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 ...

Paul piles on misery for Jennings as England rebuild

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The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Istanbul rose to 18, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that 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 death toll had risen to 18 dead and 14 injured.
Dozens of rescuers were working at the site, as a crane lifted huge blocks of concrete to clear the rubble to search for any remaining victims.
The president also went to the hospital to talk to survivors, and then attended the funeral of the nine members of one family who lost their lives in the disaster.
Turkish authorities said 43 people were registered as living in the building.
Environment Minister Murat Kurum, who ..

Turkey building collapse death toll rises to 18

England were 46 for one at lunch after being put in to bat by the West Indies on the first morning 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.

England 46-1 at lunch against West Indies

Manchester United swept into fourth place in the Premier League as Anthony Martial's sublime strike inspired their 3-0 win over struggling Fulham on Saturday.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side took the lead through Paul Pogba's clinical finish early in the first half at Craven Cottage.
But it was Martial who stole the show as the winger raced over half the length of the pitch before finishing emphatically to double United's lead before half-time.
That swaggering solo effort was followed by the influential Pogba's second-half penalty as United moved into fourth place, one point above Chelsea, who face Manchester City on Sunday.
Winners of six consecutive away games in all competitions for the first time since May 2009, United are firmly in the hunt for a top four finish after trailing 11 points behind those places on the day Jose Mourinho was sacked in December.
They have won 10 of 11 matches in all competitions since Solskjaer replaced Mourinho as interim boss.
United remain unbeaten under .

Martial gem lifts resurgent United into fourth place

The renowned French cartoonist, author and illustrator Tomi Ungerer, a lifelong activist who protested against racial segregation, the Vietnam war and the election of US President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 87 in Ireland, his former adviser told AFP on Saturday.
"He died in the night and his wife called me this (Saturday) morning on the phone," Robert Walter, his former adviser and a friend "for 35 years" said, adding that Ungerer died at his daughter's home.
"He was an all-round genius, a man who was talented in everything. He loved literature. He used to say 'I write about what I draw and I draw what I write'," he said.
Originally from Alsace in eastern France, Ungerer lived in the United States and Canada before settling in Ireland.
He was obsessed with books from an early age.
"For me, if there was a heaven it would be a library," he told AFP in a 2016 interview, adding that he was "brought up on reading".
Ungerer's oeuvre ranged from globally celebrated children's books 

Renowned French author and illustrator Tomi Ungerer dies at 87

The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Istanbul rose to 17 as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that 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 Saturday visited the site and said the death toll had risen to 17 with 14 injured. The toll is up from a figure of 15 on Friday with 13 injured.
"We have a great number of lessons to learn from this," the president told reporters. "We will take the necessary measures".
Dozens of rescuers worked at the site, as a crane lifted huge blocks of concrete to clear the rubble to search for the remaining victims.
The president also went to the hospital to talk to the survivors, and then attended the funeral of the nine members of one family who lost their lives in the disaster.
Turkish authorities said 43 people were registered as living in the building.  Turkish media ...

Turkey building collapse death toll rises to 17

The bodies of the 10 victims of a fire that ravaged accommodation for youth players at Rio club Flamengo have been identified, Brazilian media reported on Saturday, saying all were between 14 and 17.
The fire struck early on Friday. Initially the authorities thought the victims included members of staff, but on Saturday several Brazilian newspapers ran photos of the dead youngsters, smiling, proudly sporting the club's red and black jersey or holding trophies.
Three young players were also hurt during the fire, including one with burns on more than 30 percent of his body.
Preliminary investigations, reported by local media, suggest the fire could have been caused by a short circuit in the air conditioning in the prefabricated building housing the players.
The fire brigade said in a statement that the training center "was in the process of being brought into line with (fire) regulations" and that it did not yet have their certificate of approval.
Of the 10 teenagers who died, only ...

