Muhammad Ali was an “angel” and a “God-sent blessing to this Earth”, his brother Rahman said as it was revealed he died from septic shock caused by “unspecified natural causes”.

Chelsea 0 Manchester City 3

It says everything about this season of surprises that West Ham were bitterly upset to drop two points and miss out on a place in the top four after a controversial equaliser from the penalty spot by Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas.

Bangladesh’s central bank governor resigned yesterday over the theft of $81m (€73m) from the bank’s US account, as details emerged in the Philippines that $30m of the money was delivered in cash to a casino junket operator in Manila.

Bangladesh’s central bank governor Atiur Rahman has resigned after $81 million (€73m) was stolen from the bank’s account at the New York Fed in one of the largest cyber heists in history.

The biggest games often call for the greatest players to take centre stage.

Southampton 1 Chelsea 2

Maccabi Tel Aviv 0 Chelsea 4: Chelsea’s Champions League fate will go to the final group game after a 4-0 win over 10-man Maccabi Tel Aviv earned successive victories for the first time in two months.

Chelsea 1 Southampton 3: John Terry offered his backing to Jose Mourinho after Chelsea’s season took a significant turn for the worse on Saturday.

Spain striker Pedro feels a lack of playing time left him with no choice but to leave Barcelona and make the move to Premier League champions Chelsea.

A Bangladesh court has allowed police to hold three suspects, including a British citizen, for seven days for interrogation in the murders of two secular bloggers.

Chelsea will learn today if their appeal against the red card shown to goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois during Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Swansea at Stamford Bridge has been successful.

An object found on the French island of Reunion has been confirmed as “a domestic ladder” and is not a plane part, amid reports that a new piece of plane debris, possibly from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, was found on the island.

Bangladeshi security officials arrested a suspect yesterday over the killing of an American writer Avijit Roy, a prominent critic of extremist Islam, was hacked to death last week as he walked with his wife in Dhaka.

Attackers in Bangladesh have thrown crude fire bombs at a packed bus and a moving truck in two separate incidents, killing at least nine people and injuring 30.

The technology industry and its consumers must all collaborate and work together for the internet of things to succeed, Samsung Electronic’s president has said.

Two of Muhammad Ali’s daughters have played down concerns regarding the former heavyweight boxing champion’s health.

More than 80 bodies have been found two days after a devastating flash flood in Afghanistan as police and villagers scoured the rugged terrain for missing people.

Graeme McDowell expects the cream to rise to the top during the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne but is feeling confident about Ireland’s chances.

A teenage seamstress who survived for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed Bangladesh garment factory building has left hospital with a new job at an international hotel chain.

A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed clothes factory building outside Bangladesh’s capital is said to be making a good recovery in hospital.

A fire at a sweater manufacturer killed eight people — including a senior police officer, a Bangladeshi politician, and a top clothing industry official — barely two weeks after the collapse of a building housing other garment factories where the death toll approached 1,000.

Survivors from a garment factory that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 260 people described a deafening bang and tremors before the eight-floor building crashed down under them.

Japanese amateur Hideki Matsuyama shared the lead after round one of the Open Championship Asian qualifying event in Bangkok.

Muhammad Ali’s daughter dismissed rumours of the heavyweight boxing legend dubbed The Greatest being near death today, saying he was at home watching the Super Bowl.

Three officials at a Bangladesh factory where 112 workers died in a fire have been arrested on suspicion of locking staff inside.

The commander of Nato and US forces says that all Nato personnel are being recalled from Afghan ministries following an attack at the Interior Ministry in Kabul.

More than 2,000 angry Afghans have gathered outside a US airbase to protest against the inadvertent burning of Korans and other Islamic religious materials.

A day after nearly 250 survivors were rescued when a ferry sank off Papua New Guinea, crews searching for more than 110 missing people have found no further survivors.

Rescuers have plucked nearly 240 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea’s east coast after a ferry sank with as many as 350 people on board, officials said.

Rescue crews plucked more than 200 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea’s north-east coast today, after a ferry sank with as many as 350 people on board.

Four radical Islamists have admitted plotting a major pre-Christmas terror attack on the London Stock Exchange.

Four radical Islamists have admitted plotting a major pre-Christmas terror attack on the London Stock Exchange.

Four radical Islamists have today admitted an al-Qaida-inspired plot to detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange.

THE killing of al-Qaida’s number two leader deprives the group of a multi-talented manager who helped it spawn offshoots around the world and survive a US counter-terrorism campaign in Pakistan, analysts say.

Al-Qaida’s second in command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, a senior Obama administration official said today.

A five-storey apartment building has collapsed in the Bangladesh capital today, killing at least seven people and injuring another six, officials said.

The Supreme Court rejected final appeals today by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh’s independence leader in a military coup, a government lawyer said.

Authorities said security agents have arrested five suspected Islamic militants in southeastern Bangladesh and seized bomb-making materials.

A Pakistani terrorist jailed for six years in 2007 came to the UK on a student visa and later settled in the area where four of this week’s alleged al-Qaida bomb plot suspects lived.

Wladimir Klitschko stopped Hasim Rahman in the seventh round to retain his IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight titles at the SAP-Arena in Mannheim, Germany.

A crowded ferry sank during a tropical storm in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 42 people and leaving more than 40 missing.

A PENSIONER was “dragged like a doll” through the street in a fatal attack by his dog.