Legendary former West Indies all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers, considered one of the greatest cricketers of all time, has died aged 89. The Sobers played 93 Tests between 1954 and 1974, scoring 8,032 runs and taking 235 wickets. An entertaining left-handed batsman, Sobers scored 365 not out against Pakistan in 1958, an effort that stood as
People wear masks in Chicago on Thursday to protect themselves from smoke from the Canadian wildfires. City officials are encouraging people to stay indoors as data shows Chicago has some of the worst air quality of any major city in the world. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide title toggle title Scott Olson/Getty Images One version of
Vee Shi’s first feature film “Time and Tide” has found an international sales home at Inwave Films, the Paris-based team revealed. The hybrid non-fiction film, which had its world premiere in competition in Visions du Réel’s Burning Lights section earlier this year, will be presented to buyers as the company continues to build its documentary
Michigan is the hot spot for an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an infection caused by a parasite that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea. The infection has been reported in 45 states since May 1, according to state health department data. According to Georgetown’s Health Security Operations Center, which tracks data at both the state and
Some Amazon cloud customers woke up Friday to a surprise bill estimate that said they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used. Amazon confirmed Friday that it is trying to resolve an error in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) billing portal that showed some customers were owed millions or billions in
JD Vance was “blown away” by Caernarfon Castle during a visit with his wife to North Wales, the US vice-president has revealed in a new book about his faith. “It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen and it’s not particularly close,” Vance writes of his 2013 visit to the 13th-century castle, a UNESCO World Heritage
