DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic has been ruled out of a game against New Orleans after exiting in the third quarter with a right heel injury. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Doncic stayed in the game after taking a hard fall Thursday night when he was winding up for a one-handed dunk on a drive and Brandon Ingram knocked the ball out of his hand as Doncic was bumped by Jonas Valanciunas. Ingram was called for a foul, and New Orleans successfully challenged. Doncic returned after the break for the review, but went straight to…
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Apple reports first drop in quarterly revenue since early 2019, as China’s zero-COVID policy disrupted iPhone production.Tech giants Apple and Google have reported lower-than-expected revenue and profits for the last three months of 2022, as online retail behemoth Amazon warned of uncertainty in the months ahead. Apple, the world’s biggest company in terms of market value, blamed falling sales of its flagship iPhone on production disruptions in China. Apple’s revenue was $117.1bn for the three months that ended December, down 5.4 percent from a year ago. Profit after tax was $30bn, but both sales and profit were below analysts’ expectations.…
The IOC is working on plans to allow Russian and Belarussian athletes to compete at the 2024 Games under a neutral flagUp to 40 countries could boycott the next Olympic Games, making the whole event pointless, said Poland’s sport and tourism minister Kamil Bortniczuk.His comments came after Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia jointly rejected an International Olympic Committee (IOC) plan to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete in 2024.Ukraine has threatened to boycott the Paris Olympics if that occurs.But the IOC said on Thursday that any boycott would only “punish athletes”. Bortniczuk said he believed it would be possible to…
US official told reporters the military was prepared to shoot the balloon down but was deterred by potential for harm.The United States is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon seen over the country’s airspace for a couple of days, but the Pentagon has decided not to shoot it down due to the risk of harm to people on the ground, officials have said. A senior defence official told Pentagon reporters on Thursday the US has “very high confidence” it is a Chinese high-altitude balloon and that it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information. One of the places the…
Jean-Pierre Jabouille, right, with Renault team-mate Rene Arnoux at the 1979 French Grand Prix, where he earned Renault’s first victory in Formula 1Former Grand Prix driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille, the man who took Renault’s first Formula 1 win, has died aged 80.The Frenchman was a key part of Renault’s 1977 entry into Formula 1 – and they were the first manufacturer to use a turbocharged engine.Jabouille took Renault’s maiden win in the 1979 French Grand Prix.His final victory came in Austria in 1980, but his career was ended later that year when he broke a leg in a crash in Canada.He…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says Spain and Morocco have agreed to set aside their differences as they seek to repair a relationship marked by frequent disputes over migration and territory. Sanchez was speaking on Thursday at a summit in Rabat where the two countries signed around 20 agreements to boost trade and investment, including credit lines of up to 800 million euros ($873 million). “We have agreed on a commitment to mutual respect, whereby in our discourse and in our political practice we will avoid everything that we know offends the other party, especially regarding our respective spheres of…
The New York Liberty are continuing their busy off-season by adding veteran guard Courtney Vandersloot in free agency. Vandersloot announced the move on her Twitter account, ending a 12-year run with the Chicago Sky that included the 2021 WNBA title. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Vandersloot, who turns 34 next week, adds more star power to a Liberty team still looking for its first title. On Wednesday, former MVP Breanna Stewart announced she was signing with the Liberty, and the team acquired 2021 MVP Jonquel Jones in a trade. The trio joins rising star Sabrina Ionescu to form…
The robust data on the United States job market comes even as layoffs in the tech sector have surged.US applications for jobless aid fell again last week to their lowest level since April, further evidence that the job market has withstood aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve as it attempts to cool the economy and bring down inflation. Applications for jobless aid in the United States for the week ending January 28 fell by 3,000 last week to 183,000, from 186,000 the previous week, the US Department of Labor reported Thursday. It was the third straight week that claims…
Momo Zhou, who has died, aged 31, became the second female player to feature at the World Cup of Darts, after Anastasia Dobromyslova represented Russia in the 2010 edition Last Updated: 02/02/23 5:40pm Momo Zhou has died, aged 31 (Photo: PDC) China’s former World Cup of Darts star Momo Zhou has died, aged 31. Zhou made sporting history in June 2018, becoming the first woman to represent China in a televised PDC event at the World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt.Teaming up with Xiaochen Zong, Zhou became the second female player to feature at the World Cup of Darts, after…
Arica chile – Mireia Godoy, 74, no longer remembers what her neighbourhood used to be called when she arrived more than 20 years ago. “Now they named it Cerro Chuño and nobody wants to come here. Before, we used to have buses and everything at our doorstep,” she said. It looks as if a war has ravaged the main street of Cerro Chuño, a slum in the east of Arica, a city in northern Chile buried on the edge of the Atacama Desert. Its cracked pavement is littered with rubbish and a thick layer of brown dust covers the few…