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LIV Golf League professionals Talor Gooch (US) and David Puig (Spain) have both received invites to participate in next week’s US PGA Championship at Valhalla, Kentucky, the second Major of 2024. Talor Gooch, the 2023 LIV Golf individual champion won three times and currently sits in 664th place in the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), while Puig is in 106th place. Neither of them received an invite to last month’s Masters. The PGA of America also invited four more LIV Golf players including in-form South African Dean Burmester (13) former Masters champion Patrick Reed (92), Australia’s Lucas Herbert (89) and…
Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle. Like Wordle, Connections, and the Mini Crossword, Strands can be a bit difficult to solve some days. There’s no shame in needing a little help from time to time. If you’re stuck and need to know the answers to today’s Strands puzzle, check out the solved puzzle below. How to play Strands You start every Strands puzzle with the goal of finding the “theme words” hidden in the grid of letters.…
There was no major damage to entertainment facilities during the unprecedented rains recorded in the UAE last month, said Fernando Eiroa, CEO of Dubai Holding Entertainment. “We were lucky we didn’t have major problems at parks due to the rains. We had some accumulation of water and leakage. But we were able to fix them fast and the team did a fantastic job. We reopened the parks very fast. The response by Dubai was amazing for the amount of rain received in just one day. I have lived in many countries, but the reaction and how the government handled it…
Former India coach Ravi Shastri expects big-hitting Shivam Dube to set the T20 World Cup alight and says the 30-year-old batting all-rounder will be key to India’s hopes of racking up big totals in the tournament next month. Dube, who is also a handy medium pacer, has established himself as one of the most destructive middle-order batters in the IPL, the Chennai Super Kings player scoring 350 runs in 11 matches at a 170-plus strike rate this season. Among the IPL’s Indian batters, only Abhishek Sharma has hit more sixes than Dube’s 26. “Please watch out for (him), because he…
Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends. Some days are trickier than others. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And if you still can’t get…
A 7-year-old boy died inside a car in Sharjah, after the student was left inside by an unlicensed driver, according to Sharjah Police. The authority received the report of the incident Tuesday afternoon. The child who was of Asian nationality, was left in the car which was parked outside the school since morning. His parents had contracted a female driver to transport their child to and back from school. After reaching the school, everyone got off except the boy. The driver locked the door without checking if anyone was still inside. She then left with her husband. Stay up to…
Batting sensation Jake Fraser-McGurk has shrugged off his omission from Australia’s T20 World Cup squad, saying he felt he had not earned a place yet despite his sparkling form in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Fraser-McGurk has blasted 309 runs in seven matches for the Delhi Capitals at a strike-rate of 235.87, prompting pundits and former players to call for his selection, but he will miss out on next month’s tournament in the US and Caribbean. “There’s two ways you can look at it,” the 22-year-old Victorian told “The Willow Talk” podcast. “You can look at it through, ‘This is…
There are days when I am proud of the things I create, and then there are days like today when I watch an Apple iPad Pro reveal event. Seeing what the new 2024 iPad Pro can do made me feel like the things I’ve creatively achieved are the equivalent of holding a piece of chalk in my clenched fist and scratching a stick figure onto a cave wall. I simply would not get close to what it’s capable of, band there’s still a tiny, slightly mad part of me that really wants one of these spectacular new tablets, particularly as…
A 7-year-old boy died in a locked car in Sharjah after he was forgotten inside by the driver, the police have said. The driver was not licensed to transport children to and from school. The Bangladeshi boy was a student of Ibn Sina School in Sharjah, the Consulate General of Bangladesh told Khaleej Times. According to the police, the female driver was hired by some parents to drop and pick their children from school. On Monday morning, she picked the students and parked the car near the school on Monday, after which all occupants – except the boy – exited…
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) announced that tickets for The NBA Abu Dhabi Games has gone on sale to the general public at ticketmaster.ae. The NBA Abu Dhabi Games will feature the 17-time NBA champions Boston Celtics and defending NBA champions Denver Nuggets playing preseason games on October 4 and October 6 at Etihad Arena on Yas Island. The NBA and DCT Abu Dhabi also announced that four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal will headline the return of “NBA Fan Appreciation Day in Abu Dhabi” and “NBA District”,…