Virat Kohli unhappy with Cricket World Cup format after semi-final exit

Virat Kohli has suggested the International Cricket Council may want to consider changing the format of the World Cup after India’s dramatic semi-final exit.

India unleashed the fury of one billion fanatical cricket fans back home when they stumbled to an 18-run defeat by New Zealand at Old Trafford despite topping the table during the tournament’s protracted round-robin group stage.

The ICC, at the behest of the Indian board and broadcasters, ensured such an occurrence would never happen again by extending the first-round stage at World Cups; each team were guaranteed a minimum of nine matches at the tournament this year.

Now Kohli has suggested the latter stages should be tweaked as well in the format for the World Cup in 2023, to be held in India.

Asked whether he would like to see the tournament follow the model of the Indian Premier League, in which teams who finish top in the regular season get another chance to reach the final if they lose their first play‑off match, the India captain said: “Maybe. If topping the table means anything. I think these things can come into consideration, looking at the magnitude of this tournament. That is a really valid point. You never know when that is going to be implemented.

“You finish No 1 in the table and then a spell of bad cricket and you are out of the tournament completely. But you have to accept it.”

Kohli admitted he was heartbroken by the defeat after India had won eight of their nine group matches, losing only against England. “It doesn’t matter what you have done before that. It’s a fresh day, fresh start, and if you are not good enough you go home. So you have to accept that.

“I’m very disappointed. We played outstanding cricket throughout this tournament and to just go out on the basis of 45 minutes of bad cricket is saddening and it breaks your heart because you have worked so hard throughout the tournament to build momentum.”

In the mayhem at the start of their innings India crashed to 24 for four inside 10 overs before a century stand for the seventh-wicket between Ravindra Jadeja and MS Dhoni brought them close to chasing down 240.

“I think we are sad but we are not devastated because of the kind of cricket that we played in this tournament,” Kohli said. “We were not good enough and that is the nature of this tournament. A bad day in the knockout stage and you are out. We didn’t stand up to the challenge and we were not good enough under pressure. We have to accept the failure as it shows on the scoreboard.”

57 countries with visa-free or visa on arrival for Indians

According to the Passport Index, India has a visa-free score of 58 (and a global score of 74). We are really excited by some of the amazing countries on here that Indian nationals can travel to without applying for a visa. This means reasonable budgets and easy travelling.

S.No	Visa on Arrival	No visa required
1	Armenia	Bhutan
2	Benin	Dominica
3	Bolivia	Ecuador
4	Cambodia	El Salvador
5	Cape Verde	Fiji
6	Comoros	Grenada
7	Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast - eTA)	Haiti
8	Djibouti	Indonesia
9	Ethiopia	Jamaica
10	Gabon	Macao
11	Guinea-Bissau	Mauritius
12	Hong Kong (eTA)	Micronesia
13	Jordan	Nepal
14	Kenya	Palestinian Territories
15	Laos	Saint Kitts and Nevis
16	Madagascar	Senegal
17	Maldives	Serbia
18	Marshal Islands	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
19	Mauritania	Trinidad and Tobago
20	Mozambique	Tunisia
21	Palau	Vanuatu
22	Rwanda
23	Saint Lucia
24	Samoa
25	Sri Lanka
26	Seychelles
27	Somalia
28	Suriname
29	Tanzania
30	Thailand
31	Timor-Leste
32	Togo
33	Tuvalu
34	Uganda
35	Ukraine
36	Zimbabwe

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PUTIN: 95% OF WORLD TERRORIST ATTACKS ARE MADE BY THE CIA

Vladimir Putin yesterday  said that “95% of the world’s terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA,” and the St. Petersburg metro bombing must be investigated “with this in mind.“

Putin said:  “If the CIA have Russian blood on their hands, they will forever regret stirring the Russian bear from its peaceful slumber.”

When questioned by a top aide as to whether the 95% figure was accurate, Putin sighed heavily and fixed the assembled group with his trademark stare before explaining that in regards to how the world is run, all is not how it seems.

