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Women’s cricket is developing in New Caledonia Supplied It’s rare for news in Associate cricket – countries below the top 12 who receive more funds, fixtures and power – to go mainstream. It happened in April last year, but for all the wrong reasons when the French women’s national team was disbanded after a France24 investigation alleged that France Cricket was faking women’s matches to get more funding from the International Cricket Council. As I reported last month, the saga has prompted calls for a review of the Associate funding model. ForbesCricket’s Associate Nations Focus On Olympic Qualifying, Governance And…

Sony PlayStation 5 gaming consoles in the US will jump by around $50 (£37.16) from Thursday as the Japanese technology giant grapples with rising costs and a slowing video game market.Like many global businesses, the firm faces a “challenging economic environment”, Isabelle Tomatis, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s vice president of global marketing said in a blog post.All three PlayStation 5 consoles will see a similar price increase. The most expensive Pro version now has a recommended retail price of $749.99.The price hikes come after US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on most of America’s trading partners, including Japan, which has led…

Reality TV veteran Tom Sandoval’s time on America’s Got Talent is over. The Vanderpump Rules alum’s cover band, Tom Sandoval and the Most Extras, were eliminated from the competition on Wednesday’s first results show of season 20. Host Terry Crews dramatically brought out two acts at a time before declaring which of them had won the most votes from viewers to move forward to the semifinals. After Crews had revealed the top five, he announced the top three. But Sandoval and company didn’t get that far, as they lost out to comedian Shuler King, who’s known for his jokes about…

The newly named Franz Beckenbauer Supercup has many uses. Unlike some of its continental counterparts, this curtain-raising meeting between league and cup winners tends to brim with a pleasing intensity. It unfolds in a partisan atmosphere too, taking place at one of the two competitors’ stadium rather than at a neutral venue, so we feel the real straight away.Telling us what to expect for the coming nine months in the Bundesliga, however, isn’t often one of the Supercup’s strengths. Bayer Leverkusen gave a faithful impression of their double-winning form in emerging victorious in last year’s edition by punking Stuttgart with…

George HarrisonShambala was founded by a group of friends in 2000 and now welcomes about 15,000 attendees each yearA music festival held at a “secret countryside estate” will return for its 25th anniversary event this weekend.Shambala, a four-day festival held in the north of Northamptonshire, is set to welcome about 15,000 revellers from Thursday to Sunday.The event, which has a long history of promoting sustainability, will see food vendors and facilities cook and heat entirely on biogas, a first for a UK festival, according to Shambala’s organisers.As well as music, the festival features arts, spoken word performances and a range…

In a series of “victory” celebrations more than 6,000 years ago in northeastern France, a group of defenders severed the left arms of their conquered enemies and buried them in pits, archaeologists have found.The discovery provides a glimpse into a time when warfare was rampant in the region and when invaders pushed into northeastern France from the area around Paris.The “lower limbs were [fractured] in order to prevent the victims from escaping, the entire body shows blunt force traumas and, what it is more, in some skeletons there are some marks — piercing holes — that may indicate that the…

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Watch: Moment redistricting bill is passed in the Texas House of RepresentativesTexas legislators have approved new congressional maps designed to give Republicans an edge in next year’s elections for the US House of Representatives.Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives passed the new voting lines in an 88-52 vote, creating five new Republican-leaning seats.It followed a two-week stand-off in which Democrats fled the state to stall the vote and rally supporters against the redistricting plans.The maps will now go to the state Senate, where they are expected to be swiftly approved and then signed off by the Texas governor.The move…

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.To solve today’s Connections: Sports Edition, focus on the endings of some of the words. That should help you see how they connect. Read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta after making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue…

Pauline McLeanArts correspondent, BBC ScotlandEdinburgh TV festivalShowrunner Shonda Rhimes was presented with the the inaugural Edinburgh fellowship at the TV festivalIt began with an abandoned novel in a hotel room.”I was sick, and in bed and I don’t even like romance novels,” says Shonda Rhimes.”But I read it, and despite being ill, dragged myself out of bed and down to the nearest book shop to buy them all.”The book was The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. The first of eight novels about the children of a family in regency England, it was perhaps not the obvious choice for a…