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For a dog, it’s good to be small and have a long nose.
In the United Kingdom, breeds matching that description, such as miniature dachshunds and some terriers, can expect to have the longest lives, researchers report February 1 in Scientific Reports. Medium and large flat-nosed dogs like bulldogs or mastiffs, on the other hand, tend to have the shortest lives.
On average, canine companions around the world can expect to live roughly 10 to 14 years. Life span
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Chelsea newcomer Christopher Nkunku is due to have surgery on his knee after sustaining meniscus damage in pre-season. Many fans expected the Frenchman to hit the ground running at Stamford Bridge after joining from RB Leipzig earlier this summer.
The news will come as a crushing blow to Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino. Nkunku was a livewire during the Blues’ warm-up matches for the upcoming campaign, netting against Fulham, Brighton and Wrexham in recent friendlies.
The French international went down in
The Canadian rapper and singer Tory Lanez is expected to be sentenced on Monday for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, a fellow artist and onetime friend, in both of her feet during an argument in the summer of 2020. Details of the assault came out gradually via social media and evolving law enforcement accounts, leading to a yearslong legal saga that became tawdry tabloid fodder while also generating broader conversation about the treatment of Black women in music and beyond.
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A Russian court is expected to issue a verdict on Friday in a trial of Aleksei A. Navalny, the jailed opposition leader, on charges of supporting “extremism,” a ruling that could extend his time in prison by up to two decades.
Mr. Navalny, whose anticorruption investigations criticizing the Kremlin drew popular support and infuriated Russia’s top leadership, is already serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony in Melekhovo, 150 miles east of Moscow.
The verdict comes amid intensified
British homeowners are braced for more mortgage misery today (Thursday, August 3). The Bank of England is expected to rise UK interest rates to a fresh 15-year high as its long-running fight to control the rising cost-of-living continues.
Most economists expect the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to lift the base rate by 0.25 percentage points today, taking it to 5.25%. The last time it stood at 5.25% was in March 2008.
It would mark a smaller increase than the
Lenny Hochstein is over the moon about his engagement to Katharina Mazepa — and he’s not concerned with estranged wife Lisa Hochstein‘s feelings on the subject.
“Lisa will never miss an opportunity to play the victim, so her response was expected,” Lenny, 57, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 1. “It’s not something I spend any time worrying about.”
Lenny and Mazepa, 27, announced their engagement on Saturday, July
Troops at the spearhead of Ukraine’s counteroffensive say a battle last week along the front in the southeast proved to be tougher and bloodier than expected, with plans going awry and an enemy that was well-prepared.
They rode into a kill zone. The timing was off. Many men were lost. In the end, they recaptured the ruined village of Staromaiorske, claiming Ukraine’s biggest advance for weeks.
“The Russians were waiting for us,” said a 29-year-old soldier using the call-sign Bulat,
President Biden is facing fierce bipartisan backlash over his decision to cancel the planned move of the U.S. Space Command Headquarters from Colorado to Alabama, including from one of his staunchest allies.
Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., released a statement late Monday sharply attacking Biden over the decision, calling it “shameful” and accusing him of bowing “to the whims of politics over merit.”
“This Administration’s decision to keep Space Command in Colorado bows to the whims of politics over merit. Huntsville’s
