Brilliant Neymar can shine in Messi’s absence The Bavarians are on track to win their fifth consecutive Bundesliga title, while they are still in the race for Champions League and DFB-Pokal glory too. Nevertheless, Muller has stressed Bayern have won nothing yet after receiving a scare from surprise title contenders RB Leipzig earlier in the season. “Let’s wait for the important games first,” said Muller in the wake of Saturday’s 6-0 win over Augsburg....

Several emergency units, including numerous firefighters and at least three medics were called to the Spooky Nook Sports complex at 2:26 p.m. after a fight prompted a crowd of athletes and spectators to flee the complex, reported Lancaster Online. As a result, several people were reportedly trampled. Diane Garber, an official with the East Hempfield Township Police Department, said officers were initially dispatched to the sports complex for a report of shots fired....

Sport and Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford was locked down while DEA agents, State police and local officers searched the area, after the teenager reportedly collapsed and fell unconscious in a gymnasium on Thursday. Several bags containing what appeared, according to an initial analysis, to be fentanyl—the highly addictive and deadly drug—were later found by drug-sniffing dogs. Initial reports found that a school nurse gave the 13-year-old CPR before Hartford Fire Department personnel took over, a Hartford Fire Department official said....

But when family members kill each other, the straightforward facts are often the least important part of the story. For three years the brothers sat in jail, protesting their innocence, while the courts debated whether prosecutors could use the most damning evidence against them, the taped notes of Erik’s therapist. Only months after the California Supreme Court ruled last year that the tapes were admissible did the brothers admit to the killings....

The 30-year-old regularly attends tennis matches and competitions, and has been in talks with ATP officials about the formation of a Tennis World Cup. Barca expect imminent Messi renewal Pique’s tournament would involve 16 countries and would take place over 10 days as an alternative to the Davis Cup, which is played over four weekends throughout the year. Scottish tennis player Andy Murray and Spain’s Rafael Nadal have both backed the proposal, saying that it would be great for the game....

Amy Winehouse is an odd musical spectacle. She’s a skinny, 23-year-old British girl who looks like she should be cooing ephemeral pop tunes, but instead, belts out deep, resonant numbers as though she’s possessed by Etta James, Lauryn Hill and Judy Garland. It reminds me of those creepy moments on “Star Search” when a preschooler would practically bleed Whitney Houston, even though the only pain she’d felt came from diaper rash....

Ferrer’s parting gift, “Mi Sueño,” is all about boleros—love ballads—and it’s hard to believe that any of these songs were done in more than one or two takes. They are underproduced, imperfect and beautiful. In “Dos Almas,” (“Two Souls”) when Ferrer pours his heart out over a lone piano, you can almost feel the aged booths and smell the rum of an after-hours Havana nightclub. His voice is still sweet and emotive, but there are also a few rough edges that come with age—and it makes these songs all the more moving....

Philip M. Close, 43, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced to 50 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles A. Siragusa, a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Tuesday said. He pleaded guilty to 74 charges in March, including 61 counts of production of child pornography, and 13 counts of possession of material containing child pornography involving prepubescent minors. Close owned the Close School of Music on West Ridge Road in Parma, New York, between 2016 and 2019 and provided private music lessons to children of all ages, prosecutors said....

Despite recently signing a new contract with Chelsea that lasts until 2022, the 21-year-old had long lined up for a loan move and had attracted interest from the likes of Real Betis, Bournemouth, Newcastle United, Watford and West Bromwich Albion. However, it is the Scottish champions who have won the battle, landing his services until the end of the 2018-19 campaign after he went through a medical in Glasgow on Monday....

When I step out into the hall, I know for certain where I am. I see people walking with canes, many with walkers. Some walking devices are fancy enough to be considered fashion accessories; they are equipped with gadgets and come in assorted colors. Then there are the wheelchairs: the automated, padded ones being top of the line. And if none of those do the trick, there are aides on hand to support the more fragile inmates....

From Neymar and Eden Hazard to Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, the festival of football provides supporters the most star-studded event in all of world sport. And two legends of the game are every bit as excited as you, all set for a thrilling few weeks that promise to deliver yet more great goals that will go down among the all-time greats. Real Madrid and Wales star Gareth Bale, and Manchester City and Argentina’s Sergio Aguero, are back to bring you yet more unforgettable head-to-head clashes as Nissan’s My Goal of the Week debates returns....

My beautiful mother, stretched on the bed that ascends and descends–if Sheherezade told one more tale for the “Thousand and One Nights” it could be “The Magic Bed”–covered in an electronic array that breathes life into her and feeds her nourishment through her nose and sedatives through her arm. My mother, the Muslim, whose unveiled opinions and unbridled voice believed that oppression was a sin and justice was righteousness. My mother who was fourteen years old when she married, and had been forbidden the right to read or write....

I am Brandon, the NASCAR driver and unlikely meme. A 28-year-old who now finds himself in the middle of the American political conversation. As a pro driver, I never expected to be in the passenger seat of my own viral moment. On October 2, I won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Talladega—my first major win. It was a hell of a moment for me, my family, my team and my sponsors....

A music theory professor at the University of North Texas published a critique of another scholar’s critical-race argument about music theory and his dean opened an investigation in the name of reaffirming “our dedication to combatting racism on campus and across all academic disciplines.” A Princeton professor of Classics came under fire for a dissenting letter against his colleagues’ racial justice demands and faced professional consequences as a result. A professor at University of North Carolina was accused of creating an “unsafe learning environment” for a pedagogical role-play exercise on social and economic justice....

It was with considerable satisfaction, therefore, that I succeeded last weekend not only in goading an airline into redeploying a few employees to help out myself and several dozen other passengers who had been stranded overnight at Chicago’s O’Hare International, but in demonstrating first-hand to top airline officials a measure of the discomfort and inconvenience that they routinely visit upon legions of paying, and often loyal, customers. There are lessons here for all travelers....

The difference between myringosclerosis and tympanosclerosis is that in myringosclerosis, the calcium only deposits on the eardrum, and in tympanosclerosis, calcium deposits appear on the eardrum and the middle ear structures. This article explains the symptoms, causes, and treatment of myringosclerosis and tympanosclerosis. Symptoms of Myringosclerosis and Tympanosclerosis Myringosclerosis usually does not cause any symptoms, but it can sometimes be associated with a very mild conductive hearing loss. Hearing loss is more common with tympanosclerosis....

The rocket—jointly developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian Space Agency—was carrying a United Arab Emirates (UAE) imaging satellite as its payload. The payload has now been lost, Space News reported. The 30 meter, four-stage rocket lifted off from the Kourou-based spaceport at 9:53 p.m. EDT on July 10. However, around two minutes into the flight, the rocket began deviating from its designated route during the second stage engine burn, before crashing into the Atlantic Ocean....

Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky informed Russia’s Mission Control about the incident at around 5 a.m. Moscow time on Thursday, reported news agency RIA. An examination found there were harmful substances in the medical cabinet of the ISS module. The French astronaut Thomas Pesquet said the smell of burnt plastic or electronics had managed to penetrate from the Russian module to the American segment of the ISS through the ventilation system....

A family came across the missive in a sealed bottle buried on a beach in Hopewell Rocks, Bay of Funday, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick four years ago. The letter, dated April 13, 1912, is written in French and signed by Mathilde Lefebvre, who was 13 years old. It says: “I am throwing this bottle into the sea in the middle of the Atlantic. We are due to arrive in New York in a few days....