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Confident India aims to maintain perfect start when it takes on Afghanistan at the Cricket World Cup

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Beating five-time champion Australia in its opening match has given India extra confidence for the rest of the the group stage at the Cricket World Cup.The tournament hosts take on Afghanistan on Wednesday in the second of their nine group games, preparing to be the most-traveled team in the six-week tournament.The 48,000-seater Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi will be the second of nine match venues for India, with Hyderabad the only host city Rohit Sharma’s squad won’t be playing at during the tournament.India beat Australia by six wickets on Sunday in a thrilling, low-scoring game at Chennai, with spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav combining for five wickets to bowl out the Aussies for 199. India struggled initially and was three wickets down for two runs within 12 deliveries before Lokesh Rahul and Virat Kohli joined forces to guide the hosts to victory.“It feels very good when you defeat big teams, and your confidence definitely goes up,” Jadeja said. “I w...

Domino’s está regalando una pizza de emergencia a sus clientes: así puedes reclamarla

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

¿Quién no ha ordenado una pizza ante una situación de “emergencia”? Todos, o en casi todos los hogares, han ordenado esta comida ante una visita inesperada o un día en el que se fue la luz.Ante estos escenarios, Domino’s está preparado para ser tu salvavidas y está ofreciendo una pizza de emergencia gratis para sus clientes.“Tal vez se te quemó la cena, se fue la luz o tal vez tus suegros simplemente vinieron sin previo aviso; cualquiera que sea tu situación de emergencia, Domino’s cree que una pizza gratis puede mejorar cualquier cosa”, dijo Kate Trumbull, vicepresidenta senior y directora de marca de Domino’s. Recibo de Domino’s pizza lleva al arresto de niño acusado de matar a su vecino A punta de pistola: repartidor de pizza es amenazado tras confusión de pedido La promoción estará vigente hasta febrero 11 de 2024. La compañía regalará una pizza mediana con dos toppins a quienes cali...

AP PHOTOS: Rugby World Cup quarterfinal lineups decided as Portugal exits in style

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

PARIS (AP) — The Rugby World Cup quarterfinal lineups are decided after a month of pool-stage games drew to a close with top-ranked Ireland and host France powering into the last eight with convincing victories.Ireland immediately swept away any thoughts of an upset in its last pool game against Six Nations rival Scotland by scoring its first try in the second minute on the way to a 36-0 lead at Stade de France.The Scots pulled two tries back and it ended 36-14, but the Irish had done all the damage by then and it once again underlined Ireland’s status as the best team in the world and the favorite for its first World Cup title.France isn’t far behind on current form and brushed aside the challenge of Italy 60-7 to also head to the quarterfinals with four wins out of four.The northern hemisphere’s top two teams will test their credentials in colossal quarterfinals against the southern hemisphere’s best.Ireland will face three-time champion New Zealand on Satu...

Meet the highest-paid CEOs at Greater Washington’s public companies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

Our list of the highest-paid public company CEOs has been a moving target, after some turnover in the ranks this year.The would-be returning No. 1, Kewsong Lee of The Carlyle Group, had compensation of nearly $40.8 million in 2022, but he stepped down in August 2022. Longtime Leidos Holdings Inc. CEO Roger Krone stepped down this year, after getting $13.5 million in 2022 compensation. Science Applications International Inc. CEO Nazzic Keene stepped down just this month, but was paid about $8.7 million in total compensation for 2022. And Stanley Erck, the former president and CEO of Novavax Inc., made $8.4 million in 2022. All would have been included in the top 30 highest-paid CEOs here, if they were still at these posts. The average total compensation for the top 30 we do have this year was $16.7 million, and all combined, they made a total of $501 million in 2022. But keep in mind, as usual, the vast majority of these compensation amounts are made up of stock awards. Stock awards…...

Less than a year after Ronaldo career seemed in crisis, Portugal on the brink of reaching Euro 2024

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo is on the brink of leading Portugal to another major soccer tournament less than a year after his international career appeared to be over.It wasn’t clear what the future held for the five-time Champions League winner when he walked away from Manchester United last November and was then dropped by his country as it made an early exit from the World Cup in Qatar.His move to Saudi Arabia wasn’t exactly a guarantee of success, but Ronaldo has proven he is far from done. On Friday, Portugal can secure its place at next year’s European Championship in Germany.It will be a personal triumph for Ronaldo, who insisted his career wasn’t over after leaving European club soccer behind to join Al-Nassr last December.Not only has he been the catalyst for a slew of soccer’s biggest names, such as Neymar and Karim Benzema, following him to the Saudi league, but he has helped Portugal to its best-ever performance in a Europea...