Flamengo fire victims were all aged between 14 and 17

The Chadian military on Saturday said it had captured more than 250 rebels, including some top leaders, after an operation against an convoy of militants trying to cross into the country from Libya in late January that also involved French airstrikes.
In a statement issued by army staff the Chadian military said the sweep would continue in the region of Ennedi, in the northwest border with Libya and Sudan, near where the armed column of rebel vehicles was brought to a halt in early February.
The statement said some 250 "terrorists, including four main leaders" were detained, while more than 40 vehicles were destroyed and hundreds of weapons were seized.
"Several compromising documents" were also seized," the statement added without giving further details.
President Idriss Deby on Thursday said the column of rebels had been "destroyed" in a series of strikes carried out by French warplanes.
Acting in conjunction with Chad's government, French Mirage 2000 jets targeted the convoy on ...

Chadian army says 250 rebels captured after rebel convoy targeted

Three soldiers were killed when Boko Haram jihadists raided a military base in northeast Nigeria, security sources said on Saturday.
The attack happened at the Forward Operation Base in Ngwom village, some 14 kilometres (nearly nine miles) north of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.
"Boko Haram infiltrated our base in Ngwom yesterday (Friday) at around 6:50 pm (1750 GMT) in which we lost three soldiers," a military officer in Maiduguri told AFP.
A second military source said the Islamist militants left with two army vehicles and "demobilised" a mine-resistant armoured vehicle.
"The terrorists also burnt two houses and a car belonging to our members in the village," added a civilian militia leader in Maiduguri.
It was not immediately clear which of the two Boko Haram factions was behind the attack.
Most of the attacks on troops in Borno and neighbouring Yobe state since mid-2018 have been claimed by, or blamed on, the self-styled Islamic State West Africa Province.
Others, though, ...

Boko Haram kills three troops in Nigeria base attack

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that four of their fighters had been killed by Kiev's forces, while Ukraine announced the death of one of its soldiers.
The toll in the last 24 hours was the highest since the latest fragile ceasefire entered force in the war-torn region on December 29.
The conflict between the Ukrainian government and breakaway Moscow-backed rebels began in 2014 after Moscow annexed Crimea and has already claimed some 13,000 lives.
Senior rebel representative Eduard Basurin told AFP that four fighters were killed by Ukrainian forces on Friday in the south of the Donetsk region. He said no civilians were injured.
Dmytro Gutsulyak, press secretary of Ukraine's defence ministry, said at a briefing on Saturday that "one of our troops was killed" on Friday as rebels carried out nine "provocative shellings" of Ukrainian positions.

Five killed in eastern Ukraine conflict

More than 40 companies last year moved, or said they would move, their operations from Britain to the Netherlands in response to Brexit uncertainties, Dutch authorities reported on Saturday.
The combined moves of 42 companies will translate into the shift of just under 2,000 jobs and of 291 million euros (USD 330 million) in investments, the Dutch agency for foreign investment said in a statement.
Most of the companies are British, but some are from Asia or the US.
The Dutch government welcomed the figures, with Economy Minister Eric Wiebes saying that "due to the growing international uncertainty surrounding Brexit and changing global trade policies, the importance of a good Dutch business climate for all of us is continually increasing".
The list includes Japanese investment bank Norinchukin, media company TVT Media, financial services providers MarketAxess and Azimo, and maritime insurer UK P&I, the agency said.
Some of the companies were also looking at moving some operations ...

Netherlands reports dozens Brexit-related company moves from UK

Weeks of public sniggering and indignation culminated Saturday when the British government cancelled a ferry contract it had awarded to a firm with no ships.
The island nation's breakup with the European Union took an odd turn in December when it handed the unheralded Seaborne Freight company the 13.8-million pounds (USD 17.9 million, 15.6-million-euro) deal.
It was meant to make sure that cross-Channel trade with its closest trading partners did not grind to a halt if Britain ended up leaving on March 29 without new arrangements in place.
Fears of the dreaded "no-deal Brexit" are rising as the clock nears the hour when the United Kingdom ends its 46 years involvement in the European project.
The agreement London and Brussels sealed in December is currently stuck in the UK parliament.
Many lawmakers oppose it and Prime Minister Theresa May's efforts to get sweeteners from the EU that could help push it over the line are being rebuffed.
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UK pulls Brexit ferry contract from firm with no ships

