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The tournament has made headlines the last few months after announcing players would be required to be vaccinated. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic, who is unvaccinated, ultimately was deported and won’t compete after going through multiple appeals with the Australian immigration office after his visa was declined. Djokovic, who has won this tournament nine times, is the defending men’s singles champion, with Naomi Osaka the defending champion on the women’s singles side....

At least 3,500 protesters gathered in Sydney’s Central Business District Saturday afternoon to protest government lockdown orders and mask mandates, with many carrying Australian national flags and signs calling for “freedom” and “the truth.” The demonstrations at times turned violent, with protesters throwing bottles, potted plants, and paint at police officers. In dramatic images shared online, one protester can be seen punching a mounted police horse, according to The Sydney Morning Herald....

Body temperatures dropped by 0.05 Fahrenheit (0.03 degrees Celsius) every decade since the 1800s, moving away from the average of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius) in adults estimated in the 19th century. The authors of a paper published in the journal eLife said this shift reflects how the lives of Americans have changed in that period. Compared with men alive today, the body temperatures of men born in the early 19th century were 1....

Features & Performance There’s no free version of TuneUp, so I’m testing the paid-for Windows 10 version for this review. It also supports Windows going back to XP as well as Mac, Android and iOS. There’s a seven-day free trial so you can test it out before committing. Installing TuneUp is easy and, although it takes up a little more space than some rivals at 113MB, it’s still done in just a few minutes....

Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year Seconds later, it was over, as Gozali recorded the quickest submission in Bellator history at Bellator 225 at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. and live on DAZN on Saturday night. With the brilliant victory, Gozali improves to 3-0 as a pro, with all of his victories coming by the way of submission.

Price That’s relatively expensive for a dual-band 802.11ac router such as this but, as we’ve mentioned, the Fritz!Box 7530 does provide other features that will help it to earn its keep. Cheaper routers tend not to include a modem for Internet access, which means that you still have to connect the new router to your existing modem or router, leaving you with a clutter of boxes and cables sitting in the corner by your broadband connection socket....

With a new set of skills and a refined outlook on Gotham, Gotham Knights will have players being the costumed vigilante of their dreams. As Gotham Knights builds upon a foundation of new and exciting features, it may surprise gamers to find out that there are some awesome things they did not know they could do in the first place. 8 Elemental Damage Effects There’s a lack of simplicity to Gotham Knights’ combat, which makes the game more engaging and thought-provoking....

As a mark fo respect for the beloved cricketer, all the Australian players were seen wearing black armbands at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday, in remembrance of Hughes. Not just will the national team players, but also players from South Australia, the team Hughes last represented also wore black armbands during their Sheffield Shield game against Victoria. “We’ll have something planned as a team quietly, but nothing massive,” South Australian skipper Travis Head said on Saturday....

Ostapenko, who is seeded seventh, will kick off the proceedings on Rod Laver Arena against former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone. The tantalizing first round clash between Venus and Belinda Bencic, which is the biggest match of Day 1, is scheduled right after this. Bencic, who broke into the top 10 in 2016 before injury derailed her career, has been on the comeback trail for the last few months. The 20-year-old finished the 2017 season on a 15-match winning streak....

According to online betting website bet365, the Australian has 3/1 odds of being crowned the winner of the women’s singles at the Australian Open while Osaka’s odds are more than twice that at 13/2. This means that a $2 bet on Barty winning the tournament will return a profit of $6, while the same bet on the Japanese is going to fetch a profit of $13. World No. 3 Muguruza has odds of 11/1 to win the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup and 2020 Roland Garros champion Iga Swiatek has slightly longer odds of 12/1....

Captain Meg Lanning won the toss and sent England in to bat first. The visitors made 98 for six from their 20 overs, a total which was chased down by the Australian side in the 16th over as they reached 99 for three. Holly Ferling’s figures of 2-14 earned her Player of the Match honours. The Australian women’s team, also called Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars, got off to a solid start with the ball as Ferling (2-14) snared the wicket of Danielle Wyatt (0) in the first over....

Holland’s career had shown tremendous promise in early years – within a year of his state debut he was in Australia’s ODI squad for the 2009 tour of India. He was told that he would be given his ODI debut in Mumbai for the last match as well. However, it started raining before the match and his chance of wearing national team colours were washed away. In the last seven years, Holland has not gone closer to representing Australia than that....

Australia’s Mark Bourne won the race to the top of the Empire State Building, an event that drew more than 730 runners who vied to be the first up the 1,576 steps inside New York’s most famous skyscraper, while countrywoman Suzy Walsham took the women’s crown. The 29-year-old Bourne, who specializes in endurance races, ran up 86 floors in 10 minutes 12 seconds Wednesday night, breaking the record set by Germany’s Thomas Dold, the winner of the seven previous editions of the race but a no-show this year due to illness....

In the novel, John Boyne – whose previous works include The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – included a passage where one of his characters described the ingredients used to dye their clothes. However, for any Zelda fans reading the novel, it wouldn’t have taken long to spot a few parts that unmistakably connected the passage to the popular Zelda game. Alongside ingredients such as nightshade and sapphire are more Zelda-centric elements, including Keese wing and an Octorok eyeball....

Cale Makar’s goal late in the first period was all the buzz during and after the Colorado win. The Oilers had scored a goal with 23 seconds left in the opening frame to knot the score at 2-2, but just nine seconds later, the star defenseman for the Avs went in and ripped a shot past Mike Smith to give the Avs the lead back. MORE: NHL playoff bracket 2022: Full schedule, TV channels, scores...

McLeod was fined $3,091.40 for entering the game with 8.1 seconds remaining in regulation for the purpose of starting an altercation. He body-checked Wild center Mikael Granlund before engaging in a fight with forward Charlie Coyle. McLeod was assessed a minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, a major penalty for fighting and a misconduct penalty. MORE: Deadline winners and losers | Deadline live blog Landeskog, the team’s captain, was fined $5,000 for throwing a punch at Wild forward Mikko Koivu while both players were on their respective benches....

For the first three Phases of Marvel Studios’ films, Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man was undoubtedly the face of the MCU. However, it appears Tony Stark’s protege, Spider-Man, will take the mantle from here on out in the wake of Iron Man’s death in Avengers: Endgame. RELATED: Spider-Man: No Way Home Fan Theory Lays Out How The Movie Leads Into Morbius In a new interview with GQ, Russo says that Holland has become the new face of the MCU, adding that Holland is filling the role that Downey Jr....

It’s no secret that Brie Larson, of Scott Pilgrim and Room fame, will soon be joining the MCU as Captain Marvel. Her feature film is still pretty far in the future, but fans have been trying to figure out if she may be introduced in this summer’s Avengers flick. There is one particular still from the latest TV spot that adds some fuel to that particular fire. Eleven seconds into the trailer there is a scene of Captain America, Black Widow, and Vision walking through a room....

New Delhi, Jul 4 (PTI) He is well aware of the “disappointments” triggered by a revamped selection policy but Indian boxing’s High Performance Director Santiago Nieva remains unfazed and is hopeful that good performances will convince detractors of the “difficult choices” he is making. Indian boxing has gone through a revamp of sorts in its selection process with the conventional trials not being the sole criteria. A ranking system, rating boxers on their performances in national and international events and the national camp, has been put in place to pick squads for major events like next month’s Asian Games....