Jose Mourinho’s Fenerbahce debut: Seven goals, several outbursts and one strange artwork

It’s the day before his first competitive game as Fenerbahce manager and Jose Mourinho has been accosted.He is heading away from his pre-match press conference for the Champions League second-round qualifier against Lugano of Switzerland when he’s stopped by a man named Kai, a technician with the local media. Kai presents him with a large…

New Way of Making Superheavy Elements May Bring ‘Island of Stability’ within Reach

New Superheavy Element Synthesis Points to Long-Sought ‘Island of Stability’ A novel way of making superheavy elements could soon add a new row to the periodic table, allowing scientists to explore uncharted atomic realms By Max Springer Jacklyn Gates, head of the Heavy Element Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, is leading an…

Turkey is on dangerous path to launching collective punishment of Jews

Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm An anti-Israel faction, spearheaded by Turkey’s pro-Iran Hizbullah group and endorsed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s governing party, has made significant strides in advancing a bill that would permit the revocation of Turkish citizenship for dual Israeli nationals, the confiscation of their assets and their criminal prosecution. The move is feared to trigger…

U.S. field hockey’s Karlie Kisha grateful for Olympics after cancer treatment

It’s an exercise that most elementary school kids go through at some point. What do you want to be when you grow up? Karlie Kisha’s version came in the form of a fourth-grade vision board. Students were to cut out images from magazines and map out their future. Kisha included the Olympic rings on hers….

Baton Systems Adds JSCC to CCP network

Baton Systems, the global fintech digitally transforming post-trade processing, announced it has completed bi-directional integration with the Japanese Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) through its Baton Core-Collateral® ecosystem. With JSCC joining the Baton Core-Collateral network, JSCC’s Clearing Member clients using the Core-Collateral platform will be able to directly access the largest CCP in APAC. This addition…

Preview: Club Brugge vs. Mechelen – prediction, team news, lineups

Sports Mole previews Friday’s Belgian Pro League clash between Club Brugge and Mechelen, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. Club Brugge will kick off their title defence when they host Mechelen at the Jan Breydel Stadium on Friday evening in the opening fixture of the 2024–25 Belgian Pro League season. Blauw-Zwart secured their 19th…

‘Skibidi Toilet’ Film & TV Franchise in the Works From Michael Bay

As if it wasn’t ubiquitous enough as digital video shorts or games, “Skibidi Toilet” may be headed for a future as long-form content, too. The controversial animated internet sensation is being developed for TV and film treatment by director Michael Bay and former Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman, who sat last week for an exclusive…

Distributed Ledger Technology Market Growth Prospects, Future Industry Landscape 2031

A distributed ledger is a synchronized and decentralized digital database software system. It maintains all transaction information in a decentralized manner across different locations, by reducing the requirement of a central authority for checking against manipulation. This market research report examines key players such as: IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation A newly released report on the…

Hometown boy Mark Adair thrilled as Northern Ireland prepares to host its first men’s Test

After a six-year wait, Ireland will finally play their second home men’s Test this week – but it will be staged in a different country to the first. Stormont, in Belfast, will become the 123rd venue to host a men’s Test; Northern Ireland will become the 23rd nation to do so, after the Republic of…