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The magnetic field in the Pacific region varies very little over time, compared with the rest of the planet. “This is something that has been a puzzle since the 1930s, when it was first noticed,” Mathieu Dumberry, from the University of Alberta, Canada, told Newsweek in an email. Dumberry is lead author on a study looking at the anomaly published in Nature Geoscience. Earth’s magnetic field is generated by movements within the planet’s liquid core....

India’s world no.12 PV Sindhu stunned Olympic silver medalist and former world no.1 Wang Yihan in a round of 16 encounter at the World Championships in Guangzhou. This win is a harbinger of future laurels that are going to be synonymous with Sindhu’s name. A rising star and India’s next badminton queen, PV Sindhu has shown the world what she is capable of. It is not about what happened today, but about what has been happening for the past few years....

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) authorities had to take a call after Indonesia and South Korea joined Thailand, Australia, Chinese Taipei and Algeria in backing out of the tournament. Speaking to Sportstar, PV Sindhu candidly extended her support towards the decision made by the tournament organisers and BWF to postpone the Thomas and Uber Cup to 2021. In a year largely hampered by the COVID-19 crisis, the badminton tour was supposed to make a comeback on October 3rd with the Thomas and Uber Cup Finals in Aarhus, Denmark....

NEWSWEEK: Why all this talk about foreign investment in China right now? William Kirsch: China’s economy has been growing steadily and robustly for more than 20 years. Investors are finding it difficult to resist an economy that has 1.3 billion people, has increased its GDP 10-fold since 1978 and has a GDP growth in 2006 of roughly 12 percent. That kind of growth rate is expected to continue, and that’s why people are interested....

The governor, while exhausted, seems to be taking the transition in stride and with good grace, at least outwardly. NEWSWEEK’s Karen Breslau spoke with him about Schwarzenegger, show biz, life after politics –and how he found perspective during his final days in office. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: You lost your job to Arnold Schwarzenegger. There’s now talk that Dennis Miller and Al Franken will run for the Senate. Of course, we had Jesse Ventura....

Joe Biden’s inauguration was a disaster for QAnon followers. For believers of the conspiracy theory, it was the latest in a number of events that could derail the online movement. In their eyes an illegitimate president sat in the White House, the predicted mass arrests of pedophiles never came to pass and a satanic cult still controlled world events—all of which are unfounded claims. With the movement now fractured and without guidance from the anonymous “Q” account, QAnon influencers ditched the terminology and consolidated their position in a bid to gain control of American institutions....

What are these Prime and Prime plus subscriptions? These two new subscriptions are basically Tencent’s new ways to dig more money of the players’ pocket. If you compare it with the Royale pass, then you can understand, these two new systems are just to engage players more in the game while Tencent makes more money. However, they are providing benefits over a period of time (30 days). What are the benefits of PUBG Mobile Prime and Prime Plus subscription A prime subscription awards 5 UC daily and enables players to purchase some items with BP for 7 days or 30 days....

BGMI was released a few months ago to bring the PUBG Mobile experience back to the Indian gaming community. The battle royale title was quick to grab gamers and went on to break several records as it completed over 50 million downloads in no time. The news of PUBG New State (Mobile) came as a surprise to players, and ever since then, they have been eager to know about the release date....

Even though the developers have not yet specified the contents of this collaboration, we think that the new collaboration with Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 will let players buy in-game Resident Evil 2 featured skins. This partnership will help both the party as it will serve as a promotion to the upcoming Horror game Resident Evil 2 remake and for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, it will help the developers to regain the general audience and players that the game has been losing for a while....

In its official announcement, PUBG Corporation confirmed that Stadia users in North America and “select European countries” can now drop into the popular battle royale shooter without having to wait to download it. What’s more, anyone with a Stadia Pro subscription can get their hands on the Pioneer Edition for free, which gets them the game itself along with the new Survivor Pass: Cold Front and a Stadia-exclusive skin set....

The team has now introduced the Baahubali skin for the game, realizing the fact of how much Indians love movies and after the successful promotion of John Abraham’s R.A.W. the the team is sure about the success of the new skin. The skin is called ‘The Great Indian Warrior Outfit’ and has two parts - the armored outfit and the headgear. The price for the outfit is hence divided to 300 UC for the Head Gear and the other armor including chest armor, wrist, and arm protection, and the bottom wear costs 900 UC....

Yet Puffy’s woes as a star may pale beside the unrest within his musical empire. Sean (Puffy) Combs is trying to negotiate one of the most difficult balancing acts in show business: he’s pursuing his own career as a recording superstar, which has made him a huge celebrity, a staple in the gossip pages for rubbing elbows with other A-list fixtures such as his current companion, the sultry actress Jennifer Lopez....

Pujols hit two home runs to tie Ken Griffey Jr. for sixth place with 630, and Fletcher connected for his first in the majors as the Los Angeles Angels romped to an 11-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday. Pujols rarely talks about personal achievements. But matching Griffey, a former Mariners star, had him feeling an extra sense of pride. “Griffey was everybody’s hero growing up and that’s how I look at it,” Pujols said....

BERLIN (Reuters) - Kit manufacturer Puma said it had traced a problem with ripped shirts for the Swiss team at Euro 2016 to a defective batch of material used only in a limited number of home jerseys for the team. During the goalless draw against France on Sunday, which saw Switzerland join Les Bleus into the knockout phase, at least four Swiss players had to go to the sidelines to swap their torn tops....

Pune, June 4 (IANS) Punjab, Delhi, Karnataka and Manipur maintained their winning run in the league rounds of the third Hockey India senior men’s National championship here Tuesday. In Group A, Hockey Punjab scored their third consecutive win defeating Association of Indian Universities 8-4 with veteran Deepak Thakur scoring five goals while Vikramjit Singh (2) and Ravi Pal (1) completed the tally. For the Universities, Ramandeep Singh (1), Razin Kandulana (2) and Hardeep Singh (1) were the scorers....

The footage posted by the account chloeeehardy shows her dachshund Sadie watching her pack her bag to move to Hawaii. Since being shared earlier in 2022, the post has managed to attract more than 3.8 million views and some 840,600 likes. It is not surprising that content involving dogs performs well online as the U.S. is a nation of dog-lovers. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, in 2018, there were more than 48 million households in the U....

While accounting for less than 1% of psoriasis cases, pustular psoriasis is arguably more serious than any other form of the disease. Symptoms The symptoms of pustular psoriasis vary by the type. Generally speaking, the pustules appear as small white blisters similar to pimples but without the inflamed borders. They are usually closely clustered and set atop a patch a red, inflamed skin. The pustules easily erupt and can be extremely itchy and painful....

Oleg Deripaska, the founder of Basic Element, a group which has interests in aluminum, energy, construction and agriculture, was accused earlier this year by the U.S. Treasury Department of money laundering on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin, of whom he is a key ally. Deripaska has denied the claims as “unfounded gossip” Forbes reported, although he has been the target of the U.S.authorities during Trump’s presidency. He was among a group of two dozen other Russian tycoons and officials sanctioned in 2018 by the Treasury Department....

Zelensky made the comments during an address delivered via video to NATO’s summit in Madrid. Russia has been at the center of much of the gathering’s activity since it began on Tuesday. In a declaration, the 30-member alliance called Russia the “most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “the greatest security crisis in Europe since the Second World War....