Author: Steven Sahiounie

Heung-Min Son suffered a fracture around his left eye during a 2-1 win away to Marseille in the Champions League last week; He has to undergo surgery which raised fears he would miss the World Cup with South Korea; Son said: “I won’t miss this for the world.” Heung-Min Son has confirmed he is fit for the World Cup with South Korea after undergoing surgery on a fracture around his eye. The Tottenham forward wrote on Instagram: “Hi everyone. I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you all for the messages of support I have received over…

Leon Edwards became the first Black British and Jamaica-born champion in UFC history when he won the welterweight crown in August; the 31-year-old has a desire to help others turn their lives around after escaping a life of crime as a teenager too Leon Edwards made history in August when he clinched the UFC welterweight title, but now the 31-year-old wants to leave a legacy outside the octagon. His fifth-round knock-out of Kamaru Usman – avenging a decision loss to the same opponent in 2015 – at UFC 278 saw him become the first Black British champion in the organisation’s…

From the red sandstone formations of Utah to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the United States holds a wealth of dazzling, resource-rich wild spaces. The government has been designating and extending protections for its public lands for a hundred years since the U.S. Forest Service was established in 1905. The U.S. has added dozens of designations to better protect these resources for future generations. It’s resulted in a labyrinth of acronyms and confusing titles that can easily mystify travelers. While rules vary from site to site, it’s good to generally know where you can camp, hunt, or even cut your own holiday tree. On some…

One recent October evening, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman strolled through a field of lava rock in a mockup spacesuit, her eyes set on the moon-like landscape. Cardman, a geobiologist, and fellow astronaut Drew Feustel were on a mission to collect rock samples near Arizona’s SP Crater, an 800-foot-tall cinder cone that formed during a volcanic eruption many millennia ago. NASA had seen to it that Cardman and Feustel’s nighttime trek would not be easy. Long shadows slithered across the craggy landscape, cast by an artificial sun in the form of a light moved around by a scientist. When Cardman and…

China’s consumer inflation eased in October while the factory gate price fell for the first time in nearly two months, official data showed on Wednesday. Its consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 2.1 percent year on year in October, down from 2.8 percent in September, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Consumer prices rose at a slower pace due to factors including dropping consumer demand after the National Day holiday and the high comparison base of last year, NBS statistician Dong Lijuan said in an online statement. The producer price index (PPI)…

As the United Nations’ latest annual climate change conference, COP27, kicked off Sunday in the ritzy resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, delegates from nearly 200 countries agreed to discuss compensating poor nations for damage linked to global warming. The item managed to land on the agenda even as the international community remains distracted by the ongoing war in Ukraine and rampant inflation. Wealthy nations at climate conferences in past years have generally ruled out discussions on “loss and damage,” wherein rich nations send money to poor nations to help them cope with the impacts of climate change. At last year’s conference in Glasgow,…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told company executives that major layoffs at the tech giant will begin on Wednesday morning, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday afternoon. Meta declined to comment to CNN on the report, which said Zuckerberg told the executives at Facebook (FB)’s parent company that he is accountable for the job cuts, after his over-optimism about growth had led to excessive hiring. Citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, the Journal reported that the upcoming job cuts will likely impact many thousands of employees and mark the first broad headcount reductions in the company’s history. Meta had more than 87,000…

China’s annual International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in the Pearl River Delta city of Zhuhai is often used to showcase the country’s rapidly advancing aerospace capabilities. Past debuts have included the FC-31 and J-20 stealth aircraft and the first-ever quantum radar, and the city welcomes elite acrobatics teams from around the globe. As the 14th Zhuhai Air Show kicked off on Tuesday, attendees got their first look at several new items in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) arsenal, including new hypersonic missiles, anti-drone technology, and the first passenger airliner designed and made in China. More than 740 domestic and overseas…

New Delhi is looking for stable energy ties with Moscow and will continue buying Russian oil to India’s advantage, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday at a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. “It is our fundamental obligation to ensure that the Indian consumer has the best possible access on most advantageous terms to international [energy] markets,” Jaishankar said. The world’s third-largest oil importer, India has started to ramp up purchases of Russian crude after Western sanctions forced Moscow to offer discounts on its exports in an effort to find new buyers. In October, Russia overtook Saudi Arabia…

Historians may have to review the history of the relationship between the Etruscan civilization and the Roman Empire, after Italy’s Culture Ministry on Tuesday announced the discovery of several dozen bronze statues believed to be over 2,000 years old in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring. Massimo Osanna, the ministry’s director of museums, hailed the discovery as one of the most significant ever in the Mediterranean region. He explained that the bronze figurines – which depict humans, gods, and individual body parts – were found perfectly preserved thanks to them being covered in mud. Alongside the statues, archeologists also reportedly found…