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Federico Chiesa and Federico Dimarco have withdrawn from the Italy squad for their opening Euro 2024 qualifiers, the national football federation announced on Monday. Juventus winger Chiesa limped off after coming on as a substitute as Juventus beat Inter Milan in a Serie A. Examinations on his knee showed no injury, but the club said he needs to rest. Inter left back Dimarco went off earlier in the same game. West Ham defender Emerson Palmieri has been called up for Dimarco but no replacement was named for Chiesa. Chiesa was a starter on the team that beat England on penalties…

A jury seated in Florida has convicted three men over the death of late rapper, Jahseh Ricardo Onfroy, professionally known as XXXTentacion. Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24 were all found guilty of first-degree murder and armed robbery in Broward County court on Monday, NBC News reports. The incident took place on the 18th of June, 2018, when two masked men attacked Onfroy as he drove out of a Florida RIVA Motorsports dealership. Surveillance video played in the court showed one of the men appearing to shoot through the driver’s side window. The assailants also carted away…

Over the years, equipment in most laboratories across the nation’s universities is obsolete and poorly equipped. Visits to many laboratories in the universities revealed how both lecturers and students improvise during practical or avoid practical learning completely due to a lack of required apparatus. While suggesting solutions to the deteriorating state of public universities’ laboratories, the Head of Microbiology Department at Adeleke University, Osun State, Dr Oladipo Kolawole, suggested that university administrators should prioritise laboratory equipment in budget planning, saying this would ensure that there was a consistent budget allocation for purchasing, upgrading, and maintaining laboratory equipment. He added that…

Dream Venture Capital, an investor accelerator, has announced that applications for its 2023 Venture Capital Fellowship Programmes are now open. According to the VC, the programmes offer an extensive curriculum, practical training, and direct exposure to investors, providing the ideal launch pad for aspiring and current investors to break into the African venture space. It stated that application to the programme will run from now until April 16. It explained that it had over 50 Venture Capital Funds supporting its curriculum and had successfully trained over 80 fellows through its flagship Investor Accelerator and Launch into Venture Capital Programmes. Dream…

In this interview with LARA ADEJORO, Professor of Public Health at the University of Ilorin and former National Chairman, Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria, Tanimola Akande, speaks on how to curb the alarming increase of overweight and obese in Nigeria What are overweight and obesity? Overweight and obesity are abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Being overweight or obese is having more flesh on the body than average. Overweight and obesity are based primarily on measures of height and weight. It is determined by calculating Body Mass Index. It is calculated by dividing the body…

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) has made a “good decision” to ride the Giro d’Italia in 2023 rather than the Tour de France, seven-time Grand Tour champion and Eurosport expert Alberto Contador has claimed. Evenepoel delivered a sensational maiden Grand Tour title at La Vuelta last year, fuelling excitement over a potential showdown with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) this summer.However, he has opted to race for the maglia rosa instead in 2023 and will headline a stacked field alongside Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) in May.Volta a CatalunyaRoglic edges Evenepoel in Stage 1 drag…

Zack Snyder, known for films like 300 and the four-hour “Snyder Cut” of Justice League, is working on an RPG set in the universe of his forthcoming Netflix sci-fi movie Rebel Moon, he teased in a podcast interview on Sunday.“The one thing that I’m really having a really good time with is — and I don’t even know if I’m supposed to talk about it — this RPG that we’re doing that is just literally insane and so immersive and so intense and so huge,” Snyder said in an interview on The Nerd Queens podcast.Snyder didn’t share many details beyond…

Wall Street bank chief executives are trying to come up with a new plan for First Republic after a $30bn lifeline failed to arrest a sharp sell-off in the lender’s shares. The executives will discuss if anything more can be done for the California-based lender on the sidelines of a pre-planned gathering in Washington on Tuesday, which is being organised by the Financial Services Forum, one of the main industry lobby groups, said people familiar with the matter. Shares of First Republic, which have fallen almost 90 per cent this month, closed down 47 per cent on Monday despite an…

Zero-knowledge layer 1 blockchain Manta Network announced on March 20 that it had added support for assets, including nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and soulbound tokens (SBTs), to its protocol. The MantaPay protocol, which initially supported only fungible crypto assets, promises to now allow for privacy-preservation support for NFTs and SBTs through the use of Manta Network’s ZK technology. ZK technology is a privacy-focused technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) to enable fully private transactions on decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Today, we are announcing an expansion of @MantaNetwork’s ZK capabilities by enabling privacy support for NFTs and SBTs through zkSBTs and zkNFTs. These assets can…

He has 10,000 a year — and a smoldering gaze. There have been countless Jane Austen film and TV adaptations over the years, starring countless actors as the handsome men who steal the hearts of the books’ heroines. Fitzwilliam Darcy, arguably Austen’s most famous hero, made his debut in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. The first film adaptation of the classic novel premiered in 1940, but it would be another 50 years before Colin Firth broke hearts in what is arguably the most memorable Darcy performance of all time. The Oscar winner played the wealthy Englishman in the BBC’s…