A senior intelligence source told the Daily Star on Sunday that Putin ordered 67-year-old General Pavel back to active service last month to lead Russian special forces operating in Ukraine. The source said Pavel had retired from active service five years ago and had been living in a Moscow suburb until he was called back to lead a unit after a former commander sustained serious injuries in an artillery strike....
The photo, simply featuring a prop sword in a car seat labeled “diva,” is not inherently provocative to those unfamiliar with the world created by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski or its adaptations in video games by CD Projekt Red. However, die-hard fans of The Witcher in all its forms quickly noticed the implication that Ciri may be using the weapon to train with Henry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia in a fortification called Kaer Morhen — as the characters do in CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt....
The baby elephant was born on 23 July in the western Rakhine state to a 33-year-old elephant called Zar Nan Hla, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation-Forestry said in a statement. White elephants are extremely rare. It is usually a result of albinism—a condition caused by a lack of pigment in the skin. The Ministry of Natural Resources said the elephant possessed seven of the eight characteristics associated with white elephants....
A team from global animal welfare non-profit Four Paws traveled to San Luis province in western Argentina to collect the four Bengal tigers before transferring them to the LIONSROCK Big Cat Sanctuary near Bethlehem in South Africa. The tigers had been confined to the abandoned train carriage, which is barely larger than the size of two parking spaces, for years. In 2007, a traveling circus had asked a local farmer in San Luis to take care of two tigers for a period of six months....
Out magazine wrote that the mayor of South Bend, Indiana “should have supported an organization… created to cater to the needs of queer people” instead of The Salvation Army in a story resurfacing articles on the presidential primary contender volunteering for the charity. It also reported that Buttigieg, who is himself a member of the gay community, received a “roasting” on social media Tuesday for his volunteering with the church group....
Barrett was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the U.S. Supreme Court left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September. While some Democrats have said the seat should be left vacant until after the November presidential election, Trump has said that he has the right to make the nomination. Democrats have indicated that they may expand the number of justices seated on the Supreme Court, much to the consternation of the GOP....
Carroll had some sympathy for his coaching counterpart in the game, Bill Belichick, and admitted not knowing much about how the Seahawks inflate their footballs in any given week. MORE: Sherman calls out Goodell for ‘conflict of interest’ | SNL spoofs Deflate-gate He also expects Belichick not to let it get to his team during the week before next Sunday’s big game. “We’re understanding they’re dealing with distraction they don’t want," Carroll said....
Below we will be explaining a simple method that you can use to price up a match yourself. It should be remembered that pricing up a match is all down to individual preference. Some people put more emphasis on the form of the last six games than they do on the previous 38 matches. Pricing up a football match takes a little time to learn. With each match you need to decide how far you’re going to go back, which games (or kinds of games) you think might deserve extra or less emphasis and so on....
Pete Rose doesn’t think he belongs in the infernal region. He is wrong. SPECTOR: Rose should never make the Hall of Fame | Joe Morgan disagrees Rose was banned from baseball for life on Aug. 23, 1989. More than a half a century before him, baseball decided to purge itself of the disgrace of gambling after the Chicago White Sox threw the 1919 World Series. The team that won in ‘19?...
Jacob Batalon’s Ned was introduced as the best friend of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker back in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Across the trilogy, he evolved from Spidey’s “guy in the chair” to a superpowered ally opening and closing mystical portals to redirect villains in the final battle of No Way Home. But instead of turning Ned into Spidey’s sidekick, the threequel has set him up to become the webslinger’s next nemesis. Marvel fans are eager to see Holland take on Venom, Kraven, Black Cat, and countless other iconic villains, but Ned is arguably the perfect bad guy for Spider-Man 4....
The X-Men, Unusual Suspects, and Bohemian Rhapsody director, 53, has had multiple allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him but no action has been taken by authorities. The petition, which had nearly 50,000 signatures at the time of reporting, states: “Bryan Singer has had allegations against him for sexual assault, abuse, and misconduct, mostly against minors for over two decades.” It adds: “He needs to be investigated for these alleged crimes....
