London, United Kingdom | AFP |  Paul Pogba will remain sidelined until December, Manchester United coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted Sunday. The 26-year-old French World Cup winner has not played for the club since September 30 due to an ankle injury and was missing again as United won 3-1 win …

  Inzai, Japan | AFP | Career timeline of Tiger Woods, who won the Zozo Championship in Japan Monday for a record-equalling 82nd US PGA Tour victory: — August 1996: Turns professional after an outstanding amateur career and is named PGA Rookie of the Year. Wins first US PGA Tour …

Inzai, Japan | AFP | Tiger Woods said it was “crazy” after he made golfing history Monday by holding off the challenge of home favourite Hideki Matsuyama to win the weather-delayed Zozo Championship by three shots. The 15-time major winner Woods finished 19-under par to equal US legend Sam Snead’s …

NEWS BRIEFS:  Hima Cement on October 21st announced a partnership with Xente Tech Ltd, a Payments, Ecommerce & Financial Services Company to ease online shopping of Hima and bonastore range of products. Xente is an online app offering digital products like Airtime, bill payments, movie, event & bus tickets and …

    NEWS BRIEFS: Prayosha Enterprises Limited last week launched a tempered glass plant the first ever in the East Africa. The minister of state for trade and cooperation Werikhe Gafabusa launched the state of the art tempered glass plant at Mutundwe in Kampala. He lauded the directors for choosing …

NEWS BRIEFS: Alseyed Ali Abdul Jabar, a controversial businessman who was accidentally shot dead by his in-law on Saturday, was laid to rest on Sunday, October 20th at Kololo cemetery adjacent to Jinja Road Police quarters. Among the people who saw him off was the Minister of Internal Affairs Jeje …

    NEWS BRIEFS: Anti-corruption civil society agencies have warned the government against withdrawing money from the Petroleum Fund without following a structure to oversee the expenditure as required by law. Transparency International Uganda and the Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda top executives said Oct.21 they were alarmed at the recent announcement …

  NEWS BRIEFS:  Uganda is to benefit in a number of sectors including agriculture and education through bilateral relations with the government of Serbia in a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga said that in 1987, there was an arrangement of barter trade between the …

  NEWS BRIEF: The Electoral Commission started a nationwide exercise to verify particulars of voters on the National Voters’ Register using village (LC 1). The exercise started on October 21st and will end on October 28th conducted in all villages throughout the whole country. “The purpose of the verification exercise …

Washington, United States | AFP | Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was believed to be dead after a US military raid in Syria’s Idlib region, US media reported early Sunday. Baghdadi may have killed himself with a suicide vest as US special operations forces descended, media said citing multiple government …