Recently, the news of Threads’ daily active users (DAUs) number inching closer to its rival, X‘s(formerly Twitter) number, made headlines. The app reportedly saw 115.1 million DAUs on Android and iOS combined. Meanwhile, X witnessed a 15.2 percent year-on-year (YoY) decline in its DAUs growth, bringing the number to 132 million. As Threads gains popularity,…
Ghanaian goalkeeper Cynthia Konlan rose to the occasion as the Black Queens beat Algeria 4-2 on penalties to reach the final of the 2024 Women’s African Cup of Nations in Morocco on Saturday. Konlan, who plays for Saudi Premier League side Al Hilal, saved attempts from Marine Dafeur and Ines Belloumou before Evelyn Badu converted…
Ronth is a Malayalam police thriller drama which has been written and directed by Shahi Kabir. The movie revolves around two police officers who have been assigned to the night patrol, where they have to face their hidden fears. While one is a senior police officer, the other is young, full of zeal. However, they…
Inter Miami needs to regroup fast, and the host New York Red Bulls want to keep rolling as they square off in Harrison, New Jersey, on Saturday night. Miami (11-4-5, 38 points) is coming off a lopsided 0-3 loss at Cincinnati on Wednesday, which snapped a five-game winning streak and six-game unbeaten stretch in league…
A meteorite impact in northern Arizona may have caused a massive landslide in the Grand Canyon about 56,000 years ago, altering the course of the Colorado River and forming a now-vanished paleolake. Researchers found driftwood and lake sediments in Stanton’s Cave, which sits within Marble Canyon, joining a body of evidence that the river was…
There was another moment of controversy during an encounter at Lord’s between England and India on Saturday when opener Tammy Beaumont was ruled not out for obstructing the field. The incident took place during the fifth over of England’s chase of 144. Beaumont worked a delivery by Deepti Sharma into the leg-side, where it was…
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a Jupiter-sized exoplanet that is being fried by the radiation from its parent star. The study determined that the star plan is getting extended so fast that it must be evaporating, losing more than 10 times the mass of Jupiter every billion years. This baby world is…
England Women beat India Women by eight wickets (by DLS method) in the second Women’s One-Day International at Lord’s on Saturday to level the three-match series 1–1. In a rain-marred 29-over match, the host chased down a revised target of 115 with 18 balls to spare. Openers Tammy Beaumont (34) and Amy Jones (46) laid…
Astronomers call ancient star clusters like NGC 1786 “time capsules” for their galaxy, preserving some of its oldest stars. A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope offers an unprecedented close-up of this dense cluster 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Hubble’s data show that NGC 1786 contains stars of different ages –…
Sixth-ranked Zheng Qinwen of China has undergone arthroscopic surgery on her right elbow after experiencing “persistent pain” for several months. The 22-year-old Olympic champion, who lost in the first round at Wimbledon to Katerina Siniakova, said on Saturday the surgery was a success. “Over the past months, I’ve been dealing with persistent pain in my…