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On Waitangi Day (New Zealand’s National Day), New Zealand women’s and men’s teams cruised to dominant T20I victories against India women’s and men’s teams respectively at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. In other significant news, head coach Ravi Shastri has revealed a special plan regarding skipper Virat Kohli’s possible batting position in the 2019 World Cup. Here are all of today’s top developments from the day. Mithali Raj dropped from playing XI; India women go down by 23 runs Following her unceremonious ouster from the playing XI during the Women’s World T20 late last year, India women’s ODI captain Mithali Raj was once again dropped from the lineup as the T20I team took the field at Wellington....

Belgium, who were at number one in the FIFA rankings for the first three months of 2016 and second since then, suffered a 2-0 loss to Italy to slip to the bottom of Group E. In contrast, a spirited Ireland side opened their campaign with a 1-1 draw with Sweden. “Belgium are a really fine side, really fine,” O’Neill told reporters in France. “Individually they are as talented as any side in the competition....

Appearing on KTVU-TV on Sunday, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said (via Pro Football Talk), that the goal is to secure a renewal of the lease for the Raiders at O.co Coliseum then prepare for negotiations with team owner Mark Davis that would generate a new stadium in Oakland. MORE: 5 landing spots for Johnny Manziel | Broncos, Panthers begin final preparations The NFL rejected last month the Raiders’ proposal to move to Los Angeles, then offered $100 million to help finance a Raiders stadium in Oakland....

According to the Democrat & Chronicle, Dr. Morris Wortman of Rochester, New York has been accused of artificially inseminating his patients using his own sperm, without their consent or knowledge. The suit was filed on Saturday by an unnamed ​​Geneseo woman. The woman had been a long-term patient of Dr. Wortman at his clinic, the Center for Menstrual Disorders, as had her mother. The plaintiff said she had been conceived in 1985 via artificial insemination, and that her mother was under the care of Dr....

Djokovic wants to defend his Australian Open title but must now deal with problems regarding a travel form. The Federal Circuit Court said he checked “no” on the Australian Travel Declaration form question that asks if he’s traveled in the past two weeks before his flight to Australia. However, he was seen in two countries during that 14-day period. Djokovic was seen playing tennis in Serbia on Christmas and training in Spain on December 31....

If the motion of several tiny rectangles of content on your Netflix home screen bothers you, there’s now an easy fix. Simply go to Netflix’s help page and select the little arrow next to “Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices.” The instructions are to sign in to your Netflix account from a web browser, select Manage Profiles from the menu there, and choose the profile you want to update....

Lawson finished the night with 20 points and 12 assists, but his crossover of Kirk Hinrich will remain as the lasting image from the Nuggets’ 114-109 win over the Chicago Bulls. MORE: ‘Tired’ Rose sits out second half | Pierce signs Celtics gear at Wiz game | Malice in the Palace Handling the ball in a screen-and-roll set in the third quarter, Lawson faked a pass and Hinrich bit — hard....

Victor Ortiz called a potential bout between Floyd Mayweather and Andre Berto “embarrassing” and “not even a fight” last week, and at least one Las Vegas sports book feels a similar way based on the price it’s hung. The South Point has opened Mayweather as a -900 favorite over Berto, who is available at +650. The limit bet is $1,000 right now, and the fight must happen by Sept. 30, 2015, or it will be ruled “no action” and all wagers will be returned....

User @kimilupes posted the video, which can be seen here, earlier this month and it has since amassed more than 700,000 views. Jumping on a trend that has become a popular way for TikTok users to tell stories, she sings along to a Sarah Cothran recording of the song “Grace Kelly” by Mika while removing her personal protective gear, as captions reveal her story part by part. “Spent 4 years in undergraduate school studying health sciences,” the first caption says as the woman removes her mask to reveal another one underneath....

