Friday, 29 January 2021

Watch: ICC's "Jaw-Dropping Yorkers" Birthday Wish For Mitchell Starc

Mitchell Starc Birthday: The International Cricket Council (ICC) shared a video of some of the best yorkers bowled by the Australian fast bowler.

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No Ranji For 1st Time In 87 Years, BCCI To Host Vijay Hazare Trophy

The BCCI will also host the U-19 National One Day tournament for the Vinoo Mankad Trophy and the Women's national 50-over tournament.

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Stokes, Archer, Burns To Start Training As Visitors Clear 2nd Covid Test

India vs England: The trio will practice in the morning at the MA Chidambaram Stadium for the next three days to get into the groove ahead of the Test series.

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Venezuela hired Democratic Party donor for $6 million

Newly filed lobbying records show that Venezuela’s socialist government previously hired a longtime Democratic Party donor for $6 million at the same it was lobbying to discourage the U.S. from imposing sanctions on the oil-rich nation

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Today in History

Today in History Today is Saturday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2021. There are 335 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse (neh-too-RAHM’ gahd-SAY’), a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.) On this date: In 1649, England’s King Charles I was executed for high treason. In 1862, the ironclad USS Monitor was launched from the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, New York, during the Civil War. In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. In 1945, during World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea with the loss of more than 9,000 lives, most of them war refugees; roughly 1,000 people survived. Adolf Hitler marked the 12th anniversary of his appointment as Germany’s chancellor with his last public speech in which he called on Germans to keep...

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Plaintiffs drop lawsuit over Facebook militia posts

A federal lawsuit demanding that Facebook prevent militias and hate groups from using the site after a militia used the platform to draw armed people to anti-police brutality protests in Wisconsin is over

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Beverly Hills doctor sentenced in massive medical scam

A Beverly Hills doctor who authorities say performed unnecessary surgeries on patients in one of the nation’s largest medical insurance fraud schemes has been sentenced

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Feds: Woman charged in ex-con's plot against college women

A New York woman has been charged with conspiring with an ex-convict to extort and force into labor or prostitution some women he met after living in his daughter's on-campus housing at Sarah Lawrence College

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Appeals court allows US to expel children alone at border

A federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. government could resume expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border unaccompanied by a parent

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Church established by slave owners creates reparations fund

A Baltimore Episcopal church founded by slaveholders in the 1860s says it will spend $500,000 over the next five years to establish a fund intended as reparations for slavery

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Firm indefinitely delays plans to retrieve Titanic's radio

The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck has indefinitely delayed plans to retrieve and exhibit the vessel’s radio equipment because of the coronavirus pandemic

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Thursday, 28 January 2021

Abu Dhabi T10: Delhi Bulls Beat Bangla Tigers By 7 Wickets

Delhi Bulls brilliantly chased down Bangla Tigers' impressive total of 128 runs with seven balls to spare in their opening match of Abu Dhabi T10.

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For some Muslims, hope, uncertainty after travel ban lifted

President Joe Biden’s repeal of the Trump administration’s travel ban for several Muslim-majority nations brought a sigh of relief from those affected

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