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West Indies skipper Kraigg Brathwaite called young pacer Shamar Joseph a superstar afater the Caribbeans made history at the Gabba when they have clinched a first Test match on Australian soil after 27 years. Brathwaite, who said Joseph would do great things for the team in the future, said they had learn’t a lot from the eight-run win against Australia on Sunday. “He’s a superstar. I know he’ll do great things for the West Indies in the future,” said Braithwaite. Just his belief is incredible, he told me that he won’t stop bowling till we win it. Very proud of…
There are two kinds of people when it comes to technology. Those who want their thing — be it a phone or car or TV — to do as much as possible in a single package. And those who’d prefer a more dedicated device, something that does fewer things, but does them very well. Those in the latter group lost out years ago. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the television space, as evidenced at CES 2024 by the sheer onslaught of AI. You couldn’t read a press release without running into a section that included AI. You…
At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behaviour aboard airplanes. The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a statement on Friday that a man had opened an emergency exit and walked out on a wing of a plane that was parked and waiting for takeoff on Thursday. The airport said the man had been turned over to police. But dozens of fellow passengers signed a written copy of a statement saying the airline made them wait for four hours without ventilation or water while the flight was delayed. According to photos of the statement posted online, fellow…
The US stock market’s strong start to the year faces a major test next week in a stretch packed with big tech earnings, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting and the closely-watched employment report. The S&P 500 is up nearly 3 per cent since the end of December and stands near record highs, driven in part by expectations of a US economic “soft-landing” in which growth remains stable while inflation cools. A thicket of potentially market-moving events may test that optimism. Those include earnings from Alphabet and Microsoft on Tuesday, the conclusion of the Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, and…
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has been reinstated as a member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) after a two-month suspension, the ICC said on Sunday. The sport’s governing body suspended the SLC on Nov. 10 for government interference after Sri Lanka’s ministry of sport dismissed the SLC board and replaced it with an interim committee following the country’s poor performance at last year’s 50-over World Cup. “The (ICC) board have been monitoring the situation since the suspension and are now satisfied that SLC are no longer in breach of membership obligations,” the ICC said in a statement. Stay up to…
Sunday marks one of the best football days of the year. Two conference champions will be crowned in the 2024 NFL Playoffs. The NFC Championship features Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers hosting Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions. Kickoff starts at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on January 28. The game will air on Fox and feature the network’s top broadcast team – Kevin Burkhardt (play-by-play), Greg Olsen (color), Erin Andrews (sideline), and Tom Rinaldi (sideline). The Lions have a chance to make history. If they defeat the 49ers, Detroit will appear in their first Super Bowl in franchise history. The…
Pakistani police detained at least two dozen supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan Sunday as they tried to rally in the country’s biggest city ahead of elections next month. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has been severely hamstrung ahead of the February 8 poll, with rallies banned, its party symbol taken away, and dozens of its candidates rejected from eligibility to stand. Rights groups have warned the national and provincial elections lack credibility, with the powerful military accused of trying to influence the vote. On Sunday, PTI officials urged supporters to rally across the country despite police withdrawing…
MI Emirates star batter Muhammad Waseem’s resilient 86 off 61 balls consigned the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders to a crushing eight-wicket defeat at the DP World ILT20 Season 2. The UAE national team skipper entertained the Sunday spectators at the picturesque Zayed Cricket Stadium with an unbeaten innings studded with eight boundaries and three sixes. The innings helped MI Emirates chase down a formidable total of 188/5 in 19 overs. The 27-year-old Waseem along with opening batter Kusal Perera set the momentum for the mega run-chase with Perera scoring the fastest 50 of DP World ILT20 Season 2, taking only…
Although we’re well past the days when it was routine for most folks to plug their iPhones into their computers, there are still reasons why you may prefer to do so, especially if you don’t want to pay for or rely on cloud storage for everything. For example, it’s generally the best way to go if you want to back up your iPhone to your computer or transfer photos directly onto your Mac or PC. It may also be necessary to use your computer to restore your iPhone back to factory settings when it’s acting up. Ordinarily, your iPhone should…
U.N. officials and aid groups called for countries to reconsider their decision to pause funding for the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians on Sunday, warning that its life-saving aid for some two million people in Gaza was in jeopardy. At least nine countries, including top donors the United States and Germany, have paused funding for the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) following allegations by Israel that some of its staff were involved in the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel that killed 1,200 people. “While I understand their concerns – I was myself horrified by these accusations -…