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Newcastle United booked their spot in the final after overcoming Southampton 3-1 on aggregate over two legs. Manchester United seized control of their tie with Nottingham Forest, claiming a 3-0 victory at the City Ground to put one foot in the final, and a 2-0 win at Old Trafford sealed their progress to Wembley. The two finalists will have a month to prepare for the final in London. Carabao Cup Semifinals The draw for the semis took place on January 11, with the first legs of the semi-finals played on January 24 and 25....

The rest of the schedule for the Carabao Cup, or the League Cup or EFL Cup as it is alternately known, consists of two-leg semifinals ahead of the final which is played at Wembley Stadium at the end of February. Reports claim that the semis could yet be reduced to single-match knockouts given schedule congestion caused by a spike in COVID-19 positive cases. Here’s everything you need to know about the rest of the Carabao Cup schedule....

The “WAP” rapper—whose given name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar—has had to defend her husband from cheating allegations before. According to Urban Islandz, an individual who identified himself as Nicki Minaj’s stylist made allegations that the Migos rapper Offset—real name Kiari Cephus—slept with Saweetie. “My Type” rapper Saweetie—real name Diamonté Quiava Valentin Harper—previously dated rapper Quavo, Offset’s bandmate. One of the tweets from Twitter user @@SleezeMaraj reads in part: “Offset deff f***** SAWEETIE THOU....

But maybe it’s not obvious just how good, so let’s sum it up: Entering Week 11, Murray is on pace to break the single-season record for fantasy points (non-PPR) going back to 1970. The current record is held by LaDainian Tomlinson, who scored 427.1 non-PPR points in 2006. The quarterback record is held by 2018 Patrick Mahomes just ahead of 2019 Lamar Jackson, at 417.1 (all data via Football Reference)....

Your heart is a muscle that continuously pumps blood with a regular rate and rhythm to send oxygen and nutrient rich blood throughout your body. An enlarged heart means that your heart has become either larger (dilated) or thicker or both. An enlarged heart may result in difficulty maintaining optimal heart pumping action, and thus may cause symptoms or consequences for your overall health. The heart may temporarily become enlarged due to stress on the body, the result of a pregnancy or because of a medical condition, such as coronary artery disease, arrhythmia or heart valve disease....

When he signed as a free agent with the Red Sox after the 2009 season, the deal included a club option for 2015 that would pay Lackey the MLB minimum if he missed significant time with a pre-existing elbow injury at any point between 2010 and 2014. The right-hander missed the 2012 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, while collecting his full $15.25 million salary. That meant Boston had that nearly freebie option....

Indeed, one of the largest employment websites for job listings has pointed out how the job market has become increasingly competitive. “To increase the applicant’s success, you must be able to draw the employer’s attention,” read the website’s career guide. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that it took jobseekers on average six applications to obtain one interview in an increasingly competitive job market. However, Bloom’s advice for drawing a potential employer’s attention is raising some eyebrows....

Kirsty Wallis, 35, and Angela Lawrence, 48, scammed the retiree inside her home at night after breaking into her key safe. After escaping with the widow’s beloved gifts worth 10,000 British pounds (nearly $12,000) from her late husband, they fraudulently used her bank card to buy chocolate and wine. The pair committed their crime after Wallis targeted another client suffering dementia, stealing his father’s rare WWI medals, then selling them as scrap metal....

The MV X-Press Pearl caught fire on May 20, as flame erupted on deck from what authorities believed to be a nitric acid leak, although Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that Sri Lankan authorities are launching a criminal investigation. The fire burned for 13 days before finally being extinguished on Tuesday, AFP reported. The Sri Lankan government and navy said this is the country’s worst marine disaster, as the sinking ship was carrying 1,486 containers filled with chemicals, including 25 metric tons of nitric acid....

First shared on Instagram and TikTok in 2020, the video was re-posted by u/billubaadshah on Friday. It received more than 51,000 votes and sparked a reaction among viewers. “Don’t f#ck with the Mercedes,” the title of the post read. A black bear is seen walking across a driveway toward a parked Mercedes in North Carolina. It peeks through the window before it opened the door. A group of people began screaming at the bear from a distance, and the bear stood up on its hind legs to get a better look at where the noise was coming from....

