India have picked a 15-member squad that boasts of experienced players. © AFP MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli will lead India from the front in their bid to clinch the third title when 50-over cricket extravaganza ICC World Cup 2019 begins in the UK on May 30, feels India’s 1983 World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev. …
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Inside Meghan Markle’s £1.1m pregnancy with list of expenses
Having a child is expensive at the best of times. Between the clothes, nappies, decorating its bedroom and having to buy a new maternity wardrobe, pregnancy costs soon add up. But few people will spend more than £1million during in the nine months before their child is born. But the Mirror reports Meghan Markle’s pregnancy …
Women’s World Cup 2019 team guide No 9: Australia
This article is part of the Guardian’s 2019 Women’s World Cup Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 24 countries who have qualified for France. theguardian.com is running previews from two countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 7 June. Overview It is fair …
Man Utd boss Solskjaer admits famous 1999 flick was ‘lucky’
WITH one instinctive jab of his right boot, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer became an instant Old Trafford legend. The man whose precision prod made Manchester United European kings, and capped the most astonishing finale in Champions League history. One down had turned into a 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich in three devastating stoppage time minutes. And …
Euro Paper Talk: Will Eden Hazard and Paul Pogba move to Real Madrid?
Many clubs across Europe, especially those with little to play for, will have already turned their attention to the summer and planning for the 2019/20 campaign. So, with that in mind, we asked our friends at Football Whispers to round up all the latest news, views and gossip from across the continent.Spain Real Madrid are …
North Korea Confirms Test of ‘Multiple Rocket Launchers’
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea tested “multiple rocket launchers and tactical guided weapons,” state media confirmed Saturday, the first comments on a launch that has further raised military tensions. Kim Jong Un personally “gave an order of firing” of the projectiles into the sea off North Korea’s east coast, the state-run Korean Central News …
The Royal Fantasy of Mothering Without Scarcity
Once again the Windsors have welcomed a baby—and nobody is more excited to celebrate than American magazines. Royal coverage has long been a pillar of the gossip business; when George was born in 2013, the New York Times reported the happy event was a boon for celebrity weeklies and their websites, and regular coverage is …
Post-apartheid South Africa is the world’s most unequal country
JOHANNESBURG — Perhaps nowhere in today’s South Africa is the country’s inequality on more dramatic display than in the neighboring Johannesburg suburbs of Sandton and Alexandra. With its gleaming high-rises and lush estates, Sandton is known as Africa’s richest square mile. Alexandra, a onetime home to Nelson Mandela, is a squalid, cramped and crime-infested black …
England’s Cricket World Cup squad is reassuring despite late changes
The workmen were at Lord’s on Tuesday, putting a fresh coat of glossy black paint on the North Gate and fixing up the whitewash around the back of the Allen stand, a last lot of spit and polish to get the old place ready for the start of the World Cup. England’s selectors have been …
‘You leave calm as a breeze’
However, the RTE presenter (49) said he will celebrate his 50th birthday by sitting in silence in the west of Ireland for 10 days. The performer will head to a Buddhist centre in Clare for his birthday on June 16 as he adopts a Zen-like approach to entering a new decade. He said his birthday …