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Australia have dropped Marnus Labuschagne for their opening Test against the West Indies with Steve Smith also missing through injury.In their places, teenage opener Sam Konstas and Josh Inglis come in for the series opener in Barbados, which starts on 25 June.Labuschagne opened the batting for Australia in their World Test Championship final defeat by South Africa last week but finished with scores of 17 and 22 to continue his lean spell.The 30-year-old has not made a Test hundred since the fourth Ashes Test of 2023.”Marnus at his best can be a really important member of this team. He understands…

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Capital One is opening a new lounge at New York’s JFK airport on June 19.The space will be 13,500 square feet and feature tributes to NYC, like a bodega-style coffee counter, New York bagels, and a Central Park-inspired dining area.Travelers with the Venture X or Venture X Business cards from Capital One can receive unlimited access to the lounge. New York City’s busiest travel hub is set to open a new space for passengers.  Today, Capital One opened its flagship Capital One Lounge at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in Terminal 4. The 13,500-square-foot space is a tribute to…

NewsFeedOfficials at the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball organisation asked federal agents to leave the stadium car park Thursday after dozens of agents wearing face masks converged on the site. Protesters amassed shortly after demanding an end to immigration raids in LA.Published On 20 Jun 202520 Jun 2025

Children in England face prolonged “lost learning” caused by extreme heat and flooding at school, according to research on the potential impact of the climate crisis on education.School leaders and teachers said the scenarios published by the Department for Education made for grim reading and urged ministers to move quickly to improve school resilience.Under one scenario, by 2050 rising heat levels will cause the equivalent of more than eight days of lost learning as classrooms become too hot for effective teaching, unless adaptations such as improved ventilation are made.The research also found that more than one in three secondary schools…

Pop Mart’s market capitalisation has surpassed that of Mattel and Hasbro combined on back of hot-selling collectible

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang last week as part of a $14.3 billion investment in the artificial intelligence startup, he was apparently just getting started.Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever’s startup Safe Superintelligence, and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.It’s not how Zuckerberg planned for a deal to go down.Earlier this year, sources said, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, which was reportedly valued at $32 billion in a fundraising round in April. Sutskever, who just launched…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Встречают по одёжке (Meet by the Clothes),” the sixth episode of “Duster,” now streaming on Max. If the reluctant duo at the center of Max’s “Duster” didn’t consider themselves partners before, then surviving a hail of gunfire and a lethal Russian crime boss surely cemented them as partners now. In the sixth episode of the Max 1970s crime drama from creators LaToya Morgan and J.J. Abrams, FBI Agent Nina Hayes (Rachel Hilson) followed through with her dangerous plan to infiltrate Saxton’s (Keith David) crew by posing as his Russian interpreter. This was against…

A 1960s photo in Ferrari’s Maranello workshop—where Enzo Ferrari founded the famous automotive company in 1947—shows a glamorous lady wearing fur and cat-eye sunglasses observing Ferrari craftsmen at work. During an in-studio preview, creative director Rocco Iannone explained that the image is one of the main focuses of the resort 2026 collection. It’s important because it exemplifies the brand’s cultural status, a carmaker so well known that “the word Ferrari itself is commonly used as an absolute comparative,” as Iannone put it. With this in mind, he designed a collection that keeps the workshop at its heart.The opening looks are…

A new law has just come into force in Rio de Janeiro requiring all public hospitals and clinics run by the municipal government to display anti-abortion signs bearing messages such as: “Did you know that the unborn child is discarded as hospital waste?”Reproductive rights activists view the act as the latest example of a growing trend across Brazil to further restrict access to abortion in a country that already has some of the world’s most restrictive laws.In Latin America’s largest country, abortion is only legal in cases of rape, when the pregnant person’s life is at risk, or if the…