
"A lot of things were going through my mind. I knew Emiliano. I know he was looking up there. The victory and the goal is for him," said Bamba.
The plane carrying Sala from the French city of Nantes to Cardiff, his new club, disappeared near the British island of Guernsey on January 21.
Pilot David Ibbotson remains missing. His family have launched a fundraising campaign to find his remains.
Cardiff had been given permission by the Premier League to wear shirts embroidered with a yellow daffodil, the national emblem of Wales and the team colour of Nantes.
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'Victory and goal for Sala', says Cardiff captain Bamba

The trial on Tuesday of 12 Catalan leaders over their role in Catalonia's failed independence bid will be fought between Madrid and the separatists in the international media as much as in the courtroom.
"We have to use this trial as a tool of denunciation, use it in our goal to make Catalonia independent," the head of influential grassroots separatist group ANC, Elisenda Paluzie, said before the start of the trial at Spain's Supreme Court on February 12.
The separatists who govern the wealthy northeastern region have for years tried to convince the world of the legitimacy of their cause and make the case that Spain lacks political freedoms.
But with over 600 journalists from 150 media outlets from around the world accredited to cover the trial, Spain's central government does not want to remain on the sidelines.
The foreign ministry has set up an office charged with promoting Spain's image abroad, called Global Spain.
It announced before the start of the trial that it would launch ...

Catalan separatists trial: not just legal battle, media one too

The support for a boycott of Israel by the first two Muslim women in the US Congress has opened a breach in the Democratic Party and threatens to create a fissure in the ironclad US-Israeli alliance.
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib made their debut in the House of Representatives in January openly declaring their support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, or BDS.
The movement, launched more than a decade ago and modeled on the 1960s movement to pressure South Africa over apartheid, calls for people and groups to sever economic, cultural and academic ties to Israel, and to support sanctions against the Jewish state.
But for Israel partisans -- including many Democrats and Republicans in Congress -- BDS smacks of anti-Semitism and poses a threat to Israel.
Tlaib, 42, has Palestinian roots and represents a district of suburban Detroit, Michigan that is home to thousands of Muslims.
She argues that BDS can draw a focus on "issues like the racism and the ...

New Muslim lawmakers' criticism of Israel pressures US Democrats

An active-duty Venezuelan army colonel who is a military doctor has dropped his allegiance to President Nicolas Maduro, backing opposition leader Juan Guaido instead.
"Ninety per cent of us in the armed forces are really unhappy," Colonel Ruben Paz Jimenez said in a video released Saturday. "We are being used to keep them in power."
He urged his fellow soldiers to help allow humanitarian aid into Venezuela. The shipment of US aid is currently in Cucuta, Colombia, on the border.
Maduro has vowed to prevent the aid from entering, labeling it a precursor of a US invasion.
A week ago, Air Force General Francisco Yanez also dropped his allegiance to Maduro. The military's backing is critical to the sway of power in Venezuela.
Venezuela's self-proclaimed acting president Guaido on Friday refused to rule out the possibility of authorizing United States intervention to help force President Nicolas Maduro from power and alleviate a humanitarian crisis.
The opposition leader launched a bid to ..

Venezuelan military official drops allegiance to Maduro

The United States has shared with its UN Security Council allies a draft resolution calling for international aid to be delivered in Venezuela and for a presidential vote to take place.
While no date has yet been set for a vote on the American draft, and negotiations are ongoing, Russia is likely to use its veto power to block it as part of its support of Nicolas Maduro's regime, diplomats said.
The text, a copy of which was obtained by AFP on Saturday, expresses "full support for the National Assembly as the only democratically elected institution in Venezuela." The legislative body's chairman, Juan Guaido, has declared himself interim president of Venezuela, challenging Maduro's rule.
The draft resolution stresses "deep concern with the violence and excessive use of force by Venezuelan security forces against unarmed, peaceful protesters."
It also "calls for the immediate start of a political process leading to free, fair and credible presidential elections, with international ...

US seeks UN draft resolution calling for Venezuela elections

Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes featured in England's best partnership of a deeply disappointing series as they lifted their team to 231 for four at stumps on the opening day of the third and final Test against the West Indies on Saturday.
Put in to bat by West Indies stand-in captain Kraigg Brathwaite, and seeking to regain some lost prestige after already surrendering the series and the Wisden Trophy, the fifth-wicket pair played with increasing fluency through an extended final session in putting on 124 runs to the close of play at the Darren Sammy Stadium.
It was England's first century partnership of the series with Buttler getting to 67 and Stokes reaching 62 at the close.
Both made the most of lucky escapes.
Buttler's first scoring shot was an edge off Shannon Gabriel to which a leaping Shimron Hetmyer at second slip could only get his fingertips.
Stokes was caught and bowled on 52 by Alzarri Joseph and was already in the England dressing room when he got the call to return to the ..

