Enterprise celebrates after winning the 2A girls softball finals at Spanish Fork Sports Park in Spanish Fork on May 13, 2023. | Ryan Sun, Deseret News Enterprise is in the middle of a dynastic run in 2A, and junior pitcher Blakely Christiansen has been a part of it from the beginning. Christiansen pitched just a … [Read more…]
McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is looking up on the leaderboard at the AT&T Byron Nelson at a couple of contemporaries without nearly the resume the Dallas resident has built over the past 15 months. In fact, Austin Eckroat and China’s Marty Dou are seeking a first PGA Tour victory. The Oklahoma-raised Eckroat shot … [Read more…]
The looming US debt crisis cast a shadow over the meeting of G7 finance leaders in Japan. (AP PHOTO) Finance leaders from the Group of Seven nations have warned of heightening global economic uncertainty, as they wrapped up a three-day meeting overshadowed by a US debt ceiling stalemate and fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. … [Read more…]
Thailand has about 52 million eligible voters, including 3.3 million aged 18 to 22. (AP PHOTO) On the back of open-top trucks and cars, candidates of Thailand’s political parties have driven through Bangkok as a months-long campaign that could usher in a new government for the first time in almost a decade draws to a … [Read more…]
When Sarah King watched the flood waters inundating her home in northern NSW, she summoned the spirit of her ancestors sold into slavery to steel herself. The actor and radio presenter fled the civil war in Sierra Leone in 1997 for neighbouring Guinea, before coming to Australia 15 years ago. The floods in the Northern … [Read more…]
US space agency NASA has successfully launched a super pressure scientific balloon from New Zealand, completing a 15-year goal. The football-stadium-sized, heavy-lift super pressure balloon lifted off from Wanaka Airport, in the country’s South Island, on Saturday on a mission aimed for 100 days or more of flight in the earth’s upper atmosphere, NASA said … [Read more…]
A US company could be heading for a legal battle with car safety regulators after refusing a request that millions of potentially dangerous air bag inflators be recalled. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NGTSA) is demanding that ARC Automotive recall 67 million inflators in the US because they could explode and hurl shrapnel. At … [Read more…]
VACCINATIONS: UFS Chemist pharmacist Dale Salmon gives his wife Sarah Salmon her influenza vaccination. Charlotte Varcoe AS the winter weather comes into play, pharmacists from around Mount Gambier/Berrin are reminding the public to remain up to date with their flu vaccinations. Vaccinations against the influenza are available to all leading into the colder months with … [Read more…]
Cyclone Mocha is forecast to impact more than a million refugees in Bangladesh and Myanmar. (EPA PHOTO) A powerful storm packing winds of up to 175km/h is barrelling towards the coasts of eastern Bangladesh and Myanmar, threatening about a million Rohingya refugees and others living in low-lying areas. Thousands of people in both countries have … [Read more…]
Germany has announced 2.7 billion euro ($A4.5 billion) of military aid to Ukraine, its biggest such package yet since Russia’s invasion, and pledged further support for Kyiv for as long as necessary. The package will include 30 Leopard 1 tanks, 15 Gepard anti-aircraft tanks, more than 200 reconnaissance drones and four Iris-T anti-aircraft systems, according … [Read more…]