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Australia won the 1st Test of Ashes 2023 by a slim margin of 2 wickets on Day 5. Despite valiant efforts by Joe Root, the England side could not rescue the match and lost to a terrific Australian side, spearheaded by Usman Khawaja, who was also declared the player of the match with a 141-run knock in the 1st innings and 65 runs in the second innings. Thus, the 2nd Test match of the 73rd Men's Ashes series ended in a victory for Australia. This year, the series is taking place in England and it is the 37th Ashes series to…

Posted in: Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: Eastern Color Printing, famous funniesEastern Color Printing's 1934 debut of Famous Funnies launched one of the most important series in American comic book history.One of the most historically important series of the Golden Age, Eastern Color Printing Company's Famous Funnies series lasted 218 issues 1934-1955.  This successful series was launched by Eastern Color after previous comic book efforts by Dell Publishing and Eastern Color themselves, as well as…

CLIMATEWIRE | HELENA, Mont. — Sixteen young people who sued the state of Montana over its deference to the fossil fuel industry wrapped up the nation’s first youth-led climate trial earlier this week and now await a ruling. Eleven of the young challengers took the stand in Held v. Montana, testifying about the effects of climate change on the Treasure State’s iconic glaciers and trout streams. A parade of experts offered evidence about the impact of burning fossil fuels. Montana has called the trial a “publicity stunt,”…

In their 66 years of playing baseball in Los Angeles, the Dodgers have never fielded a pitching staff with numbers this bad.Not in their early Southern California years, when their makeshift home at the Coliseum measured just 250 feet to straightaway left.Not in the doldrums of the 1990s and early 2000s, when the team failed to win a playoff game over a 15-year stretch.Even Frank McCourt’s cash-strapped squads were able to maintain the franchise’s long-established legacy of pitching excellence, always remaining at least…

CLIMATEWIRE | HELENA, Mont. — Young people suing Montana for embracing fossil fuels will wrap up their case Friday, closing out a week of bashing officials for ignoring climate effects they say are warming the state's famed fishing rivers, melting its iconic glaciers and harming its youngest residents. The state — which has argued during cross-examination over the last four days that Montana’s greenhouse gas emissions are declining and are too small to make much of a dent in global warming — will present its case next…

Ashes is the biennial test cricket series played between Australia and England. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper called The Sporting Times after Australia won its first Test match on English soil in 1882. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The 73rd Men's Ashes series will begin with the 1st Test match between England and Australia. The series is taking place in England and will mark the 37th Ashes…

Joni Mitchell hadn’t played a full concert for a live audience — an audience that knew she was coming, that is — for more than 20 years.That changed Saturday night, when the 79-year-old singer and songwriter headlined the Gorge Amphitheatre on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington state. The show followed an unannounced appearance Mitchell made at 2022’s Newport Folk Festival, seven years after she suffered a debilitating brain aneurysm that made it difficult for her to move and to use her voice.Modeled by…

Burna Boy makes history here, becoming the first African artist to headline a UK stadium. The Grammy award-winning, Nigeria-born artist has popularised Afro-fusion – the blending of Afrobeats with pop, dancehall, hip-hop and R&B influences – for more than a decade and, long cherished by Britain’s African and Caribbean communities, has edged into the UK mainstream with starry collaborations (Ed Sheeran, Stormzy, Jorja Smith) and summer 2023’s ubiquitous Top 5 solo single Last Last. Embodying sonic influences that shape…

Tourists visit Roman ruins in Palmyra, Syria, Tuesday, May 11, 2023. Palmyra was captured by the Islamic State militants in 2015, who blew up some of the most iconic structures. Credit: AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki At the height of the Islamic State group's rampage across Syria, the world watched in horror as the militants blew up an iconic arch and temple in the country's famed Roman ruins in Palmyra.…

In June last year, NASA announced that it was commissioning an independent team to study the existence of UFOs. UFOs are unidentified objects in space often referred to as alien spaceships. They are part of what NASA calls “UAP” – Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, which refers to any unidentified aerial object in space. The team included experts from several fields such as astronomy, and oceanography and even had astronaut Scott Kelly on board, with a funding of $100,000. Now, the first-ever meeting of this independent…