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WATCH | Mohammed Siraj rattles Gus Atkinson's stumps to seal scarcely believable win for India at The Oval

  
The Indian Express - 08.04.2025 Original article ›
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Mohammed Siraj dismisses Jamie Overton after his two boundaries brought England close to the winning score, and in the final ball of the Test series on August 4, 2025, he knocks off Atkinson's wicket to give India a win for the ages by 7 runs- similar to one in which Gary Sobers played for West Indies vs Australia in which the margin was zero runs, the Test tied on December 14, 1960.

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Germany's business elite and the illusion of meritocracy – DW – 07/11/2025

  
dw.com - 07.11.2025 Original article ›
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Business top management in Germany comes from the top 2-4% of Germany's population in education, wealth and upbringing in 2025. Sociologist Michael Hartmann, a professor at Darmstadt University of Technology, has found that for the last 100 years the top managers and boards of 400 largest German companies are made up mostly of sons of business executives and people with a advanced higher education background, that this has not changed much over that period.

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The Ashes 2025: 'England in battle to avoid worst Australia tour in modern times'

  
BBC Sport - 12.07.2025 Original article ›
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BBC says this England team is fighting to avoid the worst Ashes cricket performance in a century. England lost the Second Test at the Gabba in Brisbane by 8 wickets- again. Mitchell Starc with 6 wickets for 75 runs in the first innings and batting in second innings for 77 runs was agains the key player in Brisbane. Neser with 5 wickets for 42 runs for Australia in the second innings reduced England's chances.

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'Ukraine was our bulwark against Putin, now it is his springboard'

  
Le Monde.fr - 11.22.2025 Original article ›
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The mood in Germany, France and UK as Europe ponders a European response to the 28 Point Peace Plan negotiated by the US president with Russian negotiators over 3 days in Washington DC. This is reflected by views expressed in Le Monde of France in November 2025, showing concern for lack of military preparedness in Europe and the sense that Russia could be a military threat to Europe in the next 3-4 years.

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Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Says Economy Faces ‘Complete Collapse’

  
WSJ - 06.22.2022 Original article ›
Philip Wen
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Sri Lanka's state owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has $700 million in debt that it cannot repay resulting in fuel shortages as it cannot finance imports of oil. Depending on Indian financial help for fuel that after $4 billion in aid is not sustainable, says Wickremasinghe, who is finance minister and prime minister.

Deep rooted errors in management of the economy now need to be corrected and this will require increase in income taxes, cutting public expenditure and breaking down loss making state monopolies, are needed. Wickremasinghe says "if the government misses this opportunity this would be a crime."

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Germany inks deal with China's COSCO on Hamburg port – DW – 05/11/2023

  
dw.com - 05.11.2023 Original article ›
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China's COSCO taking an ownership stake in Hamburg port was opposed by the Greens and Free Democrats parties in the three party coalition government with the SPD in Germany. Scholz of the SPD went ahead over their opposition saying this will preserve jobs in Hamburg port. In the compromise reached the ownership is capped at 24.99% so that no foreign country owns a majority stake. At one point Germany's cyber security agency BSI classified the Hamburg port as critical infrastructure.

China is Germany's largest trading partner  for 7 years with trade reaching a record $320 billion.

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Russia taking more of Ukraine just 'new propaganda,' Germany's Baerbock says | DW | 21.07.2022

  
DW.COM - 07.21.2022 Original article ›
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Germany will not be blackmailed. She rejected the idea that Russia is expanding its attacks on Ukraine in response to supply of longer range artillery from the US and Germany saying this was just "new propaganda from the Russian side."

Baerbock also said Germany needs to avoid a situation of being dependent on an aggressor for gas supply. Germany is now "very intensively" looking at its dependencies on China, said Baerbock. This is going to be  for "a sovereign European strategy of independence in critical infrastructure."

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Analysis: What the 34 felony charges against Donald Trump reveal

  
BBC News - 04.05.2023 Original article ›
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The specific charges in the New York indictment of Mr. Trump are shown in this analysis by the BBC. The first line of the Statement of Facts that accompanied the indictment spells out the prosecution case.

"The defendent Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fradulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election...The defendent orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress publication and benefit the defendent's electoral prospects."

