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Yahoo Sports AM Our daily newsletter brings you the latest on everything sport. Register here You can pick it up on weekday mornings.Nadal vs Djokovic(Bruno Louby/Yahoo Sports)Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic Today marks the 60th, and likely final, chapter of their historic rivalry at Roland Garros, with the action set to begin shortly at the Peacock. (Around 7:30 a.m. ET).Face to face: Djokovic leads 30-29, and a win today at the legendary venue for Nadal would be a poetic one and tie the all-time record.Fun fact: Roland Garros is not only the venue where these two players last met two…

Global credit ratings agency Fitch on Monday upgraded Pakistan’s long-term foreign currency issuer default rating (IDR) to CCC+ from CCC in light of the agreement between the country and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the ratings agency confirmed in a statement.According to Fitch, a CCC rating is a speculative or junk rating that indicates a high risk that the issuer will default on its debt.Last year, the IMF upgraded Pakistan’s long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to ‘CCC’ from ‘CCC-‘ following approval of the IMF loan in July, but the rating still indicates that the country’s credit risk is significant.…

Dil Raju’s term as president of the Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce is nearing an end. An election was held recently to elect a new president of the chamber. Renowned film distributor Bharat Bhushan and well-known film producer Tagore Madhu contested the election to become the next president of the chamber. Bharat Bhushan reportedly won the election with a large margin. According to media reports, Tagore Madhu secured just 17 votes and Bharat Bhushan secured 29 votes. Renowned producer Ashok Kumar and well-known director YVS Choudhary contested the election for the position of vice-president. Reportedly, Ashok Kumar secured 28 votes…

Tech companies like to make two big claims about the future of artificial intelligence: the first is that the technology will bring about a revolution akin to the advent of fire, nuclear weapons, and the Internet, and the second is that artificial intelligence will cost untold amounts of money.Silicon Valley has already driven tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars of spending on AI, and companies want to spend even more. Their reasoning is simple: These companies have decided that the best way to make generative AI better is to build bigger AI models. And that’s really Really Funding…

PHOENIX — We have been talking about this day for months.We have devoted so many TV, radio and podcast hours, and even more written words on something that is often dreadfully boring.And, mercifully, it’s finally here.It’s Major League Baseball’s 2024 trade deadline, which is officially set for 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 30.We will know once and for all what teams truly believe they have a chance, what teams are bowing out, and what teams remain so confused they don’t do a dang thing.Follow every MLB game: Latest MLB scores, stats, schedules and standings.It’s been a roller-coaster ride of…

An international group of biologists may have discovered a gene that explains why the brain is protected from herpes viruses.According to the World Health Organization, approximately 67% of the world’s population is infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1.It primarily attacks nervous tissue but, in rare cases, can reach the central nervous system and cause death.However, most infected people do not show severe symptoms, and a study led by Cai Yujia of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Soren Paldan of Aarhus University in Denmark sought to understand why.Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, the researchers discovered that a gene called…

After the worst wildfires in more than a century ravaged Maui’s west coast, one of the first places Timothy Griffith Jr. visited was Lahaina’s historic banyan tree.Maui County’s chief arborist had seen the drone footage and social media posts and feared the worst: Griffith imagined the 151-year-old tree reduced to a pile of ash.So when he arrived at the scene the day after the fire, he was surprised to find the country’s largest banyan tree still standing, although its leaves were curled and brown. There was some living tissue under the bark near the base of the trunk, a sign…

Bangladesh A scores a joyous victory over Pakistan A Dhaka, 29 July 2024 (BSS) – Captain Mahmudul Hasan Joy’s all-round performance led Bangladesh A to an emotional victory over Pakistan A by five runs in the second and final match of the four-day series in Darwin, Australia today. As a result, Bangladesh A (originally the Bangladesh High Performance (HP) team) drew the two-match series. Pakistan Shaheens, playing for Pakistan A, won the first match by 148 runs. Resuming the match at 136-4 and needing a further 160 to win, Pakistan A eventually fell six short, largely due to Joy, who…

TOKYO — The foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the United States said Monday they were seriously concerned by threatening and dangerous actions in the South China Sea and pledged to strengthen maritime security in the region.The joint statement was issued after talks between the so-called Quad countries in Tokyo attended by Australia’s Penny Wong, India’s Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japan’s Yoko Kamikawa and US counterpart Antony Blinken.At security talks between the United States and Japan on Sunday, the two countries described China as “the greatest strategic challenge facing the region.””We are deeply concerned about the situation in the East and…

Ankika Biswas and Johan M. Cherian(Reuters) – Futures tracking major U.S. stock indexes rose on Monday after recent selling as investors braced for a busy week ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision, earnings reports from big tech companies and a key jobs report.While Wall Street’s main stock indexes tumbled last week amid a sell-off in big tech stocks, shares of Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon.com Inc and Meta Platforms Inc rose between 0.7% and 1.1% before the close.Shares in electric car maker Tesla rose 1.4% after brokerage Morgan Stanley added the stock to its list of U.S. auto stocks as…