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Talking about a dog’s death doesn’t make for good announcing.

It’s impossibly difficult to come up with good sports banter on the fly, especially during a high school basketball game. That said, my jaw is still on the floor after seeing this.

I’m.... im not sure how I should feel about what this announcer just said? pic.twitter.com/gfvfYVKwme

“WAS SHE RUN OVER LIKE THAT?!”

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Watch Roma vs Juventus Live Stream & Highlights Video Watch Italian Serie A match between Roma vs Juventus live streaming on 12 January 2020 at Stadio Olimpico. Catch this match live online for free and highlights goals. When Is Kick Off? 12 January 2020 What time does it start? 19:45 GMT Where Is it Played? […]

Canadian singer Avril Lavigne, who created a foundation to educate people about the disease, tweeted her sympathies for Bieber’s diagnosis.

What if you never had to fill out paperwork again? In Estonia, this is a reality: citizens conduct nearly all public services online, from starting a business to voting from their laptops, thanks to the nation's ambitious post-Soviet digital transformation known as "e-Estonia." One of the program's experts, Anna Piperal, explains the key design principles that power the country's "e-government" -- and shows why the rest of the world should follow suit to eradicate outdated bureaucracy and regain citizens' trust.

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• China said Thursday its chief trade negotiator will visit the US next week to sign an interim agreement to defuse a more than yearlong dispute with the Trump administration.  
• The statement offered the first official confirmation that China would participate in a signing ceremony President Donald Trump announced last month. 
• The Trump administration has said that after the first stage is inked, trade negotiators would immediately begin to work toward a more comprehensive trade agreement. Читать дальше...

Hundreds of JNU students on Thursday marched to the HRD Ministry and were later stopped when they tried to go towards Rashtrapati Bhavan during when some of them were roughed up by police who used mild force, in escalating protests for the sacking of the university Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar over the violence in the campus. As the Delhi police struggled to make any arrest four days after the brutal attack on students and teachers by masked goons, former HRD minister and senior BJP leader Murli... Читать дальше...

Security forces combed the dense forest belt along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district for the ninth consecutive day on Thursday in search of infiltrators who sneaked into the Indian territory from PoK, officials said. The search operation was launched last week after two soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with heavily-armed Pakistani infiltrators in the Khari Thrayat forest. The forces combed Khari area in Naushera sector on Thursday, the officials said. Troops located a... Читать дальше...

Madonna and her family enjoyed a luxurious holiday in the Maldives at a seriously lavish resort - and we've got major holiday envy

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• Vivian Nunez is a NYC-based writer, public speaker, and content creator. She is the founder of Too Damn Young, an online community and resource site for grieving young adults. She also hosts the podcast, "What Happened After?"
• For many, especially those who have dealt with grief, the holidays can be a difficult time. And one component of that is returning to work after what many see as a time of celebration.
• Create responses ahead of time to generic holiday questions... Читать дальше...

Fighting a boardroom battle at multi-billion dollar Murugappa Group previously headed by her late father, US-settled nuclear scientist Valli Arunachalam on Thursday said she would be forced to take legal recourse if an amicable settlement is not reached soon, and alleged that she is being denied a board seat just because of being a woman. "I have lots of patience but it's not infinite," said Arunachalam, the New York-based eldest daughter of late Murugappa Group patriarch MV Murugappan. In an interview here... Читать дальше...

(Bloomberg) -- Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.Chancellor Angela Merkel has boosted her approval rating and, after more than 14 years in office, remains Germany’s most popular politician, an opinion poll showed.The 65-year-old former physicist, had a 53% approval rating in January, up six points from a month earlier, according to a poll by ARD television. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who succeeded Merkel as head of their... Читать дальше...

Hitting back at the Congress for its dig at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over her absence from a pre-budget meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP on Thursday accused the opposition party of making the "worst kind of sexist remarks". Earlier in the day, the Congress had tweeted: "How many men does it take to do a woman's job", taking a potshot at Sitharaman. Terming the comment as absolutely unnecessary in a civilised society, senior BJP leader and Union minister Prakash... Читать дальше...

PRICES, ACCORDING to economists, are determined by supply and demand, acting like the twin blades of a pair of scissors. But that is not the whole story. In many times and places, prices have instead been set by the blunter blades of political pressure and government response.

