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Chanel's veteran designer Karl Lagerfeld returned to his Hamburg roots with a playful fashion show in the German port city, inspired by his hometown's seafaring traditions and its audacious new concert house.

Frank Lampard has told Timeoue Bakayoko that he needs to improve his performances at Chelsea. The France international moved to the defending Premier League champions in a £40m deal in the summer transfer window. Bakayoko’s arrival triggered Nemanja Matic’s controversial £40m switch to their bitter title rivals Manchester United. The Serbia international helped Chelsea to […]

The best of games consist of a mixture of excitement and trauma.

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As guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night, ultimate showman Neil Patrick Harris played a game with his audience. He showed photographs of children's faces, and made the audience guess whether said child was sitting on Santa's lap or getting a flu shot.

As it turns out there's a fine line between excitement and abject horror. Читать дальше...

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Former Champions League winners Marseille were among the eight teams to qualify for the knockout stage of Europa League on the final night of group matches on Thursday. Athletic Bilbao, Copenhagen, Lokomotiv Moscow, AEK Athens, Astana, Ludogorets and Red Star Belgrade also got the results they needed to advance to the round of 32. The 24 teams who advanced through the group stage will be joined by the third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage. Atletico Madrid, CSKA... Читать дальше...

By B.G.Joshi (in Kalinga Hockey Stadium Bhubaneswar)    

Netherlands and Germany are top hockey nations since inception. Indian sub continent have ruled the game from Amsterdam (1928) to Los Angeles (1984) Olympics. However The Dutch and Germans have challenged India-Pakistan in that era too. Here are the statistics highlights of these two great teams:

s2h team

Defending champions Australia walked into the Kalinga Stadium today with two vital staring statistics. Firstly, they did not have a win in three matches. Secondly, they had a poor penalty corner performance, scoring only three goals out of 17. As if to reserve the best for the opportune moment, Australia posted first win, that too emphatically, using turn-around penalty corner prowess. Australia made use of four out of six penalty corners to set aside the initially dangerously... Читать дальше...

Strong crowd support enables the hosts pull off a 1-0 victory via sudden death

Uthra Ganesan

Cock-a-hoop: The Indians celebrate their quarterfinal victory over Belgium on Wednesday. 

The Belgians had been unbeaten so far, but then they had not yet played in front of a packed, vocal 10,000-strong crowd supporting the opposition. In the end, the crowad at the Kalinga Stadium was the ‘12th man’ that ended the Olympic silver medallist’s dreams of advancing further in the Hockey World League Finals here on Wednesday... Читать дальше...

s2h team

Spirited India upset the applecart of higher ranked Belgium in the QuarteRfinal of the Hockey World League Finals, emerging successful in the tense sudden death. Earlier, India and Belgium shared six goals in the regulation time. In the ensued shoot out, Belgium missed thrice, but India too missed last two to tie the shoot out score 2-2. In the sudden death Harmanpreet Singh struck, while Indian goalie Akash Chikte blocked Belgium veteran Arthur van Doren's try to give India the semifinal slot. Читать дальше...

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Voters line up to cast ballots at Richmond Public Library on November 7, 2017

Republicans had stunning success after the 2010 Tea Party wave election tilting the rules of our election processes in their favor. One major part of that was extreme gerrymandering after the 2010 Census, taking advantage of increased Republican control of state legislatures elected in 2010. The lopsided congressional and legislative delegations have... Читать дальше...

The tax debate offers a clear measure of how deeply insular the GOP has become. It’s now governing solely of, by, and for Red America.

Philippe Coutinho and Liverpool scored early and never looked back, putting seven past Spartak Moscow on their way to winning Group E. Philippe Coutinho and Liverpool scored early and never looked back, putting seven past Spartak Moscow on their way to winning Group E. Steve Nicol can't decide whether he's more likely to remember Liverpool's attack or Spartak's 'shambolic' defending in their 7-goal rout. Jurgen Klopp remarks on the strength of competition in the round of... Читать дальше...

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• Germany has long been the economic and political center of Europe.
• But the recent elections saw big losses for the mainstream Christian Democrats and Social Democrats and gains for fringe parties of the left and right.
• The centrist parties will need to change if they want to hold off more extreme parties.

Germany has the fourth-largest economy in the world and the largest in Europe.

This country has been the stable center of the European system for decades. Читать дальше...

Die EU-Kommission wird wegen der Nichtumsetzung der Vergaberechtsrichtlinie eine Klage gegen Österreich beschließen und Sanktionszahlungen fordern. Die entsprechenden Schritte könnten bereits am Donnerstag in Brüssel gesetzt werden, erfuhr die APA aus Regierungskreisen. Österreich könnte in der Folge zu einer Zahlung von mehreren Millionen Euro verdonnert werden.

It all started with a deleted tweet from 2009 that seemed intentionally taken out of context.

After an overnight stay in Lahore, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan on Thursday arrived in Islamabad ─ the second of three cities he will visit during his trip to Pakistan.

Listening to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and new manager Aaron Boone discuss what they are looking for in a bench coach, it’s not necessary the choice has to be an old head who has seen everything. “I just hired a manager without actual managing experience. I do take great comfort in having Larry Rothschild...

Listening to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and new manager Aaron Boone discuss what they are looking for in a bench coach, it’s not necessary the choice has to be an old head who has seen everything. “I just hired a manager without actual managing experience. I do take great comfort in having Larry Rothschild...

I couldn’t believe I was actually there. Ever since I was a child I’d read about this place. The city conquered by David and visited by Jesus. The city around which most of the Bible rotated. Jerusalem the golden. One of the perks of working on an archaeological dig was the opportunity for weekend travel, and here I was, amid camels and cars and churches and synagogues and mosques, in Jerusalem. No amount of reading prepares you for such an experience. Suffused with the rich mythologies of three major religions, this city is like a dream. Читать дальше...

The co-leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party went on trial in Ankara Thursday on charges of links to outlawed Kurdish rebels, after more than a year behind bars in a case supporters say is politically motivated.

• 'The right thing to do'

The top leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has called for a new uprising against Israel in the wake of US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Cairo (dpa) - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday to discuss a months-long dispute among Gulf nations and ways to combat terrorism.He visited the al-Udaid air base before starting a meeting with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar‘s al-Raya newspaper reported.Both France and the United States have soldiers based at al-Udaid, which Macron said is a vital base for the fight against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.Macron‘s visit to Doha comes... Читать дальше...