A potentially deadly "flesh-eating" bacteria has killed five people in Louisiana this year, a sharp rise from the state's typical death toll.
Health officials are warning beachgoers to take extra precautions before heading into the water.
Vibrio vulnificus is part of a wider group of Vibrio bacteria. Found primarily in warm, coastal waters, it can cause serious, potentially life-threatening infections when contaminated seawater enters an open wound, according to the CDC.
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Infections can also occur when someone eats raw or undercooked shellfish, especially oysters.

#found #waters #infections #Health

Aaron Donald has taken a step to actually come out of retirement.
Donald had an official workout with the Los Angeles Rams on Wednesday. While that doesn't mean he's back on their roster just yet, it's a sign that he's at the very least testing the waters for a possible return.
According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Donald wanted to do a workout in a football helmet again. He did not wear pads during the workout, but he used Rams team equipment and did the workout at their facility. That required the Rams to report it to the NFL — which is why his name appeared on the wire on Wednesday afternoon.
Donald was arguably the best defensive end in the NFL before he retired after the 2023 NFL season. The 10-time Pro Bowler helped lead the Rams to a Super Bowl ****** le in the 2021 campaign, and was named the Defensive Player of the Year three times. He had eight sacks and earned an All-Pro nod in his final season in the league, too.
Rumors that he may unretire started surfacing in recent weeks, especially after the Rams struck a deal to bring in Myles Garrett — who is now arguably the top defensive end in football. The duo, even with Donald now at 35 years old and several years away from the game, would undoubtedly be a strong defensive front for the Rams this fall.

#donald #Football #aaron

Chelsea have now emerged as serious contenders in the growing race for Jhon Lucumi, with Quotidiano Sports reporting that Bologna's defender is attracting renewed and increasingly forceful attention from the Premier League.
The situation is developing quickly. Juventus have already seen an opening proposal rejected and, despite returning with an improved package, they remain short of Bologna's asking price. That has created **** e for English clubs to test the waters, and Chelsea are understood to be among those doing exactly that.
The numbers outlined are clear. Juventus opened with an offer worth £15 million plus £3 million in bonuses, before raising that to £18 million plus add-ons. Bologna's position, though, has barely shifted. Their valuation remains £25 million plus £3 million, a figure they were prepared to accept elsewhere and one they now appear determined to protect.
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From Chelsea's perspective, the interest makes sense. Bologna's Colombian centre-back fits a profile that has become increasingly relevant in the market, a left-sided central defender with top-level experience and a reputation for composure in possession. With movement around Chelsea's defensive options continuing, Lucumi has clearly entered the club's thinking.

#defender #increasingly #jhon #sports

Nate Rouette and his brother Nelson went shark fishing on Cape Cod hoping for an exciting catch, but were shocked by what they reeled in -- a tropical species of shark with a reputation for eating everything it can swallow.
The brothers, longtime sport fishermen who live in Massachusetts, released a juvenile tiger shark in late July after catching it from a beach. The five-foot shark is far more common in warmer, southern waters such as the Caribbean Sea, and scientists said its appearance off Falmouth, Massachusetts, is an indicator of warming seas caused by climate change.
Nate and Nelson said the late-night catch was a thrill after hours of seeking far more common brown sharks.
"And I saw those horizontal lines, indicating it was a tiger shark, which was super cool," said Nate, who is the social media manager for On The Water magazine. "Immediately I started yelling to my brother, 'It's a tiger, it's a tiger shark!' And he was in disbelief."
The Rouette brothers caught a young specimen of a shark that can grow to more than 15 feet (4.6 meters) and 1,400 pounds (635 kilograms). Tiger sharks eat a wide array of other ocean life, including fish, crustaceans and birds, and are famous for sometimes eating man-made items such as old license plates and shoes that are later found in their stomachs. The adults are also more dangerous to humans than most shark species, though unprovoked fatal bites are rare.

