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...Qatar has invested billions of dollars in sport over the past two decades to project its image on the global stage, and last year it successfully hosted the Arab world’s first football World Cup....
...Fusion reactions emit no carbon, produce no long-lived radioactive waste and a small cup of the hydrogen fuel could theoretically power a house for hundreds of years....
...the 1994 World Cup, and Beckham’s own stint as a player in 2007....
...In an early episode of the comedy series Seinfeld a character sued a coffee chain after he shoved a cup inside his shirt to sneak it into a cinema and burnt himself....
...With big fees and big influence, Raine has quickly established itself as one of the sporting world’s most prominent rainmakers....
...He also adroitly shifts towards a plaintive, self-pitying and ultimately doom-laden register as the President sinks ever further into his cups....
...The NIF uses a different process, called inertial confinement, in which it fires the world’s largest laser at a tiny capsule of the fuel triggering an implosion....
...March 21 to 24; further information and tickets here Festivals Melbourne International Comedy Festival One of the globe’s biggest comedy festivals takes over Melbourne, as comedians from around the world...
...Financial and athletic interest in football in North America has been stoked by the next men’s World Cup, which will be hosted across the continent in 2026....
...Leafs’ fans will be pinning their hopes on a playoff appearance for their team that hasn’t won the Stanley Cup, ice hockey’s biggest prize, since 1967....
..., Surrealism set out to change how we perceive the world....
...Smart reads After the final whistle Qatar is seeking to build on its momentum from hosting the World Cup and diversify beyond oil while jostling with its Gulf neighbours for foreign investors, this FT Big...
...It forced us to regress, or progress, to a pre-internet world....
...“It feels like we’ve won the World Cup of content and [the show] is a great harmony of local and international success....
...Cup last year, and even the “Coldplay dollar”, a special exchange rate for paying foreign entertainers that made a name for itself when the band had a string of sellout concerts last year....
...Both teams made the playoffs last year — but are yet to win the Stanley Cup, hockey’s biggest prize, this century. Further information and tickets here and here....
...That’s Itch, which will be Opera Holland Park’s first ever world premiere on its main stage this month....
..., Ascot, Berkshire Jockeys from around the world compete for this prestigious team prize....
...May 16; further information and tickets here Sport Men’s and Women’s FA Cup Finals, Wembley Stadium The zeniths of one of the world’s most prestigious domestic football tournaments....
...Kevin Lygo, ITV’s managing director of media and entertainment, said the broadcaster had a “fantastic” year coming up, with ITV claiming exclusive UK broadcast rights to the Rugby World Cup, a new season...
...Those precautions meant the new platform was not fully rolled out for the group stages of the World Cup, although it will be in time for England’s quarter-final showdown with France on Saturday night....
...Narrators Peter Caulfield and Cara Horgan, who take us through the decades between then and now via a series of critical national moments such as the Queen’s coronation, the 1966 World Cup final and the...
...World Cup The knock out stages of the Qatar World Cup continue today, with Japan taking on Croatia in the early kick off and Brazil playing South Korea later....
...First of all, because like, “Just say yes” is totally like a Nancy Meyers movie, like waiting to happen, like romantic comedy....
...Cup in Qatar....
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