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The Cleveland Browns now have a stud opposite Myles Garrett on their defensive line.The Browns reportedly traded for three-time Pro Bowler Za’Darius Smith Friday, acquiring him from the Minnesota Vikings.Smith spent his first four NFL seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, who drafted him in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL Draft, but he didn’t become a legitimate force until his time with the Green Bay Packers. Za’Darius Smith of the Minnesota Vikings anticipates a play during a game against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field Jan. 1, 2023, in Green Bay, Wis. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)After signing a four-year…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg bagged gold and silver medals this weekend at his first jiu-jitsu tournament.A series of six photos, posted to Facebook and Instagram, shows the Meta founder grappling with two different opponents at the Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition, which was held Saturday at Woodside High School in Woodside, California, just north of Silicon Valley. Other images show a referee declaring Zuckerberg victorious after the two matches. “Competed in my first jiu jitsu tournament and won some medals for the Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu team,” Zuckerberg wrote beneath the photos, which racked up more than 400,000 likes on Instagram and 300,000 likes…

A traveller walks in the Terminal 2 corridors of the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport with Air France airplanes in the background, in the northeastern outskirts of Paris, on September 16, 2022, amid a strike of air traffic controllers.Julien De Rosa | AFP | Getty ImagesFlights to Europe will be plentiful this summer. Cheap airfare? Not as much.Airlines scheduled a near-record 51,000 flights from June through August from the U.S. to Europe, according to airline data firm Cirium. The number of scheduled seats is the highest since 2018.Despite that increase in capacity across the Atlantic, fares are up sharply as airlines…

A Texas man who was against his girlfriend having an abortion shot and killed her during an argument in a Dallas parking lot after she returned from receiving the procedure, according to police.Harold Thompson, 22, is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge without bond.According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Thompson and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Gabriella Gonzalez, were together on Wednesday when he attempted to put her in a chokehold.”It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit said. “The suspect did not want [Gonzalez] to get an abortion.”NEVADA ADVANCES MEASURE…

Time is of the essence for patients battling cancer. A new trial in Kingston, Ont., is improving the outcomes for Stage 4 breast cancer patients using blood tests to cut down the time it takes to monitor the effectiveness of treatment.MDetect, a company started out of the Queen’s University Cancer Research Institute, has developed a blood test to accurately measure if a metastatic tumour is shrinking or continuing to grow, indicating whether or not the current therapy is working.“We are hoping that this would help extend (patients’) lives but also to help improve their quality of life,” said Irsa Wiginton,…

The quarter of a percentage point rise to 4.5 was expected, but the 12th increase in a row brings concerns.The Bank of England has raised interest rates to their highest level since late 2008 as it continues to combat stubbornly high inflation in the United Kingdom. The decision on Thursday by the bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee to lift its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.5 percent was widely anticipated in financial markets. The increase was its 12th in a row. Just two members of the bank’s nine-member panel voted to keep interest rates…

The Western Bulldogs have weathered a late surge from a desperate Carlton to hang on for a gritty 20-point AFL win at Marvel Stadium.Cruising when they led by 31 points early in the third quarter, the Bulldogs conceded the next six goals as Carlton grabbed the lead midway through the final term.But the Bulldogs responded in fine fashion, with goals to Arthur Jones, Bailey Smith, Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and a third from Anthony Scott sealing the 11.13 (79) to 8.11 (59) triumph.The victory puts Luke Beveridge’s team into sixth on the ladder, winning a sixth game from their past seven starts.After…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday (May 11) declared the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan unlawful, two days after his detention sparked deadly clashes and huge protests nationwide. Khan was ordered to remain in the bench’s custody under police protection for his own safety until Friday, when he will return to the court where he was detained earlier this week. “Your arrest was invalid so the whole process needs to be backtracked,” Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial told Khan at a hearing in the capital Islamabad. Since being ousted from office last April, Khan has waged a tempestuous campaign…

Viddawood ran into one of Nigeria’s most treasured wonders of nature in human form. He is a phenomenal actor and comedian, Ovuvuevuevue Enyetuenwuevue Ugbemugbem Osas. Wonder if I am speaking in tongues? Sorry I’m not. That’s just his name….We interacted with him at length, and we thought maybe some of our discussion might interest you…People call you the man with the longest name in the world, how true is that? Can you tell us your name please?Resp: My name is Ovuvuevuevue Enyetuenwuevue Ugbemugbem OsasWe have seen your face on many Nollywood movies, how long have you been into professional acting?The African…

With the recent oil price recovery, Calgary has awakened from a long economic slumber, and its new mayor wants to help the city reduce its dependency on oil by becoming a leader in new sources of energy.Jyoti Gondek has a Ph.D. in urban sociology, was a member of the city’s planning commission and a city councilor. She promotes policies that put her at odds with the city’s conservative establishment, which is entwined with the oil industry.Oil’s last collapse, in 2014-15, gave Calgary, a city of 1.3 million, a problem now facing most cities: finding new uses for empty downtown office…