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London rivals Crystal Palace will be the guests on Wednesday as the doors finally open for the sell-out Premier League clash at Spurs' new stadium. Officially named the 'Tottenham Hotspur Stadium' it's been built on the site of the famous old White Hart Lane site. Spurs' new stadium is now the second largest club ground in the country, behind Old Trafford in Manchester. Here are a few more things you might not know about it: The cost The new stadium is thought to have cost around £850 million, slightly more expensive than the £789 million to build Wembley. It was first estimated to cost around £400 million, but in 2017 it was reported it would actually be nearly double that. No cash allowed It is strictly contactless payments only at Tottenham Hotspur's new stadium. The new ground will be the first in the country to not accept coins and notes, with 878 payment points around the stadium. Fans, lots of them A whopping 62,062 fans can ...

DOMAIN, WIKI COMMONS Two hundred years after her birth, Queen Victoria is taking over Buckingham Palace again. As part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the birth of Britain’s second longest reigning monarch, the most famous royal residence of them all will host a special exhibition focusing on the impact Victoria had there. The display, called Queen Victoria’s Palace, will show visitors how the young queen transformed the London building from an often neglected home into a focal point for the Monarchy and her Royal Family. It will chart the transformations she brought about at the palace and look at how she and her consort, Prince Albert, used it as an official and family residence. Highlights of the exhibition include one of Victoria’s ballgowns, made for her in 1851 from silk, brocade and lace and inspired by the court of King Charles II. It was created for the Stuart Ball held at Buckingham Palace that year, one of several such events Victoria and Albert ho...

President Muhammadu Buhari, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, and President of African Development Bank Akinwunmi Adesina, were at the swearing-in of the Senegal President, Macky Sall, for his second term. Other prominent Nigerians at the august occasion are chairman of Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu, MD Sahara Power Group, Kola Adesina, and others. See the photographs by Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Bashir Ahmad: President Muhammadu Buhari, Senegal President Macky Sall embrace 2'   L-R: MD, Sahara Power Group, Kola Adesina; President, African Development Bank Akinwunmi Adesina; President Muhammadu Buhari, and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo at the swearing-in of the Senegal President, Macky Sall. Twitter image NEWS PHOTOS: Buhari, Obasanjo, eminent Nigerians at Senegalese president’s swearing-in  President Muhammadu Buhari, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, and President of African Development B...

Jose Mourinho has taken a thinly veiled swipe at “His Excellency” Paul Pogba and claimed he risked being sacked if he handled the Manchester United midfielder in the wrong way. The collapse of Mourinho’s relationship with Pogba was one of the reasons behind United’s decision to sack the former Chelsea and Real Madrid manager in December and bring in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. But Mourinho - who in January launched an attack on player power at Old Trafford - has suggested he was always treading on eggshells where Pogba was concerned. Pogba was stripped of the vice-captaincy by Mourinho in September not long after an incident following a 2-0 win over Burnley, when the Portuguese was angered by the club record £89 million signing leaving Turf Moor in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce instead of travelling back to Manchester on the team coach. Detailing the story in a coaching seminar in Portugal on Monday, Mourinho referred mockingly to Pogba as “His Excellency” and claimed he was at ri...

King's James was not the one that translate bible to English language but he was the one that order for the printing of the Bible to an English version.  The followers of  John Wycliffe  undertook the first complete English translations of the Christian scriptures in the 14th century. These translations were banned in 1409 due to their association with the  Lollards . The  Wycliffe Bible pre-dated the printing press but was circulated very widely in manuscript form, often inscribed with a date earlier than 1409 to avoid the legal ban. As the text translated in the various versions of the Wycliffe Bible was the Latin  Vulgate , and as it contained no heterodox readings, there was in practice no way by which the ecclesiastical authorities could distinguish the banned version; consequently many Catholic commentators of the 15th and 16th centuries (such as  Thomas More ) took these manuscript English Bibles to represent an anonymous earlier orthodox trans...