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BVB 5/4 to score U1.5 goals v Stuttgart Dortmund announced on Thursday that the Gabon international had been omitted from Peter Bosz’s selection for the Bundesliga clash at the Mercedes-Benz Arena for “disciplinary reasons”. No further clarification was provided by the club, with some reports suggesting the 28-year-old had been reprimanded for repeatedly turning up late for training sessions, while others implied a trip to Barcelona during the international break had angered Dortmund officials....

The 37-year-old has said producers wouldn’t let her go home until they had filmed an altercation between her and Cavallari, even though she and Brescia were no longer romantically involved and she had moved on with someone else. Patridge opens up about her experiences on the MTV show, which ran from 2006 to 2010, in her new memoir, Choices: To the Hills and Back Again. “It’s funny to think about how that could only happen before social media,” she wrote about the famous fight, per People....

That was the day when Charlie Hough’s knuckleball dipped and dived enough to allow Petralli to tie a dubious record — six passed balls in one game. MORE: 10 single-season MLB feats we’ll never see again Here’s the breakdown of those passed balls: — First inning, leading Lou Whitaker to score on a groundout; — Third inning, allowing a Whitaker to score from third; — Fifth inning, allowing Whitaker to reach first base on a strikeout;...

Will he make it? Hayne is one of the most gifted athletes we’ve seen in any code in Australia. If anyone can do it, he can. But you’d have to say the odds are stacked heavily against him. He’s never played American football and is just a few months shy of his 27th birthday. He will be up against players who have played the game their entire lives and eat and breathe it....

Pro-abortion advocates celebrated the move by Austin’s city council as members voted to allocate $150,000 to funding logistical support for abortion care as part of a municipal budget package on Tuesday. “We are proud to have won this victory with both our local community and our city leaders to fund practical support for abortion in Austin,” said Amanda B. Williams, the executive director of the Lilith Fund, which helps women cover the costs of abortion access....

“Scott Morrison and his government are completely out of step both with the international community and the Australian community. Virtually every climate attitude survey of the past few years has put the concern at well over 50 percent,” said Lesley Hughes, pro vice-chancellor and distinguished professor of biology at Sydney’s Macquarie University. She was one of the founders of the Climate Council of Australia in 2013. “Climate change isn’t only an environmental issue, it’s a social, economic and health issue as well....

"A reason why I signed with the agent I'm with is he has Kobe Bryant, and he's been through this when he came into the NBA," Exum told The Canberra Times in Australia. "I guess having him as a mentor who can guide me through what he did and how he became successful is something which is pretty good. I haven't chatted to him yet, but the agent said Kobe knows who I am and he said he'd definitely have a chat to me....

“In a world of perpetual tension and dread, the drums of war beat—sometimes faintly and distantly, and at other times more loudly and ever closer,” Department of Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo said in a message to staff that was shared with Australian media on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. “Today, as free nations again hear the beating drums and watch worryingly the militarisation of issues that we had, until recent years, thought unlikely to be catalysts for war, let us continue to search unceasingly for the chance for peace while bracing again, yet again, for the curse of war,” Pezzullo added....

So to combat the soaring temperatures, the 17-time Grand Slam champion is doing her best to stay indoors, rolling through her matches as quick as possible. On Wednesday, the American beat No. 104-ranked Vesna Dolonc 6-1, 6-2 and equaled an Open era record held by tennis great Margaret Court with her 60th match win at the Australian Open. MORE: Novak Djokovic among Wednesday winners | Maria Sharapova, Rafael Nadal up Thursday...

And while Novak Djokovic meets an unseeded player, attention in the men’s draw will be on a clash between David Ferrer and Kei Nishikori. Most pretenders have been eliminated, and now the world’s best tennis players meet equally qualified opponents as Aussie heads toward championship play. Matches starts at 7 p.m. ET. Watch this one on the women’s side: 11th seed Dominika Cibulkova stands in the way of resurgent Victoria Azarenka, who shows she once again is capable of title contention....