“NOBODY REALLY understands gold prices, and I don’t pretend to understand them either,” said Ben Bernanke, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, in 2013, after a turbulent few months in the market for the metal (it hit its all-time peak in 2011, at the height of the euro-zone crisis and following a downgrade of America’s credit rating). Yet it is not hard to see why the metal hit its highest level since early that year—$1,588 per ounce—on January 6th.

HOW LOW can interest rates go? It is a question that worries central bankers everywhere. Since the global financial crisis of 2007-08 rates have been pushed down to unprecedented levels in order to prop up growth. With central banks’ interest rates near or below zero across much of the world, room for further cuts to combat the next downturn is limited. If America’s Federal Reserve can manage to keep nominal rates at 2% or higher over the long term, it should be able to cope with the help of policies such as quantitative easing... Читать дальше...

THE FIRST “demo day” in Beijing last November of Y Combinator (YC) hosted two dozen local startups vying for the attention of high-profile investors. It marked the entrance into China of Silicon Valley’s most famous accelerator, which has helped launch the likes of Airbnb and Dropbox. Then, days later,YC abruptly announced it was pulling out of the country.

THE DISTRICT of Erdaoqiao in Urumqi, the capital of the far western region of Xinjiang, looks very similar to many urban areas of China. Its streets are filled with luxury cars competing for space with frantic food-delivery scooters. Many buildings are new, built with steel, glass and cookie-cutter uniformity.

“IT WAS LIKE the end of the world,” says Nurhayati, dabbing her eyes with the hem of her hijab. On December 31st swollen clouds emptied over Indonesia’s capital, dumping 377 millimetres of rain in one day. That is the most since records began in 1886, according to the state weather agency. The river near Nurhayati’s home in an eastern suburb of Jakarta burst its banks, overturning vehicles parked alongside. Within hours the water had risen nearly eight metres, engulfing one-storey houses. Nurhayati’s neighbour... Читать дальше...

SQUABBLES SUPERHEATED by race and religion have long plagued Malaysian politics. The latest one seems to have claimed the scalp of the country’s education minister, Maszlee Malik, who resigned on January 2nd. The trouble started when the government announced that it would oblige all ten-year-olds to learn to write some Jawi. This is an Arabic-based script that was the main method of writing down Malay, the language of the majority, before reformers in the 20th century made the Roman alphabet standard. Читать дальше...

FOR NINETEEN years the Philippines was free from polio. But in September the announcement came that two children living in provinces 900 miles apart had been paralysed by a vaccine-derived strain of the disease. The strain was also found in sewage and in a waterway. Foreign and domestic health authorities have since jumped into action. The next in a series of immunisation drives starts on January 20th on the southern island of Mindanao.

IN THE EARLY days of Islam, mosques were modest affairs. The first ones had neither domes nor minarets. The Prophet Muhammad used his courtyard as a prayer hall. But Arab autocrats now see things differently. Many hope to leave a legacy in stone in keeping with their proclaimed grandeur.

FROM WEAPONS purchases to energy deals to Syria, the presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have had no shortage of things to ponder in the past couple of years. At a meeting in Istanbul on January 8th, they added another to the menu, chewing over the war in Libya, into which Turkey had just waded. When they emerged, the two strongmen called for a ceasefire starting on January 13th.

ON SUNDAY JANUARY 5TH Juan Guaidó found himself perched unsteadily atop the ornate wrought-iron railings outside Venezuela’s national assembly, being pushed back by the riot shields of the National Guard. Since Mr Guaidó is the speaker of the assembly and was due to be re-elected to the post that day, the image said everything about the assault on the last vestiges of Venezuela’s democracy by the regime of Nicolás Maduro, who rules as a dictator. It underlined that a year after Mr Guaidó proclaimed himself “interim president” of the country... Читать дальше...

THE IMPACT of Boris Johnson’s election win was clear on January 7th when Parliament resumed consideration of the EU withdrawal bill. A huge Tory majority made the debate and votes perfunctory. The Lords may be less controllable than the Commons, but the bill will become law largely unamended so Brexit can happen on January 31st. Mr Johnson hopes then to drop the very word Brexit, arguing that trade talks will be technical stuff more suited to business than front pages.

SARAH ALWAYS wanted to get married. She grew up with “girly girly” dreams of a big ceremony. In 2016, two years after the law changed to allow single-sex marriages, she walked down the aisle, wearing the big white dress she had longed for. “The wedding was perfect,” she says. “It was a shame about the marriage.”