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Real Madrid are planning to offload Bale and Colombia playmaker James Rodriguez, 28, to fund a move for Paris St-Germain's France international forward Kylian Mbappe, 20. (Calciomercato) Meanwhile, RealMadrid president Florentino Perez plans to do everything in his power to secure Mbappe's transfer to the Bernabeu next summer. (AS)

Manchester City defender Oleksandr Zinchenko could be out for up to six weeks after having knee surgery. FULL REPORT

That brings back memories of what Moyes said when he took over from SAF in his first season in charge at United and they were beaten by City then managed by Pellegrini. For the second time in 10 days, Moyes found himself explaining the reasons behind a heavy home defeat to a regional rival - Liverpool having won by the same scoreline against the reigning champions. "I think we've played a very good side and it's the sort of standard and level we need to try and aspire to get ourselves to at this moment in time..." Sky Sports But hopefully Ole is not another Moyes...gulp.

Crystal Palace have secured a £22.5m boost after they sold an instalment owed on the deal which took England Under-21 defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka, 21, to Manchester United to an Australian bank in order to receive the money now. (Evening Standard)

The future of Liverpool's kit deal is set to be confirmed on Friday when a judge decides whether New Balance or Nike have rights to the lucrative contract. (Liverpool Echo)

Real Madrid have identified Athletic Bilbao's Spanish goalkeeper Unai Simon, 22, as a potential replacement for Belgium stopper Thibaut Courtois, 27. (El Desmarque, via AS)

Looks like you were right @Stan, so sad. "The 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry trailer had “no chance of survival” in sub-zero temperatures, according to a haulage expert..."

Aye, they have just said on the ITV news there was no air getting into the container once it was sealed.

That's the wife just screamed in the kitchen while making the tea, pull a pot out of the kitchen cupboard to use and saw this, it's one of wee Kaidens plastic toy spider, he must have put it there to scare his gran as he knows she hates spiders

The face of medieval man reconstructed from a 600-year-old skeleton SLIDES - 1/4 The face of a medieval man has been reconstructed from skeletal remains buried more than 600 years ago. The bones - found during the redevelopment of Aberdeen Art Gallery in 2015 - were used in conjunction with facial reconstruction technology to help experts paint a picture of what life was like in the Middle Ages. The result of their work has been dubbed Skeleton 125, or SK 125, who is thought to have been at least 46 years old, between 5ft 2in and 5ft 5in in height, and suffered from extensive dental and joint disease. Researchers at AOC Archaeology Group said evidence suggests the man was not local to Aberdeen but may have spent his childhood in the northwest Highlands of the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. His remains date back to the time of the old Blackfriars Dominican Friary, which is believed to have been founded at some point between 1222AD and 1249AD. The discovery caused the redevelopment of the gallery, which itself is more than 130 years old, to be suspended. Dr Paula Milburn, from the archaeology group, said: "SK 125 has provided us with a first fascinating glimpse of one of the people buried on the site of Aberdeen Art Gallery over 600 years ago. "The ongoing post-excavation work is examining the remains in detail and will provide us with amazing information on the kind of people buried here, including their ages, gender, health and lifestyles." Dozens of other full skeletons were also found at the site but have not been reconstructed like SK 125. After a four-year wait, Aberdeen Art Gallery is due to reopen on Saturday 2 November. Work to transform the venue cost £36.4m - its biggest investment since it opened in 1885 - and includes improvements to the buildings, new galleries and a new exhibition. VisitScotland expects it to attract around 250,000 visitors annually. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/face-of-medieval-man-reconstructed-from-600-year-old-skeleton/ar-AAJcA5c

I saw that on the news this morning, FFS, don't know what the cause of the deaths was yet but it makes me think that maybe petrol fumes from the lorry building up inside the container for such a long time left them being gassed? I hope those involved in the trafficking of people get sent down for a long, long, time and they get the shit kicked out of them inside nick.