Sri Lanka elects to bat against Pakistan; England targets big total against Bangladesh at World Cup

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

DHARAMSALA, India (AP) — Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and elected to bat against Pakistan on Tuesday in the second game for both teams at the Cricket World Cup.The teams are coming off contrasting results in their opening games: Pakistan thumped Netherlands by 81 runs at the same venue in Hyderabad, while Sri Lanka had a 102-run loss to South Africa. The South Africans posted a World Cup record total of 428-5 at Delhi.Sri Lanka, which has never won a World Cup game against Pakistan in seven attempts, strengthened its spin department as a result, recalling Maheesh Theekshanagot at the expense of fast bowler Kasun Rajitha.Despite losing heavily to South Africa, Sri Lanka batters showed plenty of spark before getting bowled out for 326. Kusal Mendis, who smashed eight sixes in his blistering knock of 76 off 42 balls, Charith Asalanka and Shanaka all scored half centuries before falling against South Africa pace.Pakistan benched its out-of-form opener Fakhar Zaman, who h...

Comedian George Wallace, the ‘real George Costanza,’ cracks up the DC Improv

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP's Jason Fraley previews George Wallace at the DC Improv (Part 1) $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Legendary comedian George Wallace cracks up the D.C. Improv twice next week on Oct. 20 and Oct. 21.However, he wants to make sure that folks don’t confuse him with the former 1960s governor of Alabama.“I say laughter today, laughter tomorrow, laughter forever!” Wallace told WTOP, spoofin...

Wetter Weather On The Way

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

Stalled front today begins lifting North and we will eventually be tapping into deeper tropical moisture after a tropical wave passes to our South. Therefore, scattered showers possible on Tuesday, but the highest rain chances appear to be Wednesday and Thursday. By late week (Friday and Saturday morning), drier air will filter in, but it won’t be totally dry.Next apparent front seems to cross through Sunday and if models are right, this one could bring potentially some cooling.Today in the Tropics: Watching 2 areasLow in Gulf has low chance to form before merging with front in the Western Gulf of Mexico.Low pressure in the far Eastern Tropical Atlantic has a high chance to form. Most models keep it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.Have a wonderful day South Florida and make it a safe one! Vivian GonzalezMeteorologist, AMS Certified WSVN Channel 7

U2 pays tribute to those killed in Israel music festival attack

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

(CNN) — U2 paid tribute in song on Sunday to those killed by Gaza militants at a music festival in Southern Israel over the weekend.During their performance at The Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, Bono dedicated their song “Pride (In the Name of Love)” to the hundreds killed in the attack at the Nova Festival held outside Re’im.“In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence,” Bono told the Las Vegas audience. “But our hearts and our anger, you know where that’s pointed. So sing with us… and those beautiful kids at that music festival.”Israeli officials counted at least 260 bodies near the site of the festival, where earlier footage showed carefree partygoers from Israel and overseas dancing in the desert soon after sunrise on Saturday.Some survivors are among more than 100 hostages that the militant group Hamas claims to be holding in Gaza,...

Macron: ‘It’s likely’ Iran helped Hamas execute Israel terror attack

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:51:41 GMT

Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday “it’s likely” that Iran helped Hamas in carrying out its deadly terror attack on Israel, though Western allies have no definitive proof yet.The French president’s remarks come after a trickle of news reports pointing to Tehran’s active involvement in launching the murderous incursion into Israeli territory, during which Palestinian militants killed hundreds of civilians. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday denied reports of Iranian involvement in Hamas’ deadly terror attack on Israel.Khamenei praised the Palestinian terrorists, but added that “those who say that the recent saga is the work of non-Palestinians” are wrong, according to a transcript on Iranian state news agency IRNA. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian officials had helped Hamas carry out Saturday’s attack, in which 900 Israelis were killed and 2,400 wounded. Israel’s retaliation measures across the Gaza Strip,...