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England’s Ben Duckett celebrates after reaching his century during ICC Men’s Champions Trophy Group B encounter against Australia at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on February 22, 2025. — Reuters Adding yet another feather to his cap, England’s opener Ben Duckett hit the highest-ever total in ICC Champions Trophy history during the Group B fixture against Australia at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday.Duckett scored 165 off 142 deliveries to overtake former New Zealand great Nathan Astle, who previously held the highest individual total and the first instance of a batter scoring 150 in the tournament’s history, the ICC website reported. Lacing his fiery…
Phil Collins makes heartbreaking confession about his healthA legendary singer and songwriter, Phil Collins, recently got candid and revealed his health condition.Conversing with MOJO magazine, the 74-year-old shared, “I keep thinking I should go downstairs to the studio and see what happens. But I’m not hungry for it anymore.” Expanding on this, Collins explained, “The thing is I’ve been sick, I mean very sick.”The Grammy-winning musician, who has type 2 diabetes, has also been suffering from complications from a spine injury since 2007.In the 2024 documentary Phil Collins: Drummer First, the musician talked about his health problems, which made him…
The black tea I sipped in the cafe seemed to curdle as I processed the words. An engaging conversation with an academic colleague had just turned bitter as I heard him repeat a slur and a biased narrative I’ve experienced far too often. I was making an argument about the lack of recognition of the Romani victims of the Holocaust when he blurted it out. He said that “G******”, a repellent term for the Roma people in my and his part of the world, were targeted by the Nazis due to “criminality”. This ill-informed assertion has long been used in…
His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Chairman of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, visited
Defendant Hadi Matar arrives for his trial on charges of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault dating to an attack on Salman Rushdie, at Chautauqua County Court in Mayville, New York, US, February 11, 2025. — Reuters Matar found guilty of attempted murder in second degree.Attorney praises audience members who rushed to Rushdie’s aid.Convict’s lawyer says client disappointed by verdict. MAYVILLE: Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York arts institute, was found guilty of attempted murder.Matar, 27, can be seen in videos of the 2022 attack rushing the Chautauqua Institution’s…
Stephen Amell drops bombshell about his ‘Suits LA’ castingStephen Amell, best known for his role in Arrow, landed his Suits LA audition despite never having watched the original legal drama.Speaking to PEOPLE, the 43-year-old actor shared that he “didn’t really know anything” about Suits before he auditioned for the lead role of Ted Black in the new NBC spinoff. Amell said, “I had seen that famous scene where Harvey [Gabriel Macht] hires Mike [Patrick J. Adams] in the pilot — it just randomly came up on my YouTube feed or Instagram. I don’t remember. So I’d seen that.”The Code 8…
‘Captain America: Brave New World’ director reflects on ‘stupid’ post-credit sceneSome Marvel fans were not happy with Captain America: Brave New World’s post-credit scene.The reasons are various. For one, against the usual two teases, the makers opted to have only one post-credit. Also, many slammed the footage for including nothing ‘interest-worthy’ in the end tag. But director Julius Onah explained that this was the plan since the start. “It was always the case that what felt organic for this movie was just leaning into a post-credits sequence that could tease what’s coming next,” he told Collider.“We wanted to tease it…
A cancer cell (white) being attacked by two cytotoxic T cells (red), part of a natural immune response triggered by immunotherapy. — Reuters/FileResearch has shown that growing numbers of people are getting cancer in early adulthood and middle age with sharp rises seen especially in gastrointestinal cancers.These gastrointestinal cancers include those of the colon, stomach and pancreas, whereas, there is a surge in breast and uterine cancers as well, reported Columbia Magazine. A recent study has found that cases of gastrointestinal cancers in Americans under the age of fifty rose by 15% between 2010 and 2019, while breast cancer diagnoses…
The far-right AfD threatens to breach the political “firewall” that has long kept it out of power, as election disinformation from both the US and Russia disrupts the German media’s election coverage. Contributors:Olaf Böhnke – Berlin director, Alliance of Democracies FoundationUlrich Brückner – Political analystMichaela Küfner – Chief political editor, DW On our radar: This week, US President Donald Trump blamed Ukraine for starting the war with Russia, kicking off an exchange of barbs with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Meenakshi Ravi reports on the diplomatic fallout and the Russian media’s gleeful response. Mass arrests, silencing dissent, and prisons for hire;…
Tarmam Charitable Foundation announced the launch of its Ramadan campaign for the year 2025, under the slogan: “The Mubarak Month” is targeted