Новости за 26.03.2022

Poland's Iga Swiatek will take over from the retired Ashleigh Barty as world number one following a second-round win in the Miami Open.

Shehnaaz Gill talks about 'looking happy' post Sidharth Shukla's demise, says he never told me to stop laughing

Magnus Carlsen is on the brink of winning a second Meltwater Champions Chess Tour event in a row after a near-flawless performance in the first match of the Charity Cup final. The World Champion and reigning Tour Champion was at his imperious best as he dispatched Poland’s World Cup winner Jan-Krzysztof Duda in just three […]

Newcastle Eagles set a WBBL Championship record with over 1,122 fans in attendance at the Vertu Motors Arena, on Friday night.

A small group of women took to the streets of Kabul on Saturday, March 26, 2022, to protest against the Taliban’s announcement banning teenage girls from going to schools. The female protestors said access to education is an alienable right of humans and girls likewise the rest of the boys in Afghanistan have the right […]

Eleven sitting MLAs have so far said they will not contest the upcoming election on 5 May.

Brooklyn Nets (38-35, eighth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Miami Heat (47-27, first in the Eastern Conference)

Houston Rockets (19-55, 15th in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (27-46, 12th in the Western Conference)

New York Knicks (32-42, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Detroit Pistons (20-54, 14th in the Eastern Conference)

Twice weekly, aBlogtoWatch brings you two incredible podcasts for horology lovers. Every Monday, we have the Superlative Podcast, hosted by Ariel Adams as he talks with the people behind the brands and watches you love, and every Friday, we have aBlogtoWatch Weekly with Ariel and Rick as they talk about exciting news in the watch […]

Actor Leslie Mann turns 50 and actor Martin Short turns 72, among the famous birthdays for March 26.

Everybody says follow your dream, but when you go to a career fair, the people who make a lot of money have made a deal with the devil and worked in sales. Not my idea of a good time. What if you could actually follow your dreams and still make some good money. There are […]

California wild grape Vitis californica, from Wikimedia Commons.

Belongs within: Gunneridae.

The Vitaceae are a group of woody vines including the grapes of the genus Vitis and related taxa.

Characters (from Hickman 1993): Woody vines; tendrils opposite leaves; flowers sometimes unisexual. Leaves generally many, cauline, simple or compound, alternate, petioled, deciduous; stipules generally deciduous. Inflorescence a cyme or panicle, generally opposite leaf, peduncled. Flowers radial; sepals generally reduced... Читать дальше...

The top UN political affairs official urged the Security Council on Friday to be united in its response to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch – the country’s first long-range ...

Imagine Cruising's new 7-night Exclusive France & Spain Sailcation not only includes a sun-soaked itinerary, but it will also feature performances from Katherine Jenkins OBE, Aled Jones MBE and musical theatre group Collabro

Going to the Oscars might be fun—but buying a gown for it? Not so much.

This is a dune I’ll die on.

The Oscars are in their flop era. Every year brings in fewer viewers, followed by a victorious conservative news cycle about the insufferable wokeness of Hollywood elites. Worst of all, that news cycle is at least partly right, albeit not for the right reasons. Quite a few Hollywood elites are insufferable, and award shows find them in peak self-congratulating mode, showering superlatives on prestigious projects whose significance often diminishes almost immediately. Читать дальше...

Last week, we jumped right into our our first look at the Top 100 Hitters for the 2022 Fantasy Baseball Season.  If you missed that article then please pause the current programming and give us a quick read to catch up.  This week we continue to jaunt down the rankings by looking at the next 20 hitters on the list.  This week’s edition is smattered with risky bets like Ronald Acuna and Mookie Betts, solid producers like Freddie Freeman and Ozzie Albies, and upside potential with Eloy Jimenez and Tyler O’Neill. Читать дальше...

This is what you do when you’re nineteen. It isn’t terribly shattering, what you do, not the kind of thing, if you wrote it down, that the critics would call “searing.” It’s just a road you take for a time. And then, in most of the ways, a road you leave behind. It will start […]

Public Health Catastrophe Looms in Ukraine, Experts Warn  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News

Netflix's "Diana: The Musical" swept the Razzie Awards on Saturday, taking five prizes, including Worst Picture.

'I can't believe it': Unheralded Eel's freakish try steals incredible golden-point victory  Wide World of Sports

How have Parramatta Eels become Melbourne Storm's bogey side?  Sporting News

Parramatta Eels press conference  Fox Sports