#nelson #massachusetts #catch #species

The UFC still hasn't officially announced the main or co-main event for UFC 331 on September 19th in Los Angeles, but reliable reports have Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan set to fight for the second time on the card.
Oliveira and Tsarukyan fought for the first time at UFC 300, which saw Tsarukyan take a razor-thin split decision win. There's plenty of arguments amongst "Do Bronx" and "Akhalkalakets" fans as to who really deserved the judges' nod. And then there's Dustin Poirier, who believes a wardrobe malfunction cost Oliveira a first round submission win.
"Listen, it was a close fight, but they had a malfunction with the clothing that saved Arman," Poirier said on the Deep Waters podcast. "I don't know how **** ody else is talking about this. Coming from a guy who knows how to miss guillotines, he would have gotten that guillotine if those shorts wouldn't have slipped off."
Oliveira did indeed catch Tsarukyan in an extremely tight guillotine in the first round of their UFC 300 fight, only for Tsarukyan's pants to slip off past his **** as the Georgian fighter escaped.
"The shorts slipped off and it allowed him to get out of Charles' guard," Poirier insisted. "Pull that up, HQ. He had full guard, locked in guillotine. Arman started to get his hips down, his shorts came down which allowed Charles' guard to come off and saved Arman. It saved him."

#fight

Having tested the waters of managerial free agency, Mauricio Pochettino has decided to dive back into the world of international soccer, signing a new four-year deal to remain head coach of the U.S. Men's National Team.
His role since September 2024, Pochettino had little time to prepare his side for a home FIFA World Cup this summer. Ultimately, his team played some scintillating soccer at times as they won their group and their first knockout stage game since 2002, before being humbled in the Round of 16 by Belgium as they waved farewell to hopes of reaching their first quarterfinal in 24 years.
Pochettino's initial contract expired following the World Cup, leaving his future, and that of the USMNT, in the air in recent weeks. However, on Monday, U.S. Soccer announced that the Argentine had returned to guide the USMNT through this next World Cup cycle, which will culminate with the tournament in Morocco, Spain, and Portugal - should they qualify.
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#pochettino #since #first #mauricio

A sanctioned tanker loaded with crude is leaving a growing trail of oil in protected waters off the coast of Oman, according to newly reviewed satellite images, as experts warn the stranded vessel could break apart during the region's rough monsoon season.
Satellite images reviewed by The ****** ociated Press show an oil sheen covering roughly 20 square kilometers, or about 8 square miles, around Dhofar's Qibliyah Island, part of Oman's protected Hallaniyat Islands. Dark patches of crude have also reached the shoreline. Experts say the leak has worsened in recent days, fueling fears that rough weather could trigger a much larger spill.
"The last few days, the imagery indicates an increase in oil coming out, as the size of the sheen is growing," Wim Zwijnenburg, an environmental expert with the Dutch peace organization PAX, told the AP.
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This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows crude oil leaking and spreading from the sanctioned Suezmax tanker Caroline Bezengi grounded off the coast of Oman, on Friday, July 31, 2026.

#sanctioned

LONDON (AP) — Icelandic coast guards and special forces seized a ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson and detained its crew, officials in the Arctic island nation said Saturday.
The Icelandic Coast Guard said the crew of whaling ship Hvalur 9 requested **** istance on Thursday evening because they believed their safety was under threat from the protest vessel Bandero. It said the Bandero ignored coast guards' instructions to leave Icelandic waters, and later an order to stop its engines.
Coast guards and the police special forces Viking Squad boarded the vessel around midnight on Thursday and detained its crew. Watson was not aboard.
The Captain Paul Watson Foundation confirmed in a statement that the vessel had been seized. It said the 21 crew members were being detained aboard the ship without their phones.
The ship arrived Friday in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, and police have taken over the investigation, the coast guard agency said. Icelandic national broadcaster RUV reported that police will seek to deport the crew and ban them from returning to Iceland.

#ship #guards #police

Michelle Yeoh has been enjoying her summer overseas in the Bahamas.
The 63-year-old shared an intimate look into her romantic tropical getaway on social media alongside her husband Jean Todt, 79.
The couple was seen embracing as they walked knee-deep through the turquoise waters together. Michelle kept her cool with a gray long-sleeve shirt, white hat, and black sunglasses, as she showed off her elongated legs.
Jean also kept it casual with a gray t-shirt and white shorts, while holding onto his sneakers in one hand.
Michelle shared a sweet moment online (Instagram)

#michelle #gray #todt

Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt celebrated their 3rd anniversary where they first got engaged
The couple was engaged for 19 years before marrying in July 2023 after over two decades together
Their second wedding in Malaysia featured nods to Yeoh's Hollywood career, including her Oscar statuette
Michelle Yeoh and her husband Jean Todt are celebrating 3 years of marriage in the place where they first got engaged.
The Oscar winner, 63, shared a few photos on her Instagram on Thursday, July 30, as she celebrated her 3rd wedding anniversary with her husband, Jean Todt. In the picturesque snap, Yeoh could be seen standing in clear, blue waters in the Bahamas alongside her longtime partner.