Take a Virtual Tour of a 17th-Century Dutch Smugglers’ Shipwreck When the wreck of the Dutch smuggling ship Melckmeyt was found off the coast of Iceland in 1992, the only way to explore it was with diving equipment. That's no longer the case: As Live Science reports, shipwreck enthusiasts can now experience the watery ruin at home by taking a virtual tour. Sunk by a storm on October 16, 1659, the Melckmeyt (Dutch for Milkmaid) is Iceland's oldest shipwreck. Its origins are Dutch, but when it set sail 360 years ago, the vessel flew a Danish flag. That's because it had been illegal for the Netherlands to trade with Iceland, which was ruled by Denmark at the time, so to smuggle goods into Icelandic ports, the Dutch sailors posed as a Danish crew. The Melckmeyt was one of a fleet of illicit merchant ships meant to travel from the Netherlands to Iceland in 1659. After sinking that year, the wreck spent centuries in the cold, protective waters off the island of Flatey near Iceland's west coast. When it was discovered by local divers in the early 1990s, the lower hull of the ship was still in impressive condition. The shipwreck remains in its frigid resting place at the bottom of the North Atlantic, but you don't need to book a flight or don a wetsuit to see it. In 2016, researchers from the University of Iceland and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands captured high-resolution scans of the site and used them to construct a 3D model. Today, that model is available for anyone to explore on YouTube, either as a virtual reality experience with a headset or an interactive 360° video. During the three-minute tour, you'll follow virtual divers on a journey into the ship's remains. The video ends with a computer-generated model showing what the ship might have looked like before it was ravaged by time. The video is free for anyone to watch from their computer, but if you find yourself in Iceland, you can view the recreation with a VR headset at the Reykjavik Maritime Museum. Itching to get in touch with your inner deep-sea explorer? Here are some shipwrecks you can visit in real-life. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/take-a-virtual-tour-of-a-17th-century-dutch-smugglers-shipwreck/ar-AAJdq4S

Researchers find second warship from WWII Battle of Midway © Provided by The Associated Press Rob Kraft, director of undersea operations at Vulcan Inc., reviews sonar scans of a warship from the World War II Battle of Midway that was found by his crew on the research vessel Petrel, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019, off Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones) MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went down in the historic Battle of Midway. Vulcan Inc.'s director of undersea operations Rob Kraft and Naval History and Heritage Command historian Frank Thompson reviewed high-frequency sonar images of the warship Sunday and say that it's dimensions and location mean it has to be the carrier, Akagi. © Provided by The Associated Press The sun rises over Vulcan Inc.'s research vessel Petrel nearly 200 miles off Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. The crew of the Petrel found the sunken remains of the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, which sank in the historic Battle of Midway, and are searching the vast area for other sunken warships in the coming days. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones) The Akagi was found in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument resting in nearly 18,000 feet (5,490 meters) of water more than 1,300 miles (2,090 kilometres) northwest of Pearl Harbor. The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, equipped with sonar to find the ship. The vehicle had been out overnight collecting data, and the image of a warship appeared in the first set of readings Sunday morning. The first scan used low-resolution sonar, so the crew sent their AUV back to get higher-quality images. FULL REPORT

Bezos floats 'national team' to build Moon lander Jeff Bezos has announced the formation of a "national team" that will aim to build the lander that will take astronauts back to the Moon in 2024. Bezos' space company Blue Origin has teamed up with aerospace giants Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper to bid for the landing system. The White House has set the ambitious goal of sending a man and a woman to the lunar South Pole within five years. Bezos outlined the plan at a meeting in Washington DC. The Amazon founder called the partnership "a national team for a national priority". Nasa had originally planned to mount the Moon return mission in 2028. But earlier this year, Vice President Mike Pence announced the administration's plan to accelerate that timeline by four years. FULL REPORT

Crystal Palace will rival Aston Villa in a bid to sign Colombia striker Alfredo Morelos, 23, from Rangers in January. (Express)

Wee Kaiden creating a Dragon Garden, he can watch them grow every time he visits, back to school tomorrow so he can tell his teacher and classmates how to grow an indoor garden.

