Doğan Babacan (30 November 1929 – 18 May 2018) was a Turkish football referee. He was the first Turkish referee to supervise a match in FIFA World Cup history. He was born in Istanbul.
Later he was referee for the 1975 UEFA Super Cup final between FC Bayern Munich and FC Dynamo Kyiv. He retired from international refereeing in 1978.
He died on 18 May 2018, aged 88.
Rolf Sand
Rolf Sand (21 February 1920 – 20 May 2018) was a Norwegian actor. He was born in Oslo. He was known for his role in Holberg's comedy "Den pantsatte bondedreng".
From 1952 to 1954 he was assigned at Trøndelag Teater, and then at Riksteatret from 1954 to 1958. He was appointed at Det Norske Teatret from 1962 until his retirement in 1987.
Sand died in Oslo on 20 May 2018 at the age of 98.
Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Clemente Posada Carriles (February 15, 1928 – May 23, 2018) was a Cuban exile militant and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent. He was thought to be a terrorist by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Government of Cuba, among others.
He died on May 23, 2018 in Miami, Florida, aged 90 of throat cancer.
Kings XI Punjab in 2008
Kings XI Punjab is one of the cricket team of Indian Premier League. The home ground of this team is PCA Stadium of Mohali, Punjab. They were captained by Yuvraj Singh. Kings XI Punjab finished third in the IPL. Kings XI Punjab did not qualify for the Champions League T20 in this year.
Kings XI Punjab finished second in the league stage of IPL 2008.
Kings XI Punjab in 2014
The Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) is a cricket team in Mohali, Punjab. They were captained by George Bailey. Kings XI Punjab finished as runners-up in the IPL. They qualified for the Champions League T20 for the first time.
Kings XI Punjab finished first in the league stage of IPL 2014.
Antipyretic
Antipyretics (, from the words "anti-" meaning 'against' and "" meaning 'feverish') are substances that reduce fever. Antipyretics cause the hypothalamus to ignore increases in temperature caused by prostaglandin. The body then works to lower the temperature, which results in a reduction in fever.
Most antipyretic medications have other purposes. The most common antipyretics in the United States are ibuprofen and aspirin. These are nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) used mainly as analgesics to relieve pain, but which also have antipyretic properties. Acetaminophen or (paracetamol), is an analgesic with weak anti-inflammatory properties.
There is some debate over using medication to control fever. Fever is part of the body's immune response to infection. A study by the Royal Society found controlling fever causes at least 1% more influenza cases of death in the United States, which results in at least 700 extra deaths per year.
Adamantisaurus
Adamantisaurus ( ) is a poorly-known genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. It is only known from six tail vertebrae but, as a sauropod, it can be assumed that this dinosaur was a very large animal with a long neck and tail.
Daniel Robin
Daniel Robin (31 May 1943 – 23 May 2018) was a French wrestler. He was born in Bron, Rhône. He was 1968 Olympic silver medalist in both Freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling, and competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal at the 1967 World Wrestling Championships.
Robin died on 23 May 2018 in Longueuil, Canada at the age of 74.
Feng Tianwei
Feng Tianwei (simplified Chinese: 风天威; traditional Chinese: 峰天王; Pinyin "Feńg Tianwēi"; born August 31, 1986 in Harbin) is a female Singaporean table tennis player who competed at the Olympic Games 2012 in London. She is a righhanded-player and uses the Shakehand-grip.
To 2002 she played for China because she was born in Harbin, a city in China. In that year she became Chinese Youth-champion. Since 2008 she was nominated for all World Championships- in that year she reached bronze with the team. In 2010 the Singaporean team became champion. In the final se beat the two players Liu Shiwen and Ding Ning. At the Olympic Games 2008 she won silver with the team. 2012 she qualificated herself for the Olympics again, where Feng won bronze in the singles and in the team, too. At the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals she won gold. At the World Championships in the singles she doesn't won a medal, but reached the Quarterfinals 2013 and 2015. In 2016 she was disqualificated fro the Singaporean team, because she had to make place for younger players. But she played continue, at the World Championships 2017 she lost in the Quarterfinals against Miu Hirano and missed so th bronze-grand-slam, because she won two times bronze at the World Cup (2008, 2013), Olympic Games (2012) and not at the World Championships. 2018 she took part in the World Championships with the team, but lost in the Round of 16.
Kem Ley
Kem Ley (; 19 October 1970 – 10 July 2016) was a Cambodian activist, physician, and political commentator. He was known for his political commentary, including trenchant criticisms of the government led by Cambodian People's Party (CPP).
Ley was shot on the morning of 10 July 2016 in a café at a gas station in Phnom Penh.
2018–19 UEFA Europa League
The 2018–19 UEFA Europa League will be the 48th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 10th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The final was played at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan, between English sides Chelsea and Arsenal — which was the first Europa League final to feature two teams from one city. As winners, Chelsea will play against the winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup. And they would also have been qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage, but since they had already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the third-placed team of the 2018–19 Ligue 1, the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.
On 9 December 2016, UEFA confirmed the changing of plans for the UEFA Champions League for the 2018–2021 cycle, which was announced on 26 August 2016. As per new rules, all teams that are eliminated in the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds will get a second chance in the Europa League.
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
Matches in the qualifying (including preliminary and play-off) and knockout rounds may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.
The draw for the group stage will be held on 31 August 2018 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The 48 teams are drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients.
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32, where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League group stage. The matchdays are 20 September, 4 October, 25 October, 8 November, 29 November, and 13 December 2018.
A total of 48 teams play in the group stage: 17 teams which enter in this stage, the 21 winners of the play-off round (eight from Champions Path, thirteen from Main Path), the six losers of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League play-off round (four from Champions Path, two from League Path), and the four League Path losers of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 17 December 2018. The first legs were played on 12 and 14 February, and the second legs were played on 20 and 21 February 2019.