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Cricket-mad India readies for World Cup final against Australia in 132,000-seat venue

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

AHMEDEBAD, India (AP) — India, a country of 1.4 billion people, will come to a virtual standstill on Sunday when its cricket team led by Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli takes on five-time champion Australia in the Cricket World Cup final.It will be played at Narendra Modi Stadium, the world’s largest cricket venue with a seating capacity of 132,000. It was commissioned in 2015 and built with the purpose of hosting the tournament final eight years later. In the process it will likely set a world cricket attendance record.From Chennai to Dharamsala and Mumbai to Kolkata, India has played in front of partisan crowds during the six-week tournament. The home side has channeled that weight of expectations and pressure to win 10 consecutive games — the only unbeaten team.“We know it’s going to be a packed house,” said Australia captain Pat Cummins. “There’s going to be 130,000 fans here supporting India. So it’s going to be awesome. You have got to embrace it. The crowd will be very one sided...

Metro train strikes shopping cart, trapping passengers and causing delays

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

A Metro train on the Red Line struck a shopping cart on Friday night, trapping over a hundred passengers for nearly an hour and causing delays.Around 8 p.m., a train traveling between the Rhode Island Avenue and Brookland stations became disabled after it struck a metal shopping cart that was left on the tracks, an official confirmed to WTOP.Update Metro incident. Fire/EMS personnel standing by at Brookland & Rhode Island @wmata stations and in vicinity of disabled train. Passengers have been successfully evacuated from disabled train to rescue train. There are still no reported injuries. #DCsBravest pic.twitter.com/t60Yblrs4d— DC Fire and EMS (@dcfireems) November 18, 2023About 160 passengers on board were trapped for nearly an hour before a rescue train arrived along with emergency personnel to safely evacuate them. No injuries were reported.Trains are no longer single tracking and normal service is expected to resume at regular hours on Saturday morning.Source

Matt Wallace birdies every hole on back 9 in Dubai and ties European record

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Matt Wallace has tied a European tour record by making nine consecutive birdies, all of them on the back nine Saturday for a 12-under 60 in the DP World Tour Championship.Wallace had a chance at the only the second 59 in European tour history. He had 202 yards to the green on the par-5 18th on the Earth course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. But he hit into a bunker, and hit out to inches from the cup for a tap-in birdie.The nine consecutive birdies equal the European tour record set by James Nitties of Australia in the 2019 Vic Open. Wallace also tied the tour record with 12 birdies in one round, last done by Raphaël Jacquelin in the 2013 Turkish Open.Wallace holed from 30 feet on the 10th hole and from 18 feet on the 11th. The rest of the way, two birdies were from 6 feet and the rest were from 3 feet or closer.“That was fun,” Wallace said as he walked off the course.Players were allowed to lift and clean their golf balls in the short grass because of ...

Cómo votar en el balotaje de Argentina 2023 y qué necesito: documentos válidos, boletas y más

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

(CNN Español) — Argentina celebra este domingo 19 de noviembre el balotaje presidencial. Los ciudadanos deberán elegir a su próximo presidente entre dos candidatos: Sergio Massa, del oficialismo, y Javier Milei, de la Libertad Avanza.Acá te contamos dónde votar, cuáles son los documentos válidos y cómo es el proceso de votación.¿Dónde voto?El 22 de septiembre, cuando faltaba un mes para las elecciones generales, la Cámara Nacional Electoral (CNE) publicó el padrón definitivo de los comicios. Desde entonces, cualquiera puede acceder al padrón definitivo y saber dónde votará, haciendo clic en padrón.gob.ar.Una vez ingresado el número de documento, género, distrito donde se vota y código verificador, aparecerá el centro de votación y el número de mesa y de orden.Elecciones primarias en Argentina.Solo se puede “votar en el establecimiento y la mesa que te corresponden de acuerdo con el domicilio que tenés registrado en tu documento”, advierte el Gobierno argentino en s...

SpaceX’s giant new rocket launches on second test flight from Texas

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off from South Texas on a test flight Saturday, seven months after the first try ended in an explosion.The 397-foot (121-meter) Starship rocket thundered into the sky and arced out over the Gulf of Mexico. The goal was to separate the spaceship from its booster and send it into space.SpaceX aimed for an altitude of 150 miles (240 kilometers), just high enough to send the bullet-shaped spacecraft around the globe before ditching into the Pacific near Hawaii about 1 1/2 hours after liftoff, short of a full orbit.Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. Its first flight in April lasted four minutes, with the wreckage crashing into the gulf. Since then, Elon Musk’s company has made dozens of improvements to the booster and its 33 engines as well as the launch pad.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP ...