Putin affirms that the CIA is a rogue element of the Deep State, and “an expression of the will of world oligarchy and their vision for a New World Order.“

He claimes that CIA exists today as part of America – but it is certainly not American. “The CIA does not work on behalf of the American people or act in their interests.”

Asked if he thought the St Petersburg bomb was the beginning of a CIA plot to oust him from power, as has been suggested in the media, Putin answered, “It will take more than a bag of tricks in a subway to make me blink.“

Putin also told: "mankind has been manipulated to become “unconscious” through the use of programming by media and politics.
courtsey:www.geopolitica.ru

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Omar Sharif: Why Google honours him today

Described as "The Noble", Omar Sharif would have been 86 years old on Tuesday, April 10, 2018.

In his honour, Google is changing its logo in 48 countries to an illustration of him. 

This is a snapshot his story:

Early steps

• Born in 1932 to Syrian-Lebanese parents in Alexandria, Egypt, Sharif's birth name was Michel Demitri Shalhoub.

• Before becoming an actor, he graduated with a degree in mathematics and physics from Cairo University and worked for several years at his father's lumber company.
• He later left the family business and went on to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Britain's capital.
• In 1954, he began his acting career and starred in films with one of Egypt's leading actresses, Faten Hamama.
• In 1955, he converted to Islam, changed his name to Omar Sharif, and married Faten soon after. They had a son, Tarek, before separating in 1966 and divorcing in 1974.

International fame

• Sharif appeared in a number of Egyptian films before the British director David Lean added him to the cast of Lawrence of Arabia.
• Sharif played the role of an Arab warrior. The scene showing his arrival is considered a classic piece of cinema.
• He first appears as a tiny dot in the desert horizon, growing larger as his camel gallops into the frame with Peter O'Toole.
• His performance brought him an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor, propelling him to international fame.
• But international recognition came at a hefty personal price, as Sharif intimated in an interview with The Associated Press news agency in 2003.
• "It separated me from my wife, from my family ... We didn't see each other any more and that was it, the end of our wedding," he said. "I might have been happier having stayed an Egyptian film star."

I might have been happier having stayed an Egyptian film star.

OMAR SHARIF

Career struggles

• After winning a third Golden Globe award for acting in Doctor Zhivago, Sharif's career went downhill. 
• He attributed his change of film fortune to what he called ''the cultural revolution'' at the end of the 1960s, as new directors focused on "making films about their own societies. There was no more room for a foreigner, so suddenly there were no more parts [for him to act]'," Sharif said.
• He began appearing in films such as "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", and others he dismissed as "rubbish".
• "I lost my self-respect and dignity," he told a reporter in 2004. "Even my grandchildren were making fun of me. 'Grandpa, that was really bad. And this one? It's worse'."

I lost my self-respect and dignity

OMAR SHARIF

Health problems 

• Sharif had a triple heart bypass in 1992 and suffered a mild heart attack in 1994. At the time, he was declining film offers.
• Away from his cinema career, Sharif was a world-class bridge player and also wrote on bridge for the Chicago Tribune newspaper. He quit the game in later years.
• In May 2015, Sharif was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and was struggling to remember the biggest films of his career, according to his son, Tarek.
• Sharif died in Cairo after suffering a heart attack on July 10, 2015, less than six months after his ex-wife's death.

Accolades

• Sharif won two Golden Globes and an Oscar nomination.
• He also received a Cesar for the 2003 film, Monsieur Ibrahim.
• Acknowledging his contributions to cultural diversity, he was awarded the UNESCO Albert Einstein Medal in 2005.

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Office 365 outage: Users struggle to sign in

Productivity suite goes offline for European and Australian Microsoft customers
Microsoft said it has fixed an Office 365 outage across Europe that angered thousands of users last Friday.

The outage hit the UK around 9am BST, creating login and server connection failures that stopped users from signing into the 365 portal and accessing services.

Nearly half of those reporting problems with 365 said they were unable to log in, according to DownDetector, which allows people to log technical issues with various services. The issue particularly affected the UK, France, the Netherlands and Belgium. Customers on Twitter said they were unable to send or receive emails and could only log in to certain interfaces - or none at all.

