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The 23-year-old, who recently recovered from a knee injury sustained in January 2017 while on national duty with Ghana at the Africa Cup of Nations, passed his medical at the Veltins-Arena on Friday. Baba was linked with a loan move to Premier League sides Everton and Newcastle United as well as Turkish outfits Galatasaray and Fenerbahce but he opted to return to German after he was promised more playing time by Schalke coach Domenico Tedesco, according to reports....

The calf fell gently to the sand at the zoo enclosure while her mother Donna and her grandmother Kaylee helped the youngster out of its amniotic sac. Then, in extraordinary video footage of the birth on Monday, Donna can be seen herding other elephants into a corner to keep her baby safe. Heartwarming footage shows the youngster getting to her feet and taking her first shaky steps around the enclosure at the zoo in Bedfordshire....

Since Dallas Zoo announced the news on social media Tuesday, their Facebook post has received an outpouring of support, racking up over 15,000 reactions and thousands of comments. Known as the world’s tallest land mammals, giraffes are often a favorite zoo attraction. However, in recent years, some have begun to argue against keeping the massive creatures in captivity at all. In Europe, activists have called for zoos to phase out captive giraffes in their facilities, advocating instead for an emphasis on the protection and conservation of their wild populations....

In a video posted to Twitter by Kim Shine of WDJT-TV in Milwaukee, dozens of baby strollers and chairs can be seen after they were recovered by city officials. “These are some of the items left behind after the #WaukeshaChristmasParade incident. Many chairs, shoes, tumblers, a backpack,” the tweet said. “You can pick them up at the Parks, Rec & Forestry Dept. — 1900 Aviation Dr. — from 8-4:30pm today and tomorrow....

Last week the Justice Department and the state of Alabama announced that they had reopened the investigation, throwing fresh light on the murky subculture of truck-stop racists that was at the heart of the South’s worst moments - and on how J. Edgar Hoover’s peculiarities may have helped guilty men go unpunished. By coincidence, Spike Lee has just released a documentary on the church bombing, ““4 Little Girls.’’ But the probe is part of a larger, more important trend: a series of visits back into the deadly days of the movement....

Lin might no longer be in the starring role he once filled in New York, but in Thursday’s 109-106 Rockets victory, he was hardly a subplot. He came up huge for Houston in the fourth quarter when he was most needed. James Harden led the team with 36 points, and Chandler Parsons had 22, but it was Lin’s 12 points in the final period that kept the Knicks at bay and pushed the Rockets to the win....

After the incident, there were recriminations over what Comey portrayed as an attempt by Bush’s top lawyer and chief of staff to “take advantage” of a very ill man. Comey didn’t tell the Senate panel that the bad feelings were stoked even more the next morning when White House officials explained the hospital visit by saying Gonzales and Card were unaware that Comey was acting A.G. (and therefore the only person authorized to sign off on the surveillance program), according to a former senior DOJ official who requested anonymity talking about internal matters....

At a time when blacks and others are decrying poor minority representation on mainstream TV, BET offers an alternative. For nearly two decades, it’s been the only network exclusively aimed at black America. Founded and owned by former congressional press secretary Robert Johnson, 53, BET has grown from a fledgling netlet into an empire valued at $1.5 billion that reaches 90 percent of black cable households. But despite the lack of color elsewhere on TV, BET’s viewers and employees have become increasingly inclined to scrutinize the network–and to dislike what they see....

Reyaard Pieterse keeps his place in the starting line-up alongside skipper Siyanda Xulu, Aubrey Modiba and Motjeka Madisha, while Siyabonga Ngezana comes in to complete the back four. The Kaizer Chiefs centre-back replaces Cape Town City’s Taariq Fielies as Baxter looks to give as many players as possible a run now that the gold medal has eluded them. Wiseman Meyiwa and Gift Links take over from Gift Motupa and Luther Singh respectively....

