Sir Alex Ferguson supports Louis van Gaal despite United slow start

Sir Alex Ferguson said he has "no doubts" Louis van Gaal will be a success at Manchester United, despite making a slow start to life at Old Trafford.

Van Gaal lost his first Premier League match and did not win any of his first four games in charge of United, but Ferguson drew comparisons with his own difficult beginning after he replaced Ron Atkinson in 1986.

And the former United manager, who retired in 2013, is not worried that one of his successors has encountered early difficulties.

"He has not been getting the results that are expected, but when I came to the club I didn't get the results I expected myself at the beginning," he told MUTV. "What we needed then was Sir Bobby Charlton, Martin Edwards and the board to stick by me and we had a great spell after that.

"Once I got settled into the club, everything was fine. Louis is going through that same process and there's no doubt in my mind that he will sort it out.

"It's the rebuilding of the team and they have brought in some good quality. It was really important because you need quality at Manchester United, you need the best players."

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Chris Brown receives backlash after controversial tweet "I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control..."

Chris Brown has made a controversial statement regarding Ebola which has killed more than 4000 people in West Africa. The R&B singer shared his thoughts on the disease via Twitter on Monday, October 13. "I don't know ... But I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control. S**t is getting crazy bruh," he wrote, before adding in another post, "Let me shut my black a** up!"

Brown received backlash after sending out the tweets. "He has obviously ignored Twitter's key rule: Think before you tweet. This is a global emergency about three countries struggling with a deadly disease, countries whose health systems are under immense strain," Jane Moyo, a spokesperson for British charity Action Aid, told Wenn.

"This is obviously nothing to do with population control but is a serious, deadly situation. At the moment we do not need thoughtless phrases which reach out to Chris Brown's many followers and do not add understanding to the cause. ... It was unfortunate that he said it in the first place. What would be fantastic is if Chris Brown could donate to a charity working on Ebola and encourage his followers to do the same," she added.

The first person who was diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. passed away on Wednesday, October and a Dallas nurse who had "extensive contact" with him during his treatment was also infected. The nurse used protective gear, but officials said that there was a breach at the protocol which resulted in the infection. "The (Ebola treatment) protocols work. ... But we know that even a single lapse or breach can result in infection," said Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the CDC, on Sunday.

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Manchester City Player of the Month: Frank Lampard voted player of the month after 4 impressive goals

Frank Lampard has been voted Manchester City's Player of the Month for September.

Lampard, who is loan from New York City FC, only made his debut for the club a month ago in the 2-2 draw at Arsenal on Sept. 13.

However, the 36-year-old has grown in importance to the Premier League champions in that time, scoring four goals against Chelsea, Sheffield Wednesday and Hull City.

His first goal for City came in dramatic fashion as he netted a late equaliser against former club Chelsea, where he spent 13 years before leaving in the summer.

The former England international took more than a third of the 6,095 votes cast, beating off the challenge of James Milner, who finished second, and David Silva, who finished third.

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ISIS militants group claim God instruct them to enslave and sell Yazidi women and children, even sharia supports it

Islamic State militants claim the capture, enslavement and sale of thousands of Yazidi women and children had been ordered by God in a magazine purportedly published by the terror group.

The latest issue of Dabiq was released yesterday and attempts to justify the militants' snaring of thousands of innocent Yazidis during an assault on the Iraqi city of Sinjar in August.

Explaining why Yazidis have been sold into sex slavery while those from other groups have not, the magazine claims Islamic Sharia law allows the enslavement of innocent 'polytheists and pagans' but not of those the militants regard as simply heretical. 

Tens of thousands of Yazidis were forced to flee for their lives - many of them into the nearby Sinjar mountains and then into Kurdish-held regions of northern Iraq. 

However many were captured by the militants, resulting in the massacre of hundreds of men and the selling into slavery of women and children, after they were first divided up between ISIS fighters.

ISIS' claim to have enslaved and sold Yazidi women and children came as Human Rights Watch said hundreds of Yazidis from Iraq continue to be held captive in makeshift detention facilities.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled into the Sinjar Mountains after the militant onslaught on Sinjar, part of ISIS' lightning advance into north and western Iraq.

Iraq's Human Rights Ministry said at the time that hundreds of women were abducted by the militants, who consider the Yazidis, a centuries-old religious minority, a heretical sect.

The issue of Dabiq magazine released on Sunday stated that 'the enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers.' 

It added that 'the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations.'

Attempting to justify the move, the magazine said Sharia law differentiates between female Muslims from 'heretical' sects, and those from groups such as the Yazidids, who are considered pagans.

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