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Following a loss to Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska in the second round at the Sydney International, Petkovic underwent scans that showed lower back stress fractures. “I’ve been having some back problems for the last three or four months. I’ve been struggling with it, but I’ve always believed it was going to be fine and so I pushed through the pain. The last two weeks in Australia I’ve been having bigger problems and I could only play for 30-45 minutes without pain,” Petkovic said....

Federer joined Wawrinka — who dumped out defending champion Novak Djokovic in his quarterfinal — in the semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3 victory over Andy Murray on Wednesday. Wawrinka faces Tomas Berdych on Thursday, with Rafael Nadal set to renew his rivalry with Federer 24 hours later. And while Federer is delighted to see close friend and Davis Cup teammate Wawrinka progress this far, the world No....

LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City restored an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a 2-1 come-from-behind win at Huddersfield Town, while Everton’s season went from bad to worse following a toothless 4-1 defeat at Southampton on Sunday. Huddersfield appeared on course to earne an impressive point against City but Raheem Sterling bundled home a fortunate 84th-minute winner for the visitors after Sergio Aguero had earlier converted a penalty to cancel out Nicolas Otamendi’s own goal....

The Welsh strugglers leapt out of the bottom three with a quite extraordinary win that stunned Liverpool fans who had not seen their title challengers lose a home match league there since defeat by Manchester United a year ago. Spanish international Fernando Llorente was the hero in Swansea’s first league victory under new manager Paul Clement, toe-poking the ball home two minutes after halftime and heading home another five minutes later....

“We’re strangling our planet with plastic,” says Mona Astra Liss, a company spokesperson. IKEA will also be selling 59-cent reusable polypropylene “Big Blue Bags” for customers to bring back on subsequent shopping jaunts (or use elsewhere in their daily shopping adventures). “We’re just asking our customers to seriously think about all the plastic bags they use on a daily basis.” With 29 big-box stores across the United States, the program’s impact could be significant: when IKEA instituted a similar tax in Great Britain, plastic bag use fell by 95 percent, according to the spokesperson....

In a clip shared in advance of the full broadcast of the interview, due to air on Wednesday’s edition of World News Tonight, Thomas asked Barr about the influence of Trump on the Department of Justice in the wake of the controversy over former presidential adviser Roger Stone’s sentencing recommendation. “To have public statements and tweets made about the department… about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job, to assure the courts and the prosecutors and the department that we’re doing our work with integrity,” Barr said....

Algeria means little to the bright, sensitive Francois (Gael Morel), who loves Ingmar Bergman films and Faulkner and is just beginning to discover that his sexual desires focus not on his pretty best friend Malte (Bouchez), but on the handsome peasant boy Serge (Stephane Rideau), whose brother has just been sent to Algeria to fight. One brief schoolboy sexual encounter means everything to Francois, but it’s just a one-time experiment to Serge, who’s smitten with Maite....

After a lopsided men’s Ashes, the spotlight shifts towards the women’s cricket teams of Australia and England. The Aussies will be eager to begin the series on a winning note, with the likes of Megan Schutt and Jess Jonassen returning after missing the previous series. However, England are a well-oiled unit led by the experienced Heather Knight. Although they boast Nat Sciver and Sophie Ecclestone, England will start the game as slight underdogs....

BVB 5/4 to score U1.5 goals v Stuttgart Dortmund announced on Thursday that the Gabon international had been omitted from Peter Bosz’s selection for the Bundesliga clash at the Mercedes-Benz Arena for “disciplinary reasons”. No further clarification was provided by the club, with some reports suggesting the 28-year-old had been reprimanded for repeatedly turning up late for training sessions, while others implied a trip to Barcelona during the international break had angered Dortmund officials....

The Gabon international’s contract with Arsenal was terminated by mutual consent which allowed him to join the Spanish giants on a free transfer. The former Borussia Dortmund striker found himself frozen out of the Arsenal side following a disciplinary breach that also saw him stripped of the armband at the Emirates. Despite the relationship between him and Arteta turning sour, Aubameyang revealed the Spaniard wished him luck ahead of his move to Barcelona....

Audicus was founded in 2012, and has quickly made a name for itself as a brand that makes getting a customized hearing device very straightforward indeed – simply submit a hearing test (use the company’s online option or send an existing one), then it will create a suitable aid and deliver it straight to your door. In other words, you get similar benefits as you would with a hearing care professional, but from the privacy of your home....

That was the day when Charlie Hough’s knuckleball dipped and dived enough to allow Petralli to tie a dubious record — six passed balls in one game. MORE: 10 single-season MLB feats we’ll never see again Here’s the breakdown of those passed balls: — First inning, leading Lou Whitaker to score on a groundout; — Third inning, allowing a Whitaker to score from third; — Fifth inning, allowing Whitaker to reach first base on a strikeout;...

How To Play Wordle Wordle was one of the most viral games of early 2022. Its popularity flooded social media with those little green and yellow boxes, and it became so popular that Wordle was purchased by the New York Times Games. This is still where the original is hosted to this day. There are tons of copycats all over the internet, but this is the one that this article will be about....

Riding on Shakib Al Hasan’s rich vein of form, Bangladesh have impressed in all formats and have established themselves as a serious contender alongside the ‘Big Four’ for a spot in the semifinals of this competition. It wouldn’t be easy for Bangladesh though, as Australia have only lost one game this tournament and have the likes of Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins to bank on in the bowling department....

Will he make it? Hayne is one of the most gifted athletes we’ve seen in any code in Australia. If anyone can do it, he can. But you’d have to say the odds are stacked heavily against him. He’s never played American football and is just a few months shy of his 27th birthday. He will be up against players who have played the game their entire lives and eat and breathe it....

Pro-abortion advocates celebrated the move by Austin’s city council as members voted to allocate $150,000 to funding logistical support for abortion care as part of a municipal budget package on Tuesday. “We are proud to have won this victory with both our local community and our city leaders to fund practical support for abortion in Austin,” said Amanda B. Williams, the executive director of the Lilith Fund, which helps women cover the costs of abortion access....

Australia have left out young fast bowler Mitchell Starc and all-rounder Dan Christian from the playing 11 for the first cricket Test against India, starting Monday. Swing bowler Ben Hilfenhaus returns to the side after being dumped in the wake of Australia’s disastrous Ashes series last summer. He replaces Starc whose four wickets in the two Tests against New Zealand were not good enough to stay in the side....

“I honestly think that Australia will win on Thursday, I think they’ve got the right balance in the team. “Australia’s spoilt for choice, they’ve got the experience, the youth coming through, I reckon they’ve got a really well-balanced team. “With David Warner and Aaron Finch at the top, Steven Smith’s slotted in beautifully at number three, Michael Clarke at four, Shane Watson at five, I think that’s a really good balance for the side, whichever way they want to go with the quicks,” Lee said at an ICC World Cup pop-up event....

Lanning, who scored 143 runs in the series, has replaced England’s Sarah Taylor who had been sitting on top of the tree since October 2012. The latest rankings were released a day after Australia beat England by seven wickets to claim the three-match series 2-1. The latest version also includes the tri-series in Qatar that involved Ireland, South Africa and eventual winner Pakistan as well as the Sri Lanka-India series, which was won by the former....

“Scott Morrison and his government are completely out of step both with the international community and the Australian community. Virtually every climate attitude survey of the past few years has put the concern at well over 50 percent,” said Lesley Hughes, pro vice-chancellor and distinguished professor of biology at Sydney’s Macquarie University. She was one of the founders of the Climate Council of Australia in 2013. “Climate change isn’t only an environmental issue, it’s a social, economic and health issue as well....