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US hunting mines to reopen Hormuz

WASHINGTON/berlin, April 26 -- Donald Trump says the US Navy is clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, a vital sea route for oil shipments whose disruption is increasingly threatening the g... Read More


No target safe enough: Punjab chase down 265, set IPL record

New Delhi, April 26 -- For years, totals over 220 in T20 would intimidate teams chasing. But that aura is dissolving and the shift is not even subtle to gradual. As Punjab Kings showed in Saturday's s... Read More


FA Cup: Man City rally to beat Southampton

LONDON, April 26 -- Manchester City beat Championship side Southampton 2-1 with a late goal from Nico Gonzalez to book a place in an unprecedented fourth consecutive FA Cup final and keep alive their ... Read More


In an alternate universe

India, April 26 -- For decades, entire groups of people have misremembered the same specific things. This unsettling glitch-in-the-matrix-style phenomenon is called the Mandela Effect, from the fact t... Read More


A new set of trainers?

India, April 26 -- There's a tradition at the beautiful, forest-ringed Alte Forsterei stadium in Berlin. At the beginning of a match, as the teams are announced, the crowd chants "Fusballgott (Footbal... Read More


Pretty little liars: Trapped by the lantana

India, April 26 -- There is a pretty, fragrant, and deadly alien tentacling its way across India. And we've woken up to the problem really late. The lantana has had a headstart of about 200 years. In ... Read More


Six appeal: On IPL and the era of boundary hunters

India, April 26 -- The first murmurs of the trend began about 18 years ago. Batting coaches I knew in Delhi and Mumbai started talking about how they were facing a strange conundrum: fathers and mothe... Read More


If you go down to the woods today

India, April 26 -- As they quietly expand their kingdoms, we can look in the mirror and ruefully shake our heads. Over the past two centuries, amid growing trade and amid colonisation, plants, trees, ... Read More


It's

India, April 26 -- For about 200 years, between 1630 and 1854, the Japanese Shogunate under the Tokugawa rulers closed the archipelago 's borders. Residents were banned from leaving and, more signific... Read More


A coral that slays coral

India, April 26 -- O ne of the greatest threats to corals worldwide is humans. We damage reefs daily, via bottom trawlers, heightened tourism, pollution; not to mention human-induced rising temperatur... Read More