Redmond's Office 365 Status page on Twitter told followers they should check the preliminary Post Incident Report (PIR) under MO133518, but tweeters quickly pointed out that they could not log in to the admin centre to find out why they couldn't log in in the first place.

Microsoft said it had "completed all recovery actions related to MO133518 and this issue is fully resolved as of Friday, April 6, 2018, at 11:30 AM UTC [12.30pm BST]. Thanks to everyone who confirmed service restoration."

However, this stirred up outrage among users on Twitter, who bombarded Microsoft about persisting outages in London, Singapore, Australia, and many other locations.

One commenter said: "Microsoft, please don't try to sweep this under the carpet and treat the issue as resolved."

Another complained: "After so many hours no update!!! Please do what you promised to your client next time."

As Office 365 returned to some businesses, Microsoft added later that day that it was not aware of any other issues with the service. It plans to publish a full report into the issue within five days of the incident.

Pete Banham, cyber resilience expert at Mimecast, claimed the incident demonstrates that businesses shouldn't rely on any one cloud.

"Microsoft Office 365 was hit with major downtime on Friday, with customers around the world unable to access their services or admin portals," he said. "An operational dependency on the Microsoft environment creates business risks that need be addressed. Anyone outsourcing a critical service like email needs to consider who will suffer most from reputational damage, internal operational issues and financial loss. Mimecast is urging organisations to consider a cyber resilience strategy that assures the ability to recover and continue with business as usual."

Benches clear after Cardinals’ Yadier Molina charges at Diamondbacks manager

Diamondbacks Manager Torey Lovullo was intent on arguing with plate umpire Tim Timmons when he left the dugout Sunday, following a called third strike on Arizona’s A.J. Pollock. However, Lovullo said something to which Yadier Molina took great offense, and the Cardinals catcher charged at the manager in an unusual scene that quickly cleared the benches in St. Louis.

Timmons got between Molina and Lovullo, but he was pushed aside, precipitating the second-inning incident. Remarkably, Lovullo was the only one ejected; Molina not only stayed in the game but subsequently scored the Cardinals’ only run in their 4-1 loss.
After the game, Molina reportedly claimed that Lovullo twice called him a “motherf—–,” adding, “If you’re going to call somebody that, you better be ready to fight.”

Lovullo acknowledged that he “used a poor choice of words” and Molina “took offense” to his remarks. “I wish I could take back what I said, but it really wasn’t directed at him. I was just frustrated over what I was watching,” Lovullo added.
The second-year manager said that he had “the upmost respect for Yadier Molina,” calling him “one of the best catchers the game has ever seen.”

Lovullo’s gripe was that Molina was employing some tricks of the trade to fool Timmons into seeing things his way. On the pitch in question, it appeared that Pollock had taken a pitch below the strike zone but that the catcher quickly lifted his glove and gotten a favorable call.

“It was more of me saying, I respect him on that level, that he’s getting special things because he’s that good,” Lovullo said of Molina. “That’s where I was coming from.”
Timmons played down the incident, saying, “So when Lovullo got to me after I had ejected him, he made a comment that was aggressive that Yadi overheard, so that’s why Yadi reacted the way that he did. I think at that point Yadi became agitated, which was understandable. [The contact] was just incidental.”

MLB officials may not agree with Timmons once they review the episode and decide whether to fine or suspend Molina. An eight-time all-star considered among the finest catchers in the game, Molina is also somewhat known for having a temper, while the ejection marked the third of Lovullo’s career.
“I hope that MLB sees this, and I hope they fine this guy,” Molina said of Lovullo. “Because you cannot allow that. You can’t talk to a player like that or an umpire. You’ve got to be professional.”

“I never thought someone arguing a third-strike call was going to create a benches-clearing brawl,” Pollock said. “But we stuck together as a team. We all have Torey’s back.”

The Diamondbacks would get the last laugh, scoring four times in the seventh and eighth innings, including on a home run by Pollock. Arizona is now 7-2 and has a 2.5-game lead in the NL West, while St. Louis fell to 4-5, three games behind Pittsburgh in the NL Central.
courtsey:Washingtonpost

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