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“To design this doll, we worked with a dermatologist to ensure vitiligo was accurately represented.” The dolls are part of the Barbie Fashionistas lineup, which features 176 dolls with nine body types, 35 skin tones and 94 hairstyles, according to its website. The six new designs focus on inclusivity. Vitiligo is a skin condition that causes patches of skin to lose their pigment. Celebrities such as Jon Hamm, Steve Martin, model Winnie Harlow and “Thong Song” singer Sisqo all have versions of the condition....

Goal revealed on Thursday that the 20-year-old attacker was on his way to Camp Nou on a five-year contract after the sides reached an agreement. Barca 7/5 to win La Liga Barca have confirmed a €105m initial fee for Dembele, with Dortmund to receive a further €42m in bonuses. The forward’s release clause has been set at €400m. The €222m received from Paris Saint-Germain for Neymar sparked the Liga side’s pursuit of Dembele and Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho in the close season, but they saw bids for each rejected....

Vidal completed the scoring in Barca’s dominant 3-0 win over Real Madrid last weekend but the defender has only started three La Liga games under Ernesto Valverde this season. The 28-year-old is reported to be on Roma’s radar and his representative Ruggero Lacerenza would welcome a reunion with former Sevilla director of football Monchi at the Stadio Olimpico. “It is true, there is interest from Roma,” Lacerenza told Tele Radio Stereo....

Al Hain-Cole Although many will find it hard to look past last season’s runaway champions retaining their title, Chelsea’s failure to truly strengthen its squad in the transfer market may yet leave the door open for the chasing pack. Last season’s disappointing spell at Manchester United suggests that Radamel Falcao is unlikely to represent an improvement on Didier Drogba as backup for the increasingly injury prone Diego Costa, while Asmir Begovic is hardly a step up from Petr Cech....

Karate, skateboarding, sports climbing and surfing will also be included. Baseball and softball are considered one sport with separate men’s and women’s competitions by the IOC. “We want to take sport to the youth," IOC President Thomas Bach said in a release. “With the many options that young people have, we cannot expect any more that they will come automatically to us. We have to go to them. MORE: 2020 Team USA baseball dream team | Olympic athletes to watch in Rio...

Let’s just jump in: Here are the six players I voted for, in alphabetical order by last name: Bobby Abreu, Carlos Beltran, Mark Buehrle, Manny Ramirez, Scott Rolen and Gary Sheffield. MORE: Why Fred McGriff could have Hall of Fame stage all to himself in 2023 For the players who are ballot hold-overs — the ones I did and did not vote for — you’ll see a lot of similar thoughts from previous columns, which are here: for the class of 2022, for the class of 2021, for the class of 2020, for the class of 2019, for the class of 2018 and for the class of 2017....

The problem with pitchers and catchers reporting is that it's a beacon of false hope that we look to throughout the winter, promising us beautiful spring. Then it arrives, and, nothing. "How many days until pitchers and catchers? I can't wait for spring!" "None, they've reported." "But it's still snowing. Do I get to at least watch some baseball on TV." "Nope! There aren't any games until the last week of February....

The power of this unheralded group of gubernatorial appointees who write the state’s air regs–they include schoolteachers, doctors and lawyers–will become apparent again in a few weeks. That’s when the Environmental Protection Agency will propose new regulations that affect automobiles beginning in 2004. They’ll require carmakers to build cleaner sport utility vehicles, restrict the use of diesel engines and mandate cleaner gasoline–all steps CARB has already taken. In lobbying circles, that’s creating more talk of the EPA’s playing second fiddle as California’s regulations become a de facto national standard....

Facing Brewers pitcher Wily Peralta in the bottom of the second inning on Monday, Realmuto blasted a shot off the decorative sculpture beyond the left-center field wall at Marlins Park. MORE: Every team’s worst regular-season memory Marlins center fielder Marcell Ozuna was on first, but waited to see if the ball would be caught by Brewers center fielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis. As Ozuna was headed back to first to tag up, Realmuto briefly passed him on the bases....

No preseason event can be complete without some sort of dunk exhibition. While Purdue didn't have a formal dunk contest, freshman Basil Smotherman still showed out with a nasty posterization on Sterling Carter during their intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday morning. MORE: Preseason All-Americans | All-Name Teams Basil Smotherman: Great name, amazing dunk. 

But wildlife advocates are now doing battle with a surprising adversary: Native Americans. Northern Cheyenne and other regional tribes use bison for food, clothing and ritual-much as they did a century ago when millions of bison blanketed the Great Plains. “We believe the buffalo was put here for our purposes,” says Fort Peck tribal chairman Cabel Shields. The Fund for Animals, a group trying to save the buffalo, says it intends no slight to Native Americans....

The reigning German champions dropped to second spot in the Bundesliga table last week following their defeat at the hands of Borussia Dortmund, while they will have to settle for second place in Champions League Group D as well after a loss at Rostov. ‘Rooney wants to retire at United’ Nevertheless, Rummenigge is adamant Bayern are still 100 per cent behind the 57-year-old Italian. “Carlo is the only coach around who has won the Champions League three times,” Rummenigge said....

The Bavarians were already coasting two goals ahead when the incredible mix-up occurred in the final minutes of the Bundesliga clash. The situation caused a significant delay as the two sides met with the officiating staff to sort out the issue. Bayern played for a number of seconds with an additional player on the pitch before the error was noticed and corrected. That numerical irregularity was eventually resolved, and Bayern would go on to nine points clear at the top of the table, while Freiburg remains three points back of the final Champions League place....

Bayern re-established themselves as Bundesliga leaders in pursuit of a fifth straight league title with five consecutive victories heading into the mid-season break - a run that concluded with a dominant 3-0 triumph over second-place RB Leipzig. Ancelotti: Muller still key figure Muller was an unused substitute for that game and the Germany forward has endured an unusually fallow season in front of goal, with a solitary Bundesliga strike to his name and four in 22 club appearances across all competitions....

Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez? Click here to see the countdown of the 50 best players in the world in the 2016 Goal 50 The attacker suffered a minor muscular problem in Netherlands’ 3-1 World Cup qualification win over Luxembourg on Sunday and was taken off at halftime as a precautionary measure. Robben attempted to allay fears of a long layoff after the match and Bayern has now confirmed that there is no reason for concern....

MAIN EVENT: Oklahoma State at Baylor If Baylor wants to take the next step in the rise to national prominence, then this is the must-win game. That might seem like a bold statement, but the Bears are 5-7 against Oklahoma and Texas under Art Briles. The Bears, however, are just 1-5 against Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State, and that includes last season’s 49-17 loss at Stillwater, which occurred after Baylor climbed to No....

The long-reigning monarch died at the age of 96 on Thursday, September 8, 2022, and worldwide tributes have been pouring in since then. However, while people have discussed the Queen’s legacy, her relationship with Africa has been highlighted but the way in which it has been reported isn’t sitting well with many across social media. The African arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is being dragged for a video tribute while E!...

Starters sat out Chicago’s 25-10 loss to Cleveland on Thursday night, and backups got all the snaps. While the fourth preseason game was crucial to the development of young players like Mitchell Trubisky and Adam Shaheen, it was especially critical for players who are even lower on the depth chart, fighting for their NFL lives. Whether it’s landing those final roster spots, getting on the 10-man practice squad or putting something on film to get a job with another team, these games prove the preseason isn’t completely meaningless....