(FILES) France’s midfielder #07 Antoine Griezmann (R) acknowledges the supporters at the end of the UEFA Nations League, League A – Group 2 first leg football match between France and Belgium at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Lyon on September 9, 2024. (Photo by Olivier CHASSIGNOLE / AFP) World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann took the … Read more
In a world where music trends can feel as fleeting as a TikTok dance craze, Wizkid’s “Ojuelegba” is standing the test of time like that one pair of jeans you refuse to throw away. On Tuesday, Spotify rolled out the red carpet for this Afrobeats anthem, reveling in its 10th anniversary. If you’re not jamming … Read more
In a surprising revelation, Bayer Leverkusen forward Victor Boniface recently expressed his frustration over not receiving a response from renowned Nigerian rapper Olamide, a situation that has been ongoing since 2019. The 23-year-old Super Eagles striker took to social media to share his vexation, illustrating the often-complex relationship between celebrities and their fans, and the … Read more
Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a report released on August 19, 2024. Their researcher Kristen Huff described the numerical differences as tiny ones that have to do with the fact that these are different tests, taken by different students and use … Read more
Russian-American Ksenia Karelina was sentenced by a Russian court to 12 years in a penal colony on Thursday after pleading guilty to treason earlier this month. She was arrested earlier this year while on a trip to Russia for donating $51 to an American-based humanitarian group helping Ukrainians suffering in the war, according to Russian state media. … Read more
A 22-year-old airman has been accounted for 81 years after he died as a prisoner of war, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said on Friday. U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Alvin R. Scarborough, 22, of Dossville, Mississippi was serving in the 454th Ordnance Company when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December 1942 … Read more
Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet tall, earning them the nickname “hobbits.” Now a new study suggests ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter. “We did not expect that we would find smaller individuals from such an old … Read more
“Wow, all these people want to honor Jesus. All these people love Jesus,” she recalled thinking at the time. In 1994, an estimated 200,000 purity pledge cards signed by young people were staked into the lawn of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Lifeway/Baptist Press) Thirty years ago, the nation was still in the … Read more