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  Ruben Dias wins vote in advance of Manchester City team-mate Kevin De Bruyne and Tottenham's Harry Kane; Nine City players obtained votes which accounted for 50 per cent of whole votes cast; Fran Kirby named FWA Women's FOTY earlier this month. Manchester City's Ruben Dias has been topped Football Writers' Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year for the 2020/21 season. The Portugal defender picked up extra votes than Man City team-mate Kevin De Bruyne and Tottenham striker Harry Kane, to declare the honour. Manchester City's excellence on their way to the Premier League title this season used to be mirrored in the balloting as 9 of Pep Guardiola's players picked up votes which accounted for 50 per cent of the whole votes cast. Reflecting on his award, Dias said: "It's a massive privilege, I'm very, very happy. I should no longer have executed it besides the success of the team, barring all and sundry in the group deserving this award. Only via th

  Paul Farrell, 55, stored a diary of threats and bribes used to hold one of his victims underneath control, Wood Green Crown Court heard. Farrell admitted seventy six offences in opposition to eight victims, from 1985 to 2020. He have to spend at least 18 years in jail. He used an region of the health facility for abuse however did no longer goal patients. Prosecutors linked Farrell, of Camden, north London, to at least five hundred cases of abuse, though they estimate the actual determine is "likely to be in the thousands". His 35-year marketing campaign of abuse protected tried rape, sexual assault of a baby below thirteen and making indecent pix of children. Farrell, who pleaded responsible at a preceding hearing, acted as a babysitter to human beings he had befriended in order to obtain get entry to to their children. He saved a diary of threats and bribes made to one of his victims, who was once aged 12 when the abuse began. To quit the boy from telling every person abo

  Twenty-nine years ago, much less than a 12 months after he had taken the bench, Justice Clarence Thomas joined a dissent calling the landmark opinion Roe v. Wade "plainly wrong" and an "erroneous constitutional decision." Over the years Thomas would say Roe had "no foundation in the Constitution" and name out the court's abortion precedents as "grievously wrong." He additionally took purpose at challenges to the Second Amendment, accusing decrease courts and his very own colleagues of thumbing their noses at the proper to endure arms, calling it a "disfavored right." Now Thomas is seventy two years historic with a head of grey hair and he is anticipating a new season on a 6-3 conservative majority court. The justices have agreed to hear a case subsequent time period that critics -- and some supporters -- say is intended to intestine Roe. They will additionally hear a Second Amendment case that ought to increase gun rights. And Tho

 Gretchen Whitmer Michigan governor apologized Sunday after curiously violating state-mandated social distancing recommendations at an East Lansing bar and grill. It used to be the ultra-modern pandemic-related misstep for the Democratic governor, who waited weeks to reveal partial small print of a non-public jet time out she took to go to her father in Florida after two of her pinnacle aides headed south as coronavirus instances surged in Michigan and residents have been advised towards touring south for spring break. A picture circulated on social media of Whitmer with a giant team of unmasked humans at an East Lansing bar-restaurant, The Landshark Bar & Grill, the Detroit Free Press stated Sunday. The Free Press suggested that photo, which suggests Whitmer seated with about a dozen, used to be posted on social media by means of one of the attendees, however later deleted. "Throughout the pandemic, I've been dedicated to following public fitness protocols," Whitmer

 India grew to become solely the 0.33 usa to file 300,000 Covid-19 deaths on Monday amid developing fears about a doubtlessly deadly fungal contamination putting some of these who have battled the virus. Over 8,800 whole instances of the so-called black fungus, acknowledged as mucormycosis, have been recorded throughout India, India's Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Sadananda Gowda, stated in a tweet Saturday. Although Gowda did now not share the reliable quantity of deaths triggered with the aid of mucormycosis, the Associated Press pronounced that neighborhood media discovered greater than 250 humans have died as a end result of the disease. India recorded over 4,454 Covid-19 deaths Monday, turning into solely the 0.33 u . s . a . in the world to attain over 300,000 whole deaths, after the United States and Brazil, in accordance to reliable data. It additionally suggested 222,315 new instances on Monday, including to a complete of over 26 million cases. Mucormycosis has re