Arsenal players don't want 'arrogant' Mikel Arteta to replace under-fire Arsene Wenger (video)

Arsenal players have made their feelings known about who to replace Arsene Wenger - and they don't want Mike Arteta as their next boss.

The Spaniard has been mooted as a possible successor, with the fledging coach impressing as coach at Manchester City.

But The Sun report the members of the dressing room are not keen on the former Arsenal midfielder taking over.

They report that 35-year-old is understood to not be popular in North London after five-years at the Emirates, with many thinking he's 'arrogant'.

Man shot dead in an attempt to ‘test’ a bullet-proof vest

Houston police say a man who put on a bulletproof vest at a party has been killed after another man attending the party fired a shot at him. Police are now searching for the man who fired the fatal shot early on Sunday morning.

Investigators say forensic tests will determine if the gunshot went through the vest or struck an uncovered area.

Police believe about six to eight people were attending the party. Houston Homicide Sgt. Mark Hollbrook says while it’s unusual for people to put on body armor and play with guns at a party, “these things happen sometimes.” The name of the victim hasn’t been immediately disclosed.

Rapper Rick Ross is back home, four days after hospitalization

MMG CEO and rapper, Rick Ross has reportedly been discharged from the hospital, four days after he was hospitalized for pneumonia.

The 42-year-old rapper was placed on life support at the hospital following the state of health.

According to a TMZ report, the rap mogul returned home in the wee hours of Monday morning, and he's still receiving medical care at his residence.

The report comes just after Rick Ross shared a photo to his Instagram followers of his VVS jewelry, including a snazzy Rolex time-piece flashing on his wrist and three dazzling bracelets.

He captioned the photo: 'Florida Boy.'

Son of parents slain in CMU dorm a "good kid," family friend says

A suburban Chicago couple whose 19-year-old son allegedly shot them to death at his college dormitory in Michigan raised him and their two other children well, a family friend said Sunday. James Eric Davis Sr. -- who went by his middle name -- and his wife, Diva, were "doting parents" and raised James Eric Davis Jr. "phenomenally," said Jordan Murphy, who worked from 2004 to 2008 with Davis Sr. in Chicago as Illinois Army National Guard recruiters.

Utica College on lockdown after getting threats

NEW YORK, March 5 (Reuters) - Utica College in upstate New York ordered students to shelter in place on Monday after it received threats from a person saying he was armed with a weapon, school and police officials said.

Police had found "no substantiation to any reports of an active shooter or shots fired on campus" but were continuing to investigate, Utica's police department said in a statement.

‘Drug dealer’ buried himself alive to try and escape police

 

A suspected drug dealer ran from cops and buried himself in mud after being pulled over in a car full of cocaine and crystal meth. Joe Hobson Jr was pulled over on Interstate 20 near Conyers, Ga., Thusday on suspicion of drug trafficking – but fled shortly after the traffic stop.
Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office set up a perimiter, and two hours later the convicted felon was found with his feet sticking out of a muddy drainage creek. He had buried himself there in an attempt to evade capture, only to become stuck. Photos posted to Conyer PD’s Facebook page after show a sheepish-looking Hobson staring up from the mire, with officials working to help him up from the mud pit.

Alien hunters are convinced a mysterious object spotted on Google Earth on a remote island is a crash-landed spaceship

Alien hunters are convinced a mysterious object spotted on Google Earth is a crash-landed spaceship.

The unidentified mass was discovered near Antarctica on the remote South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, where just 20 people live.

Web theorists at well-known alien site Secureteam10 used satellite mapping to zoom in and get a closer look at the alleged spaceship near the 10,000ft tall Mount Paget.
Bizarre tracks can be seen running up behind the object, suggesting it slid through the snow for some distance before coming to a halt.

Footage of the strange mass published on YouTube on Saturday has been viewed more than 150,000 times.

Police identify Alabama man who killed himself near White House

Authorities have identified the man who fatally shot himself in front of the White House. Police say it was 26-year-old Cameron Ross Burgess, recently of Maylene, Alabama, who approached the fence along the north side of the White House and fired several rounds from a handgun shortly before midday Saturday.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump were in Florida at the time, and the Secret Service says no member of the first family was at the White House then.
Authorities say none of the shots appeared to have been directed toward the White House.

