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Christiano Ronaldo makes history as Real Madrid cruise into last eight

Cristiano Ronaldo equalled Ferenc Puskas' goalscoring record as Real Madrid beat Schalke 3-1 and secured their progress to the quarter-finals of the competition with a 9-2 aggregate win. The prolific Portugal captain took his goal tally for the La Liga leaders to 41 for the season and 13 in the Champions League in 2013-14. The tie was settled in the first leg in Gelsenkirchen a fortnight ago, when Ronaldo also scored twice as Real hammered the Bundesliga side 6-1 to put one foot in the last eight and Ancelotti's men finished off the job at the Bernabeu. Ronaldo opened the scoring and restored Real's lead 16 minutes from time after Tim Hoogland briefly levelled for the visitors on the night. Alvaro Morata sealed the victory a minute after Ronaldo's second goal and the former Manchester United forward struck the crossbar and the post in another outstanding display. But there was concern for Madrid ahead of Sunday's Clasico against Barcelona as Jese Rodriguez was force

Eto'o, Cahill send chelsea to final eight of Ucl

Chelsea booked their place in the Champions Leaguequarter-finals with a comfortable 2-0 win over Galatasarayon Tuesday evening. First-half goals from Samuel Eto'o and Gary Cahill - on his 100th Chelsea appearance - sealed a comfortable 3-1 aggregate success, with the long-awaited Stamford Bridge return of Didier Drogba proving an anti-climax. Eto'o opened the scoring with the first attack of the game, controlling Oscar's pass before firing low into the corner and Chelsea made their dominance count shortly before the break when Cahill converted the rebound from a John Terry header. Former Chelsea striker Drogba had very little impact on the game, his most notable contribution coming in the first half when he blasted a free-kick over the crossbar and into a banner bearing his own name. Mourinho's spiky relationship with opposite number Roberto Mancini was well documented in the build-up, but it was the Portuguese who had the last laugh as Chelsea secured an untroubled pas

Sitting on a goldmine! Man finds $1MILLION lottery ticket after cleaning out his wallet

For nearly two weeks, Robert Manning was sitting on a goldmine and didn't realize it. The Virginia father recently cleaned out his wallet and checked his stack of Powerball tickets. To his shock, one of the tickets he'd purchased at 7-Eleven at Rolling Rd, Springfield,on March 5 was worth $1 million. 'It feels crazy,' he said, as lottery officials presented his winning ticket yesterday, NBC reported. 'It feels like there's nine million things going through my mind'. Numbers from the ticket he bought(3-7-9-26-54)matched the first five numbersfor the drawing. If the ticket matched the final Powerball number (19), the federal employee would have won the $40 million jackpot, officials told WUSA9. Manning said, with one child in college and another planning to go next year, the win came at a good time.

Woman, 64, shot dead her US Marine neighbor back from a St Patrick's Day celebration because she mistook him for an intruder trying to break into her home

A 64-year-old woman from a Houston suburb has shot dead her next-door neighbor, a firefighter and U.S. Marine, after hearing noises at her front door and seeing a man outside. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Tuesday said no charges have been filed against the trigger-happy Porter resident. Authorities say 27-year-old Samuel Keen had been out drinking with friends for Saint Patrick’s Day, took a taxi home and allegedly was drunk when he was gunned down Monday night. Investigators say Keen, a Houston firefighter, was shot through the door while trying to enter the woman's home. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. The case will be presented to a grand jury. Porter Mayor Annise Parker told KHOU11it appears that Keen tried to enter his neighbor's home thinking it was his residence after a night of drinking. According to sheriff's deputies, the elderly woman was home alone when she heard noises coming from her front porch at around 9.30pm Monday and saw a young man.

Pregnant mother who drove her three kids into the ocean 'tried to harm unborn child after her arrest by beating her stomach with her fists'

The South Carolina woman who drove into the sea in an alleged attempt to kill her three children also tried to harm her unborn child, a court in Florida heard. Ebony Wilkerson, who is 28 weeks pregnant, was seen ‘beating her stomach with her fists’ after her arrest. The 32-year-old was taken to a psychiatric ward where she has been kept for observation after being sectioned under the Baker Act. Details of the latest violence came at a bond hearing for Wilkerson. She has been charged with attempted murder after driving her minivan into the ocean at Daytona Beach, Florida. Her three children, aged three, nine and 10, were rescued by witnesses and lifeguards. Authorities said Wilkerson, who had driven from her home in South Carolina, deliberately drove into the ocean while her three kids were strapped inside. Details of her attempt to harm her unborn child came from State Attorney R.J. Larizza who said Wilkerson was taken to a psychiatric ward when she was seen ‘beating her stomach with h

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Jose Mourinho believes Didier Drogba will return to Chelsea one day as the Ivorian prepares to take on his former club with Galatasaray on Tuesday evening. Drogba will take the field at Stamford Bridge for the first time since leaving the Blues in the summer of 2012, immediately after scoring the winning penalty to clinch the club's first Champions League triumph. The Ivorian's feats have established him as one of Chelsea's greatest ever players, and Mourinho thinks he will return to the club in some capacity in the future. When asked whether he could see Drogba coming back, the Portuguese told reporters: "That's not for me [to decide]. That's for Chelsea [to decide]. I think it has to happen one day. "When? I don't know. As a player, as a coach, as an ambassador? Next year, in four to five years, in 10 years? I don't know. But when a person represents so much to a club and when a club represents so much to a person I think he has to be welcomed back. "Undoubtedly he's one of the most important players of the history of this club. That's not a doubt. "All Chelsea supporters agree with that. We don't say the most important one because that's not fair for other people that was in the same level and in the same generation. "Is he the same player at 36 than he was at 26? I think nobody is but he is one of the best strikers in the world. That's for sure."

Rooney issues rallying cry to 'brilliant' Manchester United fans for Olympiakos clash

Wayne Rooneyhas called on the "brilliant" Manchester Unitedfans to get behind the team when they take on Olympiakos in Wednesday's crucial Champions League clash. United must overturn a two-goal deficit from the first match in order to reach the quarter-finals but are still reeling from Sunday's 3-0 humiliation by bitter rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.

Man killed after being hit by a pickup truck for arguing about the end of 300: Rise of the Empire

A man who argued with two other movie goers about the ending of a film was struck outside the cinema by a truck driven by his adversaries and killed, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said on Monday. The men's discussion of the film grew more heated as the three left the theater and went to the parking lot after the late Sunday evening film. Two of the men then got into a white Ford F-150 pickup truck. 'The driver of the truck put the vehicle in reverse striking the victim and knocking him to the ground,' it said. The truck then sped away. The victim later died at a Tomball Regional Hospital, the sheriff for the Houston-area county said without identifying the man, according to the Houston Chronicle. The office would not name the film but witnesses told KHOU-TV that it was '300: Rise of an Empire,' a Greek-era action film steeped in battle scenes.