World number five Ons Jabeur secured her first title of the season on Sunday with a 7-6 (8-6) 6-4 victory over Belinda Bencic in the Charleston Open final.

Jabeur, 28, enjoyed the best campaign of her career in 2022 as she reached the finals of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.But she was sidelined due to knee trouble following this year’s Australian Open.

The Tunisian returned with early exits at the Indian Wells Open and Miami Open, meaning she came into Charleston without consecutive wins since early January.

But she looked right back to her best at the WTA 500 event, not dropping a set the entire tournament.

Jabeur beat Lesia Tsurenko, Caroline Dolehide, Anna Kalinskaya and Daria Kasatkina to reach the final.

But she had to respond to early adversity against Bencic as the Swiss secured a break in the opening game of the first set.

Down 5-4 in the opener, Jabeur broke back at the last opportunity to keep the set alive. And after falling 6-4 behind in the tie-break, she rattled off the next four points in a row to steal it.

The second set was all about making the most of her chances, as Jabeur only had three break-point chances compared to Bencic’s five.But she was able to convert all three, while Bencic could only snag two.

The final was a rematch from last year’s Charleston Open title match, where Bencic prevailed over Jabeur in three sets.It is Jabeur’s first title since the German Open in June, where she again had to overcome Bencic in the final.

Jabeur now leads their head-to-head 3-2 in matches played at the WTA Tour level.

Israel Adesanya knocked out long-time rival, Alex Pereira, to regain the UFC middleweight belt in the early hours of Sunday at Miami.

Adesanya came out for revenge against Pereira who gave him a TKO in the final round last November, stripping him of his middleweight belt.

But Adesanya bounced back from his last defeat to become UFC middleweight champion again, brutally knocking out Pereira in the second round.

It was the fourth clash between Adesanya and Pereira with former U.S. President Donald Trump, Mike Tyson and UFC president, Dana White, and a host of others in attendance.

The Lagos State police command on says it has rescued two victims from kidnappers’ den in the Ikorodu area of the state.

Operatives busted the kidnapper’s hideout on Thursday night.

There was a fierce exchange of fire by the police officer and kidnappers, a member of the kidnappers gang was killed in the process.

Police spokesperson in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin said two abducted victims were rescued and ammunition were recovered at the scene.

“Yes, the incident is true; the Police are on top of the situation, and the tension has been calmed. Two kidnapped victims were rescued at the scene,” Mr Hundeyin said.

Former Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with leukemia, according to Corriere della Sera, a top Italian newspaper.

Berlusconi, 86, a right wing politician, was hospitalized on Wednesday April 5, with breathing problems.

His spokesman, Paolo Russo, did not deny the reports of ill health when asked, and said he is “not authorized to give health info but the Corriere della Sera is the most authoritative Italian newspaper.”

A second spokesperson for the Forza Italia party leader did not deny the report when contacted by the publication.

The controversial politician has served three stints as Italy’s prime minister, most recently between 2008 and 2011, before being banned from politics for six years following a conviction for tax fraud.

Berlusconi returned to frontline politics in 2022 when he won a seat in Italy’s Senate, representing the northern municipality of Monza.

In 2021 he was hospitalized for treatment for the symptoms of long Covid-19, according to the press office of his Forza Italia party.

He also spent time in the hospital the previous year after contracting the coronavirus, and had a 2016 heart surgery to replace an aortic valve.

Three children and three other persons were killed in a shooting that took place on Monday at the Covenant school, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, according to local reports.

The shooter, described as a female who appeared to be in her teens, is also dead, said police spokesperson Don Aaron.

Local media outlets report that three of the students with gunshot wounds were pronounced dead after arrival at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the medical centre said. The shooting triggered a massive police and fire response.

All concerned parents gathered outside the school to wait for word from their loved ones. The Covenant school in Nashville, where the incident occurred, is a private Christian school for students in pre-school through the sixth grade when students are roughly 11 or 12 years old.

According to its website, the school has approximately 200 students and successfully adopted an “ active shooter “program in 2022.

Tennessee’s House Democratic caucus, in a statement, said its members are “ praying for the children and their families who were shooting victims at the Covenant School.”

The caucus chairman John Ray Clemmons said, “Our thoughts are with the families of the entire school community and surrounding neighbourhood.”

According to a CNN tally, the shooting is the 19th incident at a school or university so far this year that wounded at least one person. The Covenant school is a private Christian school founded in 2001 as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church.

The Seychelles Supreme Court has remanded a Nigerian woman arrested on conspiracy to import and traffic a controlled drug, the police said in a press release on Monday, March 27, 2023.

The police said the 52-year-old woman is being detained after she was arrested at the Seychelles International Airport on Thursday after her arrival on an Ethiopian Airline flight, SeychellesNewsAgency reported.

The arrest of the Nigerian followed a search, discovery, and seizure of 250 grammes of what is suspected to be cocaine.

The arrest comes a little less than a year after another foreign female national, Elsie Esther Vambe, 45, was sentenced to five years in prison for the importation of a controlled drug and another five years for trafficking a controlled drug.

The Zimbabwean female national was sentenced to five years in prison in April 2022 for the importation and trafficking of a controlled drug after she pleaded guilty to both offences. The sentences will run concurrently, which means Vambe will be imprisoned for five years.

Last Friday, the police said a 58-year-old businessman from Nigeria, Patrick Ikechukwu Uwaoma, was sentenced to 30 years after he was found guilty of the importation of cocaine.

Uwaoma, who was residing in the United States, was intercepted by the police and customs officers at the airport on November 20 last year. He arrived in Seychelles on an Ethiopian Airlines flight.

During a search of his luggage, the officers found a little more than 4.5 kg of cocaine. The Seychelles’ archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, has a zero-tolerance policy towards the trafficking and importation of illegal drugs. There is a maximum sentence of life in prison if found guilty.