US-based investment firm 777 Partners announced on Thursday it was purchasing of Genoa, Italy's oldest football club

His Excellency Saeed Hareb, Secretary General of Dubai Sports Council, received former Chelsea and Ivory Coast superstar Didier Drogba at the Council headquarters and presented him with the ‘Medal of First Line of Defence’ in appreciation of his support for the Council’s ‘Be Fit, Be Safe’ campaign

Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was suggested as the new head of the European Central Bank (ECB) this summer, although only a year ago she said emphatically she did not want a job in any European institution