#yeoh #jean #todt #first

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — As if two-way player Travis Hunter doesn't already have enough on his plate.
The week before the Jacksonville Jaguars opened training camp, Hunter was photographed wearing a police vest posing with Sheriff T.K. Waters and members of the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department. It had the look of a ride-along, though Hunter wasn't saying.
"I was just out there just having fun with Sheriff T.K.," Hunter said Friday.
Hunter, the Heisman Trophy winner out of Colorado whom the Jaguars made the No. 2 pick in last year's draft, has enough to keep him occupied in training camp. Hunter is returning from injury, his rookie year ending two months into the season when he tore knee ligaments during noncontact drills.
In seven games, he played 324 snaps at receiver and 162 snaps at cornerback. The plan to use him on both sides of the ball has not changed, especially after the Jaguars shored up the core of their secondary by re-signing Montaric "Buster" Brown in March.

#snaps

Orlando Bloom and Swiss model Luisa Laemmel were spotted snorkeling together in Sardinia days after visiting another exclusive Italian beach
The pair were first linked earlier this year after being seen together at the Super Bowl and traveling to Zurich, InStyle reported
Bloom's July outings come a year after his split from Katy Perry, who is now dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Just when you thought Sardinia's waters couldn't get any warmer, Orlando Bloom and Luisa Laemmel show up.
On Wednesday, July 29, the Lord of the Rings actor, 49, was spotted on the beach with the Swiss model, 28, during a sun-soaked day in Sardinia, the Italian island located in the Mediterranean.

#bloom #luisa

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday, prompting local officials to call on Spain to declare a national emergency and send the army to restore the frontier.
Spain's interior ministry said it would guarantee the safety of citizens and the integrity of the nation's border, but that the government could not declare a national emergency over migration concerns.
Video footage showed crowds of people, mainly Moroccans, walking around the breakwaters at Tarajal beach onto local roads. While the majority appeared to be young men, there were also families with women and children. "Viva España!" some shouted to a freelance photographer working for The ***** ociated Press.
Spain is a main point of arrival into Europe for migrants seeking better economic opportunities or an escape from violence in their home countries.
The escalation at the border between Spain and Morocco comes after a surge in migrants attempting to reach the small exclave, mainly by swimming.

#ceuta #local #mainly

DUBAI, July 28 (Reuters) - Iran has proposed to Oman a temporary arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz ‌under which one direction of traffic would pass through Iranian ‌waters and part of the opposite route would also be in Iranian waters, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told state television on Tuesday.
Gharibabadi said Tehran rejected an Omani proposal for an equal division of transit routes between the two countries, saying such a plan did ‌not address Tehran's security ⁠concerns until long-term regional stability is achieved.
He said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed if Muscat ⁠rejected Iran's proposal, adding that Tehran had never recognised the southern route along Oman's coast.
Gharibabadi also said Tehran had made it clear to Muscat that it no longer recognised the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), ‌arguing that this pathway roughly in the middle of the waterway lies mostly within Omani waters and runs contrary to Iran's need to monitor transiting vessels after being attacked by the U.S. and Israel in late February.
The TSS, adopted by the International Maritime ‌Organization, is currently unusable due to the risk of mines and has been replaced with Iran's northern route and Oman's southern route.

#route #tehran #muscat #TRAFFIC

A former college soccer player has been identified as the 26-year-old woman found dead in the waters off San Diego's La Jolla Shores Beach as investigators work to determine what happened.
Emergency personnel responded around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday after reports of an unresponsive person floating in shallow water, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office said. Bryn Waite was ****** ounced dead at the scene.
The body was found near the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, FOX 5 San Diego reported.
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Bryn Waite, a former Central Washington University soccer player, was found dead in the waters off San Diego's La Jolla Shores Beach on July 22, 2026.

#dead #jolla #bryn

Chris Weidman sees welterweight champion Islam Makhachev frustrating Ian Machado Garry at UFC 330.
Makhachev (28-1 MMA, 17-1 UFC) makes his first ****** le defense against Machado Garry (17-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) in the Aug. 15 main event at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia (Paramount+). Makhachev claimed the welterweight ****** le at UFC 322 by taking down Jack Della Maddalena four times and controlling him for more than 19 minutes.
"I think this is going to be a really stressful fight for Ian Garry," Weidman said on "Deep Waters." "I don't think he's going to be as comfortable because he's going to be sh*tting his pants about the takedown because he sees how good Islam is on the ground, and Islam is going to throw hard on the feet, too."
Machado Garry has been criticized for his fighting style, which Weidman believes will benefit him against Makhachev.
"The best thing that he's got going for him is that he's not afraid to have a boring fight," Weidman said of Machado Garry. "He's not afraid to use footwork, run non-stop. He has no problem running from you the whole ****** time."