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Germany Goes Ahead With First LNG Terminal to Cut Dependence on Russian Gas

  
WSJ - 03.06.2022 Original article ›
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Germany's state development bank KfW has signed a memorandum of understanding with German energy company RWE AG to build a new LNG terminal at the northern port city of Brunsbuttel. Netherlands infrastructure group Gasunie will operate the new LNG terminal. The Nordstream 2 $11 billion project is now set aside and Germany plans to use the LNG terminals and other sources outside of Russia. Germany commissioned its gas market trading hub to buy LNG of 1.5 billion euros. 

Germany will now fast track another LNG terminal on the North Sea at Wilhelmshaven. That terminal would be operational in 3 years. 

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Surging Dollar Raises Possibility of Parity With Euro

  
WSJ - 05.20.2022 Original article ›
Caitlin Mc Cabe
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The US dollar is only 5% way from reaching parity with the euro. The euro was at $1.03 during the beginning of May. It is at $1.05 on May 21. With the US central bank raising rates, and the effects of energy shortages on the European economy, parity looks likely says this report in WSJ. Additionally weakening demand from China for European goods or the EU shifting its supply chains back to home countries and trading less with China could also have an impact from the ripple effects of China's support for the Russian position on Ukraine.

 

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Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message

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NYTimes.com - 10.04.2021 Original article ›
Patricia Leigh Brown
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Michelson, Mohawk artist from America's indigenous peoples projects Mohawk art on three tons of oyster shells. These oyster shells were present when Dutch settlers settled and unsettled in Michelson's words this part of New York's shoreline and New York Harbour. The shells are on loan from the Billion Oyster Project that aims to restore one billion live oysters to New York Harbour by 2035.  Michelson is preoccupied by the destruction of the indigenous environment by colonialism.

Shifts in perspective are taken in one gulp like in a painting and the motion in Native Storytelling, says Michelson.

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Buried in Pandemic Aid Bill: Billions to Soothe the Richest

  
NYTimes.com - 12.23.2020 Original article ›
Luke Broadwater, Jesse Drucker, Rebecca R. Ruiz
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There is much criticism of a $900 billion stimulus bill that only provides $600 direct payment checks to families suffering lost income during the pandemic. About $200 billion goes to business in the Paycheck Protection Program of which $120 billion goes to the most affluent 1% of Americans.

President Trump was critical and called for $2000 in direct checks saying it was scandalous that families would only get $600 in direct payment while lobbying interests and other interests were getting significant sums of money. Part of the Democratic Party has also favored a decent check to families.

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Taj Mahal reopens even as India's coronavirus case numbers soar

  
France 24 - 09.21.2020 Original article ›
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India continues to reopen its economy even as cases surge for reasons of keeping the economy's reopening and ensuring the livelihood of millions of people. The Taj Mahal draws 7 million tourists every year and it has reopened. Fatigue with extreme measures has set in and the government is reluctant to go back to the lockdown measures that affected the economy in April and May. India's economy contracted by a quarter in April- June. A million people are being tested daily and still this is not enough.

India has recorded 5.4 million cases and could overtake the U.S.

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U.S. Economy Makes Record Gains, but Problems Remain: Live Updates

  
NYTimes.com - 10.29.2020 Original article ›
Ben Casselman
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U.S. economic growth in the third quarter of 2020 was 7.4%. This is a record and the closest to this was the economic growth in 1950 which was 3.9% a little over half of that. This is the equivalent of 33% on an annualized basis.

The economy is about 3.5% smaller than when the pandemic started. This record is better than the one in 2008 financial crisis when over a period of one and half years the economy declined by about 4%. By 2021 the U.S. economy will have recovered to where it was back to its original shape if recovery proceeds at this rate.

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‘If Milkha Singh was born in present times, no one would be able to break his record in 100 yrs’

  
The Indian Express - 06.19.2021 Original article ›
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India's greatest runner Milkha Singh describes his life and struggles in this interview in the Indian Express written by Nihal Koshie. Much of his early life was spent in poverty and facing partition, running for his life seeing his parents dead in the riots in Pakistan part of Punjab.

He worked very hard, so hard that he hardly sees this type of effort today. If he had the facilities and training received by athletes of today Milkha says he would be able to set records that no one could break in a hundred years. With so little he achieved so much. 

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Covid sparks biggest fall in life expectancy since second world war

  
The Financial Times - 09.27.2021 Original article ›
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American men took the biggest hit for life expectancy in an Oxford University study, with life expectancy dropping by 2.2 years in 2020. American women life expectancy dropped by 2.65 years. Lithuanian men had a decline of 1.7 years. This is the largest decline going back to the days of the Great Depression in the 1930's

Elsewhere in Europe, life expectancy declined in many countries for the first time since the Second World War. This happened in Spain, Italy, England, Wales and Belgium. Women in 8 countries and men in 11 countries had drops in life expectancy over more than 1 year.

