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Millions of Oasis fans All Around The World were up early on Saturday morning as tickets went on sale for the British band’s highly-anticipated reunion tour next year. But patience was required as ticket websites left them waiting online for hours as Part of The Queue. Tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. UK time, four days after brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher announced that they were putting an end to a 15-year family feud to reunite the seminal band which shot to stardom at the head of the “Britpop” movement in the 1990s.More than 1 million tickets went on…

Low testing rates in theDemocratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) are concerning the region’s health experts as it battles an Mpox outbreak. “In the DRC, only less than 40% of cases are tested, laboratory-confirmed,” said Dimie Ogoina, an infectious diseae specialist at Niger Delta University, Nigeria. DR Congo is “working blindly” as it tries to combat the outbreak, Ogoina said in a press statement. There are now more than 3,500 confirmed Mpox cases across 11 West and Central African nations, with DRC accounting for 90% of cases. Refugee camps in DR Congo are facing particularly severe Mpox outbreaks, with children most…

My father used tell me: “When you grow up, you’ll have to work,” Niko Kappel told DW. That was over 20 years ago; the Paralympian is now 29 but still stands at just 1.41 meters (4’7″). “I stayed small, but I still have to work.” Although he is a qualified bank clerk, Kappel is now a fulltime track-and-field athlete with sports club VfB Stuttgart, which is closely associated with the Bundesliga club of the same name. In May of this year, the shot putter won the world title in the F41 class, one of the sub-classes for small athletes, at the Para…

“We’re going to Vinnytsia first,” a woman boarding a train evacuating people from Pokrovsk tells Ukrainian journalists. “We have friends there but will look for our own accommodation.” Like thousands of other residents from Pokrovsk and the surrounding area, she and her family put off evacuation until the last minute. Now they have no choice — the front line is less than 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) away. Before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, around 60,000 people lived in Pokrovsk. Now the town is clearing out. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a recent video address that the situation…

US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris lambasted former President Donald Trump on Saturday for a visit he made this week to soldiers’ graves at the Arlington National Cemetery.   She said the visit was disrespectful and a political stunt. Arlington cemetery ‘not a place for politics,’ Harris says “It is a solemn place; a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation. It is not a place for politics,” Harris wrote in an X post. Trump was at the cemetery on Monday to take part in…

Germany formally acknowledged last year that the country had become overly reliant on China for essential materials, goods and components needed to reboot the sluggish German economy following the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite cries of unfair competition and calls for a full-scale decoupling from the world’s second-largest economy, Berlin published its first “Strategy on China” paper in July 2023. Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke of the need to reduce dependency on China, adding on X, formerly Twitter, that: “The aim is not to disconnect ourselves,” while acknowledging that the Asian power was a “systemic rival.” That de-risking call, however, appears to have been somewhat ignored. According to Bundesbank data,…

Olympic swimmer and gold medallist Ryan Lochte has shared a video of his recovery from a near-fatal car crash last year.The 40-year-old athlete said he was in a severe accident last November and has been recovering from a number of injuries – including a broken leg. Lochte told the Athletes Only podcast in January that police and others who witnessed the incident said he wasn’t breathing and thought he had died.In the clip, posted on Instagram by himself and his wife Kayla Lochte on Thursday, the Olympian was seen in a wheelchair being pushed by his son into a house…

Jerry Lewis, the legendary American comedian, once made a film so controversial it was never seen by the public. “The Day the Clown Cried,” shot in 1972, tells the story of a circus clown who leads children to their deaths in a Nazi concentration camp. The film’s plot alone is enough to raise eyebrows but its troubled production history and subsequent disappearance — the film has never been released to the public and legal issues ensure it likely never will be — have elevated it to near-mythical status among film buffs. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote, directed and starred…

Well over half the world’s population — 4.4 billion people — cannot access safely managed drinking water, a new study has shown. 4.4 billion people is more than double estimates made in by The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022.  But the report only examined access to clean water in low and middle-income countries, meaning the figure would likely be greater once poor access in higher income countries is accounted for. “The information which we have points towards very high rates of contamination,” said lead researcher Esther Greenwood from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. The new figures come from more sophisticated methods to collect data about…

This season’s draw for the Champions League wasn’t about putting teams into groups but simply determining who would play whom in the new eight-match league phase.