Ellyse Perry delivered one of the finest innings of her decorated T20 career, powering the Sydney Sixers into the WBBL|11 playoffs with a heart-stopping one-run victory over Adelaide Strikers at North Sydney Oval on Sunday. Ellyse Perry produces career-best WBBL knock against Adelaide Strikers In a virtual knockout for a playoffs berth, Perry’s breathtaking 111 off 71 balls set up …

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a sailor who shoots an albatross is forced to hang it around his neck as penance, with the bird becoming a heavy burden and a reminder of his guilt. This metaphor was invoked by Goh Keng Swee, widely regarded as the “economic architect” of modern Singapore, as his code …

ایران کے جزیرہ کِش میں منعقدہ میراتھن ایونٹ میں متعدد خواتین کے بغیر حجاب دوڑنے کی ویڈیوز اور تصاویر سامنے آنے کے بعد حکام نے ایونٹ کے دو منتظمین کو گرفتار کر لیا۔ جمعے کے روز ہونے والی اس دوڑ میں ہزاروں مرد و خواتین نے الگ الگ کیٹیگریز میں حصہ لیا تھا۔ تاہم سوشل میڈیا پر وائرل ہونے والی …

Rural fire service superintendent Ben Shepard has echoed the words of the NSW Premier, describing conditions as “problematic”. He told the ABC, Australia’s national broadcaster, that a fire in the coastal town of Woy Woy, NSW, transferred across the bay by jumping over the ocean, with embers therefore traveling nearly an entire kilometre to ignite new parts of the region ablaze. …

Kuldeep Yadav‘s playful DRS exchanges with Rohit Sharma added humour to India’s bowling effort in the ongoing third ODI against South Africa at Visakhapatnam’s ACA-VDCA Stadium. The left-arm wrist-spinner claimed 4/41, including key strikes on Dewald Brevis and Marco Jansen, helping restrict South Africa to 270 after Quinton de Kock‘s 106. With India chasing 271, the series hangs in balance …

Liam Livingstone, the explosive English all-rounder, was released by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 auction, primarily due to a below-par IPL 2025 season where he struggled to justify his INR 8.75 crore price tag (scoring 112 runs in 8 innings). However, Livingstone remains one of the most destructive T20 players globally, known for …

The sides reportedly discussed territorial issues and security guarantees for Kiev Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has had a difficult discussion with US negotiators about Russia’s territorial demands, Axios reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Zelensky spoke over the phone on Saturday with US peace envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law and informal adviser Jared Kushner. According to Axios, the …

OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue – famous for claiming to have slept with more than 1,000 men in 12 hours as part of a viral stunt earlier this year – has been arrested in Bali alongside over a dozen men for allegedly violating Indonesia’s “morality” laws. The 26-year-old British content creator, real name Tia Billinger, remains in custody in Kuta, as …

Europe’s football governing body said that political statements during games are unacceptable The European football governing body UEFA has fined the Ukrainian football association after fans displayed an anti-Russian banner at a stadium. According to the UEFA Match Delegate, during a Euro 2024 qualifying playoff against Iceland in Wroclaw, Poland, Ukrainian fans “displayed a banner with the words ‘Russia is …

Every creative person has had that moment where they look at something beautifully personalized—a monogrammed cutting board, a customized metal tumbler, a sleek engraved leather wallet—and think, “I could totally make that.” Once upon a time, that idea would’ve required a workshop full of industrial tools and a level of skill that bordered on wizardry. Today? Thanks to modern laser …

A year after being pushed out of Intel, Pat Gelsinger is still waking up at 4 a.m., still in the thick of the semiconductor wars — just on a different battlefield. Now a general partner at venture firm Playground Global, he’s working with 10 startups. But one portfolio company has captured an outsized share of his attention: xLight, a semiconductor …

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If the board keeps going past the glass, as if it weren’t there, are they surprised? Many 6-month-olds are, and by a year, …

Sweden said it will cut assistance to four African nations and Bolivia starting next year Sweden will discontinue aid to Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Liberia and Bolivia, and redirect the funds to Ukraine, Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa has announced. During a press conference on Friday, Dousa said that assistance worth approximately 2 billion kronor ($212 …

Chinese medical experts have created an ultra-efficient stem cell approach to Parkinson’s disease, raising prospects for treatment for a condition for which there is no known cure. While researchers around the world are exploring stem cell therapies to replenish lost dopaminergic neurons, the team of neurology specialist Shi Jiong at the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and …

A bizarre Christmas tradition which has been going on since for nearly 200 years in Germany has finally been banned. The Klaasohm festival on Borkum Island, which lies near the German border with the Netherlands on the North Sea coast, dates back to the 1830s.  The festival takes place on December 5, on the eve of St Nicholas Day on …