James Anderson and Stuart Broad have become the most prolific bowling partnership in Test cricket after surpassing the 1,001 wickets achieved by Australia’s Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne.Broad bowled Devon Conway on day three of England’s first Test against New Zealand at Mount Maunganui as he and Anderson moved onto 1,002 wickets combined from the 133 Test matches they have played together. That soon became 1,005 as Broad went on castle Kane Williamson (0), Tom Latham (15) and Tom Blundell (1) during a superb spell under the lights at Bay Oval.Anderson and Broad’s tally as a partnership was on 997…
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Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has suffered more than 30,000 casualties since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February, with about 9,000 of those fighters killed in action, the United States has claimed. The US estimates that 90 percent of Wagner Group fighters killed in Ukraine since December 2022 were convicts, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters at a regular briefing on Friday. Half of the overall deaths among Wagner mercenaries have occurred since mid-December, as fighting in Ukraine’s eastern city of Bakhmut intensified, according to US intelligence. Kirby said the mercenary group had made incremental gains in…
Defending champion Kerri Einarson opened the Canadian women’s curling championship with an 11-8 win over Quebec’s Laurie St-Georges on Friday. Einarson scored four points in the eighth end to take a commanding lead. Quebec shook hands after nine ends. Einarson’s team is chasing a fourth straight national title. Only the Colleen Jones foursome from 2001 to 2004 has won four consecutive women’s championships. In other results in Friday evening’s opening draw, B.C.’s Clancy Grandy beat Prince Edward Island’s Marie Christianson 10-6, Nova Scotia’s Christina Black defeated Saskatchewan’s Robyn Silvernagle 12-7 and Kaitlyn Lawes’ wild-card team downed Alberta’s Kayla Skrlik 8-5.…
The Toronto Maple Leafs acquired St. Louis Blues captain Ryan O’Reilly and forward Noel Acciari in a blockbuster trade Friday night also involving the Minnesota Wild. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; The Blues will receive forward prospect Mikhail Abramov, AHL forward Adam Gaudette, Toronto’s first-round pick in 2023, Ottawa’s third-round pick in 2023 and Toronto’s second-round pick in 2024. The Blues will eat 50 per cent of O’Reilly’s remaining salary. The Wild will also be retaining 25 per cent of O’Reilly’s total salary as an intermediary in the trade. In exchange, the Maple Leafs will send Minnesota their…
Taipei, Taiwan – Set against the forested hills and tea plantations around Taiwan’s capital city, the Taipei Zoo is dealing with an unusual situation with its Formosan pangolins. The zoo has about 13 of the scaly anteaters, a subspecies of the Chinese pangolin, who take turns to amble about in the public-facing exhibit space. But as the wild pangolin population in the surrounding forests slowly recovers from years of hunting, they too are venturing into the zoo’s grounds in search of their favourite food – ants. “Sometimes you can see wild pangolins wandering around the zoo at night,” Cai Yun-ling,…
US federal prosecutors announced charges against Jaime Tran, 28, for allegedly firing on two Jewish men in California.A suspect in the United States who allegedly shot and wounded two Jewish men as they left synagogues in Los Angeles has been charged with federal hate crimes. Jaime Tran, 28, is accused of carrying out the attacks on Wednesday and Thursday mornings, US Attorney Martin Estrada said at a news conference on Friday. “For the past two days, our community has experienced two horrific acts,” Estrada said. “An individual motivated by anti-Semitism, hatred for people in the Jewish community, committed two tremendously…
Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu has updated the death toll in Turkey to 39,672, bringing the overall number of earthquake fatalities in both Turkey and Syria to 43,360. Friday’s figure is certain to increase as search teams retrieve more bodies amid the devastation caused by the powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake — the deadliest disaster in Turkey’s modern history. Even as the window for finding people alive shrank, rescuers removed a survivor from the rubble of a collapsed building in the district of Defne, in hard-hit Hatay province, more than 11 days after the powerful earthquake struck. Hakan Yasinoğlu, 45, spent 278…
Manchester United have been owned by the Glazer family since 2005Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, the chairman of one of Qatar’s biggest banks, has confirmed his foundation will bid to buy Manchester United.The move comes ahead of Friday’s 22:00 GMT ‘soft deadline’ for submitting proposals. It is the second bid to be made public after businessman Sir Jim Ratcliffe stated his interest last month.”The bid plans to return the club to its former glories, said the Qatari consortium.The Glazer family, who bought United in 2005, are considering selling the Old Trafford club as they “explore strategic alternatives”.And the Qatari…
Ukrainian president warns at security conference that delays in military aid would play into Moscow’s hands.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Western allies to speed up their military support for Ukraine, warning that delays would play into Russia’s hands. “There is no alternative to speed because it’s speed that life depends on,” Zelenskyy said on Friday at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Ukraine depends on Western weapons to thwart Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambition to seize control of large areas of the country. The military aid has become a test of foreign governments’ resolve as costs for the support rise…
US officials say that analysis of debris confirms suspicions that balloon was for surveillance, which China denies.The United States has completed efforts to recover debris from a large Chinese balloon that the US shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month, with analysis so far indicating it was used for surveillance, which China has denied. Officials said the US believes that Navy, Coast Guard and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) personnel collected all of the balloon debris off the ocean floor, which included key equipment from the payload that could reveal what information it was able to…