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Qatari authorities, in a bid to counter criticism that the Gulf state lacks a soccer culture as well as a sense that low attendance of matches could constitute a form of protest, has launched a politically sensitive survey to gauge reasons for its empty stadia. The survey on the website of the Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA), in cooperation with the Qatar Football Association (QFA) and the Sports Statistics Technical Committee, is likely to produce limited responses given that participants are required to identify themselves by entering their email addresses and the fact that the survey does not include questions about whether club ownership is a factor....

If you are also looking for some tips on how to play much more like professional players then here are some tips to improve your gameplay in PUBG Mobile. #1 Adjusting 6x and 8x Vision Range If you get a 6x or 8x scope in the game and want to shoot enemies far from you with an Assault rifle then it is recommended to adjust your range to half....

Blackpink is one of the biggest K-pop groups on the market, boasting over 60 million YouTube subscribers. PUBG Mobile once featured a Blackpink song, but the new collaboration adds tons of Blackpink-themed cosmetics and map decorations to PUBG for fans to enjoy. Fortnite loves to collaborate with musicians in similar ways, but PUBG doesn’t seem to be jumping on a major Fortnite trend: in-game concerts featuring guest artists and their music....

The Saints suffered a dramatic 3-2 loss when Zlatan Ibrahimovic grabbed his second goal of the game with an 87th-minute header at Wembley on Sunday. Where would Man Utd be without Zlatan? United’s victory came despite Gabbiadini striking twice either side of half-time to level the match after Ibrahimovic’s first goal and an effort from Jesse Lingard had put Jose Mourinho’s men two in front. Before all that, though, Gabbiadini - who now has five goals in three Saints games - had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside, with the flag raised against team-mate Ryan Bertrand despite him not making a move towards goal as the Italy striker tapped in Cedric Soares’ cross....

Apart from Cheteshwar Pujara, batsmen from both the teams failed to impress. Pujara’s knock made us remind Rahul Dravid’s knock of 2003 at the same venue. If the batsmen of both the teams want to survive the heat of Australia then they must adopt the footsteps of Pujara. There are a lot of things one can learn from Pujara’s pure and classical Test knock which is rarely seen from anyone nowadays....

Pulisic signed with Premier League giants Chelsea in January, but will make the move at the end of the season after staying at Dortmund on loan. The United States international marked his final home appearance for Dortmund with a goal as they sent the Bundesliga title race to the last day with a 3-2 win over Fortuna Dusseldorf. Pulisic, 20, was glad to deliver in front of the Dortmund fans, having signed with the club four years ago....

DAVID ANSEN: All right. Let’s start right at the start. In the opening credits, you did something very unusual: there’s a card that reads “Quentin Tarantino’s 4th movie.” Has that ever been done? QUENTIN TARANTINO: I don’t think so. When I saw that, I was amused–and I was worried. Because it hints at a sort of self-mythology. [Laughs] I could see that, yeah. But I really enjoyed this movie. I think the filmmaking itself is astonishing–the look, the camera moves....

“Just like last year, this year too we have had to deal with multiple injuries to key players. In today’s match, Yogesh Hudda suffered a leg injury midway. We will have to wait to see if he can play the next match. His absence was a big blow to us. I played the entire match despite a shoulder injury. Mohit Chillar’s tackle caught me off guard,” he admitted. Sportskeeda asked him about Puneri Paltan’s inefficiency in the raiding department....

The Paltan started their home leg on a positive note with a 43-33 win over the Gujarat Fortune Giants but were dealt a massive loss at the hands of the Patna Pirates, who beat the home side by a huge 55-33 margin. The Thalaivas have a lot of issues that have dented their campaign as they are currently on an eight-match losing streak and languish at the bottom of the points table with just three wins from 16 matches....

Punjab Thunder recorded their second win in four matches beating Royal Kings USA 63-42 in the 14th match of the Wave World Kabaddi League at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Saturday night. From the very first quarter, Punjab Thunder dominated the match and the point difference kept growing as the game progressed. Stopper Yadwinder Singh of Punjab Thunder halted the first raid by Balram Singh of Royal Kings USA giving them a lead of one point at the start of the match....