Media outlet Al.com reported that an Auburn University spokesman told it that Burgess graduated from the school in 2013. The newspaper reports that state records for Burgess revealed no criminal history.

North Korea reportedly 'laundered' coal through Russia in an apparent breach of sanctions

In 2017, North Korea sent coal to Russia, before it was delivered to South Korea and Japan, in an apparent breach of sanctions.
The coal was effectively "laundered" through Russia, according to a report from The Washington Post.
The UN and US ban the export of coal from North Korea to prevent funds being used to develop weapons.

North Korea reportedly "laundered" coal through Russia on its way to South Korea and Japan, according to a report from The Washington Post.

The Post reports at least four ships delivered North Korean coal to a port in Kholmsk, Russia, during August and September 2017. They were quickly followed by more ships that picked up parts of the load and sold it as Russian coal.

Oscars 2018 winners: the complete list,How it all went down

On Sunday night at the 2018 Oscars, the big winner was a love story involving a fish-man, which beat out a revenge comedy centered on the death of a teen girl and a horror flick featuring body-snatching Caucasian people.

Heading into the night, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water led the field with 13 nominations, and it ended up winning four Oscars, including major categories Best Picture and Directing, as well as Production Design and Original Score.

The other big winners of the night were Jordan Peele, who won Best Original Screenplay for Get Out; Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell, Best Actress and Supporting Actor (respectively) for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; James Ivory, who won Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me by Your Name; Gary Oldman, who won Best Actor for The Darkest Hour; and Allison Janney, for Best Supporting Actress for I,Tonya.

Man plunges to his death from Gatwick Airport North Terminal car park

A man plunged to his death at Gatwick Airport. The man, in his 20s, was waiting between connection flights at the London airport when he fell from the sixth floor of a multi-storey car park at the North Terminal, police confirmed on Friday.

The victim landed at Gatwick on an earlier flight and had been booked to board another aircraft to a European destination when he was believed to have deliberately jumped from the top floor of the car park at 4pm yesterday/on Thursday. Police and paramedics rushed to the North Terminal but there was nothing they could do to save the man’s life. His body was removed by the ambulance crew and taken to the mortuary at the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, where a post mortem examination was due to be carried out to establish the exact cause of his death.

Student in custody after allegedly shooting parents at Central Michigan University dorm

2 shot at Central Michigan University, suspect at large: Police
A 19-year-old Central Michigan University student officials accused of fatally shooting his mother and father on campus was taken into custody just after midnight Saturday after a nearly day-long manhunt.

More than 100 police officers spent the afternoon and evening searching the Mount Pleasant area for James Eric Davis, who authorities described as armed and dangerous, after he allegedly shot his mother and father, an Illinois police officer.

Rapper Rick Ross 'hospitalised after being found unresponsive at home'

    

Rapper Rick Ross has been hospitalised with a mystery medical condition, according to TMZ.

The Aston Martin Music musician has been the subject of multiple reports about his health after he was found unresponsive at home in the early hours of Thursday morning.

The news site reports that Rick was taken to a Miami hospital after someone called the emergency services at around 3.30am on Thursday when they found him 'in distress' and "slobbing out the mouth".

Arsene Wenger has "overstayed his welcome" at Arsenal - Gunners boss

Former Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood believes it is time to call an end to Arsene Wenger's tenure.

The Arsenal boss has come under increasing pressure this week following back-to-back 3-0 defeats to Manchester City.

Wenger has refused to discuss his future but his position is set to be reviewed in the summer, in the biggest threat to his reign.
Hill-Wood appointed Wenger as Gunners boss in 1996 before stepping down in 2013.

Picasso portrait sells for record £49.8 million

A Picasso artwork has sold for nearly £50 million - the highest auction price for any painting ever sold in Europe in pounds.

The artist's portrait of Marie-Therese Walter, known as his "golden muse", sold for £49.8 million at Sotheby's London on Wednesday evening.

The 1937 painting has never been sold on the market before, having previously been part of a private collection.

Femme au beret et a la robe quadrillee was painted in the same year as the artist's famous Guernica.