The WNBA is expanding its reach in video games as its players will appear in NBA 2K20. It’s not the first time that gamers will be able to use female basketball players. WNBA players appeared in NBA Live 18 in 2017. Many of the top WNBA players, including Candace Parker, A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart […]
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Image copyright WHO/Twitter Image caption Colleagues say Dr Richard Mouzoko was passionate and committed Three Congolese doctors have been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the killing of a World Health Organization (WHO) medic, a military prosecutor has said. Cameroonian doctor Richard Mouzoko was shot dead in April at a hospital in Butembo,
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The public library just won over a prominent new advocate. “Bring the Funny” judge and social media master Chrissy Teigen wrote on Twitter Wednesday that she visited the library for the first time in 23 years and totally dug it. She participated in story time with 3-year-old daughter Luna and perused shelves full of cookbooks.
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Image caption Andy Chadwick says he was not warned about the scheme Former soldiers who fear their pensions have been lost are calling on the government to pay them back. The group, who had all left the armed forces, were persuaded to transfer dormant pensions into a risky scheme by unregulated salesmen. They said the
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Keston Hiura found that less thinking resulted in more hitting and an end to his struggles at the plate. Hiura hit two home runs for the first time in the big league career and drove in three runs Wednesday night, powering the Milwaukee Brewers to an 8-3 win and three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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The UK Parliament must act to deliver on the referendum result and let the UK leave the European Union, the former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith has said. The Conservative party believes in delivering on what was promised to the British people, which was that their decision was binding on a British government, he
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Image copyright Getty Images There were more people than ever before waiting for routine operations on the NHS in England – 4.4 million – in June. The government target is for 92% of patients to start treatment within 18 weeks – but only 86.3% were, meaning 600,000 people had to wait longer. In July, the
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Benioff (second left) and Weiss with Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner at the Game of Thrones season six premiere Game Of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss have signed a deal with Netflix, the streaming giant has said. Variety reported that Netflix won a “three-way bidding war that
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Image copyright Three Three Ireland has apologised after adding bogus roaming fees to customers’ bills. In some cases, subscribers had been told they had been charged more than €160 ($179; £147) for large amounts of data use that exceeded their allowance. Many were alerted to the charge by a series of text messages from the
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The Latest on a new United Nations report on climate change (all times local): 11:30 a.m. A new United Nations science report on climate change says cutting down trees is making the world hotter and hungrier. Although the report doesn’t pinpoint any country, scientists, when asked, pointed a finger at Brazil’s recent stepped-up deforestation of
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