In the clip, which was posted to the app by a TikTok creator and veterinary technician called Mariu, we can see her adorable baby dog has very swollen cheeks as he blinks at the camera. Text overlaying the video, which can be watched here, reveals: “My puppy was attacked by a snake,” alongside a crying-face emoji. Mariu, who posted to her account Jerrythedogo, captioned the footage with another crying-face emoji and the hashtag “puppy....

His family confirmed the death to The Indianapolis Star . Trent wanted to be a sportswriter and was determined to attend Purdue despite suffering three bouts with a rare bone cancer, first diagnosed at age 15. He entered Purdue in the fall of 2017 while undergoing chemotherapy. He camped out with another student to get good seats to a Purdue-Michigan football game, just hours after chemotherapy. He gained national attention in 2018 by becoming the adopted captain of the Boilermakers football team....

His comments came during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press and just after Putin ordered the nation’s nuclear deterrent forces to be put on high alert in response to sanctions and “aggressive statements” by leading NATO officials. The actions from Putin followed a decision by the U.S. and European allies on Saturday to expel certain Russian banks from the high-security SWIFT banking system that connects major banking systems all over the world....

Putin’s visit to Iran on Tuesday comes days after U.S. President Joe Biden visited Israel and Saudi Arabia and pledged that Washington would try to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Andrey Kortunov, head of the Russian International Affairs Council, said the meetings with Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan were important for Putin “personally” because the Kremlin “doesn’t want to allow itself to be isolated internationally” as Russia reels from international sanctions....

Putin announced that he has received a booster shot against COVID-19, as well as an experimental nasal vaccine funded by Russia’s medical institute. Sputnik V, the country’s domestically developed vaccination, is currently being adapted into a nasal version and has yet to go through clinical studies. Russia’s Health Ministry gave the go-ahead to early trials of the Gamaleya Center nasal vaccine, which is sprayed into both nostrils, among 500 volunteers....

On Monday morning, Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was bombarded with drone attacks. Andriy Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, said the attacks came from so-called “kamikaze drones”, also known as Iranian-made Shahed drones. The strikes came a week after Russian forces targeted the city and multiple regions nationwide, with Putin saying the attacks were in response to an October 8 explosion on the strategically vital Kerch Strait Bridge that connects Russia’s mainland to the annexed Crimean Peninsula, although Kyiv has not claimed responsibility....

In his forthcoming book (out July 21), Killer in the Kremlin, Sweeney described changes he has noticed in Putin’s demeanor and physical appearance that he said scare him. He theorized the use of steroids for Putin’s changes, noting the president could have started taking the medication years ago to treat a back injury sustained after falling off a horse. According to Sweeney, this could have led to a pattern of steroid abuse, which can cause a litany of health problems, such as major organ damage and tumors....

Putin’s mobilization drive is a massively unpopular endeavor, and has prompted a veritable exodus of Russians, numbering nearly three-quarters of a million people, since it was announced in late September. But it is also exacerbating sectarian cleavages within Russia itself—namely, between the country’s Slavic majority and its swelling Muslim underclass. To understand why, it’s first necessary to grasp Russia’s deeply troubled demographics. The country has been on a path of protracted population decline for decades, with fertility well below “replenishment”—or just over two children per woman, on average....

While Putin is typically swift to respond to political action, he has yet to comment on the sanctions imposed by the West as of Thursday. Despite being the nation’s leader, Putin has managed to keep his family largely out of the public eye. The president rarely talks about his family, and his daughters generally keep a low profile away from their father. But the air of mystery and secrecy surrounding Putin’s children did not stop Western nations from targeting them as the war in Ukraine continues to intensify....

What! Gay cowboys, out there on the range? That might not seem surprising, given human nature. But think again. “Who Built America?"-a documentary history that celebrates the diversity of American life from the centennial of 1876 to the first world war-is stirring up controversy. Because it deals not only with homosexuality but also with such politically charged topics as birth control and abortion, it has been ensnared in the swirling national debate over how history should be interpreted and taught -and lofts it for perhaps the first time into the digital realm....