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National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) side Bay FC have signed Zambian forward Racheal Kundananji from CFF Madrid for a world-record transfer fee. source With knowledge of negotiation, who is Anonymous to protect relationship, confirmed Competitor The fee for a 23 year old is €735,000 (USD 785,000).She signed a contract until 2027 with an option to extend for another year. Bay FC General Manager Lucy Rushton said: “We are delighted to have Rachel join our team. She is an outstanding talent with dynamic attacking ability and incredible physical attributes who will make a great contribution for club and country. contributed. “Rachel…

“Can we just talk about those plastic Target trays?” asked Alex Rush, a professional organizer and owner of the storage consulting company Spruce NYC. “I like to think head, shoulder, knees and toes when organizing, and those trays, they’re actually acrylic, they work. They’re stackable and allow the owner to just see everything they own.”Ms. Rush, based in New York, specializes in the kinds of small spaces typically found in urban homes. And she often focuses on options beyond plastic trays or custom Millie & Noah boxes (although she said one of Ms. Tran’s jewelry boxes, a gift from her…

Quick! What is the difference between Squishmallows and Skoosherz?Time’s up. Don’t fret if you couldn’t come up with an answer. The companies behind the colorful plush toys are in a court battle this week over what actually makes the toys distinct from each other.Kelly Toys, which said it released the Squishmallows plush toys in 2016, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Build-A-Bear over its Skoosherz line, which launched last month in anticipation of Valentine’s Day.Instead of “creating its own unique concepts and product lines,” read the complaint filed by Kelly Toys in U.S. District Court for the Central District of…

Christopher A. Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, visited Israel unannounced on Wednesday to meet with officials from the country’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies, the F.B.I. said.As part of the visit, his first to Israel since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, Mr. Wray also spoke with F.B.I. agents working in Israel, the bureau said in a statement on Wednesday, stressing the importance of their efforts to counter threats from Hezbollah and Hamas, both designated by the United States as terrorist groups.Mr. Wray spoke with officials from Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency; Shin Bet, Israel’s equivalent of…

These days, the only thing that can stop the Labour Party, it seems, is the Labour Party.For more than a year, the leader of Britain’s main opposition party, Keir Starmer, has sat on a double-digit lead in the polls over the Conservative Party. But a pair of embarrassing suspensions of Labour parliamentary candidates for their comments about Israel, a week after a messy reversal on climate policy, have thrown Mr. Starmer on the defensive, raising questions about his management skills and taking the spotlight off the long-suffering Conservatives.“Keir has had a really good, long run but he’s not Man City,”…

It was in the Toronto Maple Leafs locker room that Ike Warner first convinced himself that he would survive.Earlier this month, the 37-year-old looked back and saw Maple Leafs forward Nick Robertson being treated after his throat was accidentally cut by a skate blade during a Sunday afternoon recreational league game at the NHL team’s training facility. , the horrific experience became surreal. in the adjacent room.”That was my visual,” Werner told Competitor. “He is receiving treatment.”As Werner pulled into the Ford Performance Center that afternoon, he noticed the luxury cars behind the gated area of ​​the parking lot. Zamboni…

In 1994, when Edouard Meylan turned 18 years old, his parents gave him an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak wristwatch housed in a 33-millimeter case made of tantalum, a rare and hard metal with an unusual blue-grey sheen.To Mr. Meylan, now chief executive of the independent watchmaker H. Moser & Cie, the watch, which came on a two-tone steel and tantalum bracelet, was something of an enigma.“It had two colors: light gray and dark gray,” he said on a recent phone call from Moser’s headquarters in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. “I kept wondering which metal is which? Why is it so heavy?“I kind…

At his Senate confirmation last February, Daniel Werfel told lawmakers that if given the job of Internal Revenue Service commissioner he would work to increase “public trust” in the beleaguered agency and use the $80 billion that Congress had granted it to build a “more modern and high-performing” organization.A year later, Mr. Werfel has overseen the clearing of a backlog of thousands of tax filings, shrinking wait times on the I.R.S. telephone lines and the creation of a system that lets qualified taxpayers submit their federal returns with no cost. But those achievements have not been enough to satisfy Republicans,…

Castellucci is an auteurist director who makes the extraordinary seem natural, who conjures surprises that baffle and amaze, sometimes self-indulgently, but often brilliantly. Driven more by imagery than plot, he has been best suited to staging oratorios or concert works like Mozart’s Requiem and Mahler’s Second Symphony. When it was announced that he would direct his first “Ring” in Brussels, there were scattered groans among opera fans who wondered whether his non-narrative style could sustain 15 hours of music.His “Ring” does go against the grain. He isn’t staging the four operas with a single concept, like Valentin Schwarz did with…

In a solemn ceremony, France paid its respects on Wednesday to Robert Badinter, the lawyer and former justice minister who came to represent the conscience of the nation, but sharp political conflicts shattered any show of unity.The family of Mr. Badinter, a lifelong Socialist who led the campaign resulting in the 1981 abolition of capital punishment in France, demanded that neither the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen, nor the far-left France Unbowed party founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, be allowed to attend the ceremony. Mr. Badinter died on Friday.Between them, the two parties hold about 30 percent of…