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A pandemic with this impact was not only predictable, it was predicted. Last September, an expert group called the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board—of which I’m a member—warned that the world was at acute risk and desperately unprepared. One of the gravest threats we highlighted was a fast-moving pandemic caused by a lethal respiratory pathogen. We called for immediate, forceful and coordinated action. The response was non-existent. As a result, today’s challenge is not to prepare for a pandemic (though that must still happen)....

Chelsea opened the scoring against City on Saturday, but the defending champions - who are nine points shy of current leaders Liverpool - came back to win 2-1. The defeat ends a six-match winning run for fourth-placed Chelsea in the league, though Lampard has no doubt his side demonstrated they have enough quality to challenge the leading teams in the competition. “Some big parts were good, some bits we can improve on....

Pahang skipper Matthew Davies is fully aware of the challenge that Selangor may provide them, ahead of their Super League match at the Selayang Municipal Stadium on Wednesday. When interviewed by Goal, the defender jokingly grumbled about the timing of the encounter; right after Selangor’s former golden boy Amri Yahyah and Indonesia star Andik Vermansah’s return to the squad last week. “We’re the ’lucky’ team that get to take on Selangor when Andik and Amri are back!...

The Inter loanee opened his Ligue 1 account in Saturday’s clash as the reigning champions moved five points clear at the top of the table. Pablo Sarabia gave PSG the lead after 13 minutes before Icardi scored his second goal in as many games with a first-time finish, while Idrissa Gueye and Neymar were also on target in the second half. PSG have now won eight of their past nine matches in all competitions and Icardi, who was also on target in the midweek 1-0 Champions League victory at Galatasaray, feels he is gaining confidence....

Nottingham, Aug 19 (PTI) Assistant coach Sanjay Bangar says India’s batsmen are under tremendous pressure and “playing for their careers” after their horror run in the first two Tests against England resulted in embarrassing defeats. World number one India trail the five-match series 0-2, but put up a solid batting display on the first day of the third game to 307 for six at stumps. “…The players themselves are under tremendous pressure - they are playing for their careers....

Earlier today, amateur sleuths on popular gaming forum NeoGAF spotted some strange inconsistencies with the Nintendo Direct page on the company’s Japanese website. A placeholder image for an upcoming livestream was briefly added to the site, before being replaced by a blank space. Sharp-eyed fans noticed a similar occurrence last month, just ahead of Nintendo’s most recent broadcast. While this is far from official confirmation that a Nintendo Direct is inbound, it certainly seems like the company’s web team has been making preemptive edits, which suggests that the livestream will take place within the next couple of weeks....

Maybe the most notable shift among relevant names comes for 36-year old Robbie Gould, who moves into playable territory with the 49ers traveling to Tampa Bay to take on a horrible Buccaneers defense. Gould’s not worth dropping one of the top few names for, but if you drafted someone a borderline guy such as Brett Maher or Mason Crosby, dropping them to start Gould this week could work out in your favor....

Devin Singletary and Damien Williams both had breakouts of their own sort Sunday and deserve extra PPR consideration. Singletary had seemed like a PPR-only back, but 20 carries Sunday threw that out the window. He should start in every format in Week 10 against the Browns. Williams, too, was, at best, a PPR-only back the past few weeks, but it appears he’s again leapfrogged LeSean McCoy and should start in basically every format this week in Tennessee....

This week, there are six teams on bye, and while that would normally be considered a loaded week, some of the worse offenses in the league are off. The Bills, Jets, Dolphins, and 49ers (along with the Browns and Patriots) all are idle, and they don’t have a lot of quality fantasy contributors – especially at the receiver position. That gives the FLEX rankings this week a bit more depth than you would think, and while guys like Nick Chubb, Sony Michel, George Kittle, and others are out, there is plenty of depth to go around in all fantasy formats....

Tamanui Uerata and two friends came into contact with the whale this past Friday after setting off in their boat from Kaiteriteri, a coastal town on New Zealand’s South Island. The trio had anchored in Tasman Bay just off the coast and were hoping to catch some kingfish—a large fish found in the Antarctic Ocean—not realizing that they would be in for a big surprise. At one point, the group heard a big splash behind the boat, which they initially thought might have been caused by a kingfish....

In the viral TikTok video, which can be seen here, Lola the doodle jumps high out of her harness multiple times. “She knows that it makes us laugh,” Lola’s owner told Newsweek. “She’s full of personality and always loves to be the center of attention. When she’s not being a goofball, she loves to cuddle up and lounge,” they added. Lola’s owner revealed that the pup is 20 months old, and that she’s been practicing her impressive jump for quite a bit of while....

And goal-line stands like the one the Spartans had during the second quarter Saturday night against Oregon. MORE: Top 25 updates | Top player performances | Week 2 photos On fourth down from the 2, Vernon Adams handed to Royce Freeman, who was stuffed as he tried to barrel into the end zone. The stop kept Michigan State’s lead at 14-7 midway through the second quarter.

Video shows agents of the Maritime Service of the Spanish Civil Guard chasing the suspected drug dealers, who are seen chucking their cargo in an area between Ayamonte and Isla Cristina, near Huelva on the southwestern coast of Spain. The agents initially saw two people in a 39-foot boat equipped with three engines, Spanish police said in a report posted online. “Given the possibility of a drug transshipment on the high seas, the agents decided to make a direct approach to the suspects,” police said....

[HTML2] There are now less than two weeks until The Taken King is unleashed on Destiny players, and Bungie is doing everything possible to promote the biggest drop of new content yet for its ambitious online shooter. Later today, the studio will give fans an in-depth look at a brand new game mode. We already know that the new location of the Dreadnaught will be core to many of the activities on offer in The Taken King....

The trailer begins with a little background, showing fans a glimpse of how it all began. Krasinski’s Lee Abbott is seen picking up oranges from a grocery store, before the world changes completely. Most of the footage is what fans have already seen before, but the trailer does offer a few new scenes of the terrifying extraterrestrial creatures. Along with the trailer, Paramount also dropped a clip of Krasinski and Emily Blunt expressing their excitement over their film’s release and refer to it as “much bigger and scarier” than the first....

Yet there’s so much more to The Game Awards than just the awards. One might even say that the awards themselves are not the primary cause to tune in for the show. 10 premieres await viewers, including new looks and announcements from previously announced games and reveals for previously unannounced games as well. Some of these premieres have already been teased, some have been implied based off of The Game Awards presenters, while others yet are rumored just based on previous years’ reveals....

Netflix is planning to release the Fear Street trilogy consecutively throughout the month of July. The trilogy itself takes place in a haunted town that will be revisited throughout decades of stillness in between. The trailer shows clips of the teenagers flipping through old newspaper headlines and digging up the bones of the past. Plus, the preview embodies some of Stine’s influential horror style. RELATED: Can Horror TV Shows Be As Scary As Horror Movies?...

Buaban’s good fortune is no anomaly. While international news reports offer a grim litany of famine, genocide and chaos, much of the world is experiencing a far more positive development. For the first time since the reconstruction following World War II, a truly global economic expansion is underway. Not everyone is prospering: unemployment remains a major problem in Europe, Japan and Latin America, and breathtakingly fast changes leave workers temporarily displaced almost everywhere....