Romelu Lukaku became the first to score the 2016/2017 English football season hat-trick after goals within the space of eleven minutes saw off perennial relegation strugglers Sunderland in the final game of the Premier League’s fourth round fixtures.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde will go on trial in France on December 12 over a massive state payout to tycoon Bernard Tapie made when she was finance minister, the court hearing the case said Monday. Lagarde, 60, will be tried for negligence by the Court of Justice of the Republic — a tribunal that hears cases against ministers accused of wrongdoing in the discharge of their duties.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the governorship election in Edo rescheduled to Sept. 28, Mr Osaro Onaiwu, has called for further shift of the exercise to Oct. 1. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday announced the postponement of the election fixed for Saturday to Sept. 28, following insecurity alert by security agencies.

Donald Trump will have an address on Pennsylvania Avenue whether or not he wins November’s election, after his new super-luxury hotel opened on Monday, steps from the White House. Not everyone was applauding his name in large gold-colored letters adorning the 263-room, $212 million Trump International Hotel glinting in the bright morning sun.

A car bomb exploded Monday outside the provincial HQ of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the eastern Turkish city of Van, wounding more than 50 people, including four police, local authorities said. Turkish officials blamed the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state and is considered a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies.