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Rahane leads India to 189-5 at tea, day 2 against Australia
Rahane leads India to 189-5 at tea, day 2 against Australia
A dramatic shift in the wind had earlier forced organisers to stop the day's opening race with Ben Ainslie's INEOS Team UK aboard "Britannia" leading after four legs at Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. In conditions that were vastly different from the light winds teams experienced on Saturday, INEOS Team UK excelled to seal the win and put themselves in a commanding position. New York Yacht Club's American Magic were denied their first points in the series when "Patriot" capsized in the second race of the day after encountering a huge gust of wind while going into a sharp turn.
A dramatic shift in the wind had earlier forced organisers to stop the day's opening race with Ben Ainslie's INEOS Team UK aboard "Britannia" leading after four legs at Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. In conditions that were vastly different from the light winds teams experienced on Saturday, INEOS Team UK excelled to seal the win and put themselves in a commanding position. New York Yacht Club's American Magic were denied their first points in the series when "Patriot" capsized in the second race of the day after encountering a huge gust of wind while going into a sharp turn.
Lai Chi-wai became the first in Hong Kong to climb more than 250 metres of a skyscraper while strapped into a wheelchair as he pulled himself up for more than 10 hours on Saturday to raise money for spinal cord patients. The 37-year-old climber, whose car accident 10 years ago left him paralysed from waist down, could not make it to the top of the 300 metre-tall Nina Tower on the Kowloon peninsula. "I was quite scared," Lai said.
E-commerce workers who kept China fed during the coronavirus pandemic, making their billionaire bosses even richer, are so unhappy with their pay and treatment that one just set himself on fire in protest. China’s internet industries already were known for long, demanding days. For white-collar workers in the technology industry, pay is better than in some industries but employees are often expected to work 12 hours a day or more.
A man with a loaded handgun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition has been arrested in Washington at a security checkpoint near the US Capitol, authorities said. Wesley Allen Beeler, of Virginia, had driven to a checkpoint on Friday evening and tried to use a phony credential to access the restricted area where President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated next week, according to a document filed in Washington, DC Superior Court. As officers checked against an authorised access list, one of them noticed decals on the back of Beeler's pick-up truck that said "Assault Life", with an image of a rifle, and another with the message: "If they come for your guns, give 'em your bullets first". Under questioning, Beeler told officers he had a Glock handgun in the vehicle. A search uncovered a loaded handgun, more than 500 rounds of ammunition, shotgun shells and a magazine for the gun, the court document said. Beeler was arrested on charges including possession of an unregistered firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition, a police report said.
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): All India Football Federation (AIFF) General Secretary Kushal Das lavished huge praise on Odisha Sports for a successful partnership which started in 2019 through signing an MoU in New Delhi.
United States challenger American Magic dramatically capsized in a sudden squall while leading Italy’s Luna Rossa on the third day of racing in the America’s Cup challenger series. American Magic was chasing its first win in the Prada Cup after three straight losses and rounded the last mark ahead of Luna Rossa. A new race immediately began to save Patriot from sinking, one in which rival teams offered their assistance.
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): In an effort to honour sporting heroes of the country, the Sports Ministry has taken a decision to name all upcoming and upgraded sporting facilities of the Sports Authority of India, after renowned athletes, who have contributed to sports in India.
The Oscars Best Documentary Feature race, which set a new record for entries in December when it passed the previous record of 170, has now left all previous years in the dust with 240 eligible films. An additional 25 documentary features were placed in the members-only online screening room devoted to the category on Saturday, in what the Academy told voters would be “the final batch” of this year’s entries. It was the last of seven groups of documentaries that qualified and were placed into the screening room: 25 in July, 12 in August, 16 in September, 33 in October, 36 in November, a huge group of 93 in December and now 25 in January. Academy rules put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic made it easier than usual for documentaries to qualify for the Oscars this year, which opened the door for a field that obliterated the previous record, which was set in 2017. Films could qualify simply by being chosen for two film festivals from a list of 22, whether or not those festivals actually took place; by winning any one of more than 50 festival awards; or by making themselves available in the Academy Screening Room within 60 days of a streaming, VOD or a broadcast premiere. Also Read: 'Crip Camp' Wins Top Prize at IDA Documentary Awards To guarantee that each eligible film will be viewed by a minimum number of voters, each member of the Academy’s Documentary Branch is assigned certain films as required viewing. Final assignments have yet to be made, but with the record number of contending films, the number of required films for each voter is likely to be more than three dozen. The first round of voting, in which the 240 contenders will be narrowed down to a 15-film shortlist, will take place from Feb. 1-5. While the December group of films included many of the highest profile documentaries in this year’s race, the January group consisted, for the most part, of lesser-known films. They include docs about socialism (“The Big Scary ‘S’ Word”), stem cell research (“Ending Disease”), life in a simulation (“A Glitch in the Matrix”), the Russia investigation of Donald Trump (“The Plot Against the President”) and Terry Gilliam’s attempt to film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” (“He Dreams of Giants”). Three additional documentary shorts were also added to the screening room, bringing the total number of contenders in that category to 114. That is also a record, topping the 104 entries in 2018. Also Read: 'Time' Director Garrett Bradley Explains How She Exposed Mass Incarceration Via One Woman's Fight Here is the list of the 240 documentary features that are now eligible in the category. The Academy has not made this list public but is expected to officially release the eligible films later in January, before shortlist voting begins. Films in the final January batch are indicated with an asterisk. “Acasa, My Home” “Addicted to Ralphie” * “Aggie” “All I Can Say” “All In: The Fight for Democracy” “The American Sector” “American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself” “America’s Forgotten” “The Antidote” “Apocalypse ’45” “The Art of Living in Danger” * “The Art of Political Murder” “Assassins” “Aswang” * “Athlete A” “Babenco – Tell Me When I Die” “Be Water” “Beastie Boys Story” “Beautiful Something Left Behind” “Becoming” “Bedlam” “Belly of the Beast” “Belushi” “Beyond the Visible: Hilma Af Klint” “The Big Scary ‘S’ Word” * “Billie” “Black Boys” “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” “The Booksellers” “Born to Be” “Boys State” “Bulletproof” “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn” “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” “Chicago: America’s Hidden War” * “Childhood 2.0” “Chuck Berry” “Circus of Books” “City Dream” “City Hall” “Coded Bias” “Collective” “Colombia in My Arms” “Coming Clean” “Coronation” “Coup 53” “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” “Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine” “Crip Camp” “Crock of Gold – A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan” “The Curve” “Dads” “Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time” “David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet” “Days of Cannibalism” “Dear Santa” “Death Protocol” * “Descent” “Desert One” “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Special” “Dick Johnson Is Dead” “Disclosure” “The Dissident” “The Dog Doc” “The Donut King” “Dope Is Death” “Down a Dark Stairwell” “Downstream to Kinshasa” “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange” “Elementa” “Ending Disease” * “Epicentro” “Erased, ____ Ascent of the Individual” “Escape From Extinction” “Everybody Flies” “F11 and Be There” “Fandango at the Wall” “Father Soldier Son” “Feels Good Man” “The Fight” “Find Your Groove” “Finding Yingying” “Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds” “First Vote” “First We Eat” * “Flannery” “For They Know Not What They Do” “The Forbidden Reel” “40 Years a Prisoner” “The Ghost of Peter Sellers” “Giving Voice” “A Glitch in the Matrix” * “Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb” “Freedia Got a Gun” “The Go-Go’s” “Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind” “Gunda” “Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something” “He Dreams of Giants” * “House of Cardin” “The Human Factor” “Human Nature” “I Am Greta” “I Am Not Alone” “I Owe You a Letter About Brazil” “iHuman” “In My Skin” * “Indian Space Dreams” “Influence” “Irmi” “The Infiltrators” “(In)visible Portraits” “Irradies (Irradiated)” “Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President” “John Lewis: Good Trouble” “Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission” * “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl” “A Kid from Coney Island” “Kingdom of Silence” “Kings of Capitol Hill” “Kiss the Ground” “La Madrina: The (Savage) Life of Lorine Padina” “Lance” “Landfall” “The Last Blockbuster” “Last Call for Tomorrow” “Lennox: The Untold Story” “Lessons of Love” “The Letter” “Libelu – Down With the Dictatorship” “Life Is Deadly” “Lift Like a Girl” “Lost Course” “Lost in Face” “The Lost Paradise” “Love Child” “Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art” “Man in the Arena” “Martin Margiela: In His Own Words” “Mayor” “Mighty Ira” “Miss Americana” “MLK/FBI” “The Mole Agent” “The Monster Inside Me” “A Most Beautiful Thing” “Mother to Earth: The Untold Story of Earth Bound” “Mr. Soul!” “Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado” “Music Got Me Here” “My Darling Vivian” “My Darling Supermarket” “My Octopus Teacher” “My People: The Jews of Greece” “My Psychedelic Love Story” “My Rembrandt” “Napoli Eden” “Narciso Em Ferias” “Nasrin” “The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel” “9/11 Kids” “915” * “9to5: The Story of a Movement” “Notturno” “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life” “Olympia” “On the Record” “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela” “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band” “Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles” “Our Time Machine” “Pahokee” “The Painter and the Thief” “A Pandemic: Away From the Motherland” “The Phenomenon” “Planet of the Humans” “The Plot Against the President” * “The Pollinators” “The Power of Movement” “Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton” “Public Trust” * “Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack” “The Reason I Jump” “Rebuilding Paradise” “Red Penguins” “Reunited” “Rewind” “The Right Girls” * “Ringside” “Rising Phoenix” “River City Drumbeat” “River Tales” “Runner” * “Searching for Mr. Rugoff” “Self Portrait” “17 Blocks the Final Cut” “76 Days” “Sky Blossom” “Slay the Dragon” “The Social Dilemma” “Softie” “Some Kind of Heaven” “Songs of Repression” “Soros” “Spaceship Earth” “Stars and Strife” “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” “Stray” “Strip Down, Rise Up” “System K” “They Call Me Babu” * “This Is Not a Movie” “This Is Paris” * “A Thousand Cuts” “Through the Night” “Time” “The Times of Bill Cunningham” * “Totally Under Control” “Transhood” “The Truffle Hunters” “Trust Me” * “Uncle Tom” * “#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump” “Us Kids” “The Walrus and the Whistleblower” “The Way I See It” “WBCN and the American Revolution” “We Are the Radical Monarchs” “We Don’t Deserve Dogs” “Welcome to Chechnya” “White Noise” “Who Is Gatsby Randolph” * “Wild Daze” “Wim Wenders, Desperado” “With Drawn Arms” “A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem” * “Women in Blue” “You Cannot Kill David Arquette” “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn” “Zappa” Read original story Oscars Obliterate Old Record With 240 Qualifying Documentaries At TheWrap
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For Yuuki Hamazono, it was a relief to find bars and restaurants in Tokyo flouting the Japanese government's request to close by 8 p.m. The 30-year-old financial trader was one of many people out in the Shimbashi nightlife district during the first weekend of an expanded state of emergency, with the government pleading for residents to stay home to contain the coronavirus. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and surrounding prefectures this month.
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due to fly back to Russia on Sunday for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, despite the authorities' stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years. Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic critics, announced his decision to return from Germany on Wednesday, saying he missed Moscow and was not interested in what he called new fabricated criminal cases against him. Navalny, who is hoping for success in parliamentary elections in September, faces potential trouble in three other criminal cases too, all of which he says are politically motivated.
Signal has seen a rise in downloads following a change in WhatsApp's privacy terms, which required WhatsApp users to share their data with both Facebook Inc and Instagram. The non-profit Signal Foundation based in Silicon Valley, which currently oversees the app, was launched in February 2018 with Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp before selling it to Facebook, providing initial funding of $50 million.
A unit of Belarus's new Astravets nuclear power plant was taken offline on Saturday during testing procedures after the reactor protection system was triggered, the Belarus energy ministry said. It said radiation levels in the area were normal. The plant, located in northern Belarus, was previously taken offline shortly after being formally inaugurated on Nov. 7 by President Alexander Lukashenko.
Two former Obama administration officials have emerged as front-runners for the top antitrust job at the U.S. Department of Justice under the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. One of the picks is Renata Hesse, who has had several stints at the Justice Department since 2002 and most recently served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General from mid-2016 to Jan. 2017.
Umno deputy president says democracy must not be sacrificed in fight against Covid-19.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 — With incumbent Putrajaya MP Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor facing criminal charges in court, Mingguan Malaysia reported today that Umno is mulling other candidates to contest...
Naples [Italy], January 17 (ANI): Napoli midfielder Fabian Ruiz has tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday. The Spaniard will miss the Italian Supercup clash against Juventus next week.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will cap a busy day of inauguration pageantry by using the powers of his new office to push policy changes on housing, student loans, climate change and immigration, a top aide said on Saturday. Biden, who campaigned on a raft of promises to undo President Donald Trump’s legacy even before the novel coronavirus pandemic walloped the nation, will unveil “roughly a dozen” previously promised executive actions on Wednesday, incoming Biden chief of staff Ron Klain said in a memo distributed to reporters. Most of the measures are a reversal of policies Trump pursued and do not require congressional action.
Iran is in the process of building up its nuclear weapons capacity and it is urgent that Tehran and Washington return to a 2015 nuclear agreement, France's foreign minister was quoted as saying in an interview published on Saturday. Iran has been accelerating its breaches of the nuclear deal and earlier this month started pressing ahead with plans to enrich uranium to 20% fissile strength at its underground Fordow nuclear plant. The Islamic Republic's breaches of the nuclear agreement since President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from it in 2018 and subsequently imposed sanctions on Tehran may complicate efforts by President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on Jan. 20, to rejoin the pact.