Ravens WR Odell Beckham Jr., with legs back underneath him, is starting to look like his old self

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

Ravens wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has always operated with the premise that his season in Baltimore is about where it ends, not necessarily where it is in the moment. In his often contemplative way, it’s about the journey and the destination.Over the past few weeks, the two have finally started to come together.That merging has been significant. In his past three games, Beckham has found a rhythm with quarterback Lamar Jackson as well as a level of speed that he had yet to display since joining the Ravens, with 10 catches for 212 yards and two touchdowns in that span. That included 116 yards in Baltimore’s 34-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night, the most he’s had in a game since Week 2 in 2019 when he was with the Cleveland Browns.It was against the Browns on Sunday that Beckham also showed off his wheels, taking a short slant and turning it into a 40-yard touchdown. On the play, he hit 19.2 mph, according to Next Gen Stats, his fastest speed ...

Column: Montez Sweat’s big contract with the Chicago Bears gives him security — and with it comes big-time pressure

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

At least Montez Sweat has his bearings now.He doesn’t know the names of plenty of folks at Halas Hall yet, maybe even a few Chicago Bears teammates. But he can navigate the building, which wasn’t the case when he was introduced Nov. 1 before even learning where the locker room was.Sweat has had eight practices and played in two games with the Bears before their NFC North matchup Sunday against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field. He sneaked in a trip home to Atlanta last weekend with the extended time off following the Thursday night game and saw his 1 1/2-year-old son, Shiloh.But it has been a whirlwind of a life-changing experience — he signed a four-year, $98 million extension four days after the Halloween trade, with the Bears sending the Washington Commanders a second-round pick.As Sweat continues to settle in to his new environment, does he have a greater sense of relief, or is he feeling pressure now that he’s one of the highest-paid edge rushers in the NF...

Ukraine’s troops work to advance on Russian-held side of key river after gaining footholds

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops worked to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnieper River, the military said Saturday, a day after Ukraine claimed to have secured multiple bridgeheads on that side of the river that divides the country’s partially occupied Kherson region.Ukraine’s establishment of footholds on on the Russian-held bank of the Dnieper represents a small but potentially significant strategic advance in the midst of a war largely at a standstill. The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said its troops there had repelled 12 attacks by the Russian army between Friday and Saturday. The Ukrainians now were trying to “push back Russian army units as far as possible in order to make life easier for the (western) bank of the Kherson region, so that they get shelled less,” Natalia Humeniuk, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command, said. In response, the Russian military used “tactical aviation,” including Iranian-made Sha...

Taylor Swift fan dies at Rio concert as fans complain about high temperatures and lack of water

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 23-year-old Taylor Swift fan died at the singer’s Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Friday night, according to a statement from the show’s organizers in Brazil.While the cause of death for Ana Clara Benevides Machado has not been announced, media reported that fans were not allowed to take water into the stadium despite soaring temperatures, and the city’s mayor has demanded changes before Swift’s final two shows.In a handwritten note shared on her social media, Swift said she had a “shattered heart.”“There’s very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young,” the singer wrote.The show’s organizers, Time4Fun, said on Instagram that Benevides was attended by paramedics after feeling unwell. She was taken to the stadium’s first aid center, then to a hospital, where she died an hour later, the statement read.Several local media reported that water bottles were not allow...

Tempers flare and bills languish as Speaker Johnson confronts the same problems that vexed McCarthy

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:41 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — By most accounts, Speaker Mike Johnson inherited a House Republican majority in disarray after the sudden ouster of his predecessor last month.But as Johnson, R-La., tries to rebuild that slim majority, he’s fast running into the same hard-right factions and divisions that Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was unable to tame. That’s disrupting the party’s agenda, shelving priorities and leaving gnawing questions about any leader’s ability to govern.Capitol Hill devolved into fresh scenes of political chaos this past week as tensions soared. A Republican senator challenged a Teamsters union boss to a brawl, one of several outbursts involving lawmakers, and the untested new speaker was forced to abandon his own party’s schedule and send everyone home early for Thanksgiving.“This place is a pressure cooker,” Johnson lamented. Hopefully, he said, people will “cool off.”But the outlook ahead appears no better. House Republicans who pledged to slash federa...