Month: July 2020

Two matches have been announced for this week’s WWE NXT episode on the USA Network. WWE announced this evening that two qualifying matches for the upcoming Women’s Ladder Match will air on tomorrow’s NXT episode – Candice LeRae vs. Kayden Carter and Aliyah vs. Xia Li. As noted earlier today at this link, the matches…

A suspected collaborator of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Thursday in Ecuador while trying to ‘travel’ to Japan, the South American country’s interior minister said. Maria Paula Romo did not identify the person but told Sonorama radio he was very close to Assange, who was arrested Thursday in London on a US extradition request after spending…

WWE is hyping that Brock Lesnar will announce which champion he’s going to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase on. After making a surprise appearance at Money in the Bank and winning the men’s ladder match, Lesnar took part in the opening and main event segments of tonight’s Raw. It was revealed that Lesnar…

Indonesia’s Joko Widodo said Thursday his reelection as head of the world’s third-biggest democracy was all but assured, calling for calm as his firebrand ex-general rival insisted he had in fact won the nation’s top job. Widodo, 57, said he had received phone calls from world leaders to congratulate him on his country’s biggest-ever election,…

At least 1,300 migrants escaped from a detention centre in Mexico on Thursday night, highlighting how far a surge in arrivals has stretched the country’s resources.  Roughly half of the migrants returned voluntarily to the Siglo XXI facility in the border city of Tapachula but around 600 people were still unaccounted for on Friday. The incident arose when…

More than 12,000 neo-Nazis are active and prepared to use violence in Germany, according to a stark assessment by the country’s intelligence servives which was made public on Friday. Details of the disturbing assessment were disclosed in a written answer from the German interior ministry to a parliamentary question after hundreds of neo-Nazis openly marched…

Du lait en Allemagne, des œufs et des poulets en France, des légumes en Italie, de la viande de bœuf en Espagne… Si ce quatuor compose près de 60% des surfaces et des fermes conduites en agriculture biologique en Europe, chacun ne progresse pas au même rythme et ne consacre pas forcément sa production à…

Chanel artistic director Virginie Viard took inspiration from Karl Lagerfeld for her autumn/winter 2020-21 haute couture collection with a “punk princess” vibe filled with ornate embellishments. While Viard’s spring-summer 2020 Chanel haute couture collection was influenced by the simplicity and rigour of the abbey at Aubazine, where Gabrielle Chanel had been placed as a child,…

Max Verstappen highlighted Alex Albon’s talent and collaboration with Red Bull, insisting the team should keep the British-Thai racer on board amid assumptions that Sebastian Vettel could return to the Milton Keynes outfit in the future. The announcement of Vettel’s departure from Ferrari at the end of the current season has left the German with…

FIA president Jean Todt says that F1’s current schedule will expand to “significantly more” than eight races with details on additional races to be announced soon. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Formula 1 confirmed an opening run of eight races, all taking place in Europe. While the tally would qualify as a world championship, efforts are…