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It was six-times champion Djokovic’s earliest elimination from Melbourne Park since his first round exit in 2006. (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney; Editing by Ian Ransom) 0 votes

VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) - Chris Wood was the toast of the 2016 BMW PGA Championship after waving the shortest club in the bag like a magic wand but fast forward 12 months and he cannot buy a putt for love nor money. After spending long hours on the practice green with coach Phil Kenyon last week to ensure his game was in tip-top shape for his Wentworth title defence, the 6-foot-6-inch Englishman was at a loss to explain his putting woes on Saturday....

A portion of the punditry can’t resist comparing the campaign to the tech boom of the ’90s–an overinflated bubble that left its naive believers drenched in soap scum. Try telling that to the architect of Dean’s strategy, campaign manager Joe Trippi. “It wasn’t a dot-com bust,” he insists. “It was a dot-com miracle.” Point taken. It was only through the Internet that an obscure former governor raised more bucks than a pack of better-known heavy hitters....

Delhi’s fourth consecutive loss means they are all but out of contention for the play-off spot, while the win took Hyderabad (eight points) to fourth in the table two points ahead of Kolkata Knight Riders in fifth. “We deserved to win, we bowled exceptionally well at the death. I think roughly 34 out of the 40 balls in the end were in the block hole,” the former Australian all-rounder told reporters here....

In the argot of the area, Makawi was a “collaborator”–one of hundreds, if not thousands, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian informers have helped Israel control the occupied territories for more than three decades. But since the latest surge of violence erupted last September, Israeli authorities are paying or intimidating agents into providing life-and-death information, including names of those behind the uprising. Now, Palestinians are retaliating. Officials in Gaza and elsewhere have rounded up dozens of suspected collaborators and sentenced four of them to death in hasty trials....

We were interested in getting to the sports bar we’d picked out to watch the United States in a pre-World Cup match against Germany, but LSU’s pre-Sweet 16 press conference was conflicting with that. And to make it more of a challenge, Tigers All-American Glen “Big Baby” Davis was so danged funny, we didn’t want to bolt and miss anything good. We got in front of that big-screen TV in time, of course, and we watched the game and continued what had become an annual tradition for us during March Madness....

Ford, 42, who refused to be interviewed for this story, has yet to announce his future plans. Rumors have him doing everything from taking over at Versace to becoming a Hollywood film producer. But the story of his career at Gucci is an illuminating one for the luxury-fashion industry. Indeed, his tenure paralleled a decadelong boom for luxury couture, which now does $100 billion in sales a year. Yet his departure shows that in today’s conglomerate-heavy market, being one of the world’s most successful designers is no guarantee of a job....

Following years of weird and wonderful teasers, the game was released on PS4 on 8 November 2019 – and fans loved it. But what about those on PC? The good news is that Kojima has since confirmed that Death Stranding is coming to PC, and gamers don’t have long to wait either. Read on to find out everything you need to know about Death Stranding, including the long-awaited PC release date....

“I feel clean,” quips one. “You look clean,” says another. Now comes the day’s requisite insight into the mysterious male mind. “Losing your hair,” explains Bonaduce, “is No. 1–the No. 1–source of depression among men.” Adds Lopez, “I agree with you, Danny. It’s a big heated discussion when close buddies and you start talking about what’s bumming you out.” This is the part where they reveal the joke, right? Surely Clark–the trustworthy father figure from “American Bandstand”–will stand up and reveal that men aren’t really this shallow....

In his Monday press briefing, Newsom reported the average daily number of new cases last week was 7,764, compared to roughly 9,800 the week before—a 26.2 percent reduction. However, Ghaly said technical issues with the state’s test reporting system “absolutely affected” the numbers. “This issue has undercounted the county’s positive cases and affects the number of COVID-19 cases reported each day and our contact tracing efforts,” a spokesperson for LA County said....

Greg Schuler, a molecular biologist turned computer jock at the National Institutes of Health, had just spent the weekend, sitting on the sofa with his laptop in front of his fireplace at home, writing a 674-line program to reanalyze the overlaps. When he sicced it on the redundant sequences, the answer popped out: the Human Genome Project had already passed the 2 billion mark, on March 9. It had taken four years to determine the first billion letters in the human genome, but only four months for what Schuler calls “that next odometer moment....

Adapted from Dmitry Glukhovsky novella, the Metro series is set in a bleak post-apocalyptic Russia allowing the players to navigate a nuclear wasteland infested with enemies and mutants. It isn’t the most jaw-droppingly original concept for a video game, but the shifted cultural perspective and bleakness give the series a distinct flavor. That is why some fans were worried when Deep Silver CEO, Dr Klemens Kundratitz, told Joystiq that though the series is looking to have more sequels, it will try to look at “making it more accessible for a broader gamer audience....

Zhang Wenhong, whose frank assessments of COVID-19 led to comparisons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, remains one of China’s top infectious disease specialists. Last summer, however, Chinese nationalists threatened to hound him from public view after he suggested in a social media post that China, like the rest of the world, would have to learn to live with the virus. At the time, facing the deadlier Delta variant, China stuck to its zero-tolerance approach and stamped out each cluster that reached local communities, a strategy largely favored by the public when deaths were still rising in the West and vaccination rates were low....

Richard Daschbach served as a Catholic missionary in the country for decades. However, more than a dozen women came forward with allegations that he had sexually abused them when they were children. In total, Daschbach was charged with 14 counts of sexual abuse of children younger than 14 along with one charge each of child pornography and domestic violence. As a result of the accusations, he was officially defrocked by the Catholic Church in 2018....

Death’s Door has plenty of puzzles to solve, dungeons to explore, secrets to find (including new weapons for the protagonist), a lot of lore to discover, and bits of dialogue that never feel empty. The game features a crow main character who has the very peculiar job of being a collector of souls - which is to say their primary purpose is to forcibly take the souls of creatures who have lived long enough....

Initially a PS4 release, the original version of Death Stranding came to PC not long after in July 2020. The Director’s Cut then followed in September of last year, but there was no word on whether it would be coming to PC as well. That’s why people took notice when a recently leaked Intel press release included mention of a PC port of the Director’s Cut, though it wasn’t clear how legit the leak was....

Higgs’ return in general is shocking, as it was heavily implied that he died off-screen in the last game. Beyond that, he appears to be leading a cult dedicated to worshiping Amelie, who was revealed to be an extinction entity at the end of the first Death Stranding. Worshiping a being with the power to instantly destroy humanity is obviously problematic, though it lines up perfectly with what gamers know of Higgs....

Specifically, players that have updated Death Stranding to version 1.08 will find that many Bridges staff members are now wearing Santa hats. Considering the dire state of Death Stranding’s world, it may seem somewhat surprising to see its inhabitants get so festive, but there is undoubtedly an underlying silliness in the title that makes these seasonal hats feel not completely out of place. RELATED: Hideo Kojima Reveals Surprising Fact About Death Stranding Cakes...