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Kylian Mbappe marked his first game as France captain on Friday with two goals and an assist as the World Cup finalists romped to a 4-0 win against a depleted Netherlands side in a Euro 2024 qualifier in Paris. Mbappe has succeeded long-standing France skipper Hugo Lloris and the new era got off to a flying start as the Paris Saint-Germain superstar set up the pink-haired Antoine Griezmann to score inside two minutes. Dayot Upamecano bundled in the second goal in the… Read the full article here

Controversial rapper, Kanye West, may escape facing another legal battle for throwing a female photographer’s phone on the street in January. West – now known formally as Ye – had in January tossed the phone of the photographer into the street close to a facility where his daughter, North, was playing basketball. The rapper accused the female paparazzo of “following” him to his kids’ basketball game. Ye had asked the photographer in the video not to film… Read the full article here

The Gombe State governorship candidate for Action Alliance, Brigadier General Nuhu Miller (retd.), has lamented that most children in rural areas learn under trees. He promised that he would equip schools if elected. Miller made this disclosure on Thursday in an interview with journalists on his pact with Gombe residents and the reasons he should be voted for governor. According to him, as the first orthopedic surgeon in the whole of the North-East, he has the… Read the full article here

Globally, there is a seeming spike in divorce rates. This trend affects married couples of varying financial and social status.  Data analysis of the marriage and divorce rate of Americans presented by a family and divorce law firm, Wilkinson & Finkbeiner, stated that in 2022, the divorce rate per 1,000 women was 16.9 per cent. Data from Nigeria’s Demographic and Health Survey in 2018 revealed that three of every 100 men and women were either divorced or… Read the full article here

Carlos Alcaraz has raced through to the third round of Miami Open with a convincing 6-0 6-2 win over world No. 100 Facundo Bagnis.The world No. 1, who must win the Miami title to retain the accolade, wasted no time on court as he powered his way past the Argentine in one hour and six minutes to extend his head-to-head record against the clay-court specialist to 4-0.Alcaraz will play Andy Murray’s conqueror Dusan Lajovic or No. 30 seed Maxime Cressy in the third round as he bids to retain his… Read the full article here

OpenAI has announced new details about why it took ChatGPT offline on Monday, and it’s now saying that some users’ payment information may have been exposed during the incident. According to a post from the company, a bug in an open source library called redis-py created a caching issue that may have shown some active users the last four digits and expiration date of another user’s credit card, along with their first and last name, email address, and payment address. Users also may… Read the full article here

You’re only as old as the woman you feel. Or so goes the old joke. One assumes the media nonagenarian Rupert Murdoch, newly betrothed to the comely Ann Lesley Smith, 26 years his junior, must be feeling positively spry this week.In an exclusive interview offered to the New York Post, one of his own papers, the 92-year-old shared with the Page Six columnist Cindy Adams his expectations regarding marriage number five. He proposed with an Asscher-cut solitaire diamond, on St… Read the full article here

The White House released its annual economic report on March 20, and it dedicated an entire section to digital assets. The authors should be commended for doing so. I largely agree with the report’s assessment that certain aspects of the digital asset ecosystem are causing problems for consumers, financial systems and the environment. However, as a builder in the digital asset space, I cannot disagree more with its conclusion that “crypto assets currently do not offer widespread… Read the full article here

A fashion icon! Beyoncé is the cover star of Vogue France’s April 2023 issue and designed 16 Renaissance-inspired dresses. The magazine took to Instagram on Friday, March 24, to share the exciting news. In the black and white photo, the “Cuff It” singer, 41, looked radiant in a studded bodycon dress, finished with a matching cap. She smiled with her eyes closed while leaning against fashion designer Olivier Rousteing. He wrapped his arms around the Grammy Award… Read the full article here

A multinational, phase 3 clinical trial – TALAPRO-2 – tested whether the combination of two medicines, talazoparib and enzalutamide, may improve clinical outcomes in adult men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.Treatment with talazoparib and enzalutamide resulted in a 37% reduced risk of cancer progression or death, compared to treatment with placebo and enzalutamide.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s decision on whether or not this combination therapy may be… Read the full article here