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http://ift.tt/2rojgxe Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after winning his match against Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina during the ATP Tennis Open tournament on May 20, 2017 at the Foro Italico in Rome. / AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI Defending champion Novak Djokovic and nine-time winner Rafael Nadal were drawn to face each other in a blockbuster French Open semi-final on Friday. Nadal is chasing a 10th title at Roland Garros while second seed Djokovic, working with new coach Andre Agassi, is looking to defend the only major he still holds. World number one Andy Murray is seeded to face 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka in the last four. Murray starts against Russia’s Andrey Kuznetsov, Djokovic tackles Spanish clay courter Marcel Granollers while Nadal meets combustible Frenchman Benoit Paire. If the seedings work out, 2016 runner-up Murray, who is reportedly suffering from an illness, would face Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the last eight. The other quarter-finals would see Wawri...

http://ift.tt/2qfQLOa This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 22, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) smiling while inspecting the test-fire of a ground-to-ground medium-to-long range strategic ballistic missile Pukguksong-2. North Korea on May 22 declared its medium-range Pukguksong-2 missile ready for deployment after a weekend test, the latest step in its quest to defy UN sanctions and develop a weapon capable of striking US targets. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT President Donald Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un a “madman with nuclear weapons” during a telephone call with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, according to a transcript of the conversation released by US media Tuesday. A White House readout of the April 29 call characterized it as a “very friendly conversation.” Days after the conversation, Trump said publicly that he would be “honore...

http://ift.tt/2qfAZD4 This handout photo released by Uppsala University on May 23, 2017, shows a seed beetle's penis, as seen through a microscope in a laboratory at the Uppsala University. Males of the species, it has long been known, boast an imposing member resembling a medieval, spike-studded steel ball mounted on a metal shaft. "The penis is covered in hundreds of sharp spines which pierce the female reproductive tract during mating," explained Liam Dougherty, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Western Australia in Crawley, and lead author of a study that asks a deceptively simple question: how do females cope? The answer — based on a decade of laboratory experiments spanning 100 seed beetle generations — reveals a remarkable story of adaptation, and an evolutionary tit-for-tat that Dougherty likens to a "sexual 'arms race'." "When males evolved to increase male harm, the females co-evolved to reduce that harm," and in more w...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Police in the northern English city of Manchester are investigating an incident at the Arndale shopping centre, an officer at the scene said on Tuesday. The centre in Manchester, England, was evacuated and witnesses said they heard a “big bang” on Tuesday, just hours after a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured 59 in the same area of the city. Scores of people ran away from the center, a Reuters witness said. “There are people coming out holding hands,” a Reuters photographer said. The post Manchester police say probing ‘an incident’ at Arndale shopping centre appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2qQxG8m

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In a bid to honour one of their own, Ika south constituency is organizing the first annual football match in honour of Hon Festus Okoh, member representing the constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly. The football match will be held Sunday at Agbor township stadium by 3pm. The match will be between Udomi and Ohunmere communities both of Ika south The post Delta: Constituency lauds DTHA member appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2qKHH4W