A Russian Arctic archipelago on Saturday declared an emergency situation over an "invasion" of dozens of aggressive polar bears that have entered homes and public buildings.
Russia's northeastern Novaya Zemlya archipelago, which has a population of around 3,000 people, has appealed for help to tackle "a mass invasion of polar bears into inhabited areas," regional authorities said in a statement.
Russian authorities have so far refused permission to shoot the bears but are sending a commission to investigate the situation and have not ruled out a cull.
Polar bears are affected by global warming with melting Arctic ice forcing them to spend more time on land where they compete for food.
They are recognised as an endangered species in Russia and hunting them is banned.
Russia has air force and air defence troops based on Novaya Zemlya.
Since December, 52 polar bears have regularly visited the archipelago's main settlement, Belushya Guba, with some displaying "aggressive behaviour," local 

Russian Arctic archipelago sounds alarm over aggressive polar bears

The family of the pilot of the small plane that crashed over the Channel while flying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala to Britain has launched a fundraising campaign to find his remains.
British rescuers on Thursday formally identified the one body pulled from the submerged wreckage as that of the 28-year-old striker.
But strong currents and winter weather forced them to call off the search before locating 59-year-old pilot David Ibbotson -- the only other person on the Piper Malibu propeller aircraft.
"As a family we are relying on the kindness of the good hearted people to help us raise the much needed funds to help us find our beloved Dad, Husband and Son," the GoFundMe page said.
"To be told the search has now been called off for the foreseeable future has only made this tragic time more difficult."
The campaign had raised around 25,000 pounds by Saturday morning --a fraction of its stated goal of 300,000 pounds (USD 390,000).
The plane carrying Sala from the French city of ...

Family tries to revive search for Sala plane pilot

Thai Princess Ubolratana's unprecedented attempt to become the country's next prime minister was abruptly nixed Saturday after her party agreed to comply with a command from the king opposing the plan.
The party's announcement effectively blocking Ubolratana's candidacy came after an extraordinary rebuke by her brother King Maha Vajiralongkorn, and removes a hurdle for the ruling junta to hold onto power after the March 24 vote -- the first since a 2014 coup.
The Thai Raksa Chart party, affiliated with the powerful Shinawatra political clan, had announced the princess as their candidate Friday morning.
The move rattled the status quo and threatened the ambitions of the generals who have controlled Thailand since they toppled the administration of Yingluck Shinawatra almost five years ago.
But the Thai king torpedoed his sister's bid in a sharply worded statement the same day that said bringing senior royal family members into politics was against tradition and "highly ...

Thai princess bid for PM scuttled as party obeys royal command

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that a slew of peaceful elections and truces in Africa were signs of a "wind of hope" on the continent.
He was speaking on the sidelines of an African Union summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, where heads of state from 55 member nations will meet from Sunday.
"This is a moment in which a wind of hope is blowing across Africa. We have seen reconciliation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, we have seen peace agreements... in South Sudan and CAR (Central African Republic)", said Guterres.
"We're working together to see if we can move the same direction in Libya. We have seen elections in Madagascar, DRC and Mali that people were forecasting will lead to tragedy and violence and in the end took place in a peaceful context," he added.
Ethiopia and Eritrea last year ended a two-decade long cold war, while South Sudan is trying to implement the latest in a long line of peace deals to end a bloody five-year conflict.
The Central 

UN chief sees 'wind of hope' in African peace deals, elections

Nathan Coulter-Nile, who was picked this week for Australia's one-day and Twenty20 tour of India, was taken to hospital Saturday after a bout of vertigo during a Big Bash League game.
The Perth Scorchers fast bowler had delivered the fifth ball of his final over late in the Twenty20 match against the Adelaide Strikers when he signalled that all was not well.
After consulting with Perth captain Mitchell Marsh, he bowled the sixth ball, which was hit for six, before sinking to his haunches and sitting on the ground.
Scorchers physio Chris Quinnell said Coulter-Nile had suffered a "bad bout of vertigo".
"He was taken to hospital after the game as a precaution and will be monitored over the next few hours," Quinnell said on the BBL website.
Coulter-Nile's inclusion in Australia's squad for the India tour came after he was left out of recent home limited overs internationals with back issues.

