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The cricket competition at the Women’s Asian Games 2026 is scheduled to get underway on September 17 in Japan. Unlike tournaments that begin with a league phase, the cricket event will open with knockout fixtures, with Bangladesh Women taking on China Women in the first quarter-final.The match will be played at the Aichi Prefectural Korogi Sports Park in Nisshin, with both sides facing an immediate test in a high-pressure knockout environment. Bangladesh, one of the direct full-member entrants, will head into the contest with considerable experience on their side. Captain Nigar Sultana will lead a squad that also includes experienced…

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There’s an interim GM now, but many questions remain for the Detroit Red Wings The Chris Johnston Show: Chris Johnston discusses the Detroit Red Wings mess, whether it will be awkward if Dylan Larkin returns and how things are going with their GM search. Interim GM Shawn Horcoff has permission to do the contract for Simon Edvinsson. ** NHLRumors.com transcription Julian McKenzie: “Okay, I wanna, I wanna get to the players who have some trade requests before we get to Quinn Hughes and his situation. Since those were two of the biggest stories to come out of this offseason, obviously…

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Andy Burnham has insisted he is prepared to take “difficult decisions” on the economy, after a former Bank of England chief economist said investors were worried about his willingness to cut spending.Speaking on Tuesday, Andy Haldane, who has advised Burnham on the economy, claimed financial markets had grown wary of his economic plans and now considered his premiership a “traditional tax and spend socialist government”.But the PM rejected this, adding that he would not take risks with the economy and had already made difficult choices since taking office.It comes as recent rises to the cost of UK borrowing worsened the…

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For decades, the mechanics of global equity indexing were treated as plumbing—hidden, technical, and resolutely administrative. Providers like Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) designed benchmarks to reflect the economic reality of public markets, not to shape it. Their mandate was descriptive, serving as a transparent mirror of global capital flows, sector weightings, and free-float market capitalizations. That architectural assumption has quietly fractured. Today, the sheer scale of passive index-tracking capital has transformed benchmark administrators from passive cartographers into de facto market regulators. When an index provider determines the eligibility criteria for inclusion in indexes such as the MSCI Global Investable…

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Olu Jacobs, one of Nigeria’s best known actors, whose career spanned several decades across theatre, television and film, has died at the age of 84.His wife, veteran actress Joke Silva, announced his death and asked for privacy while the family mourns.Silva announced his passing in a statement describing the celebrated actor as “The Lion of Lufodo” and saying his life was “well lived and fought”.Some of his notable films include My Kingdom, Covert Operation and One Fine Day.He was regarded as one of the father figures of Nollywood, as Nigeria’s film industry in known, commanding widespread respect and admiration across…

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Abhishek and Bumrah gains big in ICC T20I rankings (Image: X) India’s impressive run in the ongoing T20I series against Afghanistan has translated into significant gains in the latest ICC rankings, with Abhishek Sharma climbing to second place among batters and Varun Chakravarthy breaking into the top five among bowlers.The defending T20 World Cup champions have secured an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series in Delhi, with several players making their mark across the first two matches. Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Axar Patel and Sanju Samson have also moved up the rankings following their performances.Abhishek Sharma rises to No.…

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In CLARITY Act news, odds that the bill becomes law in 2026 collapsed to as low as 16% on Polymarket on Monday, before rising to 21% today but still down -44% over the past 24 hours. This follows key Senate Democrats saying Republicans’ latest “final” ethics offer had not swayed them. The bill needs 60 votes to clear a US Senate procedural motion on Tuesday, and that threshold looks shakier now than it did a day earlier, when the same market briefly spiked to 35% on hope a deal was within reach. (SOURCE: Polymarket) That swing captures how fragile the…

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Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The US Senate rejected the CLARITY Act 49-50 on September 15, 11 votes short of the 60 needed to advance, sinking crypto’s flagship market-structure bill weeks before the November midterms. The defeat came from an unlikely pairing. Senate Democrats objected to the bill’s ethics provisions, centered on President Trump’s reported $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency gains during 2025, while the banking lobby fought provisions that would let stablecoin issuers offer yield-bearing products. Banks saw those products as a threat to their deposit base, and the two objections together…

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Most of us can rat­tle off the first few words-that-stand-for-let­ters of the NATO pho­net­ic alpha­bet. Alfa, Bra­vo, and Char­lie no doubt come right to mind, and depend­ing on how many war movies you’ve seen, so may Delta, Echo, and Fox­trot. But how many of us would rec­og­nize Kilo, Mike, and Sier­ra? For that mat­ter, how much do any of us know about how these par­tic­u­lar words came to be used to spell out oth­er words when com­mu­ni­cat­ing over walkie-talkies or oth­er low-fideli­ty com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tems? In the video above for his YouTube chan­nel Rob­Words, YouTu­ber Rob Watts explains the devel­op­ment of…

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