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Syed Modi International: Tanvi Sharma, Unnati Hooda Srikanth Advance To Semi-Finals Tanvi Sharma crushed Hong Kong's Lo Sin Yan Happy in straight games to storm into the semifinals while Unnati Hooda Srikanth also made their way into the final four. Tanvi Sharma crushed Hong Kong's Lo Sin Yan Happy in straight games to storm into the semifinals while Unnati Hooda and Srikanth also made their way into the final four of the Syed Modi International Super 300 in Lucknow on Friday. In the women's singles, the 16-year-old Tanvi, who had earlier defeated former world champion  Japan, needed only 38 minutes to brush aside the challenge of Lo Sin 21-13, 21-19. Tanvi will take on fifth seeded  of Japan, who got the better of third seed Sung Yun 21-8, 21-15 in the other quarterfinal. Unnati was made to work hard by compatriot Santosh R in the quarterfinal, before winning 21-15, 13-21, 21-16. Unnati will face off against fourth seed  Arin in the semifinals, after the Turkish player b...
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  Husband charged with murdering Miss Switzerland finalist wife who was pureed and had her womb cut out The sicko accused of decapitating his Miss Switzerland finalist wife, cutting out her womb and pureeing her body parts in a blender while watching YouTube videos has been formally charged with her murder, Swiss officials announced. The former beauty queen, Kristina  38, was found dismembered in her home in February 2024 in  near the city of Basel in Switzerland, and her husband allegedly admitted to strangling her. Her husband, only identified as Thomas in Swiss media reports due to privacy laws, was hit with murder charges Wednesday after the Public Prosecutor’s Office concluded its investigation. A trial date has not yet been set. body was dismembered with a jigsaw, knife and garden shears, according to a gut-churning autopsy report and court documents obtained by the Daily Mail. An autopsy report also revealed that Thomas, 43, had also allegedly removed womb, which w...
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  US drops bid to preserve FIFA bribery convictions NEW YORK, Dec 11, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The US government has moved to drop its case against a former Fox broadcasting executive involved in the FIFA corruption scandal that plunged the world's footballing body into crisis. Prosecutors told the Supreme Court on Tuesday they wanted to end their fight to preserve the convictions of Hernan Lopez and Argentine sports marketing firm Full Play. Both were found guilty in March 2023 of paying bribes to secure lucrative television rights to international football officials. The convictions were overturned on appeal months later, before being reinstated this July. The case was one of several to emerge from a sweeping 2015 corruption probe by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which ultimately led to the downfall of then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter. In a filing to the Supreme Court, which Lopez had asked to review his conviction, prosecutors said that dismissal of the case is "in the intere...
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  Rolling Stones finally approve Slim sample after 25 years                            Norman Cook and Mick Jagger, pictured together at a David Bowie after-party in London, 1999 One of the world's most bootlegged recordings -Satisfaction Skank - is finally being released, after the Rolling Stones gave belated approval for the song's pivotal sample.  Slim, real name Norman Cook, created the track 25 years ago by grafting the riff from the Stones' Satisfaction onto his platinum-selling single The Skank, after he grew "bored" of playing the original. "It was my secret weapon," he told BBC News. "I had this tune that nobody else had, and it was a really good encore." In the 2000s, the song spread like wildfire on file-sharing sites like Napster and  but, until now, The Stones had refused to clear it for commercial release. Even Cook bought bootleg copies of the song, some of which had been taped off his li...
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  World Cup ticket prices 'monumental betrayal' say fans' group Supporters hoping to attend next year's World Cup final face paying thousands of pounds for the cheapest ticket. Fans' group Football Supporters Europe has said it is "astonished" by "extortionate" pricing strategy, and called for ticket sales to be "halted immediately".  has not yet commented on its pricing decisions. BBC Sport understands tickets for the final MetLife Stadium, New York, are in three tiers: 'Supporter value tier' at £3,119 ($4,185). 'Supporter standard tier' at £4,162 ($5,560), 'Supporter premium tier' is £6,615 ($8,860) Tickets to  showpiece event are as much as seven times more expensive than the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with the lowest price ticket at that event costing £450. Also, in a departure from recent tournaments, group stage games are priced based on the perceived popularity of the teams involved, rather than at a flat ra...
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