#makhachev #think

Mike Perry and Dillon Danis are venturing into new waters.
The two well-known combat sports names have agree to meet in an MMA bout on Aug. 29 at the Kia Center in Orlando, headlining the debut combat event from online crypto casino and sportsbook DuelBet. The show will be held under the "Duel: Arena" promotional banner, organized by veteran MMA matchmaker Dean Toole, featuring a hybrid card composed of MMA, kickboxing and boxing bouts.
The card, including Perry vs. Danis, will take place in a ring rather than a cage, per MMA Fighting. Toole told the outlet that the Aug. 29 lineup will additionally include "some influencer bouts as well, and a few [other] UFC vets" to be announced soon.
Perry (15-8 MMA) made his successful return to MMA in May with a second-round stoppage of Nate Diaz on MVP MMA's Rousey vs. Carano event on Netflix.
Prior to that, "Platinum" hadn't competed in MMA since exiting the UFC in 2021. Over that five-year gap, Perry emerged as the face of bare-knuckle boxing, rattling off a perfect 6-0 record in BKFC buoyed by brutal wins over a cascade of UFC veterans, including former champions Luke Rockhold and Eddie Alvarez, and current contender Michael Page.

#danis #toole #well #including

Arsenal's midfield plans are coming into sharper focus, and Bruno Guimaraes remains right near the top of the list. According to Ben Jacobs, the Gunners are likely to come back with another attempt for the Newcastle United captain, with Mikel Arteta pushing for more quality and control in the centre of the pitch.
The basic issue is straightforward. Newcastle value Guimaraes at £100 million or more. ******* nal's opening verbal offer is understood to be roughly half that. That gap is huge, and in modern transfer terms it tells you everything. One club wants to test the waters, the other wants to make it clear there is no discount aisle here.
There is also a familiar layer to this. Newcastle's public line is that Guimaraes is not for sale. ******* nal's position is that they know what the player is worth to them, and they are not going to wander into a bidding war for the sake of it. If Newcastle are willing to talk properly, there may be a deal to discuss. If not, ******* nal will move on.
From a football perspective, the interest makes sense. Guimaraes gives ******* nal intensity, technical security and personality. He can dictate tempo, handle pressure and add bite in midfield. Those are premium qualities, and they are exactly why Newcastle can hold such a hard line on the fee.
Timing also matters. Guimaraes still has two years left on his contract, plus an extra club option. Newcastle are under no immediate pressure to sell, which means ******* nal are negotiating against a club with little urgency and plenty of leverage.

#guimaraes #arsenal #wants

Raging flood waters rushed into cars and homes after a water main break today. Two men scrambled to get out of a sinkhole that opened up near Sunset Boulevard. NBC News' Steve Patterson reports from the scene.

A former California reserve deputy sheriff has been identified as the person who died after a pleasure boat carrying members of an extended family capsized in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island.
Clifford Joseph Boisa, 79, of Sutter County, died after the three-level recreational vessel sank Tuesday afternoon with 20 people aboard, authorities said. The Sutter County Sheriff's Office confirmed to Fox News Digital that Boisa served as a reserve deputy sheriff beginning in 1987.
Three passengers remained missing Wednesday after 16 others were rescued, including three people who were taken to local hospitals.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it planned to suspend its search for the three missing passengers at sunset after crews spent roughly 23 hours searching more than 950 nautical square miles of San Francisco Bay.
"We have completely saturated the search area," Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Commander Capt. Jarod Tosczko said during a Wednesday news conference, thanking Good Samaritans who helped rescue people from the water.

By Bianca Flowers
CHICAGO, July 14 (Chicago) - Civil rights leaders announced plans on Tuesday for a Washington march to defend voting rights, saying recent court decisions have ‌weakened key federal protections against racial discrimination in voting.
The coalition — led by Rev. ‌Al Sharpton's National Action Network and joined by Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, and labor and civil rights groups — will host the "March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote" march on August 28. That will mark the 63rd anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Organizers said they hope to use the event to ‌pressure lawmakers and rally a response ⁠to the erosion of voting protections.
The campaign centers on the Supreme Court's April ruling weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a key ⁠provision used to challenge voting laws and electoral maps that discriminate on the basis of race or dilute minority voting power. Organizers said the decision has intensified a long-running fight over Black political representation.

