65th over: Sri Lanka 225-9 (Kumara 6, Peiris 0) Matt Kuhnemann, with four wickets of his own, enters his 22nd over. It’s another beauty but Kumara breaks the shackles with a hammered four through mid-off. Good shot by the new No 9.
64th over: Sri Lanka 218-9 (Kumara 0, Peiris 0) Mendis becomes Lyon’s fourth wicket of the innings. And that is a terrible blow for Sri Lanka who have now lost their last established batter. Pressure was on after Angelo Mathews threw away his wicket late yesterday and it has played a role in Mendis playing so weird a shot to be dismissed.
The families of five Thai farm workers held hostage in Gaza for over a year wept with joy and hugged their loved ones as they arrived in Bangkok on Sunday.
The group smiled as they walked into the arrivals hall at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport after being freed on 30 January as part of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the Israel-Gaza war.
The police have officially charged the mother of the 6-year-old girl who was found dead in a bathtub at her Brooklyn home on Friday, according to the NYPD.
The five boroughs could see less snow accumulation if the powerful snowstorm blowing in from the Midwest transitions to a wintry mix of sleet and rain as midnight approaches.
Two-time world champion defeats Simmers in women’s final
Mamiya first surfer in 19 years to win successive Pipeline events
Australia’s Tyler Wright has made surfing history, becoming the first woman to win Hawaii’s iconic Pipe Pro event twice as she snapped her title drought. The two-time world champion beat American defending world champion Caitlin Simmers in a low-scoring final on Sunday (AEDT) at Banzai Pipeline.
Wright won the first women’s Pipe Pro in 2020 and Simmers took out the event a year ago. Simmers was shut down on a wave with a minute left, and Wright won the opening round of the season 7.70 to 3.94.
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
As the self-exiled leader of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, he directed a guerrilla army in a 24-year war for independence from South African rule.
President Sam Nujoma of Namibia in 2003. Mr. Nujoma pursued twin tracks of diplomacy and insurgency in a decades-long quest for the liberation of his country.
President Trump said Friday he has ordered the Secret Service to provide him with all information related to the attempts on his life during the presidential campaign.
Irish super-featherweight boxer John Cooney, 28, has died of a brain injury a week after being stopped in his first Celtic title defense against Welshman Nathan Howells, his promoter said on Saturday.
SAINT PAUL, Minn. — It’s perfectly fitting that the Islanders’ final two games before the 4 Nations Face-Off came in Winnipeg and Minnesota. That’s because both locations offered the perfect opportunity for Brock Nelson, the Islanders’ lone representative at the tournament, to be sent off by those close to him. Nelson is a native of...
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