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Cristiano Ronaldo wants Manchester United to let him leave the club if they receive an appropriate offer for him this summer, BBC reported.

The Portugal forward, 37, returned to Old Trafford from Juventus last summer.

However, while he was United's top scorer last season - and third in the Premier League - the overall campaign was seen as a big disappointment.

United finished sixth in the Premier League so missed out on Champions League qualification.

That means Ronaldo, who has a year left on his United contract plus an optional year, faces playing in the Europa League for the first time.

It is not something he is viewing with relish and the five-time Ballon d'Or winner feels there could be more attractive options available to him at this stage in his career.

The former Real Madrid forward is anxious to stress he respects United but as he enters the final stages of his career, he wants to compete for the biggest prizes.

It is understood United do not regard Ronaldo as a player who is for sale, according to BBC.

While it would be a blow to United's prestige if they were to lose one of the greatest players they have ever had, it would also solve a few issues for new manager Erik ten Hag.

Ronaldo clashed with Harry Maguire over the United captaincy last season, while interim boss Ralf Rangnick's desire to implement a pressing game was thwarted by Ronaldo's refusal to fit in with such a system.

Although Ten Hag has said how much he is looking forward to linking up with Ronaldo, it is not clear how the forward's playing style would fit in with the Dutchman.

In addition, Ronaldo is the highest paid player in the Premier League and his exit would create more scope within United's summer transfer budget.

Ronaldo is due to return to the club for pre-season training this week. It is anticipated he will be on their pre-season tour to Thailand and Australia, BBC reported.

Adele has said the "brutal" reaction to the postponement of her Las Vegas residency earlier this year left her feeling like "a shell of a person," BBC reported.

In January, the singer scrapped her dates 24 hours before opening night, telling fans the show was not ready.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Adele said postponing her three-month residency left her "devastated", but said she stood by the decision.

On Friday, she told fans the shows would be rearranged "very, very soon".

Speaking to Desert Island Discs presenter Lauren Laverne, the 34-year-old said: "I definitely felt everyone's disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down.

"I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn't, and I stand by that decision."

She continued: "I'm not going to just do a show because I have to or because people are going to be let down or because we're going to lose loads of money. I'm like, the show's not good enough."

The singer, who released her fourth album in November, was criticised online after breaking the news in a tearful last-minute Instagram video that the Caesar's Palace shows would not take place as planned.

"Of course I could be someone on TikTok or Instagram Live every day being like, 'I'm working on it'," she explained. "Of course I'm working on it! I'm not gonna update you if I ain't got nothing to update you with because that just leads to more disappointment, according to BBC.

"I was a shell of a person for a couple of months," she continued. "I just had to wait it out and just grieve it, I guess, just grieve the shows and get over the guilt, but it was brutal."

In February, Adele told TV host Graham Norton she was working hard with her team to prepare and confirm new dates, saying the Vegas gigs would "absolutely 100%" happen this year.

Announced late in November, the Weekends With Adele series was scheduled to see the singer perform two shows every weekend from late January until April.

The postponement meant her shows in London's Hyde Park on Friday and Saturday were her first proper ticketed concerts for five years, BBC reported.

She also told Laverne how exercising, which contributed to her weight loss, had helped her deal with her anxieties; and also spoke about her relationships with her partner, US sports agent Rich Paul, and her ex-husband Simon Konecki, with whom she has a son, Angelo.

Authorities in Israel say they have shot down three Hezbollah drones heading towards one of its gas rigs in a disputed area of the Mediterranean, BBC reported.

Military officials say the drones were launched from Lebanon and were shot down by a combination of fighter jets and ship-mounted missiles. 

Hezbollah confirmed it had launched the drones in a short statement.

Tensions have mounted between Israel and Lebanon over ownership of the Karish gas field.

US energy envoy Amos Hochstein is mediating between the two countries to settle the longstanding dispute. Israel says the field lies within its UN-recognised exclusive economic zone, but Lebanon has also laid claim to parts of it, according to BBC.

Hezbollah said it had targeted the rig as part of a reconnaissance flight. 

"The mission was accomplished and the message was received," the statement said.

Last week, the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, threatened to use force to prevent Israel from operating the rig.

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said the Islamist group was "preventing the state of Lebanon from reaching an agreement regarding maritime borders, which are critical to the economy and prosperity of the Lebanese nation".

Hezbollah's reported attack comes amid political instability in Israel. On Thursday lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament and call the fifth election in four years, BBC reported.

The vote, which comes after the collapse of former Prime Minster Naftali Bennett's multi-party coalition, offers Benjamin Netanyahu, the right-wing opposition leader, a chance to return to power. 

The fast-changing coronavirus has kicked off summer in the US with lots of infections but relatively few deaths compared to its prior incarnations, Associated Press reported.

COVID-19 is still killing hundreds of Americans each day, but is not nearly as dangerous as it was last fall and winter. 

“It’s going to be a good summer and we deserve this break,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.

With more Americans shielded from severe illness through vaccination and infection, COVID-19 has transformed — for now at least — into an unpleasant, inconvenient nuisance for many, according to Associated Press.

“It feels cautiously good right now,” said Dr. Dan Kaul, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. “For the first time that I can remember, pretty much since it started, we don’t have any (COVID-19) patients in the ICU.”

As the nation marks July Fourth, the average number of daily deaths from COVID-19 in the United States is hovering around 360. Last year, during a similar summer lull, it was around 228 in early July. That remains the lowest threshold in US daily deaths since March 2020, when the virus first began its US spread, Associated Press reported.

The music video of ‘Hamro pani mann hunchha’ has been released through the YouTube channel of Delighted Nepal. Natikaji Smriti Award winning lyricist DP Dahal ‘Parishramee’ has written the song and has well presented the sufferings of the blind. 

The song features popular singers Deepak Limbu and Pooja Debkota and music of Purushotam Neupane and arrangement of Keshab Badu. The video is directed by Smriti Timilsena and features actors Kamal Singh and Ayushma Karki. Rita Simkhada Dahal has produced the video. 

Music video here.

Three more persons have been detected with cholera in Kathmandu Valley on Friday.

With this, the number of people suffering from cholera has reached 17, the Ministry of Health and Population said.

Among them, 12 are men and five are women. 

Lakpa Sherpa set a record by scaling Mt Makalu three times in 16 days.

Mt Makalu, which lies in Makalu Rural Municipality of Sankhuwasabha district, is 8, 485 meters.

He successfully stood atop the mountain on May 12, 20 and 28, 2022.

Sherpa, however, could not complete the fourth ascent at the same time due to bad weather.

“I could not complete the fourth ascent and was compelled to return to the base due to bad weather,” Shepa said, adding, “This is a world record and I think it would be written in the Guinness Book of World Records.”

Sherpa (30) said that he climbed the mountain not for the record but to identify his village and place.

He scaled the mountain three times in 16 days with the help of Seven Summit Treks.

Before this, Sherpa has climbed Mt Makalu two times, Mt Everest one time, Mt Manaslu two times and Lhotse one time.

Sherpa, who is also the field manager of Seven Summit Treks, has successfully scaled Mt Amadablam, world’s technical mountain, six times.

Nepal reported 50 new Covid-19 cases on Friday.

According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 1, 467 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 35 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 347 people underwent antigen tests, of which 15 were tested positive.

The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 18 infected people recovered from the disease.

As of today, there are 297 active cases in the country.