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Every team that entered the 2005 NCAA men’s tournament with a top seed will play in the Final Four in San Antonio. All four No. 1 seeds in the bracket making it to the Final Four is a rarity. It has been 17 years since the first time it happened in tournament history. Coincidentally, San Antonio was also the host city when North Carolina, Kansas, UCLA and Memphis qualified for the semifinals in 2008. The Auburn Tigers lift the trophy after defeating the Michigan State Spartans in the South Regional Elite Eight round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at State…

Brisbane premiership player Jonathan Brown says playing in “one of the worst teams” of the last 25 years is a significant factor in the struggles of second-year Eagles prodigy Harley Reid.Reid, the No.1 draft pick in 2023, has struggled in his first three clashes of season 2025 for West Coast, averaging 14 disposals, down from 18 in an impressive debut campaign, and has gone from collecting nearly five clearances a game to less than three.With the poor form has come fits of frustration that have seen the 19-year-old caught up in petty melees, including copping a $1500 fine in the…

HONG KONG: Tokyo led another plunge across Asian markets on Monday (Mar 31) while gold hit a record high as investors steel themselves for a wave of US tariffs this week that has fuelled recession fears. Equities across the planet have been hammered in recent weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” on Wednesday, when his administration will unveil a series of levies against friend and foe alike, citing what he says are unfair trading practices. His announcement last week that he would also impose 25 per cent duties on imports of all vehicles and parts ramped up the fear…

Israel has built a growing network of outposts and fortifications in Syria and Lebanon, deepening concerns about a protracted occupation in parts of the two countries. Israel says it wants to prevent another surprise attack across its borders like the October 2023 Hamas-led attack that ignited the war in Gaza. It has not said how long its forces will remain in its neighbors’ territories, where groups hostile to Israel are present. But there are signs that Israel appears prepared to remain indefinitely, a visual analysis by The New Times has found. The military has set up watchtowers, prefabricated housing modules,…

President Donald Trump teased he might run for a third term, explaining to NBC News that he enjoys working and is “not joking” about making another run for the Oval Office. “A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview on Sunday. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”For now, he’s “focused on the current” term, but told the outlet he was “not joking” about making a run for a third term. “It is far too early to think…

We’re at a D.C. job fair for people affected by the DOGE layoffs. “Here’s a list of things we have open right now.” People are learning about unemployment benefits, food stamps and applying for open positions with local businesses and with the D.C. government. “We are contractors for U.S.A.I.D. So, we’re trying to explore our options now.” The gutting of the federal workforce has eliminated thousands of jobs for people living around the nation’s capital and strained the local economy. Many here are still in shock from being vilified and cast into a massive unemployment pool. “So, this is a…

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLONDON — After 20 years in the role as Klarna’s CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski is about to face his toughest test yet as the financial technology firm prepares for its blockbuster debut in New York.Siemiatkowski, 43, co-founded Klarna in 2005 with fellow Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson with the aim of taking on traditional banks and credit card firms with a more user-friendly online payments experience.Today, Klarna is synonymous with “buy now, pay later” — a method…

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have slammed election pledges from Labor and the Coalition to tackle price gouging.

TOKYO: Japan’s economy could lose as much as US$1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated megaquake off its Pacific coast, which could trigger devastating tsunamis, the collapse of hundreds of buildings and potentially killing about 300,000 people, a government report said on Monday (Mar 31). The expected economic damage of 270.3 trillion yen, or nearly half of the country’s total gross domestic product (GDP), was up sharply from the previous estimate of 214.2 trillion yen as the new estimate accounted for inflationary pressures and updated terrain and ground data which have expanded anticipated flood areas, the Cabinet Office report…

Here is where the war stands on Sunday, March 30: Fighting Russian bombing of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, injured two people and damaged a kindergarten and private homes, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces had launched more than 1,000 drones on this country over the past week. Oleh Syniehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, said a late Sunday missile attack on the city of Kupiansk injured three people and demolished more than 10 houses and a local cemetery. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its air defence units destroyed 66 Ukrainian drones overnight, almost all of which…