Conor McGregor is getting no sympathy from his former rival, Dustin Poirier.
McGregor, a former two-division UFC champion, promised the greatest comeback in sports history in his rematch against Max Holloway at UFC 329 Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event marked McGregor's first fight since breaking his leg in a trilogy fight against Poirier in 2021.
Unfortunately for McGregor, his return failed miserably. McGregor injured his knee with the first kick he threw, and the bout was stopped shortly after.
While some feel bad for McGregor, Poirier doesn't sympathize with the Irishman. Apart from their rivalry, in which McGregor took personal shots at Poirier and his wife, McGregor has tainted his image in the public with numerous altercations at bars and clubs, and most notably was found liable in a civil case for ***** ual ***** ault in 2018.
"It couldn't have happened to a better guy," Poirier said on Deep Waters. "That injury couldn't have happened to a better guy. I saw earlier this week, he said, 'Karma is a mirror,' and it definitely is. This guy is a dirtbag. I don't know if it was nervous energy. I don't know why he would start a fight like that. They're saying this was planned to start the fight, like training to open the fight like that with this jump kick. But I just don't understand why he would. That's like a Hail Mary. You're throwing a Hail Mary to start a 25-minute fight. I don't understand what's going on with that."

Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart has been ranked as the SEC's best in USA TODAY's SEC coach rankings by Blake Toppmeyer. Smart has won three of the last four SEC championships.
Smart is entering his 11th season at Georgia. The Bulldogs are 117-21 over the first 10 years of Smart's career. Georgia has won two national championships and four SEC championships during the Smart era, so it should come as no surprise that he's the SEC best ranked coach entering the 2026 season.
"Smart doesn't rule college football with the same authority he did a few years ago, but he retains clear superiority over his SEC peers," Toppmeyer wrote. "Smart's ability to recruit, retain and develop talent remains a weapon, even in this era of transfer free agency. Georgia is still a perennial contender and built to last amid the sport's constant state of evolution."
Smart's teams have remained consistent SEC championship participants and College Football Playoff contenders despite shifting waters due to the transfer portal, changing rules and name, image and likeness.
Only three active coaches have wins over Smart with Alabama's Kalen DeBoer being the only one to earn multiple head-to-head wins against coach Smart. Alabama has had success against Georgia, but Smart and the Dawgs were able to shut down that narrative a bit with a dominant 28-7 SEC championship win over the Crimson Tide in December.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States, the United Kingdom and a dozen other Western and Asian countries reasserted on Sunday that China's expansive claims in the South China Sea are illegal based on a 2016 arbitration ruling.
A joint statement issued by the 14 nations said they rejected "destabilizing" actions in the disputed waters that threaten regional stability. The 27-nation European Union released a separate statement, reaffirming the ruling as a "landmark decision in the peaceful settlement of disputes."
The statements commemorated a July 12, 2016, arbitration ruling by a tribunal established in The Hague under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, saying the landmark decision is "is final and legally binding."
China reiterated Sunday that the ruling was "null and void and has no binding force" and Beijing "neither accepts nor recognizes it."
China refused to join the arbitration initiated by the Philippines in 2013 after a tense standoff in the contested waters a year earlier that ended with Beijing effectively seizing a disputed shoal.

What time is Norway vs. England? Live stream, TV channel, kickoff schedule for World Cup 2026 quarterfinal match originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
England and Norway clash in a compelling quarterfinal battle that fields one of the tournament's true heavyweights against an ambitious squad fresh off a historic giant-killing.
The Three Lions navigated a chaotic match at the Azteca to edge Mexico 3-2, preserving the win despite a costly second-half red card following Jude Bellingham's clinical first-half brace and an ice-cool, 60th-minute penalty from Harry Kane.
Norway booked their spot in the final eight by shocking Brazil, fueled by a sensational second-half double from Erling Haaland, who continues to push Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi to the absolute limit in a thrilling Golden Boot race.
This stage is familiar territory for England, which made the quarterfinals in 2022 and the semifinals in 2018 as they continue their decades-long quest for a trophy, whereas Norway is charting entirely new waters by advancing further than they ever have in their four World Cup appearances.

