History was already created when it was announced that the Asian Games would be co-hosted by Jakarta and Palembang. It was the first time since the origin of the Games, that two cities were chosen as hosts. The main brunt will be on Jakarta, with the capital city hosting several events. The Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium in Jakarta will act as the main venue for the 18th Asian Games....
Dylan Muriano, an 8th grader at Walter Reed Middle School, said he was sent out of class by one of his teachers after coughing while swallowing water, reported Fox LA. When he was given the all-clear by the nurse, he returned to class and asked the teacher why he was not sending other students out every time they coughed. “I asked him if he sent me out because I was Asian and he responded with nothing,” Muriano said....
Sonowal in a statement said the incident was unfortunate and strict action would be taken against the culprits. “It was an act to tarnish Guwahati’s reputation as an emerging sports hub. We strongly condemn it and investigation is on. It was done to defame Assam and derail the state’s journey towards excellence. We’ll foil the evil design with the support of the people of Assam,” he said. The chief minister referred to an appreciation letter from Roma Khanna, Head of Venue Operation, FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 on the security arrangements for the international sports events in the state....
The manga releases today and is just the first volume in a new series that will follow Shao Jun throughout her quest for vengeance. The manga takes place in 1526 AD, just as Shao Jun has finished her training with the Brotherhood and returned home as the sole remaining assassin in China. Gamers who played through Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China will find the beginning of the story very familiar. Rather than exploring a brand new adventure, the manga seems to be taking the adaptation approach and just building on the existing story and characters that were presented in the spin-off game....
For every moment in world history that has the potential to make a great Assassin’s Creed game, there’s always one setting that just wouldn’t mesh well with the series. There are some modern and ancient civilizations that just don’t have many opportunities for social stealth or the RPG-style mechanics in games like Odyssey and the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. These could change in the far future, but for now, there are several time periods that just wouldn’t mesh well with the Assassin’s Creed formula in its current state....
One such Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Easter egg is a rather cute reference to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the award-winning Nintendo Switch exclusive which has an impressive open-world of its own. On the coast of Pandora’s Cove (which is to the right of Malis), there is a small inlet where a traveler has abandoned their campfire and belongings. Walk past this and climb to the top and players will come across a circle of rocks with a small statue in the center....
On his 37th birthday, Dhoni talked about his learnings and philosophies as a leader of the national team. For India’s most successful captain, the biggest challenge during his captaincy was instilling “common sense” in some players without hurting their egos. “The biggest learning during my tenure as a captain was, that a lot of time, I used to think that this is common sense. But no, there is nothing called common sense....
Graham introduced the COVID-19 Accountability Act along with eight other GOP senators including Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith and Florida Senator Rick Scott. “I’m convinced China will never cooperate with a serious investigation unless they are made to do so,” the senator said. Under the proposed legislation, China would have 60 days to provide a transparent accounting of any coronavirus-related investigation, close all operating wet markets to minimize the risk of zoonotic diseases which can move from human to animal, and release “all pro-democracy advocates in Hong Kong that were arrested in the post COVID-19 crackdowns....
The Dodgers’ magic number to clinch the West is one, as of Wednesday morning. The Giants’ magic number to clinch a playoff spot also is one. By the end of Wednesday night, when they play each other, one of the longtime rivals will have clinched something. In the Sporting News Baseball Yearbook, the Dodgers were picked to win the division, and the Giants to be a wild-card team. The pick for third place was the Padres, who are locked into that spot, with the Rockies picked for fourth and the Diamondbacks for last....
And Wednesday was a big day. First, Bernie Sanders’ campaign announced the senator had a heart procedure to have two stents inserted after he was found to have a blockage in an artery. The candidate is “conversing and in good spirits,” his campaign said. The campaign showed impressive message discipline, quickly pivoting to Sanders’ support for Medicare for All. Then, the remaining leading candidates took to the stage in Las Vegas—two years and one day after a mass shooting left 58 people dead—for March For Our Lives’ presidential forum....
Clinton, who was first lady from 1993 to 2001 and the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday that “a lot of people” didn’t appreciate what Biden had accomplished during his first 12 months in office. She was referring to the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package signed by the president in March and the recent $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal. Clinton was responding to a question about the January 6 Capitol riot and the use of violence during a broader discussion about American democracy....
The proposal comes amid reports of dire conditions at border detention centers, with one Buzzfeed article Thursday quoting some children who are, by all appearances, living in squalid conditions at the centers. According to the article, one 12-year-old boy said: “I’m hungry here at Clint [detention center] all the time. I’m so hungry that I have woken up in the middle of the night with hunger. Sometimes I wake up from hunger at 4 a....
Nikita Zimov, director of Pleistocene Park, an experiment to restore the landscape to prehistoric times to reduce the amount of carbon being released, told the Siberian Times wildfires have not reached them for many years. “Last time it was this bad forty years ago in the 80s,” he said. In the north of Yakutia, fires have surrounded the village of Svatay. To the west, in the village of Batagay, reports said it was raining ash, the newspaper said....
On Sunday, Tennessee reported 478 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, a jump of 5.2 percent. According to The Tennessean, that’s the highest number in new cases since the coronavirus pandemic began. In total, the state now has 9,667 confirmed cases of the novel virus. Meanwhile, Georgia saw just 37 new confirmed cases, bringing its statewide total to 23,481. The spike in Tennessee’s cases came as the state allowed restaurants to reopen for dine-in customers on Monday....
But all that wisdom wasn’t enough to keep Professor Davis from being blindsided Friday, when Pacific Gas & Electric, the state’s largest utility, filed for bankruptcy, saying it could no longer wait for a political solution to the state’s deepening energy crisis. PG&E has racked up $9 billion in debt from buying power at higher wholesale prices than it is allowed to pass on to consumers under the state’s flawed deregulation scheme....
Buffon, who recently announced his retirement from international football, is regarded as one of the best men to have played the beautiful game. At 39, the shot-stopper is in the twilight of his career, and as the world prepares to send off a special son, Asamoah counts the blessings of playing alongside the 2006 World Cup winner at Juventus following the former’s transfer from Udinese in 2012. “Buffon is a captain and the example for everyone,” Asamoah told Totto Sport ....
The 37-year-old re-injured his calf during the first Test at Edgbaston, where Australia took a 1-0 series lead courtesy of a 251-run victory. Anderson has been ruled out of the second Test and will need to prove his fitness in a match before returning, but the veteran is hopeful of playing a role. “The adrenalin of the Ashes was probably a factor. There were nerves on the first day of the series and maybe I tried a little harder,” he wrote in a column for The Sun....
Paine called right under blue skies in London, where the opening day was washed out due to rain. England captain Joe Root revealed he would also have bowled first if the coin had come down on the other side. Paceman Jofra Archer and spinner Jack Leach replaced James Anderson (calf) and the dropped Moeen Ali in the England side following a defeat in the first match of the series at Edgbaston....
Smith produced his 24th Test ton at the perfect time, rescuing the tourists from a poor position on the opening day at Edgbaston on Thursday. This surely ranked as one of Smith’s finest knocks and marked his ninth century in Ashes Tests, a tally bettered only by Don Bradman (19), Jack Hobbs (12) and Steve Waugh (10). We take a look at Smith’s five best Ashes centuries. 2019 Ashes, first Test: 144 in Birmingham...