Edwards saw 2014 Cup champion Kevin Harvick as well as Matt Kenseth, Joey Logano and Ryan Newman make moves in recent years that resulted in improved performance. MORE: Sponsors in place | Don’t blame Edwards for wanting to change | Charlotte test and the future “I watched very carefully the guys who made changes the last few years. You look at Joey, Matt, Kevin, Ryan — it seems like a change really spurs a lot of performance,” Edwards said last week....

Passengers must either show a physical vaccine card or a digital vaccine certificate, or prove that they have purchased travel insurance before being allowed to cruise. Unvaccinated passengers 12 and older that are boarding Carnival ships are required to have travel insurance with a minimum of $10,000 per person in medical expenses and an emergency medical evacuation policy of at least $30,000. “The insurance policy must name the unvaccinated guest as the policyholder or beneficiary and may be purchased from a travel insurance company of the guest’s choosing or through Carnival Vacation Protection, which includes the required coverage,” Carnival’s policy said....

They’ve each been to a Super Bowl, they met in last year’s NFC title game, and either one or the other has been West division champion since Carroll’s arrival in 2010. Yet they enter Thanksgiving night’s showdown at San Francisco with identical 7-4 records, two games behind surprise leader Arizona … and each with obstacles to overcome this season that would put any coach’s ability and patience to the test....

It was personal. He said so himself. And he played like it, too, throwing for four touchdowns and leading the fateful drive that ended with Chandler Catanzaro’s 32-yard field goal and a 34-31 Cardinals win over the Bengals, for whom Palmer played his first eight NFL seasons before that relationship became irreparably damaged. MORE: Scoreboard | Week 12 opening lines It was personal because, now, in his third season in the desert, Palmer sees before him perhaps the best chance of his otherwise insipid career to win a playoff game....

Breathtaking as that number is, Dunlap’s colleagues, Wall Streeters and even activists who normally squawk about overpaid CEOs actually think he’s worth it. Nell Minnow, a ferocious critic of lavish corporate compensation who runs Washington’s Lens Inc. investment group, sums up the Zeitgeist: “He deserves all the money he gets.” Here’s why. When Dunlap took Scott’s helm in 1994, the company stock price had been mired in the teens throughout the 1990s and its debt was in the billions....

Speaking ahead of the weekend’s match against Boavista, Conceicao hit out at the 36-year-old for not treating his sessions with the expected urgency. The former Nantes boss has established himself as a strict disciplinarian and has revealed that the pair have held talks to explain why Jose Sa has instead been trusted with the responsibility of keeping goal for the Portuguese giants. Porto 6/5 to beat RB Leipzig “He’s trained below what I demand,” he said....

So as long as the founder of the Cuban revolution is around—writing, meeting foreign dignitaries, weighing in on issues like ethanol and the U.S. presidential election—two things will be clear. First, Raúl will be barely able to budge on even the modest economic or regulatory reforms he hopes, somewhat naively, will put food back on Cubans’ tables. Second, the younger Castro will be unable to replace the old guard in the top jobs with members of a younger generation....

With their escape, Cabral and his family became the latest statistics in the worst–and most overlooked–humanitarian crisis in the Americas: Colombia’s swelling legions of internal refugees. The escalation of violence in the countryside has forced more than 700,000 people to abandon their homes in the past three years, raising the total number of internal exiles to an estimated 1.5 million since 1985–a figure that is much larger than the number of ethnic Albanian refugees who fled Kosovo and that ranks third in the world, behind Sudan and Angola....

In footage shared on TikTok by the pet’s owner, under the username Borisxgregg, the grey cat can be seen kneading the golden retriever puppy, which, according to the Blue Cross animal charity, is a big sign of affection. While, in movies and cartoons, cats and dogs are usually portrayed as enemies, in real life they can be really good friends. A study by Italian scientists, published in Plos One journal, found that 64 percent of the dogs and cats analyzed by the study play together at least sometimes, and about a third of both cats and dogs engaged in nose-to-nose greetings....

His owner shared a clip to their TikTok page, @magnus_the_orange, earlier this week, which has been seen hundreds of thousands of times. The ginger tom, called Magnus, appears to look out of his depth as his owner filmed him high up among the branches, with the bird safely out of reach, just behind him. The on-screen caption says: “When you start a fight that you can’t finish.” And they then clarified who won the stand-off, adding: “Magpie 1 Magnus 0....