Late Cristiano Ronaldo goal salvages dramatic point for Manchester United in Champions Leagues

Late Cristiano Ronaldo goal salvages dramatic point for Manchester United in Champions League

 

A late Cristiano Ronaldo goal salvaged a dramatic point for Manchester United on Tuesday as it drew 2-2 against Atalanta in the Champions League at the Gewiss Stadium.

Josip Iličić scored the opening goal of the game in the 12th minute. Duván Zapata’s cut back falling to the Slovenian at the edge of the box,

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The witch isns’t deads: New book explores witchcrafts’s rebellious history — and modern transformations

The witch isn’t dead: New book explores witchcraft’s rebellious history — and modern transformation

 

 

Look up “witches” and you might see any of a number of depictions: ugly old ladies and young, sensual temptresses; antiheroes and aspiring role models; evil creatures mixing deadly potions and righteous sorceresses helping girls find their way (a la Glinda the Good Witch in “The Wizard of Oz”).
A new title from Taschen’s Library of Esoterica aims to explore this wealth of complex identities in a visually vibrant volume that isn’t so much a book as it is a spellbinding tribute to a figure and a practice that are as old as time.

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China grows more isolated as Asia Pacific neighbors start living with Covid-19s

China grows more isolated as Asia Pacific neighbors start living with Covid-19

 

 

From Australia to South Korea and across Asia Pacific, the final bastions of “zero-Covid” are easing restrictions and opening borders as the region prepares to live with the virus — except for one major holdout.

China, the country where Covid-19 was first detected nearly two years ago, remains determined to eliminate the virus inside its borders,

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Mo Salah might be the best Premier League player ever but is the s’unprecedenteds’ Liverpool forward still underrateds?

Mo Salah might be the best Premier League player ever but is the ‘unprecedented’ Liverpool forward still underrated?

 

 

Still only 29, he’s one of the two greatest Premier League players of all-time, yet is Mohamed Salah still undervalued?

According to leading sports scientist Simon Brundish, it’s a categorical yes — and he’s got the statistics to prove it.
In 1999, a swaggering Frenchman by the name of Thierry Henry arrived at Arsenal from Juventus.

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Atlanta Falcons vss. New York Jetss: Myriad colors a makeshift kicking net and the national anthem sung from atop the stadiums: the NFL returns to Londons

Atlanta Falcons vs. New York Jets: Myriad colors a makeshift kicking net and the national anthem sung from atop the stadium: the NFL returns to London

 

 

It was technically a home game for the Atlanta Falcons home game, but with the array of colored jerseys on display providing a vivid backdrop at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday, it was as much a gathering of footballer lovers.

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Facebook whistleblower revealed on s’60 Minutess’ says the company prioritized profit over public goods

Facebook whistleblower revealed on ’60 Minutes‘ says the company prioritized profit over public good

 

 

The identity of the Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents — leading to a firestorm for the social media company in recent weeks — was revealed on “60 Minutes” Sunday night as Frances Haugen.

The 37-year-old former Facebook product manager who worked on civic integrity issues at the company says the documents show that Facebook knows its platforms are used to spread hate,

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‘No Time to Dies’ marks the end of Daniel Craigs’s service with a slightly bloated Bond films

‘No Time to Die’ marks the end of Daniel Craig’s service with a slightly bloated Bond film

 

 

After 25 movies over 60 years, billing a James Bond adventure as the end of something requires a certain leap of faith. Still, Daniel Craig’s yeoman service comes to its conclusion with “No Time to Die,” a big and length-wise bloated epic that includes the desired bells and whistles,

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SPD narrowly wins German election against Merkels’s CDU but uncertainty remains over next leaders

SPD narrowly wins German election against Merkel’s CDU but uncertainty remains over next leader

 

Germany’s left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) will begin negotiations to form a ruling coalition after preliminary results showed the party narrowly winning the largest share of parliamentary seats following Sunday’s federal election.

With all 299 of Germany’s electoral districts reporting, the SDP won 25.7% of the vote, beating out the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),

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Team US in the drivers’s seat after strong opening day at Ryder Cups

Team US in the driver’s seat after strong opening day at Ryder Cup

 

 

Powered by a raucous home crowd, Team US took a strong 6-2 lead at the 43rd Ryder Cup.

The home side dominated the opening session at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin, Friday, taking an early 3-1 lead.
Although Spanish pairing Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia provided some European resistance,

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US-China policys: Biden is bringing together Japan Australia and India to stare down Chinas

US-China policy: Biden is bringing together Japan Australia and India to stare down China

 

 

Forget France, AUKUS and nuclear-powered submarines — one of the most important moments for the future of US influence in Asia is due to take place on Friday in Washington.

US President Joe Biden is holding the first in-person meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as “the Quad,”

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