LeBron James extends contract with Los Angeles Lakers for $85m!

Fresh off winning the 2020 NBA title, LeBron James has signed a contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers worth a reported $85 million.

James' agent and CEO of Klutch Sports, Rich Paul, first told The Athletic's Shams Charania about the new contract, as well as confirming the agreement to multiple outlets on Wednesday. The deal sees him remain a Laker until the end of the 2022-23 season, and opens up the possibility of playing in the NBA at the same time as his son, Bronny. 

James' current deal had been set to expire at the end of the 2021-22 season. As part of the new deal, James is set to earn $41 million in the first year of the extension, before he earns $44.5 million in the final year of his contract. LeBron James has agreed a two-year extension with the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he won the 2020 NBA Championship in October. 

At the age of 38, he will become a free agent again in 2023 -- the same year his eldest son Bronny graduates from high school.

Photos: TIME Magazine announces its first-ever Kid of the Year, 15 y.o Gitanjali Rao

TIME Magazine has announced its first-ever Kid of the Year – 15-year-old scientist and inventor Gitanjali Rao.

Rao's love for science began at the age of 10 when she discovered carbon nanotube sensor technology, which uses molecules to detect chemicals in water, and her passion grew from there. 

Prior to being named Kid of the Year, Roa was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for developing a mobile device in 2017 to test for lead in drinking water – an innovation she made to address the Flint, Michigan water crisis.

Her most recent project is an app called Kindly that uses artificial intelligence to detect cyberbullying online at an early stage. 

Roa was selected from a group of more than 5,000 nominees, but judges were astonished by her use of technology to combat a number of social issues ranging from contaminated water to opioid addiction and cyberbullying.

Angelina Jolie interviews @TIME's first ever kid of the year, Gitanjali Rao.

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— best of angelina jolie (@bestofajolie) December 3, 2020

Photos: Lady smuggles cocaine in a watermelon 'pregnancy' arrested in Brazil

A woman who smuggled cocaine in a watermelon which she disguised as a baby bump has been arrested in Brazil.

Pretending to be pregnant, the woman boarded a bus bound for Rio de Janeiro but she was searched after police were tipped off about a drugs case. 

According to Complex per the New York Post, a São Paulo woman boarded a bus headed to Rio De Janeiro. 

Initially it was assumed she was pregnant, but she was subjected to a search after authorities received a tip about a narcotics case. 

The lady’s “baby bump” was actually a hollowed-out watermelon holding four bricks of cocaine paste. 

After the search, the woman confessed to obtaining the cocaine in Paraguay. The bricks totaled around 4.5 pounds and she claimed to have been smuggling them to Rio in exchange for around $100 USD. She has since been arrested for her hand in the trafficking operation and is currently in jail in Guara on undisclosed charges. São Paulo military police appeared to give her out-of-the-box strategy props, describing the scheme as “creativity without limit” on its official Facebook page. 

While it’s unusual to pretend that you’re pregnant, mules have been creating elaborate ways to get cocaine across borders for ages. 

In 2018, police in Portugal and Spain seized 1,642 pounds of cocaine that was hidden inside fresh pineapples coming into the area from South America.

Photos: Adolf Hitler wins election in Namibia

A politician named after Adolf Hitler has won a seat at a Namibian election - but says he has no plans for world domination.

Adolf Hitler Uunona was elected with 85 per cent of the vote in the former German colony, which is still home to a small German-speaking community and where a number of streets, places and people still bear German names. 

After winning the seat on the ticket of the ruling SWAPO party - which has ruled Namibia since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 - the politician told Bild that he had 'nothing to do with' Nazi ideology.

'My father named me after this man. He probably didn't understand what Adolf Hitler stood for,' his namesake said. 'As a child I saw it as a totally normal name. Only as a teenager did I understand that this man wanted to conquer the whole world.' 

The politician said his wife calls him Adolf, adding that he usually goes by Adolf Uunona but that it would be 'too late' to change his name officially.

Photos: Megachurch pastor dies from #COVID19 a week after being hospitalized

This is sad!

A pastor at a California megachurch which continued to hold services throughout the pandemic has died from COVID-19 complications a week after being hospitalized. 

Bob Bryant, 58, a pastor at the Water of Life Community Church in Fontana, fell ill with coronavirus symptoms while on vacation, according to the Daily Bulletin. 

He tested positive, as did his wife and their son, on November 22. 

Bryant, who had diabetes and high blood pressure, became severely ill and was hospitalized within hours of his diagnosis. 

Viral PHOTO of Pele mourning at Maradona's grave is FAKE

Amid a global outpouring of grief, football legend Diego Maradona was laid to rest at a cemetery outside Argentina's Buenos Aires on November 26.

While thousands flooded the streets of Buenos Aires as the footballer's coffin made its way for burial, Maradona's funeral was a private ceremony attended only by family and close friends. Sixty-year-old Maradona had died of cardiac arrest on November 25. Now, an image purportedly showing Brazilian football legend Pele mourning at Maradona's grave is viral on social media with emotional captions. The caption of one such image reads, "Pele bids farewell to Maradona. That's painful". 

Another caption says, "Million dollar picture". 

India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the picture is photoshopped. Pele did express grief on social media, but till the time of filing this article, there has been no report of him visiting Maradona's grave. The archived versions of the posts can be seen here, here, here and here. AFWA probe A reverse image search on the Russian search engine Yandex revealed that the viral picture is photoshopped. 

We found the original photo on Getty Images. 

Over the years, several websites related to funeral services have used the same picture.

Culled From Fact Check.

Joe Biden twists his ankle while playing with his dog! Trump sends him message

President-elect Joe Biden fractured his ankle while playing with his German Shepherd Major.

Biden suffered the injury on Saturday and visited an orthopaedist at Delaware Orthopaedic Specialists in Newark, Delaware, for an examination Sunday afternoon, his office said. 

As Biden, who will likely be wearing a walking boot for several weeks, was getting ready to leave the doctor's office, he was photographed by NBC News getting into a vehicle.

President Donald Trump told Biden on Sunday night to 'get well soon'.