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What rising foodgrain output means for India

  
mint - 09.27.2021 Original article ›
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Rising food grain production with an increase of 4.5% to 150 million tonnes during kharif season shows hard work of farmers, scientific research in agriculture, and a good monsoon season rainfall. About 55% of the population is dependent on agricultural activities and at the time of the pandemic this should boost farm incomes, help keep down inflation, as well as increase exports and enhance agriculture dependent industries.

Improving rural economy will help sales in light motor vehicles, telecom products, and consumer products. The next step is rural supply chain building with new logistical improvements including cold chain facilities, storage facilities, food processing. 

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Rafael Nadal Wins the Australian Open, His 21st Grand Slam Title

  
NYTimes.com - 01.30.2022 Original article ›
Christopher Clarey
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Rafael Nadal makes a remarkable comeback to beat Medvedev after losing the first two sets in the 2022 Australian Open tennis tournament. The match lasted 5 hours till 1 am the next day. Nadal says "Being honest one month and a half ago, I did not know if I will be back on the tour plying tennis again... you don't know how much I fought to be here." Nadal is one of the of the most resilient players in sports having comeback from difficult situations repeatedly, as he gives his all down to the last point regardless of the score. 

 

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The Right Way to Follow Your Passion

  
New York Times - 03.19.2019 Original article ›
Brad Stulberg
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A passion for doing something that interests you can be constructive or destructive both for satisfaction, rewards and health. It is destructive when it is obsessive, based purely on external rewards and recognition. It is constructive when it is based on well being, living productively, doing something harmoniously, absorbed in it because of how the activity itself makes you feel.

Its important not to judge yourself looking at others, but setting your own pace, on your own efforts. Focus on a lifetime of excellence, on a process, not a point in time result. Even embracing some failure for the opportunity to grow. 

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Senate Democrats Help Republicans Advance Immigration Crackdown

  
WSJ - 01.17.2025 Original article ›
Xavier Martinez
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The Laken Riley Act has as its sponsor Katie Britt of Alabama, and cosponsors Democrats Ruben Gallego of Arizona and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. It is expected to get over 60 votes 61-35 to overcome Senate rules and be on the presidents desk. No amendments were made.  It will require the Department of Homeland Security to arrest undocumented immigrants for theft related offenses and increase the power of states to challenge immigration decisions.

Kristi Noem at Homeland Security and Tom Homan Border Chief will lead the push on the Border with DJT declaring a national emergency that will generate funds from the Defense Department.

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Insurance and Taxes Now Cost More Than Mortgages for Many Homeowners

  
WSJ - 12.24.2024 Original article ›
Nicole Friedman
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In 2024 one third of the mortgage payment is the average cost of insurance and taxes. Insurance went up with natural disasters fires and floods, taxes go up as home prices surge as they have in 10 years without enough new housing being built.

 For half of people in 5 major Metro areas, Rochester and Syracuse in NY, Omaha in Nebraska, New Orleans, and Miami, at least a quarter of borrowers spend more than half of their mortgage payment in insurance and taxes. Nationwide in US 9%, up from 4% in 2014 spend more than half of their mortgage payment on insurance and taxes.

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6 Ways to Level Up Your Daily Walk

  
NYTimes.com - 05.08.2023 Original article ›
Emily Pennington
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Walking is good for you. How to structure a good walk paying attention to the location, the motivational aspect to make it enjoyable, and getting the most exercize.

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WSJ News Exclusive | Short on Cash, More Americans Tap 401(k) Savings for Emergencies

  
WSJ - 02.02.2023 Original article ›
Anne Tergesen
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Increase in hardship withdrawals from Vanguard 401(k)s in the US from 2.1% in 2021 to 2.8% in 2022 shows stress in household finances by Feb 2023.

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Russia to Cut Oil Production, Sending Prices Higher

  
WSJ - 02.10.2023 Original article ›
Georgi Kantchev
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Russia plans to cut oil production by 500,000 barrels a day in a rare move outside of the alliance with OPEC. The move will push oil prices higher.

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Trump Says Supreme Court Nominee Will Be a Woman

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WSJ - 09.20.2020 Original article ›
Catherine Lucey, Brent Kendall, Kristina Peterson
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President Trump says it will be a woman, "a very talented, a very brilliant woman," to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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