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In Cameroon, state media said president Paul Biya had given his prime minister one month to submit a report on the Indomitable Lions’ “inglorious campaign”.
A statement from Biya’s office said the report should include steps for a “profound and deep restructuring of Cameroonian football”.
The state-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation said president John Mahama had also decided an investigation was needed. Mahama has already replaced his sports minister.
Prince Harry visited a Chilean shanty town community whose homes were destroyed by devastating wildfires — and fixed a family’s television.
The charity Techo is helping the villagers to build new homes out of chipboard and corrugated iron, and inside one of the shacks, home to Coca Perez, 50, and her teenage son and daughter, the prince noticed their television was not working properly.
Mrs Perez said: “He looked at it and he started to fiddle with the cable. He managed to get it working so we could watch Chile playing Brazil. Now I can tell everyone that Prince Harry is my TV repair man.”
John Cleese has ruled out a return for his Ministry of Silly Walks routine in the Monty Python reunion shows.
The comic told Alan Yentob in BBC One’s Imagine documentary he did not want to do the sketch – one of the comedy group’s most famous – during the shows at the O2 in Greenwich, south London.
He said: “The one thing I’m glad I won’t have to do is the silly walk sketch, which I never thought was as funny as everybody else did and I pointed out to Terry Jones, I think it was his idea, the only reason it became so iconic was the brilliance of my performance because I never thought it was a very good sketch.”
A former mining town in East Tennessee has changed its name to Rocky Top on a gamble that the popularity of the bluegrass standard will bring prosperity.
Tim Sharp, mayor of the town formerly known as Lake City, confirmed the move after a failed last-minute bid by publishers of the song to stop the change.
The song that declares, “Rocky Top, you’ll always be home, sweet home, to me”, has been recorded by dozens of performers over the years, including Dolly Parton and John Denver, and developers hope the name has the cachet to attract tourists. They have promised to build a complex that includes a 3D cinema, a live music venue, a waterpark and a 500-seat paddleboat restaurant.
A teenager is in custody for allegedly trying to smuggle more than $13,000 of methamphetamine into the US — in an accordion.
Customs and border protection officers said 18-year-old Eloy Renteria-Ortiz was arrested at the Port of Nogales after meth was found wrapped in black tape and hidden in the centre of the accordion he was carrying.
The drugs and instrument were seized, and he was turned over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
Tourists who got stuck waist-deep in mudflats off Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula as they attempted to photograph an eagle were rescued just as the tide turned.
KTUU-TV reports John Prince and William Shannon had ventured out onto the mudflats in Kasilof late Thursday.
Alaska State Troopers say they made it about 500 feet onto the flats before they got stuck.
Troopers say they were buried above their waists, and couldn’t get out of the mud. A third man who was with them called for help.
Rescuers got the men out about 12.30am Friday, just as the tide was coming back in.
Troopers say both men refused medical treatment and didn’t report any injuries.
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