Reprieved Stokes and Buttler lead England recovery

The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Istanbul rose to 21 Saturday, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said authorities have "lessons to learn" from the incident.
The eight-storey block in the Kartal district on the Asian side of the city collapsed on Wednesday but the cause is not yet clear.
Erdogan, visiting the site Saturday, said: "We have a great number of lessons to learn from this. We will take the necessary measures."
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, meanwhile, told reporters that the toll from the building collapse had risen to 21 dead and 14 injured.
It was the third time the toll figures were updated during the day.
"We estimate that there were 35 people trapped under the rubble and we have now accounted for 35," he said while stressing that search operations would continue as before.
Dozens of rescuers were working at the site with a crane lifting huge blocks of concrete to clear the rubble.
President Erdogan also visited a hospital to talk to ...

Turkey building collapse death toll rises to 21

One of Germany's most acclaimed directors, Fatih Akin, hit back Saturday at criticism of his new film about a real-life serial killer, "The Golden Glove", charging that it exploits the female victims.
Akin, who won a Golden Globe award last year for his terrorism drama "In the Fade" starring Diane Kruger, insisted the ultra-violent new picture aimed to grant "dignity" to both the killer and the slain women.
"We are living in a time in which the discussion about sexual violence is everywhere and that is justified," Akin told reporters at the Berlin film festival, where the picture premiered.
"But when you make a film about sexual violence, you have to show it," he said after facing several pointed questions.
Akin said he had no desire to "glorify" violence against women with the film's scenes graphically depicting sexual torture, murder and dismemberment which many viewers said left them feeling queasy.
He said he had shown the film to pimps he knew from his hometown Hamburg's ...

German director defends horror flick against #MeToo criticism

Turkey on Saturday condemned China's treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people as "a great embarrassment for humanity", adding to rights groups' recent criticism over mass detentions of the Turkic-speaking minority.
"The systematic assimilation policy of Chinese authorities towards Uighur Turks is a great embarrassment for humanity," Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement.
The northwest Xinjiang region of China, where most Uighurs live, has been under heavy police surveillance in recent years, after violent inter-ethnic tensions.
Nearly one million Uighurs and other Turkic language-speaking minorities in China have reportedly been held in re-education camps, according to a UN panel of experts.
Beijing says the "vocational education centres" help people steer clear of terrorism and allow them to be reintegrated into society.
But critics say China is seeking to assimilate Xinjiang's minority population and suppress religious and cultural practices that ...

China's treatment of Uighurs is 'embarrassment for humanity': Turkey

Queen Elizabeth II's 97-year-old husband Prince Philip Saturday surrendered his driving licence after causing a car crash that outraged the media and stirred a debate about old age and driving.
Buckingham Palace said Philip, formally known as the Duke of Edinburgh, took the decision on his own after rolling over his Land Rover last month.
"After careful consideration the Duke of Edinburgh has taken the decision to voluntarily surrender his driving licence," Buckingham Palace said in a brief statement.
Police in the eastern part of England where the accident happened outside a royal residence said they had passed Philip's file to prosecutors to determine whether anyone should be charged.
"Norfolk Police can confirm that the 97-year-old driver of the Land Rover involved in the collision at Sandringham ... voluntarily surrendered his licence to officers," said a police statement.
"The investigation file for the collision has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for their ...

Prince Philip, 97, gives up licence after car crash

Joe Root's personal tale of batting woe continued on the opening day of the third and final Test against the West Indies as England were pegged back to 114 for four at tea at the Darren Sammy Stadium on Saturday.
England's captain and premier batsman fell to fast bowler Alzarri Joseph for the third consecutive innings just before the interval, leaving Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes to carry the battle for the deflated visitors into the final session of the day.
Without any score of note so far, and thrashed by the home side in the first two Tests in Barbados and Antigua to surrender the Wisden Trophy, Root needed to get a decent score for his team and his own flagging confidence.
But coming to the crease after Rory Burns fell early in the afternoon session to Keemo Paul, he battled against disciplined West Indies bowling only to waft at an innocuous delivery from Joseph to give a simple catch to wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich.
Root's painstaking innings of 15 off 54 deliveries leaves him with 

Root flops again as Windies peg back England

England were 114 for four at tea after being put in to bat by the West Indies on the first day of the third and final Test at the Darren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia on Saturday.
West Indies hold a 2-0 lead in the series following victories by 381 runs in Barbados and by 10 wickets in Antigua.
Brief scores:
England 114-4 (R. Burns 29; K. Paul 2-21, A.

