Cristiano Ronaldo scores 700th club goal in Everton match

Oct 10 2022

Football legend Cristiano Ronaldo has just bagged his 700th club goal during the Manchester win against Everton on Sunday.

The goal brought up the Portugal forward’s tally to 144 for Manchester United across his two spells with the group. Looking at the 37-year-old’s career, Ronaldo scored 450 goals for Real Madrid, 101 for Juventus and 5 for Sporting Lisbon.

Ronaldo started the latest game on the bench, entering the match to sub injured Anthony Martial in the 29th minute. He proved the monumental goal 15 minutes later.

At club level, Ronaldo is the all-time top scorer in the Champions League with 140 goals, just 13 more than his long time rival Lionel Messi.

Most of his goals in his careers came off his right foot, accounting for 66% of total net-finds. In contrast, 17% of the goals were headers. The majority of the goals also came from inside the box, with 473 of his goals being within this area.

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Dahmer becomes one of Netflix’s most successful shows of all time

Oct 10 2022

The presence of the series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is not something people can ignore anymore. But that does not give testimony to the success the Netflix series managed to acquire.

Netflix released a series of metrics for October which showed that the series has become one of the streamer’s most successful original series of all time in a very short time frame.

Starring Evan Peters, the show has been streamed for over 496 million hours, becoming the ninth most popular Netflix show just after 12 days on the service.

Debuting on September 21st, it also became the second most watched English language seres in a week, one step behind giant Stranger Things season 4.

Despite the popularity, the show does have its critics and some come from a place of genuine pain given their relation to Dahmer’s real-life victims. Rita Isbell, whose 19-year-old brother Errol Lindsey was murdered in 1991, called out Netflix for not informing her about the production or release of the series.

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66 year old hit by car which fled the scene in Mosta

Oct 10 2022

Police were informed this morning at around 0615hrs that an incident had taken place Triq il-Bidnija, Mosta.

Police convened immediately on site and preliminary investigations showed that a 66-year-old man from Naxxar had been hit by a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle fled the scene with the car.

The man was given medical attention on site and was then transported to Mater Dei Hospital. He was later certified as having suffered grievous injuries.

Investigations are still ongoing in an attempt to find the vehicle involved.

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EU President condemns bombing of Kyiv as sickening

Oct 10 2022

Following the bombardment of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, EU President Roberta Metsola came out against the Russian bombing of the city, which also saw civilians being killed and injured in the attack.

‘What is happening now in Kyiv is sickening’ said Metsola. ‘It shows the world, again, the regime we are faced with: One that targets indiscriminately. One that rains terror and death down on children.’

What is happening now in #Kyiv is sickening.

It shows the world, again, the regime we are faced with: One that targets indiscriminately. One that rains terror & death down on children.

This is criminal. They will be held to account. Ukraine will win. Europe will not look away. pic.twitter.com/0I594UlCMg

— Roberta Metsola (@EP_President) October 10, 2022

‘This is criminal’ she said. ‘They will be held to account. Ukraine will win. Europe will not look away.’

The capital city had not been bombed since the 26th of June as the war was pushed further into the bordering localities of Ukraine. However, Putin’s Russia blamed Ukraine for the recent explosions which took place on a bridge connecting Russia with annexed Crimea.

The bombardment of Kyiv follows this bridge bombing, which Ukraine has not taken responsibility for. However, Putin still labelled Ukraine as engaging in terrorist acts.

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