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2025 FIFA Club World Cup: draw revealed for revamped competition
MyFootballFacts > Articles By Martin Graham | 6th Dec 2024 The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is taking shape after the tournament draw was finalized, bringing renewed attention to the long-awaited reformatted competition. Initially scheduled to debut in China in 2021, the expanded format was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it now promises an
World of Warcraft dev on 20 years of the first mainstream MMO and building a community
The Warcraft franchise is celebrating an astonishing 30 years, and its most famous export, World of Warcraft, has been flying the flag for MMORPGs in the mainstream for 20 years, too. As part of the celebrations, the team at Blizzard has a whole slew of announcements across the core strategy franchise, WoW, Hearthstone and Warcraft
World of Warcraft dev confirms new feature that has been requested by fans for 10 years
In case you missed it, Blizzard is throwing a party. The Warcraft developer is celebrating thirty years of its biggest franchise, with twenty years of World of Warcraft and a decade of Hearthstone rolled into the celebrations, too, as well as a year of Warcraft Rumble on mobile. Fresh off of its Warcraft Direct event
FIFA sets Dec 5 as date for inaugural FIFA Club World Cup
The world’s best football clubs will discover their group stage opponents for the inaugural 32-club FIFA Club World Cup at the draw on December 5 in Miami.The draw will kick off at 1800 GMT to determine the eight groups of four teams who will compete in the tournament in the United States from June 15
Voting Open for 2024 World Athlete of the Year: Support Kenyan Stars!
Three Kenyan athletes have earned nominations for the 2024 World Athlete of the Year awards. In the women’s category, Beatrice Chebet, the double Olympic champion and world 10,000m record holder, and Faith Kipyegon, the three-time Olympic 1,500m champion, made the shortlist.They compete against Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred from Saint Lucia, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone from the
The world was his theatre
Commentary marinasb 2 Days Ago - THE life of Sir Shridath Ramphal, GCMG, AC, ONZ, OE, OCC, NIIV, OM, KC, FRSA, who gently passed away on August 30, aged 95, in Barbados, cannot go unremarked by this column. His was an extraordinary public life by anyone’s account. In 1990, Nelson Mandela said this of him
About one-third of the global population, around 3 billion people, don’t have access to the internet or have poor connections because of infrastructure limitations, economic disparities, and geographic isolation.Today’s satellites and ground-based networks leave communications gaps where, because of geography, setting up traditional ground-based communications equipment would be too expensive.High-altitude platform stations – telecommunications equipment
World Champion Anne Haug reveals how an Age Grouper and salty pretzels SAVED her brutal first Ironman triathlon
Anne Haug is one of the greatest ever long-course triathletes – quite simply an incredible talent. But she, like many others, started the hard way when it comes to racing over the Ironman distance. The brilliant 41-year-old German has won pretty much every prize the sport has to offer – topped of course by that
UN says world population to peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s
Published July 13, 2024 1:24am NEW YORK - Earth's population will peak in the mid-2080s at around 10.3 billion people, then drop slightly to a level much lower than anticipated a decade ago, the United Nations said.The current population of 8.2 billion people will rise to that maximum over the next 60 years, then dip
Hong Kong’s New World Secures New Loans, Pays Down Debt in $4.5B Liquidity Boost
New World Development sold the D-Park Mall in Hong Kong’s Tsuen Wan area to Chinachem Group in March New World Development has completed HK$35 billion ($4.5 billion) worth of new loan arrangements and debt repayments since January, as the Hong Kong-based developer continues to reduce its leverage. HKEX-listed New World has maintained an average interest