The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash What happened to the dinosaurs when an asteroid about six miles wide struck Earth some 66 million years ago in what is today Mexico is well known: It wiped them out. But the exact fate of our planet’s diverse ocean dwellers at the time — shelly ammonites, giant mosasaurs and other sea creatures — has not been as well understood. New research now makes the case that the same incident that helped bring an end to the reign of the dinosaurs also acidified the planet’s oceans, disrupted the food chain that sustained life underwater and resulted in a mass extinction. The study, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, aims to shore up the hypothesis that the Chicxulub event’s destruction of marine life — the result of sulfur-rich rocks depositing acid rain into the oceans — was just as severe as the fire and fury it brought to land. FULL REPORT

I take it you mean this video, I got a bit worried as the post above you was the one I put in with the statues underwater and I thought "WTF...that's not a video with underwater statues with hairy chests?"

Man Utd fan allegedly racially abused Liverpool player at Old Trafford Manchester United ejected a fan from the game with Liverpool for allegedly racially abusing a player who was reported to be Trent Alexander-Arnold. The Old Trafford club says the fan will be banned for life if it is proved an offence was committed at Sunday's game. A United spokesman said the matter was being investigated "as a priority". A club statement added: "Racism and all forms of discrimination are completely unacceptable and do not reflect the values of our club." FULL REPORT

Haringey's FA Cup fourth qualifying round tie with Yeovil, which was abandoned amid reports of racial abuse, is to be replayed on the 29 October

27 Maya ritual sites discovered on an online map by eagle-eyed archaeologist © FoxNews.com Researchers have uncovered a 1,500-year-old stucco mask of Maya ruler K'inich Janaab 'Pakal. What differentiates this mask from others is it’s seemingly made in the king’s likeness. An eagle-eyed archaeologist has used a freely available online map to locate 27 Maya ceremonial sites in Mexico. Takeshi Inomata, a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona, made the discovery using a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) map he found online last year, according to the New York Times. LiDAR technology harnesses a laser to measure distances to the Earth’s surface and can prove extremely valuable to study what is hidden in areas with thick vegetation. The 2011 map, which covers 4,400 square miles of the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, was published by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography, the Times reported. Inomata told Fox News that the discovery followed his research at the site of Ceibal in Guatemala, where a ceremonial complex dating back to 1000 to 900 B.C. were found. “We then went to this area (Tabasco) thinking that there may be similar ceremonial complexes of this period,” he explained, via email. “It was great to see that there [are] more sites of this type than we expected. It is also remarkable that they had very standardized rectangular formations.” Although visible on LiDAR maps, many sites, such as one dubbed “La Carmelita” are difficult to find in ground-based surveys, according to the Times. The discovery of the 27 lost Maya ritual sites sheds new light on the ancient culture. “This is the period when people were just starting to use ceramics and adopting a sedentary way of life,” he explained. “The presence of these formal ceremonial complex in this early period indicates that certain rituals and religious ideas spread over a wide area as people accepted new ways of life.” The Mexican Institute of Anthropology and History also participated in the project. There have been a number of fascinating Maya discoveries across central America in recent years. Experts recently discovered a unique ancient tool that was used by Maya salt workers more than 1,000 years ago. Fashioned from the mineral jadeite, the chisel-style implement was found at the site of Ek Way Nal, a Maya salt works in southern Belize that is now submerged in a saltwater lagoon. Last year an ancient mask depicting a 7th-century Maya king was discovered in southern Mexico. Also in 2018, archaeologists harnessed sophisticated technology to reveal lost cities and thousands of ancient structures deep in the Guatemalan jungle, confirming that the Maya civilization was much larger than previously thought. LiveScience reports that hundreds of Maya artefacts that may have been used in ritual animal sacrifices have also been discovered at the bottom of a Guatemalan lake. From its heart in what is now Guatemala, the Maya empire reached the peak of its power in the sixth century A.D., according to History.com, although most of the civilization’s cities were abandoned around 900 A.D. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/27-maya-ritual-sites-discovered-on-online-map-by-eagle-eyed-archaeologist/ar-AAJ1M7k

Dive in: Take a tour through these amazing underwater attractions Earth is more water than anything else. Humans have explored only 5% of the oceans' vastness and yet that tiny percentage houses some of the Pale Blue Dot's most biodiverse ecosystems. But living organisms aren't the only sign of life found underwater. Humans have also left their mark in the waters, dotting it with beautiful—and often tragic—reminders of our existence. Take a look at these beautiful attractions. SLIDES - 1/31