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U.S. Open champion Coco Gauff moved into the semifinals of the Auckland Tennis Classic on Friday with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Varvara Gracheva of France on a rainy quarterfinals day. The top-seeded player and defending champion needed only 24 minutes to win the first set and took the match in 52 minutes. Gauff hasn’t dropped a set at the tournament and didn’t drop a set in winning the tournament last year. Rain delayed the start of the match and was threatening at the end. But Gauff rushed to victory with dark clouds gathering, sending down five aces. “I thought…

“Shouldn’t a true story of life, death, and cannibalism be a little more gripping?” Pros A gripping true story An intense crash sequence It’s better than Alive Cons Interchangeable characters Monotonous storytelling It’s not much better than Alive In October 1972, a plane chartered by an amateur Uruguayan rugby team went down in the mountains south of Chile. Some of the passengers died in the crash, others in the weeks that followed — succumbing to their injuries or the cold or starvation. Those who lived to be improbably rescued did so because they made the unspeakable but necessary choice to…

Miles of Smiles, an innovative and dynamic nursery school and kindergarten, was established in February 2022 with the inauguration of its facility in Al Barsha 3. Since then, it has grown into a prominent presence in the UAE. The school is poised to strengthen its position in the early childhood education market by unveiling five new sites in early 2024. Each of these locations will offer either the French curriculum, the British curriculum, EYFS or the Arabic language, showcasing the school’s commitment to trilingual education. Founded by French-born Léa Vandendaele, who already oversees several early learning centres in France and…

Two trains collided on Indonesia’s main island of Java on Friday, causing several carriages to buckle and overturn and killing at least three people, officials said. The accident happened about 500 meters (yards) from Cicalengka train station in West Java’s Bandung city, said Ayep Hanapi, a spokesperson for PT Kereta Api Indonesia, the national railways. He said the Turangga express train traveling from Surabaya, the capital of East Java province, to Bandung hit a commuter train heading to Padalarang from Cicalengka station. At least three people were killed and several others were injured, West Java Police spokesperson Ibrahim Tompo said.…

Long gone are the days of needing a memory card to keep all your games saved, now you’re going to want a full-on PS5 SSD. Part of this is because game files have gotten a lot bigger over the years, and the other is that you PS5 Slim owners are going to need space to store the games themselves. However, an SSD is hardware and you don’t necessarily need something made specifically by Sony for PlayStation 5 to save data from the best PS5 games on. Paradoxically, this can make your choice of SSD harder than ever and increase the…

Beginning January 15, the minimum top-up for Nol card will be Dh20, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) tweeted on Friday. Currently, Nol cards can be topped with a minimum of Dh5. Meanwhile, commuters should have a balance of Dh15 on their Nol card to cover a round trip on the Metro transit network. As a prepaid smart card, the Nol card is used to pay for public transport across Dubai, including Dubai Metro, buses, trams, and waterbuses. It can also be used to pay for taxi fares, parking, entrance to Dubai public parks, Etihad Museum, and more than 2,000…

Stranded in a corner of southern Gaza, members of the Abu Jarad family are clinging to a strict survival routine. They fled their comfortable three-bedroom home in northern Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war broke out nearly three months ago. The 10-person family now squeezes into a 16-square meter (172-square foot) tent on a garbage-strewn sandy plot, part of a sprawling encampment of displaced Palestinians. At night “dogs are hovering over the tents,” said Awatif Abu Jarad, an older member of the family. “We are living like dogs!” Every family member is assigned daily tasks, from collecting twigs to build a…

Veteran Emirati handler Saeed bin Suroor will be hoping that history will repeat itself when he saddles Real World in the Group 2 Zabeel Mile, the feature race of a bumper $3.1million nine-race card at Meydan Racecourse on Friday. Two seasons ago Real World led home a five-timer for Team Godolphin in the turf contest before going on to compete in some of the world’s best races, including the Saudi Cup, Dubai World Cup (G1), Lockinge Stakes (G1) and Queen Anne Stakes (G1). This year, the seven-year-old son of Dark Angel has had two starts where he finished fourth in…

It seems Apple is finally ready to play the megapixels game. After serving 12-megapixel camera arrays on its smartphones for a healthy few generations, Apple finally put a 48MP sensor on the iPhone 14 Pro pair. A year later, the entire iPhone 15 series got the same treatment. According to industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that momentum will continue with the iPhone 16 series. In an investor note, Kuo claims that the iPhone 16 Pro duo will get a new 48MP ultrawide-angle camera sensor — a big jump from the 12MP wide-angle snapper on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro.…

Attorneys clashed Thursday in a Utah courtroom over opposing characterisations of a fight between two commercial airline pilots in which the co-pilot allegedly threatened to shoot the captain for suggesting they divert the flight for a passenger’s medical emergency. Former Delta Air Lines pilot Jonathan J Dunn, 42, made his first federal court appearance Thursday in Salt Lake City after he was indicted by a grand jury on Oct. 18, 2023, and charged with interfering with a flight crew. His lawyer, John W. Huber, who was once Utah’s top federal prosecutor, tried to characterize the altercation as “a misunderstanding,” while…