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Melbourne Renegades crowned champions of Women's Big Bash League 2024

Melbourne [Australia], December 1 (ANI): Melbourne Renegades crowned champions of the 2024 edition of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) as they beat Brisbane Heat by 7 runs at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. It was the all-round performance of Hayley Matthews that helped the Renegades clinch their maiden WBBL title. https://x.com/WBBL/status/1863104193369915425After winning the toss Brisbane Heat sent the

The Washington Free Beacon 

Hong Kong Hero

The fate of Lai Chee-ying, "Jimmy" Lai, the Hong Kong business mogul who founded the retailer Giordano, the media company Next Digital, and the newspaper Apple Daily, was sealed 30 years ago. It just took another two decades for the Chinese Communist Party to imprison him. Outraged by the CCP’s massacre of protesters at Tiananmen Square, he insulted the brutal Chinese premier Li Peng in a regular column he wrote in his own Next magazine in 1994. As the author and Hong Kong democracy activist Mark... Читать дальше...

Sofia News Agency 

Evidence Shows Bulgaria Fell Under Ottoman Rule Later Than Believed

Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov has revealed that new archaeological findings suggest Bulgaria fell under Ottoman control between 1420 and 1422, rather than the commonly accepted date of 1396, BTA reported. At a briefing in Vidin, Ovcharov, alongside Assoc....

The Washington Free Beacon 

A Freedom Rider Finds His Cause

When I first cracked open David Greenberg’s John Lewis: A Life, I had one strong concern: Please don’t make him a saint. Past book-length efforts on Lewis, while indeed valuable, wrestled with a clear hagiographic love for the subject, and the last experience I wanted was to read about a man as real as a cloud puff. I’m happy to report that Greenberg’s Lewis is human, fallible, and approachable.

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Dezeen.com 

Eight snowy all-white interiors that celebrate a singular hue

With Christmas fast approaching, our latest lookbook rounds up eight residential interiors from around the world dressed in dazzling white. From an igloo-shaped Barcelona bedroom with furry walls to a Californian home characterised by billowing, cloud-shaped walls, these projects highlight the versatility of white – a colour too often associated with blandness in interior design.

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Atlas F1 Bulletin Board 

What the Losail sprint race and qualifying tell us about the 2024 F1 Qatar GP

Either side of the Interlagos wildness, the other final sprint events of the 2024 Formula 1 season bear significant similarities that pile focus on Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and the Ferrari drivers. The key difference between Austin and Qatar, however, is that so far both McLaren and Mercedes have dominated the victory hunt.The prospect of a four-team win scrap over what is expected to be the ...Keep reading

The New York Times 

2024 Christmas Cookies Are Here

Lemony turmeric, gingery cheesecake, boozy almond: This year’s Cookie Week has something for everyone.

EPLIndex | Premier League stats & Blog 

Journalist: Juventus Plot Defensive and Midfield Revamp for January

Juve’s Ambitious January Plans: Fagioli and Luiz Exits Could Trigger Reinforcements As Juventus prepares for the January transfer window, significant departures could pave the way for notable arrivals. Filippo Cornacchia’s report for Gazzetta Della Sport outlines the potential exits of Nicolò Fagioli and Douglas Luiz, which could fund critical reinforcements in midfield, defence, and attack. […]

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‘Homo bigheads’: Newfound human species roamed China’s woodlands with extra-large heads - The Jerusalem Post

  1. ‘Homo bigheads’: Newfound human species roamed China’s woodlands with extra-large heads  The Jerusalem Post
  2. New, big-headed archaic humans discovered: Who is Homo juluensis?  Livescience.com
  3. 'Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges  ScienceAlert
  4. Is a big-brained early hominid found in China a new species?  South China Morning Post
  5. Scientists 'discover' new species of ancient human more than 200,000 years old  Daily Star