Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Matthew Knies, Montreal Canadiens’ draft pick Lane Hutson and highly rated 2023 NHL draftee Adam Fantilli were among the nominees for the Hobey Baker award announced Wednesday. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Other nominees for the Hobey Baker, given to this season’s outstanding men’s U.S. college hockey player, were Logan Cooley, Sean Farrell, Collin Graf, Devon Levi, Yaniv Perets, Blake Pietila and Jason Pollin. Knies, a native of Phoenix, had 21 goals and 19 assists for 40 points in 35 games for the University of Minnesota this season. He was the Maple Leafs’ second-round…
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Former Chelsea, Leeds and Atletico Madrid striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is in advanced talks with FA bosses over a deal to join Gareth Southgate’s coaching staff in charge of the England men’s team.He is set to replace Chris Powell, who has came to the end of his agreed cycle after the World Cup, and his contract has expired. Hasselbaink, who won 23 caps for the Netherlands and scored nine international goals, has been out of work since resigning as Burton Albion manager last September.His two spells as Burton boss mean he is well acquainted with England’s base at St George’s…
The United Kingdom’s finance minister, Jeremy Hunt, has hailed his plan aimed at speeding up a stagnating economy as tens of thousands of workers who are furious with the government went on strike, calling for better working conditions and wages that would allow them to navigate a worsening cost-of-living crisis. Hunt on Wednesday unveiled childcare and tax reforms to get more people into work and corporate tax breaks to boost low levels of business investment as he presented his budget in parliament to jeers from the opposition Labour Party, which is riding high in opinion polls ahead of an election…
Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO members that are yet to ratify the accession of Finland and Sweden.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested that Ankara could soon ratify Finland’s application to join NATO and allow the country to join the military alliance separately from Sweden. Alarmed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago, Finland and Sweden abandoned decades of nonalignment and applied to join the alliance. All 30 NATO members have approved their applications, and 28 have ratified their accession. Only Turkey and Hungary have yet to do so. Turkey’s government accuses Sweden of being too soft…
MONACO — Rafael Nadal is aiming to make his comeback from a hip injury at the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters next month, organizers said Wednesday. The 22-time Grand Slam champion has been sidelined with a left hip flexor injury since the Australian Open, and pulled out of hard-court tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami. The Monte Carlo Masters begins on April 8 and tournament director David Massey is optimistic Nadal will play. “Rafa was the first (player) to be registered,” Massey said in statement. “He really wants to play at the Monte Carlo Masters and is giving himself every chance…
OpenAI, the company behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT, has announced the release of GPT-4. In a blog post, the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab co-founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman in 2015 said that its latest version is “multimodal”, meaning that the platform can accept image and text inputs and emit text outputs. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said on Twitter that GPT-4 was the “most capable and aligned” model yet, though “it is still flawed”. He added that it is “more creative than previous models, it hallucinates significantly less, and it is less biased”. here is GPT-4, our…
UN report indicated that ‘suspicion, discrimination and outright hatred’ towards Muslims had reached ‘epidemic proportions’.The United Nations is observing March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia with the goal of taking “concrete action in the face of rising hatred, discrimination, and violence against Muslims”. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres affirmed that the move is “a call for action to stamp out anti-Muslim hatred”. “Discrimination diminishes us all. We must stand up against it,” he said on Twitter. “Today & every day, we must counter the forces of division by reaffirming our common humanity.” The first International Day to Combat…
Washington’s claim that a Russian fighter jet collided with a US surveillance drone near Crimea causing it to crash is both a rare military incident between the two superpowers and a serious escalation in already tense relations since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year. US and Russian officials have given conflicting accounts of what occurred on Tuesday over the Black Sea between the MQ-9 Reaper drone, valued at more than $30m and packed with sensitive US spying technology, and two Russian Su-27 fighter jets that were deployed to intercept the US aircraft. Here is what we know about the incident…
Bali, Indonesia – Russians have poured into Bali in droves since the invasion of Ukraine. In Indonesia’s most popular destination, the arrivals are finding refuge from the economic fallout of the war and the threat of conscription. They are also meeting a backlash from locals angry about what they see as the growing problem of outsiders taking their jobs. Earlier this week, Bali Governor Wayan Koster said he had asked the central government in Jakarta to end visa-on-arrival privileges for citizens of Russia and Ukraine amid growing complaints from locals. “Why these two countries? These two are at war, so…
Sepaku, East Kalimantan – 68-year-old Sernai lives in a wooden house that once belonged to her great-great-grandparents. It is a simple home — there is no glass in the windows, and it is mostly unfurnished. This is where she has lived her whole life. But her village is no longer the quiet place she associates with her childhood. These days, she wakes every morning to the sound of heavy machinery in her back yard. Indonesia is building a new capital city in East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. The city will be called Nusantara, and it will replace the…