The petition, on SaveNate.com, allows users to send a letter to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, asking her to grant a reprieve for Woods. “Nathaniel Woods is going to be executed on March 5th, for a crime he did not commit. He was wrongly charged and wrongly convicted, and may soon be wrongly executed,” the website writes. “This injustice is unacceptable. We need to fight together to save Nate Woods.”...
That scenario is fast becoming a distinct possibility with the controversial Australian slaying his way through the field at the All England Club with some of the best tennis we have ever seen him play - ahead of his fourth-round match against USA’s Brandon Nakashima. Despite regular displays of petulance across all his matches, including spitting at the crowd, berating umpires and line judges, arguing non-stop with his support box and even being accused of being a bully by Stefanos Tsitsipas, Kyrgios is now third favourite to win Wimbledon behind Djokovic and Rafael Nadal....
Kjellberg, better known by his YouTube moniker PewDiePie, makes a living by playing video games, and sharing those experiences with his fanbase — through reviews, playthroughs, and comedic skits. What sets Kjellberg apart is his record-setting subscriber base that - at the time of this publication - sits at a monstrous 27.8 million YouTube users — and that kind of following brings with it a bucket-load of cash. According to an article by the Wall Street Journal, PewDiePie earned a massive $4 million through the ad sales attached to his YouTube videos in 2013....
In a recent update on his YouTube community page, the YouTube star outlined exactly how much he has managed to donate over the past year. Between 2020 and 2021, PewDiePie has donated a grand total of $1.5 million, with the actual figure sitting pretty at $1,520,003. He even listed all eleven charities that the money has gone to over the past twelve months, with some well-known names, such as Make A Wish, and the UK’s Comic Relief....
Towards the end of a Minecraft stream, the 31-year old Swede seemed to be almost on the verge of collapsing due to exhaustion. He paused the game before calling for his wife, Marzia. Before ending the stream, he announced that he would be taking a few weeks off from streaming as he really needs a break. A few months earlier, PewDiePie had sparked retirement rumors. He revealed that he has already “retired” from YouTube and will be streaming less frequently....
Peyton Manning will keep everyone guessing about his rumored retirement, as the Broncos veteran quarterback was hush-hush about his intentions to either call it quits or return for his 19th NFL season after the Denver defeated Carolina 24-10 in Super Bowl 50. Asked on three occasions — in an interview with CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson, on stage for trophy presentation and during his postgame news conference — if this would be it, Manning deferred to a later date each time....
That stain is somehow both well-known and best-kept secret. The last few weeks saw sports scribes parse and pick apart Cam Newton’s personality. And the last few weeks saw a series of hagiographic, genuflecting tributes written about Manning — the man seemingly leaving the game on his white horse and his high horse; the man of character, charisma and commercial contracts; the man other men should aspire to be....
The Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia (PFAM) looks forward to working with the new Malaysian FA leadership, following the conclusion of the Malaysian FA’s 53rd congress on Saturday. In the elections, Johor Darul Ta’zim FC (JDT) owner Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim won the Malaysian FA (FAM) presidential post unopposed, following the last-minute withdrawal of the other presidential candidate, former Kelantan FA chairman Tan Sri Annuar Musa. In a telephone conversation with Goal on Monday, the CEO of PFAM Izham Ismail told us that the organisation is chiefly excited about Tunku Ismail’s solution to the issue of clubs’ failure to pay player salaries promptly....
The development of Pfizer/BioNTech boosters against variants that could have resistance to current vaccines was announced on Tuesday, according to Reuters. On Monday, Moderna revealed that it was developing a follow-up shot to better protect against the South African B.1.351 virus strain, which is believed to be significantly more contagious than versions of the virus that are frequently seen in U.S. patients. Pfizer told Reuters that the company was “already laying the groundwork to respond quickly if a variant of SARS-CoV-2 shows evidence of escaping immunity by our vaccine....
