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Déjà remarquée lors de Roland-Garros 2020, où elle avait atteint le 3e tour, la Bretonne a signé le plus grand succès de sa carrière, mardi, sur les courts de Flushing Meadows, en sortant, s’il vous plait, Elena Rybakina, toujours pas remise de son sacre à Wimbledon. Il n’a fallu que deux manches (6-4, 6-4) à la 131e mondiale pour s’offrir le scalp de la Kazakhe, loin, très loin, de son niveau aperçu du côté du All England Club en juillet dernier....

The data suggests 8.3% of adults in England, Wales and Scotland vape, up from 1.7% a decade ago, which equated to about 800,000 people. Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), which produced the report, said a “vaping revolution” had taken place over the past decade. Hazel Cheeseman, Ash’s deputy chief executive, said the increase in smokers switching to vaping was “great news”. “They can be lifesaving tools for those struggling to quit....

Posted: 04:02, 31 August 2022 | Updated: 04:09, 31 August 2022 It hasn’t been a good start to the 2022 US Open for Venus Williams, who now only has the women’s doubles tournament to look forward to. The 42-year-old has not said whether she will retire after being knocked out in the first round of the US Open playing at Arthur Ashe on Tuesday afternoon. telling reporters that “she’s focused on the double....

Wien. Es war die Explosion des kurzfristig einberufenen Stromkrisengipfels am Sonntagabend im Kanzleramt: Wien Energie braucht Liquidität in Milliardenhöhe, um Sicherheiten für bereits getätigte Geschäfte an der Strombörse hinterlegen zu können. Finanzminister Magnus Brunner sah das Unternehmen in einer „finanziellen Notlage“, daher gab es am Montag weitere Verhandlungen zwischen Wien Energie, dem Finanzministerium, der Finanzstaatsanwaltschaft und städtischen Beamten, in denen konkrete Verträge über Finanzhilfen des Bundes abgeschlossen wurden zu verhandeln....

Robinson suffered two gunshot wounds to his lower extremities and was taken to a local hospital, Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said. The shooting happened in the 1000 block of H Street NE, police said. Two suspects fled the scene and officers found a firearm nearby, Sternbeck said. The Commanders confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday night. “He suffered non-life-threatening injuries and is currently hospitalized, where team officials are on the scene with him....

Dr Kieran Moore is due to speak from Queen’s Park at 1pm, according to a press release issued this morning. The announcement comes ahead of students returning to school next week amid a seventh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health officials have warned there will likely be an unexpected influx of infections across the province this fall as more people gather indoors. The Department of Education says students will not be required to wear masks next school year, and masks will be voluntary and made available to students upon request....

A man has been fined £100 for throwing a lit cigarette out of his car window. Breckland Council’s environmental enforcement team were working at Saham Toney, near Watton, on the afternoon of August 8 when they saw a driver throw a cigarette butt onto a grass patch. The council officer put out the cigarette and spoke to the driver, who eventually admitted the offence. The man was subsequently given a fixed penalty charge of £100 on the spot for littering....

Source: University of Maryland A person’s blood type may be linked to their risk of suffering an early stroke, according to a new meta-analysis conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). The findings were published today in the journal Neurology. The meta-analysis included all available data from genetic studies focusing on ischemic strokes, which are caused by obstruction of blood flow to the brain, occurring in younger adults under the age of 60....

ARIES (March 21 – April 20): Your can-do attitude is admired by colleagues and people in positions of authority, but you must resist the urge to make promises you may struggle to keep. Everyone knows what you can do, so you don’t need to get bigger. TAURUS (April 21 – May 21): The people you work with will demand the best from you today, so if you were thinking about taking it easy, think again!...

Mais qui était donc ce cinéaste peu connu, tout sourire, qui accompagnait Isabelle Huppert pendant le Festival du film francophone d’Angoulême, qui s’est terminé dimanche 28 août ? Il s’agit de Laurent Larivière, scénariste et réalisateur né en 1972, versé dans la performance littéraire (notamment avec Olivia Rosenthal), dont le deuxième long-métrage, A propos de Joan, sortira en salle mercredi 14 septembre. Une histoire simple, et pourtant subtilement détraquée : Isabelle Huppert y incarne une femme revisitant des moments de sa vie, la rencontre avec le père de son enfant, leur subite séparation, sa vie de jeune mère célibataire, son fils surgissant et disparaissant au gré des scènes, comme si la mémoire effaçait ou recousait....

