Kevin Grosskreutz 'sacked' by Stuttgart

World Cup winner Kevin Grosskreutz has been sacked by 2. Bundesliga side Stuttgart after he was involved in a street brawl that left him with serious head injuries. 

According to reports, witnesses claim he was jumped by four youths between the ages of 16 and 19.

Stuttgart said on its website that the 28-year-old right back’s contract has been terminated by mutual consent with immediate effect.

The former Borussia Dortmund defender Grosskreutz said in a press conference that he doesn’t want “anything to do with football for the time being.”

He did not suffer serious injury in the altercation. Police said on Tuesday that a 28-year-old man was taken to hospital with a head injury after receiving a punch in a fight between two groups on Monday.

This isn't the first time Grosskreutz' has been involved in the wrong side of headlines,

Hours after the final of the 2014 German Cup, Grosskreutz was seen urinating in the lobby of a Berlin hotel.

Tanzania jails notorious elephant poacher

Tanzania's most notorious elephant poacher, nicknamed "The Devil", has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Boniface Matthew Maliango, commonly known as ‘Shetani’ or ‘The Devil’, is one of Tanzania’s most notorious ivory traffickers. Today he was given a 12-year sentence,” the PAMS Foundation, which finances the government’s fight against poaching, wrote on its Facebook page.

The 47-year-old, considered the biggest ivory trafficker in east Africa, was arrested in Dar es Salaam in September 2015 after a year-long manhunt.

The Elephant Action League, which fights wildlife crime, said he was believed to be responsible for killing thousands of elephants at the head of 15 poaching syndicates operating throughout Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, Mozambique and southern Kenya.

He was sentenced alongside his brothers, Lucas Mathayo Maliango and Abdallah Ally Chaoga.

The three have been arrested in October 2015 whereas trying to smuggle tusks price greater than $850,000

He is also accused of leading a poaching network supplying a 66-year-old Chinese citizen Yang Fenlan known as the “Ivory Queen”, who is currently on trial in Tanzania for illegally trafficking 706 elephant tusks price $2.5m between 2000 and 2014.

'Weaker,' 'smaller,' 'less intelligent' women deserve less than men, Polish MEP states

A Polish nationalist member of the European Parliament may be punished after he said women "must earn less than men because they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent".

Janusz Korwin-Mikke is now being investigated over the comments made during a discussion on the gender pay gap.

The 74-year-old, who has his own party named Poland’s Coalition for the Renewal of the Republic–Liberty and Hope, said: “Of course women must earn less than men because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent, they must earn less, that’s all.”

The president of the EU parliament opened an investigation Thursday into those comments, for which Korwin-Mikke could face sanctions such as a reprimand, a fine or a temporary suspension.

In 2015, the foreign minister of Poland apologized after Korwin-Mikke raised his arm in a Nazi salute during a debate on plans for standardized ticketing on trips across EU borders.

Korwin-Mikke opposed the measure, and raised his hand in salute and said: "Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Ticket," a play on the Nazi-era slogan "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer." (One People, one Empire, one Leader).

Real Madrid and France great Raymond Kopa dies at age of 85

Raymond Kopa, first great French footballer on the world stage ahead of Michel Platini and then Zinedine Zidane, has died at 85. He was born at Noeux-les-Mines on October 13, 1931

Kopa won three consecutive European Cups with Real between 1957 and 1959, as well as two Spanish league titles.

He was the first Frenchman to be awarded the Ballon d'Or, finishing ahead of Germany's Helmut Rahn and compatriot Just Fontaine in 1958.

Nicknamed by an English journalist as the “Napoleon of football,” Kopa was the son of Polish immigrants, family name Kopaszewski, who travelled west in search of work in the mining industry in the north of France.

Capped by France 45 times, he scored 18 goals for his country and reached the 1958 World Cup semi-finals.

The president of the French Football Federation, Noel le Graet, said: "The passing of Raymond Kopa plunges the federation into immense sadness.

"It's a terrible loss for French football. Raymond Kopa is among the legends.

Kopa joined Real in 1956, after losing to them with French side Reims in the European Cup final.

He returned to Reims in 1959 and stayed until his retirement in 1967. #RIPRaymondKopa