The Game Awards’ collaborative promotions with The Matrix Resurrections debuted the launch of The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience, which has emboldened the industry standard for graphical fidelity in games. Today, Nvidia GeForce has announced its own collaborative promotion with The Matrix Resurrections that demonstrates another technological achievement for gaming. RELATED: Graphics Comparisons Show Upgrades Between Enter the Matrix and The Matrix Awakens Nvidia GeForce has teamed with Warner Bros and assorted modders to produce custom PCs inspired by The Matrix’s mythology that come with GeForce RTX GPUs....

It’s a GPU you can probably afford, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to get one for yourself. Here are a few reasons why you should steer clear of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630. GTX 1630 Specs: What Does Nvidia’s Latest GPU Bring to the Table? The arrival of the GTX 1630 has been rumored for a long while. However, unlike the RTX 3000 lineup, which is based on Nvidia’s Ampere architecture, the GTX 1630 uses the older Turing architecture instead....

Of the information that has been revealed via the VideoCards leak, perhaps the most interesting is the confirmation of the 2nd Generation Ray Tracing and 3rd Generation Tensor. The leaks show clear improvements from previous models. It looks like the leaked items would also pair nicely with the recently announced Nvidia and Asus monitor. RELATED: The 15 Video Games With The Most Impressive Graphics, Ranked The prices of the hardware are also intriguing, but there have been conflicting reports on that....

The Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling sided with the Brooklyn diocese and other religious organizations that felt that the restrictions violated the First Amendment and were too harsh. In his op-ed published in The New York Times on Thursday, Pope Francis said that most governments had responded to the pandemic well in making public health a priority. He then turned his attention to anti-lockdown protests, saying that protesters took the idea of personal freedom and turned it “into an ideology, creating a prism through which they judge everything....

The statement was issued on Twitter in what appeared to be a screenshot from a notes app. The board initially released new figures from the election that showed Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ lead in the Democratic mayoral primary had narrowed to just two points in the first tabulated set of results from the new ranked-choice voting (RCV) system, according to CNN. However, BOE later took to Twitter to announce that images of test ballots were not cleared from the Election Management System (EMS), meaning an additional 135,000 ballots were included in results released on Tuesday....

Organizers said Monday the total topped the mark of 51,394 from the 2016 NYC Marathon. The race through the city’s five boroughs Sunday was watched by more than 1 million spectators on a crisp fall day. Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia and Mary Keitany of Kenya were the men’s and women’s winners. It was Keitany’s fourth victory in New York. Desisa won this race for the first time. The wheelchair winners were Daniel Romanchuk of the U....

“The NYPD has seen a surge in the number of officers filing for retirement. While the decision to retire is a personal one and can be attributed to a range of factors, it is a troubling trend that we are closely monitoring,” the department told Newsweek in a statement. The New York Post earlier reported that the NYPD has even taken steps to limit retirement applications, as they have surged 411 percent, compared with the same period last year....

That translates into the occasional brawls in Manhattan taverns and hockey games. It boiled over during a charity football game in Brooklyn between the country’s largest fire and police departments. MORE: Sports’ greatest brawls that you won’t forget The two sides engaged in a bloody brawl after a cop wiped out a firefighter near the NYPD sideline. That did it. As the saying goes, there were wigs on the green at the ironically named “Fun City Bowl” in Coney Island....

In an editorial published on Friday, the Times suggested that it is vital that the former president be criminally investigated over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, including a plot to install fake electoral officials in a number of key states, before he “roused an armed mob” to storm the Capitol on January 6. The paper’s editorial board said that while “no one should revel” in the prospect of a former president facing criminal prosecution, Trump’s actions have “brought shame on one of the world’s oldest democracies and destabilized its future....

The two batsmen, Northern District’s Joe Carter and Brett Hampton, set the new world record 21-year-old Willem Ludick, who eventually went for 85 runs in his 10 overs. Before this, the record was with Zimbabwe international Elton Chigumbura, who had scored 39 runs off Alauddin Babu while playing for Sheikh Jamal against Abahani Limited at Dhaka in the 2013-14 season. Coming in at No.6 and No.7, Carter and Hampton finished with 102 and 95 respectively, as their side posted 313 in their 50 overs....