Although if she knew football the way she knows Top 40 hits, she’d see what everyone else saw Saturday. MORE: Week 3 photos | Top 25 fared | Michigan needs plays from QB Baker Mayfield is just what the Sooners need. He’s a leader. His teammates rally around him. He can run the ball and he can really, really throw it. Trevor Knight had his moments, but in the four losses he started last year, he completed just 52....

That’s all there is to it after seeing Mayfield’s latest viral reel in No.4 Oklahoma’s 41-3 victory against Kansas on Saturday. The “OMG” recap goes something like this: Jayhawks players refused to shake Mayfield’s hand during the pregame toss, Mayfield grabbed his crotch and gave the Kansas sideline multiple two-word salutes and told Kansas hecklers to, “Go cheer on basketball.” MORE: Mayfield, the can’t-miss star all of college football missed...

The 28-year-old forward was considered to be a doubt for the Liga encounter after picking up an injury while on Champions League duty. 17/2 for Real and Espanyol to draw Bale impressed against Borussia Dortmund in midweek, scoring one goal and assisting another, but was forced off five minutes from the end after feeling the back of his leg. Zidane conceded at his press conference ahead of the Espanyol clash that he could be without the Wales international, although hinted that he should be able to link up with his country this week....

Look no further than the new book “Design for Democracy: Ballot + Election Design,” by Marcia Lausen, an elegant examination of how to improve the utility of our nation’s varied—and, in some cases, shockingly bad—voter materials. In reaction to the problems brought to national attention in the 2000 elections—when Americans learned all about the troubles with “butterfly ballots” and “hanging chads”—a group of designers led by Lausen (a professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois at Chicago) developed a comprehensive visual system for everything from voter registration pamphlets to instructions for setting up ballot-counting tables....

Unlike the big box office numbers “Concussion” will do, for now the cast and crew of “X’s and O’s” don’t know where they will be next. But ensemble member Dwight Hicks — who won two Super Bowls as a safety for the 49ers in the 1980s — implores anyone who wants to see the movie to supplement it with his play. MORE: ‘Concussion’ delivers important message | NFL downplays ‘Concussion’...

The youthful faces of protesters, and a pocket of rioters, in Charm City’s streets and flashed across television and computer screens was a disheartening reminder of the state of sports and recreation centers around town. MORE ON BALTIMORE: Muggsy Bogues worried about Baltimore youth | Athletes call for peace | Lewis, Ravens helping schools “When I was growing up, you talk about a difference from 1983 when I was in high school to today, we had rec centers that we could go to after school,” Loyola men’s assistant basketball coach and former Maryland player Keith Booth said....

As the 12th Street riots split apart an inner city neighborhood, the Tigers split a double-header with the Yankees. In the second game, Detroit won 7-3. Willie Horton, the left fielder hitting cleanup, clubbed a home run. Then the team told Horton and his teammates to do what he’d already done: go home. Stay safe. Willie Horton (Getty Images) MORE: Orioles will play to empty park | Ray Lewis gives empassioned plea to Baltimore...

It’s a matter of life and death to Ali, who has needed protection since Theo van Gogh—her collaborator on a documentary about the repression of women under Islam—was murdered in 2004. Reached in Paris last week, Ali said she was “deeply grateful” to Harris and others who have come to her defense. (The cost of her protection is secret, but it’s believed to exceed $2 million a year.) She’s working on a new book, “Shortcut to Enlightenment,” in which the Prophet Muhammad comes back to tour New York City and debate modern (although dead) philosophers John Stuart Mill and Friedrich von Hayek—not a subject likely to calm Islamist anger....

On Instagram, the England-based street artist shared new artwork, this time created in his bathroom. Banksy’s latest depicts rats—a recurring theme in his work—rampaging across his bathroom, spilling toothpaste, scattering toilet paper and peeing all over the seat. “My wife hates it when I work from home,” Bansky captioned an Instagram post, highlighting his bathroom’s mischief of rats. What, you didn’t know a group of rats is called a mischief?...