England 114-4 at tea against West Indies

A Mexican radio journalist was shot dead Saturday in a restaurant in Tabasco state, east of the capital, the latest victim in what has become one of the world's deadliest countries for the press.
Jesus Ramos Rodriguez was killed in the town of Emiliano Zapata, an official from the local prosecutor's office told AFP.
According to local media, Ramos had hosted a news bulletin for the 99.9 FM radio station for more than two decades.
The El Universal daily quoted witnesses as saying his assailant got out of a car and headed straight towards him, shooting him more than eight times at point blank range.
The killing comes weeks after a community radio station director was murdered in the northern state of Baja California Sur, in the first such case of 2019.
Rafael Murua, who had received death threats for his work, was found dead in a ditch on January 20, after being reported missing.
Murua, 34, had been under the Mexican government's protection program for journalists and rights ...

Radio journalist shot dead in Mexico's latest media killing

More than 500 people have died from the latest outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo, but a vaccination programme has prevented thousands more deaths, the country's health minister told AFP.
"In total, there have been 502 deaths and 271 people cured," said a health ministry bulletin published late on Friday, reporting on the outbreak in the east of the country.
But Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga said that, for the first time, a vaccination programme had protected 76,425 people and prevented "thousands" of deaths.
"I believe we have prevented the spread of the epidemic in the big cities" in the region, he said.
"The teams also managed to contain its the spread of the epidemic to neighbouring countries," he added.
"The biggest problem is the high mobility of the population," the minister added.
The outbreak started last August in the North Kivu region, which borders Uganda and Rwanda.
The Spanish wing of the aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported on Twitter Saturday that there ...

DR Congo Ebola death toll passes 500: health ministry

Five paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler failed to find buyers at an auction Saturday held amid anger at the sale of Nazi memorabilia.
High starting prices of between 19,000 and 45,000 euros ($21,000 and $50,000) and lingering suspicions about the authenticity of the artworks were thought to have scared off potential buyers.
The Weidler auction house did not comment on the reasons for the failure but said the paintings could yet be sold at a later date.
Nuremberg's mayor Ulrich Maly had earlier condemned the sale as being "in bad taste".
Among the items that failed to sell were a mountain lake view and a painting of a wicker armchair with a swastika symbol presumed to have belonged to the late Nazi dictator.
The Weidler auction house held the "special sale" in Nuremberg, the city in which Nazi war criminals were tried in 1945.
Days before the sale a number of the artworks were withdrawn on suspicion they were fakes with prosecutors stepping in.
Sales of alleged artworks by Hitler -- .

'Hitler' paintings fail to sell at Nuremberg auction

Democrat Elizabeth Warren was set Saturday to officially kick off her 2020 White House run with a pledge to defend working Americans, even as a bitter row over her Native American ancestry threatens to nip her campaign in the bud.
The Massachusetts senator -- who announced her intention to run on New Year's Eve -- is among the highest-profile of the growing pool of Democrats hoping to unseat President Donald Trump in 2020.
Her past battles with Wall Street have brought her a large following, and she is considered to have one of the best campaign organizations of any Democrat.
But it remains unclear how badly damaged Warren is by a stubborn controversy over her claim to Native American roots -- a claim Trump has seized upon to belittle her, mocking her as "Pocahontas" and alleging she lied about her origins for professional benefit.
Hoping to put the controversy to rest, she released DNA tests in October -- but this backfired when they showed her to have only negligible amounts of ...

Democrat Warren to kick off 2020 run, hobbled by ancestry row

Keemo Paul struck with his first delivery of the series as England reached lunch at 46 for one after being put in to bat by stand-in West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite on the first morning of the third and final Test at the Darren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia on Saturday.
Drafted into the final eleven as replacement for regular skipper Jason Holder, Paul ended Keaton Jennings' tortuous occupation of the crease when the opening batsman fell for the third time in three innings in the series to catches in the slip cordon.
England will resume in the afternoon with Rory Burns (27 not out) having been joined in the middle by Joe Denly, who made his debut in the second Test as Burns' opening partner.
Dropped earlier by Roston Chase at third slip off Kemar Roach, the leading wicket-taker in the series with 13 victims, Jennings failed to make the most of the reprieve as the left-hander drove loosely at the seam bowling all-rounder's opening delivery midway through the session to depart for ...

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