The Spaniard is yet to drop a set in Melbourne this year, after breezing through the first two rounds. Nadal dispatched 76th-ranked Federico Delbonis of Argentina in the second round on Thursday, winning 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-1. The Spaniard was made to work hard in the second set but kept his bid for a first Australian Open triumph since 2009 alive and will now face fellow Spaniard and 27th seed Pablo Carreno Busta in the third round....

Kyrgios in particular became embroiled in one of the lowest acts of the year. His insults directed at Stan Wawrinka in an August tournament led to sanctions from the men’s tennis governing body. MORE: The bad boys of tennis | Australian Open 2015 | Funny faces | Adorable animals Bernard Tomic, left, and Nick Kyrgios (Getty Images) Similarly young, talented and unable to control his actions, Tomic ran afoul of Tennis Australia that resulted in his arrest in Florida and banishment from a Davis Cup competition....

Instead of manually raking a Zen garden of rocks or sand, Drift does the work automatically. The passive wellness device connects to a mobile device over Bluetooth and can download different patterns. Using it feels like being able to print a design in sand. I was first exposed to the idea of a kinetic sand table through a “Dope Tech” video from YouTuber MKBHD. He had a large and very expensive version....

The latest addition to the theme park in Anaheim, California, features Avengers-inspired rides and experiences that allow guests to encounter their favorite heroes and see them spring into action. Disney California Adventure Park’s new Avengers Campus can be found between Cars Land and Hollywood Land. Its new rides, experiences, restaurants and retail spaces have been built around another Marvel ride, The Guardians of the Galaxy—Mission: BREAKOUT, which opened in 2017....

Here we look at seven states that reported the highest average daily cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days, according to the latest report Monday from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Case data below is from JHU and the CDC, while the population data is from the U.S. Census Bureau. Average case counts reflect a seven-day average of cases. Rhode Island Average daily cases per 100,000 in last 7 days: 117....

Singer-songwriter Presley—the only child of rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis Presley—passed away aged 54 on January 12 after being hospitalized earlier in the day. According to The Associated Press, paramedics were dispatched to a Calabasas, California, residence that morning following a report of a woman “in full cardiac arrest.” She was taken to a local hospital, where she later passed away. She had two children with her ex-husband Danny Keough—actress Riley Keough, 33, and Benjamin Keough....

This imperative is front and center as we approach another Election Day here in Virginia and across the country. Over the course of our 400-year history, we have seen a greater number of individuals access this fundamental right, advancing our nation further and further toward the ideal set forth by our founders. Yet, in recent years, much has been made of the apparent fragility of American representative democracy. Pundits and armchair commentators of all political persuasions complain about notoriously low voter turnout, decrying large segments of the voting public as apathetic, uninformed or even illegitimate....

Unfortunately for this appealing idea, “There is no evidence that these foods contain toxins in amounts that would cause birth defects,” says Dr. Richard Johnston of the March of Dimes. So why is there morning sickness? Hormonal changes alter blood vessels from the nose to the gastrointestinal tract, making women sensitive to smells and subject to nausea. “It seems plausible that food aversions are side effects of these hormone changes,” says Johnston....

The Southern hairy nose wombat named Summa came to the TwoSongsSanctuary in South Australia with her three siblings after her mother was killed. She weighed only 31 ounces when she was rescued, the sanctuary said on its Facebook page. Linda Davies, of the TwoSongsSanctuary, told Newsweek: “Wombat joeys seem to have the world against them. Farmers destroy wombats as they believe they are a pest and do not want to share the land with the indigenous species....

The Roosevelt may not attract as much attention as its glitzier neighbors, but it should. The very first Academy Awards (then called “Merit Awards”) were handed out in the hotel’s ballroom in 1929. Presiding over the western-most end of Hollywood Boulevard, the hotel is a melange of architectural styles that only Hollywood could provide. It’s golden-hued stucco exterior is adorned with fleur-de-lis, imposing Grecian urns and a red Spanish tile roof....