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Erling Haaland has said he will do "everything" to secure his "biggest dream" of winning the Treble in his first season at Manchester City.The striker enjoyed a record-breaking debut campaign in England to help Pep Guardiola's side win the Premier League for a third season in a row.

How's that for a return to the lineup?After missing the final five games of the Dallas Stars' first-round series against the Minnesota Wild while in concussion protocol, Joe Pavelski re-entered NHL playoff action in historic fashion in Game 1 of the second-round matchup with the Seattle Kraken..The former San Jose Sharks captain scored all four of Dallas' goals in their 5-4 overtime loss to the Kraken.

As much as people might think it could never happen to them, anyone can become a victim of fraud.All it takes is a fraudster targeting the right person, at the right time, with the right scam."You're talking about people whose full-time, nine-to-five, 40-hour a week job is to defraud other people," said Vanessa Iafolla, a fraud victim consultant and financial crime professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.

The Duke of Sussex's controversial memoir has become the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998.According to Nielsen BookData, which collects and provides information on distribution and sales measurement of books, Harry's headline-grabbing autobiography Spare sold 467,183 copies in its first week.

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced a $520 million settlement with Epic Games, the developer of popular video games like Fortnite and Fall Guys, over charges that the company illegally collected information from children and, separately, tricked millions of players into making unintentional purchases.

Local Officers detected 28 guns at security checkpoints in Logan Airport in 2022.The previous record was 20 guns in 2018.The Transportation Security Administration has detected more firearms at Logan Airport in 2022 than any previous year, the agency said.The announcement comes after TSA officers prevented two Massachusetts residents from carrying guns on to airplanes last week.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Meta lobbied Irish ministers over data transfers; JioCinema usurps Disney to break streaming world record; and Nvidia announces it is building Israel's most powerful supercomputer.Meta lobbied Irish authorities over EU-US transfers
Facebook-parent Meta has reportedly lobbied Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney over the transfer of EU users' data to the US.

Braves Franchise History
1951 - Braves catcher Walker Cooper has five hits in a 12-3 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.1979 - Dale Murphy homers three times and drives in five runs to help the Braves to a 6-4 win over the Giants.1996 - Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta opens two months ahead of the 1996 Summer Olympics.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.One year in the next five will almost certainly be the hottest on record and there's a two-in-three chance a single year will cross the crucial 1.5 global warming threshold, an alarming new report by the World Meteorological Organization predicts.

Coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel, the International Energy Agency said Friday.The Paris-based agency said in a new report that while coal use grew by only 1.2% in 2022, the increase pushed it to all all-time high of more than 8 billion metric tons, beating the previous record set in 2013.

Two-million-year-old DNA from northern Greenland has revealed that the region was once home to mastodons, lemmings and geese, offering unprecedented insights into how climate change can shape ecosystems.The breakthrough in ancient DNA analysis pushes back the DNA record by 1m years to a time when the Arctic region was 11-19C warmer than the present day.

Joseph Dituri lives in a 100-square-foot bunker, about the size of two king beds, that includes a small kitchen, living room and sleeping area.LordeLIFE Joseph Dituri, a 55-year-old professor at the University of South Florida, broke the world record for longest time living underwater and he plans to stay put for an extra three weeks.

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has been doing the Russian media rounds since returning to his home country for the offseason.Ovi stopped by the studio of Russian soccer-based YouTube channel, It's Football, Bro! for an over hour long conversation about a wide variety of topics this past Thursday.

Thunderstorms could hit parts of the UK for a second day after flash flooding saw a major incident declared in Somerset.Swaths of the UK have been told to brace themselves for further downpours on Wednesday evening, with the Met Office issuing a warning for all of the east of Britain, from Kent to Aberdeenshire, including the Midlands.

More than half a million hopefuls have applied for a ballot place to take part in the 2024 TCS London Marathon, setting a new world record for entries for the distance.A total of 578,374 applications were received before the deadline on Friday April 28, the first time any marathon ballot has received more than half a million entries.

More than half a million hopefuls have applied for a ballot place to take part in the 2024 TCS London Marathon, setting a new world record for entries for the distance.A total of 578,374 applications were received before the deadline on Friday April 28, the first time any marathon ballot has received more than half a million entries.

TV personality and model Christine McGuinness has helped to break the Guinness World Record for the longest lanyard to highlight the range of invisible disabilities that affect people.The former beauty queen, who released her documentary Christine McGuinness: Unmasking My Autism last week, was at Liverpool Football Club's Anfield stadium to take part in the record-breaking attempt.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A Guinness World Record for the longest kiss underwater has been broken by a freediving couple who wanted to inspire others to fall in love with the ocean.The four minutes and six seconds smooch between 40-year-old Beth Neale, from South Africa, and her 33-year-old fiance Miles Cloutier, from Canada, was achieved in the Maldives on February 4. The previous record of three minutes 24 seconds, which was held by Michele Fucarino and Elisa Lazzaina, was broken after 13 years.

The FTSE 100 hit a new record high on Friday as global inflation and interest rate fears continued to ease.The index of the UK's largest publicly-listed firms briefly touched a new record high of 7,906.58points.It pushed the index to levels it had not seen in nearly five years.The previous record was set on May 22, 2018 when the FTSE briefly hit 7,903.5.

The Jonas Brothers are starting to wonder if this was all part of their dad's plan.The trio's new album, confidently titled The Album, is inspired by the '70s rock he'd played for them growing up - songs from the Bee Gees, America, and the Eagles that ended up informing their vocal approach and three-part harmonies.

The Boston Bruins postseason may have ended abruptly, but that shouldn't take away from the historic 2022-23 season the club had and at the helm of it all - head coach Jim Montgomery.On Friday, the NHL named Montgomery one of the three finalists for the 2022-23 Jack Adams Award given to the coach who contributed most to his team's success.

The Boston Bruins made NHL history on Saturday with their 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings by reaching 50 wins in only 64 games.The previous record was held by their opponent, as the Red Wings reached the 50-win benchmark in 66 games in the 1995-96 season.The win also clinched the B's ticket to the playoffs with 18 games still left to play in the regular season.

Linus Ullmark broke an NHL record in the Bruins' 4-0 win over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday at TD Garden.Boston's goaltender became the fastest goalie in league history to reach 25 wins, doing so in only 28 starts.The previous record of 29 starts - set by former Bruin Tiny Thompson - stood for 93 years.

All-time temperature records were broken in Vietnam and Laos last week.On 6 May, Hoi Xuan in Vietnam reached a scorching 44.1C, breaking the previous record for the country of 43.4C, set in 2019.On the same day, Laos recorded its highest-ever temperature, , which reached 43.5C in Luang Prabang.These records were set just a few weeks after temperatures in Thailand rose above 45C for the first time.

As farewells go, it was chilly.And weepy.The Fontana air had a pronounced bite Sunday for the last NASCAR race on the venerable two-mile Auto Club Speedway oval, less than 24 hours after snow improbably blanketed much of the Inland Empire.The track wept, and that isn't an attempt at personification.

To call what's happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement.Since March, average sea surface temperatures have been climbing to record highs, as shown in the dark line in the graph below.Since this record-keeping began in the early 1980s-the other squiggly lines are previous years-the global average for the world's ocean surfaces has oscillated seasonally between 19.7° and 21° Celsius (67.5° and 69.8° Fahrenheit).

The ongoing bird flu outbreak in the US is now the longest and deadliest on record.More than 57 million birds have been killed by the virus or culled since a year ago, and the deadly disruption has helped propel skyrocketing egg prices and a spike in egg smuggling.Since highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) was first detected in US birds in January 2022, the price of a carton of a dozen eggs has shot up from an average of about $1.79 in December 2021 to $4.25 in December 2022, a 137 percent increase, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In the permafrost at the northern edge of Greenland, scientists have discovered the oldest known fragments of DNA, offering an extraordinary look at an extraordinary ancient ecosystem.The genetic material dates back at least two million years  that's nearly twice as old as the mammoth DNA in Siberia that held the previous record.

On Monday, NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached its farthest distance from Earth at nearly 270,000 miles away as part of the agency's Artemis I mission.It's the farthest a spacecraft capable of carrying human passengers has ever traveled, in fact, at about 20,000 miles clear of the previous record set by the crewed Apollo 13 mission way back in 1970.

This past weekend, finishing on March 25, 2o23, Camille Herron once again made ultrarunning history by adding an almost 15-mile margin to the women's 48-hour world record at the 2023 Sri Chinmoy 48 Hour Festival in Bruce, Australia.Her official distance was 435.336 kilometers (270.505miles), to best the previous record of 411.458 kilometers (255.668

The sweeping bill amounts to a "trickle down fantasy" to hand profits to fossil fuel companies, she said.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on January 26, 2023.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images House Republicans are preparing to pass a sweeping energy bill that Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), have condemned as nothing more than a Big Oil wish list that would pilfer the public's pockets to pad corporate profits.

The World Baseball Classic is now in its fifth installment of the international tournament, and 2023 has been the most successful yet, setting global engagement and attendance marks never before seen for the event.The 2023 World Baseball Classic drew 1,010,999 fans for the first round of pool play, which is the most in its history, surpassing the 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2017 numbers.

With retail getting back to normal circumstances for the Thanksgiving holiday, the Los Angeles Dodgers are holding their annual Blue Friday sale at the Dodger Stadium top of the park store through Sunday, November 27.However, the store is closed for Thanksgiving.Merchandise is discounted up to 35%, with a variety of caps, jerseys, t-shirts and memorabilia items in stock.

A derby match is a fixture that any football fan looks for in their team's calendar - a chance to revel in the atmosphere and potentially win bragging rights.But as 22,161 fans piled into Goodison Park it didn't matter whether the shirt they were wearing was red or blue, it was simply an occasion to celebrate the start of Women's Football Weekend.

Gareth Southgate says he may need to start selecting from "the Championship or elsewhere" in future because of what he claims is the decreasing number of English players in the Premier League.About 32% of those starting in the top flight are eligible for England.The England manager, who has been in the role since 2016, highlighted two recent weekends where that percentage fell to 28%.

Published On 16 Dec 202216 Dec 2022 The clock is ticking down on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, with a mouth-watering finale on Sunday between Argentina and defending champions France.This year's event has been the best ever, said Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, football's global governing body, speaking of its unique, cohesive power and transformative legacy.

Host nation: Qatar Dates: 20 November-18 December Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app.Day-by-day TV listings  - Full coverage details  

England will meet France in the World Cup quarter-finals on Saturday (19:00 GMT kick-off) - and one player in particular is on everyone's mind.

Host nation: Qatar Dates: 20 November-18 December Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app.Day-by-day TV listings  - Full coverage details  

A helter-skelter group stage featuring more shock results than ever before has now finished with a picture emerging of how this World Cup is unfolding.

New York City's springlike winter is on track to set a record: the least snowy season on the books.It's likely, though by no means guaranteed, that the city will fall short of the lowest total snowfall accumulation since record-keeping began shortly after the Civil War.The National Weather Service station at Central Park has so far measured just 2.3 inches of snowfall.

Issued on: 21/02/2023 - 12:08 A picture taken on May 19, 2022 in Saint-Gilles, southern France, shows soil cracked by drought during an exceptional period of heat in France.Nicolas Tucat, AFP France has matched its record dry spell of 31 days without significant rainfall, the country's weather service said Tuesday, amid concerns over water reserves in parts of Europe still reeling from last year's severe drought.

On July 19, 2022, the UK experienced a taste of the weather to come.Temperatures reached 40.3° Celsius-soaring past the previous record by more than one-and-a-half degrees.Dozens of homes in east London were destroyed by fires, while elsewhere in the country, the heat pushed the power grid close to the point of failure.

David Gahan of Depeche Mode.Anton Corbijn/Courtesy of the artist "Everything feels different.Everything that we've been doing."That's how Depeche Mode singer and songwriter Dave Gahan sums up life for his band since the death of founding keyboardist Andy "Fletch" Fletcher in 2022.

Argentina's Lionel Messi has broken the record for most appearances at the World Cup, playing in his 26th game in the competition in Sunday's final against France.Messi was named in the starting lineup for the showpiece match at the Lusail Stadium in Doha, Qatar, and surpasses the previous record of 25 held by Germany's Lothar Matthaus.

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Morocco coach Walid Regragui has admitted Saturday's third-place play-off against Croatia is the "worst game to play" but is still targeting another milestone finish for an African nation at a World Cup.The Atlas Lions were beaten 2-0 by France in Wednesday's semifinal and have several injury concerns, including captain Romain Saiss and defender Nayef Aguerd, with Regragui expected to make several changes for the game at Khalifa International Stadium.

The New York Knicks (40-30) completed their back-to-back weekend at the Cryptodome with a 112-108 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.New York snapped a three-game winning streak by the Lake Show while finally breaking out of their own three-game skid, winning for the first time since defeating the Celtics in double-OT back on Mar. 5 at MSG.

Cabin roofs at Yosemite National Park are almost completely covered with snow.At the park's Badger Pass ski area, snow is up to the second floor of the lodge.In the Yosemite Valley, snow accumulation broke a 54-year-old daily record - by multiple inches.The historic snowfall in the Sierra Nevada from back-to-back winter storms has closed the world-famous park indefinitely while rangers and park staffers work to respond to the epic snowpack.

Weather Cities across New England broke their record high temperatures Thursday.Boston and many other New England cities broke their high temperature records Thursday, some of which were set over 100 years ago.According to the National Weather Service (NWS), by 10 a.m., Boston had broken the record high temperature for Feb. 16 of 60 degrees.

On the evening of Aug. 6, 1975, Laurel Jean Mitchell left the Epworth Forest church camp in North Webster, Ind., where she worked at the snack bar, to meet friends at a nearby amusement park.She never made it.Ms. Mitchell's body would be found the following day in a nearby river.Alongside her was a class ring with the initials LJM.

Liberal Janet Protasiewicz and conservative Daniel Kelly will advance to the general election for a pivotal Wisconsin state Supreme Court seat, CNN projected Tuesday.The nonpartisan primary featured two liberals and two conservatives in an expensive and high-stakes contest to effectively break a deadlock between the state's Democratic governor and Republican-controlled legislature in a key battleground state.

Red Sox The average MLB salary saw its highest percentage increase since 2000.NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball's average salary rose 14.8% to a record $4.22 million last year after the end of the lockout, boosted by big deals for Max Scherzer, Francisco Lindor, Marcus Semien and Corey Seager.The rate of increase was the highest since a 17.7% increase in 2000 to $1.61 million, according to final calculations by the players' association.

San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst N/San Francisco Chronicle via Gett Temperatures plummeted in the Bay Area on Wednesday, and according to local meteorologists, it hasn't been this cold since the Victorian era.Wednesday morning, the temperature in downtown San Francisco was just 39 degrees, tying previous record-low March 1 temperatures in 1875 and 1966, the Bay Area National Weather Service office told SFGATE.

James Harden averaged 36 points a few seasons ago.Devin Booker once scored 70 in one game.There are many more players doing much more scoring now than when LeBron James began his NBA career in 2003-04.Tracy McGrady led the league with 28 points per game that season, a mark that nine players would currently be surpassing.

France captain Hugo Lloris became Les Bleus' most-capped player at the World Cup in Qatar.Martin Meissner, AP France captain Hugo Lloris has announced his retirement from international football at the age of 36, three weeks after his country lost the World Cup final on penalties to Argentina in Doha.

Yesterday, the world's largest-ever hydrogen-powered plane took off from an airport in the U.K., made a 10-mile circle in the air, and landed again about 10 minutes later.The plane, a Dornier 228 19-seat turboprop extensively modified by startup ZeroAvia, wasn't exactly a jumbo jet, but it still accounts for a significant step in the nascent world of zero emission flight.

2022 is coming to a close and one of the most memorable moments throughout the past calendar year was Mitch Marner's franchise-record setting points streak for the Toronto Maple Leafs.Marner's streak officially came to an end at 23 games, coinciding with the team narrowly missing out on setting a team record for consecutive games with a point at 16.
Marner's run, which dates back to an October 27th overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks, is something that may not be witnessed again for many years.

Tottenham Hotspur have smashed the transfer record between two Women's Super League (WSL) clubs over the acquisition of Beth England from Chelsea.England, 28, has joined Tottenham for a reported fee of £250,000 -- surpassing the previous record of £200,000 paid by Chelsea to secure the signing of Lauren James from Manchester United in 2021.

Electric vehicles accounted for almost four out of every five new car registrations in Norway last year, setting a new record, according to figures released Monday.Published: 3 January 2023 08:30 CET Led by US carmaker Tesla, which topped the list with a 12.2 percent market share, 138,265 new electric cars were sold in the Scandinavian country last year, representing 79.3 percent of total passenger car sales, the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) said in a statement.

Electric vehicles accounted for almost four out of every five new car registrations in Norway last year, setting a new record, according to figures released Monday.Published: 3 January 2023 08:30 CET In Norway over 80 percent of new car sales are now electric, according to figures.Pictured is an electric car being charged.

Electric vehicles accounted for almost four out of every five new car registrations in Norway last year, setting a new record, according to figures released Monday.Published: 3 January 2023 08:30 CET Led by US carmaker Tesla, which topped the list with a 12.2 percent market share, 138,265 new electric cars were sold in the Scandinavian country last year, representing 79.3 percent of total passenger car sales, the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) said in a statement.

ServiceNow's William Bill McDermott and 2431 Riviera Drive (Compass, Getty) The mystery buyer of a 10,000-square-foot beachside mansion in Laguna Beach for $43 million last year has been revealed.William Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow and among the highest-paid tech executives in the nation, bought the home at 2431 Riviera Drive, Dirt.com reported.

Record spike in COVID infections for the second day in a week forces mass testing in Nanjing amid sweeping restrictions.China has ordered mass testing in the eastern city of Nanjing in Jiangsu province, the latest measure as the country for a second day in a row reported a record number of COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began.

A British adventurer hopes to have set two hot air ballooning world records during a single solo flight in Canada.Alicia Hempleman-Adams, 33, from Bath, Somerset, flew across Calgary province and into Saskatchewan province.She landed on Tuesday evening, having been in the air for an estimated seven hours and 40 minutes.