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Clare Crawley’s wild story is about to continue, and we can only hope Nevada counts their votes either before or after 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET so our national Bachelorette watch time isn’t interrupted. On Thursday night, Bachelorette Crawley is expected to “blow up” the reality dating show, as many teasers (many, many teasers) have implied. The leading lady will sit down with host Chris Harrison, ABC’s production team and her clear frontrunner Dale Moss as, apparently, they’ll all decide she should leave the show with Moss....

Recently, Infinity Ward’s development team has taken great strides to help reduce the population of cheaters in Warzone through a variety of means. Not only are they taking efforts into their own hands, but they’re allowing the community to aid in the effort of reporting and identifying cheaters as well. As Infinity Ward has implemented contingencies to help prevent rampant issues of cheats, fans may be wondering if there’s been enough done so far to stop cheaters in their tracks....

Research About How Alzheimer’s Disease Spreads While Alzheimer’s disease is not spread through contact with others, some research with mice seems to indicate that it could have some type of an infectious component, possibly related to prions (proteins that brain cells need to function). In prion diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prion proteins begin to fold abnormally and then infect other healthy prions they encounter within the body, causing cells to die in the brain and dementia to develop....

Tate is a former professional kickboxer with an impressive record of 43-9. Interestingly, he is also a former four-time kickboxing champion, having held ISKA championships [International Sport Karate Association] in two different weight classes. He also tried his hand at MMA but that didn’t go quite as well for ‘Cobra’ and was relatively short lived. Here’s Tate supposedly defying the sun: In MMA, Tate had one amateur fight and one professional bout....

This trend of archaeology corroborating Biblical accounts continued so consistently that in 1959 Rabbi Dr. Nelson Glueck declared “no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a biblical reference.” Since then, the evidence has kept coming. For example, in 1961 an inscription was found bearing the name “Pilate,” the earliest known reference to this figure outside of the New Testament. In 1968, a first-century home in Capernaum was identified as that of the apostle Peter....

As debates rage over the need to organize the IPL during such a tumultuous period, BCCI supremo Sourav Ganguly has confirmed that the tournament will go ahead as per schedule despite the recent backlash and the player departures. Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin recently announced that he’d be taking a break from the IPL to be with his family in times of such crisis. Australian players Tye, Zampa, and Richardson recently flew home amidst the fear of being “locked out” of their home countries....

Both teams will be looking to win this contest and get off to a good start in the UAE leg of the IPL. So far, Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings have faced off in 31 encounters in the IPL. MI have the upper hand over their arch-rivals as they have won 19 of those matches. CSK have emerged victorious on 12 occasions. Kieron Pollard’s blistering knock helped the Mumbai Indians register a victory against CSK in a high-scoring thriller earlier this year....

Chahal uploaded a picture from the first phase of IPL 2021 on his Instagram account and captioned it as follows: Kuldeep Yadav, a member of the Kolkata Knight Riders squad that will take on the Royal Challengers Bangalore on September 20, hilariously replied to Chahal: You can check out the hilarious exchange between the two Indian wrist-spinners below. Can Yuzvendra Chahal help the Royal Challengers Bangalore win their maiden IPL title?...

With batsmen becoming more fearless and smashing sixes with astonishing ease over the years, the IPL has seen plenty of big-hitters put on a show for our entertainment. While youngsters like Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson and Suryakumar Yadav have emerged to regale us with the elegant sixes, there are a few ‘old dogs’ who have consistently sent the ball out of the park ever since the tournament’s inception in 2008....

Ever since the successful completion of IPL 2020, which was held in the UAE between 19th September and 10th November due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been constant rumours about the prospect of two, or at least one new team featuring in the upcoming edition. The discussions about the addition of two new teams to the IPL will take place when the BCCI meets for the annual general meeting (AGM), which is scheduled to take place on December 24 at Mumbai....

The captains of RCB and KKR respectively, Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir, are warned over for breaching the Level 1 of IPL code of conduct. Kohli and Gambhir were involved in an on-field spat at M Chinnaswamy stadium, Bangalore after the latter was dismissed in the 10th over of the innings as Gambhir and other players walked towards cover region to celebrate the dismissal. Kohli, instead of heading back to the pavilion, walked towards Gambhir and apparently made some remark....

Just a few weeks ago, the teams announced the list of players to be retained and released for the 2019 edition of the tournament. While a lot of the usual suspects were retained, there were a few big names who were released by a few of the franchises. The Kings XI Punjab, who finished at the bottom of the table last time around, released both Yuvraj Singh and Aaron Finch from the squad....

India’s World Cup winning hero Yuvraj Singh went for Rs 14 cr to Vijay Mallya owned team Royal Challengers Bangalore. Meanwhile, Dinesh Karthik was snapped up by his former team Delhi Daredevils for Rs 12.5 cr. Virender Sehwag was sold for Rs 3.2 cr to Kings XI Punjab, a surprisingly low amount. Discarded English superstar Kevin Pietersen – a big draw at the auction – was retained by Delhi after using their “right to match” card against Sunrisers Hyderabad....

Suryakumar Yadav – The only reason I left the 24-year-old out of my playing XI for Kolkata Knight Riders’ season opener was his batting position. Despite showing immense potential last season, the KKR management seemed hell bent on playing him at No.7 – too low to return points in fantasy cricket. However, they seemed to have realised their mistake and are using him at the top of the batting order this time around....

The first edition kicked off with 8 teams representing 8 different cities of India. Each franchise tried their best to get the top class players in their side who could help them win the title for them. The franchises tried their best to get a perfect team combination in the auction. However, not every franchise could achieve the perfect combination. Thus, they released the under-performing players to either buy them at a cheaper price in the auction or to do away with them....

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani traveled to Tokyo on Friday to meet Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, becoming the first Iranian president to do so in 19 years. The visit followed Abe’s historic trip to Tehran in June and, while then too the Japanese leader sought to ease worsening frictions between the U.S. and Iran, the security situation in the Persian Gulf—an oil lifeline for much of the world, including East Asia—has only deteriorated in the months since....

Iranian officials lashed out after a “desperate move” caused the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran to have an electrical blackout. Civilian nuclear program workers said the “accident” suddenly disrupted the plant’s electrical distribution grid. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, stopped short of accusing any specific country for the likely “cyberattack,” but vowed to beef up the country’s nuclear program despite ongoing Western efforts to reach a denuclearization deal....

Already suffering under the weight of stringent sanctions imposed by the order of President Donald Trump, Iran has become one of the worst-hit countries in the world in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompoe announced that more sanctions would be added for Iran, despite reports that the Persian Gulf nation was already struggling to obtain much needed medical supplies to combat the outbreak. As a result, Khamenei on Sunday refused the possibility of accepting U....

“Westerners do not help us, they hit wherever they can,” he said. “They don’t help, they are enemies.” Khamenei’s remark about U.S. stubbornness pertained to the negotiations on Tehran’s missiles and regional influence. This will likely bring challenges to efforts to revive the tattered nuclear agreement with major world powers, which the U.S. withdrew from in 2018. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below: Khamenei’s remarks come as his hard-line protege, President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, is poised to be sworn in next week as the head of the country’s civilian government....

Spokesman Yurii Ihnat was responding to reports that Iran has pledged to provide Russia with surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, as well as more attack drones, for President Vladimir Putin’s troops to use in the war against Ukraine. Two senior Iranian officials and two diplomats told Reuters last month that Iran and Russia came to a deal on October 6 when First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, two senior officials from Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards and an official from the Supreme National Security Council visited Moscow for talks....