Apart from the 23 countries from Asia, Australia - the defending champions - are also part of the Asian Cup campaign. The 24 teams have been divided into 6 groups of 4 teams each and the top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advance to the round of 16. Every team has its share of superstars and seasoned campaigners all set to take charge from next week....
PANAJI, India (Reuters) - Asian elections for three seats on the new FIFA Council were called off on Tuesday after delegates to the Asian Football Confederation’s extraordinary congress in Goa voted down the agenda of the meeting. Forty two of the 44 members who had voting rights at the meeting raised a “No” card when AFC president Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa called for the agenda of the meeting to be passed....
Over the years, there have been several such memorable mascots. Here we take a look at the mascots, which over the years, have embodied various editions of the Asian Games Delhi 1982 The tradition of allocating a mascot to a particular edition of the Games was started in 1982. The pan-Asian games had just arrived in India, and the organizers welcomed the participating nations with an image of an Elephant....
The teams have been divided into the following groups Group A: South Korea (33), Thailand (102), Indonesia (103) and Mongolia. Group B: Iran (25) and Syria (87). Group C: Japan (49), Chinese Taipei (57), Qatar (61) and Hong Kong (79). Group D: China (29), Philippines (30) and Kazakhstan (68). The action kick started at the GBK Basketball Hall, Jakarta in Group C. Chinese Taipei created an upset on Day 1 by defeating the mighty Japanese team with the scoreline reading 71 - 65 (11-17, 19-20, 29-16, 12-12)....
The Russian lost the opening set 2-6, but recovered swiftly to take the next three sets 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 to become the first man in the open era to reach the last four in his first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament. The world No. 114-ranked player, Karatsev is only the fifth qualifier to ever make it to the semi-finals of one of the men’s four majors in the open era and the lowest-ranked man to do so at the Australian Open since Patrick McEnroe did so in 1991, when he was also ranked 114th....
Asmi carved out a 6-4, 6-1 victory to enter the girls singles quarter finals at the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) courts here today. In three other upsets in the corresponding boys singles, 12th seed Omaansh Saharia knocked out 5th seed Raghav Harsh 6-3, 6-4, 10th seed Rohan Agarwal of West Bengal ousted 7th seed Debasis Sahoo of Punjab 7-6(6), 6-2 while Assams unseeded Manan Nath dumped 8th seed Keshav Goel of West Bengal 6-4, 6-4 to move into the last eight stage....
RELATED: What Arno Does After Assassin’s Creed Unity Most players may assume that Ezio’s tale abruptly ended there and that he lived out his days well. True, he did live out his days well but details of his story continue in Assasin’s Creed: Embers, an animated short film that concludes Ezio’s legendary tale. The following details summarize the master assassin’s final chapter. 4 Ezio Retired And Started A Family After the events of Assasin’s Creed: Revelations, Ezio sets aside his assassin robes and marries Sofia Sartor, retiring to a countryside villa in Tuscany....
On June 17, License Global reported that Ubisoft inked a multi-year deal with Funko and the Good Smile Company to create Pop! Vinyl figurines and apparel, as well as Nendoroids and figmas, for franchises including Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. While no specific characters were mentioned, events like the New York Toy Fair thrive on big collectible toy reveals for brands like Funko, so no doubt whatever they have in mind for Ubisoft will follow suit....
This season features the “The Tyranny of King Washington,” an all-new single-player campaign which has been divided in three episodes. What comes along this is all new maps and characters for a better multiplayer experience. All gamers will get all five forthcoming DLCs, scheduled for release within six months after the videogame’s launch, for 2400 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360 and £23.99 GBP on the PlayStation 3. The Assassin’s Creed III Season Pass is now available for purchase on PlayStation 3, on Xbox 360 and for PCs, and all Assassin’s Creed III DLC will also be available for Wii U....
Eurogamer recently spoke with Assassin’s Creed’s Marc-Alexis Cote about what exactly Infinity is. The long and short of it is that it’s essentially a launcher, somewhere where fans of the franchise will be able to access and buy all future games. Mirage is not part of the Infinity project, with the first games being Red and Hexe. Accessing them via Infinity will supposedly increase the discoverability of the various titles, alongside other benefits....
