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Her friend reported her missing. Must have been a truly scary time out on the deep ocean.

Yes, really entertaining race. Glad to see Hamilton got some at last.

What is going on with Perez? Just bad luck?

They should have replaced the i with an o while they were at it to fit the American pronunciation.

Kane was blatantly barged out, crashing into Southgate and over an umpire's chair.

Quote: "England was without captain and striker Harry Kane for the shootout after he collided with manager Gareth Southgate on the touchline while challenging for a ball and appeared to be hurt. He was replaced by Toney."

Also some mistaken referee decisions regarding corner kicks, but similar happened in the later Turkey/Netherlands match.

War is hell.

Which side of a whirlpool is at fault?

Most of that went over my head, but home boy done good, no?

Let this poor kid be awake-up call to instructors throughout Japan.

Once on a college ian-ryoko 'comfort trip' I was asleep when there was a banging on the hotel door. It was my roommate, a professor from the same college. I got up to let him in; he was ashen-faced and shivering with fear. "Sssshhhh..... Let me hide under the bed!" he said. "They are after me, down in the lobby!"

It was about 2:00 am, I noticed. Apparently the people he had been drinking with had quietly left, one by one, until he was the only one in the bar, and faced with a similar ridiculously hefty bill.

"What has this guy got me into?" I wondered as I went back to bed. Thankfully there was no more to it.

Why isn't Iran mediating? Is it in their interest to prolong this thing?

Alcarez - Tiafoe was incredible, a titanic struggle. Big respect to both.

Regardless of that one missed penalty shot, Portugal looked like the better side throughout.

If Pepe is 41, then surely Ronaldo too has a few years left in him.

This is plain bad manners, first and foremost.

China has black and white film reels of charging Japanese troops from WW2 which they play endlessly in schools, assuring that the children have the memories of their grandparents. No escape from the past, it seems.

From China's perspective, where the Philippines has been 'the aggressor'! Ha ha ha!

Quote: China's aircraft carrier Shandong was recently spotted sailing near the Philippines in a move media said serves as a deterrence against continuous Philippine provocations on Chinese islands and reefs in the South China Sea.

(China's aircraft carrier Shandong spotted near Philippines amid tensions - Global Times)

Read in the news yesterday that China is sending an aircraft carrier towards the Philippines. (Not sure how true that is, though.)

Wow, that last paragraph is closer to recognizing the reality on the ground than I had expected! Bravo!

Quote: “Although the world is moving toward cashless interactions, we believe cash remains important as a way for safely settling payments anywhere and anytime,” said Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda.

Makes a bid, perhaps? Even after reading the article, I still don't understand.

Kamla's daughter died, poor lady.

Total respect for this lady. Hoping the Japanese government will find some way to express their thanks.

That deflected goal looked to me as if it would have gone in anyway. No shame to Vertonghen either way.

Well, if so many readers here dislike the idea of ￥50,000 yen bills, how about learning from ￥1,000 and ￥2,000, and going at least for ￥20,000 yen notes? That would make your suitcase lighter by half!

Good to see Viktor Orban in a more positive light. I hope something good will come of this initiative. Perhaps Orban can be a conduit between Putin and Zelenskiy and perhaps Ukraine will find a way to allow minorities like their Hungarian and Russian speakers to keep their own language but learn Ukrainian too, somewhat like the bilingual Canadian model.

Max has history with this kind of action under stress. He got to finish the race and pick up the points, and never had to take the ten seconds off, despite his penalty for causing the accident. (And despite the article saying it was Norris who "crashed into him".) Norris was knocked out of the race, and what would have been almost certain victory.

These two are friends, or they were, but Max has yet to apologize for all the weaving.

Waves of hysteria, probably fomented by DPRK who hate him.

People always want change, and look for someone to blame, but Yoon himself seems to have been relatively good for South Korea. (Seen from the outside, of course.)

All these JT articles about Glastonbury. Not.

See she performed at Glastonbury over the weekend and the fans loved her, treating her like royalty.

All credit to Slovakia. For most of the game they looked good compared to England.

Well, the mother waited four hours to call for an ambulance...

Quote: "The new notes come as cash-loving Japan is aiming to push for cashless payments. The value of cashless payments has been increasing in the country, but was still shy of the government's target of around 40 percent in 2023. As of 2021, such payments had already accounted for more than half of the total in Britain, Canada and the United States as well as China, Singapore and South Korea, according to industry group data."

Who in 'cash-loving Japan' is aiming to push for cashless payments, and why? This article is written as though cash is bad and cashless (being pushed by unknown forces) is good.

When there is a natural disaster anywhere in the world where the electricity goes down, cards and mobile phones are useless and cash suddenly becomes king again, (for those who still have some), and Japan is a particularly disaster-prone country.

The Chinese (or the Russians) would love to get in there instead of the US. Then the problems would probably be even worse.

In the meantime the US needs to keep their act clean.

Perhaps one day Okinawa will be allowed to live in peace without interference from outside players. I certainly hope so.

A British climber with a heart condition died of a heart attack at the top of Mt Vesuvius just a couple of days ago. Was he trying to prove something to himself by climbing a famous mountain? I guess such a challenge is a tough choice if you have a health condition.