Two people were killed and several others injured, including two police officers, in a shooting in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday night. Police Chief Jerry L. Williams confirmed the shooting during a news conference Sunday night. Police initially responded to a crime scene around 8:45 p.m. near 26th Ave and Deer Valley. Chief Williams said a two-officer unit cornered the suspect after he started shooting. The gunman later retreated and was found dead....

The CRTC said it will use 988 as the hotline number — the same three digits adopted for a similar hotline in the United States that launched in July. MPs voted unanimously to create a three-digit helpline in December 2020 as demand for mental health services increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. BC Conservative MP Todd Doherty, who tabled the motion on the open line, said he heard the news while running errands and had to sit in his truck and cry for half an hour....

An Abbotsford man is facing 85 criminal charges after he was arrested Saturday running from a car dealership. Police were called to the dealership in the 3000 block of Douglas Street by an employee who became suspicious when a customer requested more than $50,000 in financing “using what appeared to be a scam.” Victoria Police were at the dealership when the customer returned. The man tried to run away when officers approached to speak with him....

The remains are believed to be those of a sauropod, a 12-meter (39-foot) tall and 25-meter-long herbivorous dinosaur that roamed the Earth about 150 million years ago. “It is one of the largest specimens discovered in Europe, maybe in the world,” paleontologist Elisabeth Malafaya, of the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Sciences, told AFP on Monday. The bones were discovered by Portuguese and Spanish scientists in the garden of a house near Pombal in central Portugal in early August....

As first reported by MacRumors, leaker UnclePan says Apple’s rumoured rugged smartwatch might not work with current Watch Bands. Though the Apple Watch’s size has changed over the years, Bands have always still fit the smartwatch. For example, the Series 3’s 38mm and 42mm size fits the Series 4’s 40mm and 44mm Watch Band and vice versa. Even the Series 7’s 45mm bands still work with earlier versions of the wearable....

A fuel leak and then an engine problem during final liftoff preparations led NASA to clean up the launch of the new moon’s powerful rocket on Monday morning in a shakedown flight with three test dummies. The next launch attempt won’t take place until Friday at the earliest. As precious minutes ticked by, NASA repeatedly stopped and started fueling the Space Launch System rocket with nearly a million gallons of supercooled hydrogen and oxygen due to a leak of highly explosive hydrogen at the same spot it had seen leak during a dress rehearsal....

Read it at Politico title: “Assistant Secret Service Director Tony Ornato Is Retiring After The Jan. 6 Revelations Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-13” author: “Zella Turner” Read it at Politico title: “Assistant Secret Service Director Tony Ornato Is Retiring After The Jan. 6 Revelations Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-11” author: “Chris Cuadrado” Read it at Politico title: “Assistant Secret Service Director Tony Ornato Is Retiring After The Jan. 6 Revelations Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-15” author: “Jacob Moshier” Read it at Politico...

“This is the Safeway employee who engaged with the shooter, which is to say he attempted to disarm the shooter and attacked this person, and we believe he prevented further deaths in addition to the quick police response,” Miller said. The gunman — identified by police as Ethan Blair Miller, 20 — was found dead at the scene. Police found an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun close to Miller’s body, said Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz....

Nächster Lufthansa-Streik steht bevor: Nach dem Bodenpersonal wollen an diesem Freitag die Piloten streiken. Betroffen seien alle Abflüge von Lufthansa und Lufthansa Cargo aus Deutschland. Die Piloten der Lufthansa haben beschlossen, an diesem Freitag zu streiken. Alle Abflüge der Mutterkonzerne Lufthansa und Lufthansa Cargo aus Deutschland sollen fortgesetzt werden, teilte die Gewerkschaft Cockpit (VC) mit. Die Entscheidung habe der Vorstand nach intensiven Verhandlungen mit dem Unternehmen und auf Anfrage des Tarifausschusses getroffen, sagte ein Sprecher....

The construction zone along McKay Street is now cordoned off and blocked off where it is believed the vehicle carrying six young adults fell into a large concrete pit in the road. The question remains to what extent, if any, the hole and the surrounding area between Veterans Drive and County Road 27 was plugged. Friends said the group of six were heading to the casino in Innisfil but lost contact with them around 6am on Saturday....