The Collector’s Edition of Assassin’s Creed Mirage comes with the Digital Deluxe version of the whole game, including the Prince of Persia cosmetics, a digital artbook, and a digital soundtrack. But it’s the physical content of Assassin’s Creed Mirage that may draw the most eyes. RELATED: Future Assassin’s Creed Games May Not Be as Long Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s Collector’s Edition also comes a 32cm figurine of young Basim in a parkour-like assassination stance....
RELATED: 10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Both Kassandra and Alexios have full access to every romance option, making for a lengthy list of potential suitors no matter which direction you decide to lean. But who among them is truly worthy of dating your particular demigod? Well, that’s precisely the question that Game Rant’s looking to tackle today. Get ready to look for love and scroll down to check out the five best romantic partners in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, alongside five Cupid might want to miss with the next arrow....
The Catholic Church, with over 1 billion followers worldwide, might have received up to $3.5 billion in coronavirus aid relief, which the church used to pay salaries and to help diocese pay financial settlements of church sexual abuse victims, according to the report. The loans were paid by the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program created with the passage of the CARES Act in March, which gave nonprofit groups access to the funding, and was also designed to keep businesses afloat....
Trudeau’s government spent hundreds of billions of dollars to keep the economy afloat during quarantines. The conservative approach, he said, is a danger to Canadians, whom he argues need a government that follows science. O’Toole did not require his party’s candidates to get vaccinated and has declined to say how many are. The conservative challenger has said vaccination is a personal health decision despite a growing wing of vaccinated Canadians who are fed up with those who refuse the vaccine....
In the days since Goya CEO Robert Unanue praised Trump during the unveiling of the president’s Hispanic Prosperity Initiative last week, there have been widespread calls for a boycott of Goya Foods’ products. “We are all truly blessed… to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder,” Unanue said on Thursday. Recalling the story of his grandfather, who was a Spanish immigrant with no more than a dollar to his name when he founded Goya in 1936, according to the company, Unanue said: “That’s what my grandfather did: He came to this country to build, to grow, to prosper....
While the 0.66% increase shows an overall consistent number from month to month, the makeup of the migrants has changed. Encounters with unaccompanied children dropped to 14,158 from the previous month’s total of 17,148. a 17% decrease. Meanwhile, the number of single adults encountered climbed from 111,478 in April to 121,082 in May, a 9% increase. Of these single adults, 53% were Mexican citizens. The number of Mexican single adults crossing has jumped each month since last December....
In the show’s early days, Ash managed to beat eight gym leaders, get to the Pokémon League, and even place among the top sixteen trainers in the country. That feat has never been given the recognition by fans it deserves. Ash had never battled in a national, competitive setting before, he was a child competing with professionals, and top sixteen is still pretty good. Sure, he wasn’t literally the best competitor that year, but that doesn’t make all other rankings bad....
Delving a little deeper, the five Tests made clear the obvious flaws in both teams, but also demonstrated their strengths. Now, though, they can draw breath, recharge their batteries and start thinking about the future. Australia, who retained the Ashes courtesy of a 2-2 series draw, return to the Test arena against Pakistan in late November and with spots up for grabs, all eyes will be on the start of the Sheffield Shield season....
The former member of O-Town spoke candidly about his career from Making The Band, to the early days and height of his group’s success and his subsequent solo career, revealing the “immense” pressure of that time. “It was really again the stress of that, the pressure of trying to make something of myself outside of O-Town and launch this solo career,” the 41-year-old said during an appearance on the Behind The Velvet Rope podcast this week....
Promoting a shoe brand on twitter, Ashwin gushed about its comfort and ability to make running easy and how he “can’t wait to flaunt them.” Replying to Ashwin, who is not among the fastest on the field in the current Indian set up, Gibbs jokingly tweeted: “Hopefully you will be able to run a bit faster now Ashwin.” Reacting sharply to the innocuous reply from the South African, Ashwin came out with a loaded tweet....