Coulter-Nile suffers vertigo bout during BBL game

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is hoping to stall inroads of Russian and Chinese influence as he visits two of the European Union's most quarrelsome members, Hungary and Poland.
The top US diplomat arrives Monday in Hungary and will also visit Slovakia and Poland, in each NATO ally highlighting Washington's role in the fall of communism 30 years ago.
Poland, eager for a strong US relationship amid a resurgent Russia, is teaming up with Pompeo to hold a two-day conference on the Middle East, which has drawn limited interest as Europeans balk at President Donald Trump's hawkish line on Iran.
Hungary has drawn especially deep concerns among Western powers as Prime Minister Viktor Orban shows growing authoritarianism, buddies up with Russian President Vladimir Putin despite Western worries over Ukraine and willfully exercises Hungary's veto within the 28-member EU.
A US official said Pompeo will raise concerns about Orban's support for the Russian-backed TurkStream gas pipeline, ...

Pompeo seeks to end Hungary's eastward drift on Europe trip

A Palestinian suspected of having killed a young Israeli woman has been arrested in a raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah, an Israeli police spokesman said on Saturday.
The body of Ori Ansbaher, 19, was found on Thursday evening in the south of Jerusalem, and she was buried on Friday in the Israeli settlement of Tekoa.
The suspect comes from the flashpoint city of Hebron in the south of the occupied West Bank, police said.
All other details of the woman's killing remain the subject of an Israeli gag order.  Previous Israeli statements about her murder came only from top diplomats and politicians.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, accused the UN Security Council of staying silent in the face of what he charged was the complicity of the Palestinian Authority (PA) of president Mahmud Abbas in such attacks.
"The PA maintains its policy of paying salaries for terrorists and educating its youth with incitement, and a 19-year-old girl was brutally murdered in ...

Palestinian arrested over killing of Israeli: police

Bangladesh suffered a fresh injury blow ahead of next week's one-day international series against New Zealand Saturday, after the Bangladesh Cricket Board said all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan had been ruled out with a finger fracture.
Shakib sustained the injury to his left ring finger while batting in the final of the sixth edition of Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 tournament on Friday evening, said the BCB.
An X-ray following the match confirmed a fracture, and the finger will "have to be immobilised for around three weeks," said senior BCB physician Debashis Chowdhury.
This was the second injury blow for Bangladesh ahead of the visit, which featured three one-day internationals and three Tests.
Pace bowler Taskin Ahmed was earlier ruled out for the entire series with a torn ligament and had been replaced by Shafiul Islam for the ODIs and uncapped Ebadot Hossain for Test series.
Several Bangladeshi cricketers have already left Dhaka for the three-match ODI series that starts in ...

Bangladesh's Shakib ruled out of New Zealand ODIs

Public debt has rapidly increased in many Arab countries since the 2008 global financial crisis, due to persistently high budget deficits, the International Monetary Fund warned Saturday.
"Unfortunately, the region has yet to fully recover from the global financial crisis and other big economic dislocations over the past decade," IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
"Among oil importers, (economic) growth has picked up, but it is still below pre-crisis levels," she told the Arab Fiscal Forum in Dubai.
Lagarde said public debt among Arab oil importing nations had increased from 64 percent to 85 percent of Gross Domestic Product in the decade since 2008.
Nearly half of these countries now have public debt of over 90 percent of GDP, she said.
Public debt among oil exporters -- including the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council -- rose from 13 percent of GDP to 33 percent of GDP, accelerated by the crash in oil prices around five years ago, Lagarde said.  "The oil exporters have ..

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