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Originally scheduled to be played last summer, the tournament was moved because of the coronavirus pandemic, which also meant that Dublin and Bilbao, two of the host venues, had to withdraw as they couldn’t guarantee spectators would be able to attend. The latter was replaced by Seville, which will be joined by 10 other cities including soccer-mad places such as Munich, Amsterdam, Rome and London, which will host the two semifinals and the final at Wembley Stadium....

One of those changes was the introduction of a playoff stage before the Round of 16. The eight Champions League third-place teams that in the past just walked into the Europa League’s knockouts as a consolation prize, will now have to prove they belong through playoff matches. Gone is the inflated Round of 32 that allotted slots for those Champions League underachievers to drop in — the Europa League knockouts will now start with the Round of 16, and half of the participants will come via the playoffs....

As usual in the 12-nation EC, the map emerged only after a marathon round of arduous and sometimes bitter haggling. The plan is full of ambiguities, technicalities and exceptions. And it is disfigured by exemptions for Great Britain in two key areas. But the Treaty of Maastricht (named after the provincial Dutch town that hosted last week’s summit) is nonetheless a turning point for Europe. It practically ensures that a common European currency will go into circulation before the end of the century....

What is it about this guy? It’s not just that Moore has a talent for being hard on his homeland at a time when hard feelings against the United States are running high. And it’s not just the way Moore bashes President George W. Bush in “Fahrenheit 9/11.” The appeal is more subtle than that, says Delafon, and more conflicted. “The problem for the French is that they don’t want to appear anti-American, even if they are....

“Beef”, as he’s known on the tour, aced the par-3 10th hole, which came with a new BMW. The best part, though, is Johnston’s celebration. MORE: Fans steal golf cart, drive to bar | McIlroy: I can’t be Tiger Johnston is currently tied at 106th with a score of 4-over-par after the first round.

With exit polls trickling in that suggest Trump’s support among white evangelicals slipped around 5 percentage points nationwide to 76 percent, and more in a few battleground states, the coordinated effort among this group that makes up roughly one-fifth of the electorate might have ensured victory for Joe Biden. The billboards—part of a campaign dubbed, “His Words Matter”—were courtesy of Vote Common Good, which spent $2.5 million to defeat Trump, and teamed with other organizations such as Faith 2020, Catholics for Biden, and The New Moral Majority....

The Dutchman has guided Everton to within one step of the group stage following their 2-0 aggregate victory over Ruzomberok in the third qualifying round. Get Everton’s Premier League odds Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored the only goal of the second leg on Thursday to go with Leighton Baines’ winner at Goodison Park last week. Everton have spent heavily over the off-season and Koeman, who was most recently dumped out at the play-off round while with Southampton two seasons ago, is keen to see that investment rewarded with a European run....

Larry David’s curmudgeonly character is back for Season 11 of his sitcom which has now been on the air for over 20 years. Some of Season 11’s guest stars are making their debut on the show while others are returning as “themselves” or as characters we’ve seen on the show before. Richard Lewis, who is returning, confirmed on Twitter the names of all the actors set to star in the new season....

If you’re not a fan, a) you’re reading the wrong article and b) what’s wrong with you? Because we’re about to go hard on how Turkey Day played a critical part in the original Gossip Girl series (which makes sense because it’s an excuse to get everyone in the same room as each other). In fact, it was on this auspicious occasion that “Lonely Boy” Dan Humphrey first spoke to (a rather drunk) Serena van der Woodsen—that is until the finale conveniently tacked on a flashback to one of Blair’s parties to make sense of Dan being Gossip Girl....

This year was the eighth consecutive year with fewer than 30 executions, according to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center. However, 2022 saw a record number of “botched” and failed executions, the report said, with seven of the 20 attempts to put inmates to death being visibly problematic. Once again, executions were concentrated in the South. Texas and Oklahoma each executed five inmates, while Alabama put two inmates to death and Mississippi executed one....

Saddam’s future begs the larger question of how we confront a world of hundreds of Saddam wanna-bes, each with his own arsenal. ““Unlike the relative calm of superpower rivalries, you don’t have the constraints you used to,’’ says Jerrold Post of George Washington University. ““Weapons of mass destruction become the great equalizers’’ in power relationships. Think of it this way: big, strong countries with the heft of the United States are like mainframe computers....

Alexander Beglov, governor of St. Petersburg, confirmed the death of Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of Russia’s 8th Guards Combined Arms Army on Saturday. Frolov was given a military funeral in St. Petersburg’s Serafimovskoe Cemetery on Saturday. “Today we say goodbye to a real hero. Vladimir Petrovich Frolov died a heroic death in battle with Ukrainian nationalists,” Beglov said in a statement, according to Russia’s state news service TASS. “He sacrificed his life so that children, women and the elderly in the Donbas would no longer hear bomb explosions,” he said....

It’s been one week since the actor stormed the stage at the Academy Awards and slapped Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. The incident sent shockwaves throughout Hollywood and has enthralled pop culture enthusiasts over the past seven days. Newsweek has all the times the notorious Will Smith slap was mentioned at the Grammys. Trevor Noah Trevor Noah hosted the 64th Grammy Awards, held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and opened the show with a somewhat tactful jibe about the incident....

Along with Lincoln Logs and chemistry sets, Classics Illustrated was part of that goofy but well-intentioned trend in the mid-20th century that sought both to educate and entertain America’s youth. Each issue contained a retelling of a well-known novel, supplied facts about the author and also included—I am not making this up—a biography of a scientist or inventor and the stirring tale of a brave dog. There were also issues on science and history and fairy tales....

This is what is called a control fantasy. The country that once thought itself so different from the world, the city that once thought itself so different from the country, both are reduced to this: omnipotence dreams, endless what-ifs, sudden unaccountable outbursts of tears or temper and guilt about anything approaching self-interest or pleasure. “Is it too soon to laugh?” asks an AOL online poll. “Is everyone all right in your household?...

Though DiMaggio interacted with fans on social media saying they would miss him from the show, he did not make a full statement about the reboot when the news first broke. One week later, on February 17, DiMaggio took to Twitter to make his statement about why he was not coming back to Futurama. Here is what that statement said, and what the voice actor had previously said about what he has been calling “Bendergate....

The right-wing host was talking about the recent firing of veteran NBA photographer Bill Baptist, who shared a meme on Facebook about the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee under Joe Biden. The image was of a mock campaign slogan reading: “Joe and the hoe.” According to a transcript of his August 14 show, Limbaugh said: “[He] posted an image that read ‘Joe and the Hoe,’ h-o-e. Now, what do you think that’s about, Joe and the Hoe?...

Season 4 saw three of the show’s gay characters—Ander (played by Arón Piper), Omar (Omar Ayuso), and new boy Patrick (Manu Ríos)—engage in numerous threesomes, and it marked the series’ first lesbian sex scene between Rebe (Claudia Salas) and Mencía (Martina Cariddi). The cast of Elite are all in their early 20s but in the show, they play teenagers in their final years at an exclusive Spanish High School called Las Encinas....

The group has been drip-feeding fans with hints about the new Monsta X song “One Day” this week, including a music video teaser on September 9. “One Day” marks the band’s latest all English track following various singles released from their previous all English album All About Luv from 2020. Here we look at everything we know so far about the band’s upcoming new music. New Monsta X Song Lyrics In a September 8 post on Twitter, Monsta X shared an image bearing the Monsta X logo and the words: “Wish I could have made you love me”....