What time is Norway vs. England? Live stream, TV channel, kickoff schedule for World Cup 2026 quarterfinal match originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
England and Norway clash in a compelling quarterfinal battle that fields one of the tournament's true heavyweights against an ambitious squad fresh off a historic giant-killing.
The Three Lions navigated a chaotic match at the Azteca to edge Mexico 3-2, preserving the win despite a costly second-half red card following Jude Bellingham's clinical first-half brace and an ice-cool, 60th-minute penalty from Harry Kane.
Norway booked their spot in the final eight by shocking Brazil, fueled by a sensational second-half double from Erling Haaland, who continues to push Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi to the absolute limit in a thrilling Golden Boot race.
This stage is familiar territory for England, which made the quarterfinals in 2022 and the semifinals in 2018 as they continue their decades-long quest for a trophy, whereas Norway is charting entirely new waters by advancing further than they ever have in their four World Cup appearances.

By Adrian Portugal and Karen Lema
MASINLOC, Philippines, July 10 (Reuters) - The Philippines may have won a landmark victory against China's claims in the South China Sea 10 years ago, but today local fishermen have become too afraid to venture out to Scarborough Shoal and ‌its prized fishing waters for fear of harassment by Chinese vessels.
The shoal, one of Asia's most hotly contested maritime areas, has been under ‌China's de facto control since 2012. In 2016, an international tribunal — the Permanent Court of Arbitration — ruled Beijing's sweeping maritime claims had no basis under law.
The waters at the shoal, which China calls Huangyan Dao, are traditional fishing grounds shared by multiple nations, including the Philippines, China and Vietnam, the tribunal said. It did not rule on which country had sovereignty over the shoal.
Many fishermen from the coastal town of Masinloc used to go to the shoal at times when they thought Chinese vessels might not be there such as at night. Now they don't even do that, saying that China has only increased its efforts to block them and chase them away.

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - A zoo in southwestern China locked lions, bears and wolves in their cages as deadly flooding triggered by Typhoon Maysak swept through the region, ‌a decision that the animal rights group PETA on Friday called "unconscionable."
Earlier this week, a zoo ‌in the city of Guigang - one of the hardest-hit cities in the southwestern region of Guangxi - locked up animals to prevent them from escaping when flooding hit the city, Red Star News, a regional outlet, reported.
Three lions drowned and more than 100 animals went missing.
"We didn't want to create more trouble for the country when the floods came and let dangerous animals escape and hurt people," Red Star News cited the owner ‌of the Guigang Zoo as saying.
Floodwaters ⁠at the zoo rose to more than 2 metres (6.6 feet).

Hello from somewhere north of Stockholm where I've been jumping into my texts and emails the past day during connecting trains and such to configure some final fine tuning for Mock Draft 2.0 from The Sporting Tribune, roughly 24 hours before the first selection.
Time to write hasn't come at a luxury, so sorry for the month-plus gap between Mock 1.0 and Mock 2.0, and that it comes just a day ahead of the draft itself.
While some of the waters have cleared, it's still pretty muddy at the top and throughout the first round.
Most players who will have their name called in the first 50-100 picks have already had their parties express their bonus demands, and the real wheeling and dealing started right after the MLB Draft Combine where most (not all, or close to it) turned in their medicals and there has been some financial maneuvering on all fronts to turn the draft into a more "open market" to some degree.
Add in finances with peak data, performance across all forms of amateur ball, age relevance, development windows, makeup, variance and private workout data; and suddenly, everyone has an internal model to lean on. While you can never say it's an end all item, models have taken over the draft heavier than in-house opinions which means some players have made serious leaps and bounds no matter what the previous feeling or connection was from club-player-agent.

A Giant has finally splashed down into McCovey Cove. The 109th baseball to be baptized in the icy Bay waters was the first by a San Francisco Giant in 2026, and the first of Bryce Eldridge’s career.
It was a doozy too. Well…a doozy compared to recent Splash Hits. Measured on the Bondsian Scale, Eldridge’s would qualify as roughly a “routine fly.” It didn’t do a fifth or sixth archway flyover, nor burst into flames as it broke through the atmosphere on its descent — but it wasn’t cheap either. The game-tying shot in the 4th took a direct route down the right-field line and cleared the boardwalk railing below by plenty. Considering the pitch he hit, a hung slider off the inside of the plate, didn’t veer off foul is a testament to the quality of Eldridge’s contact. The ball hissed off his bat at 106 MPH, traveling 394 feet before it got soaked.
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Eldridge is the 33rd Giant, and at 21 years of age, the youngest to launch a Splash Hit in their career, and first since Rafael Devers in September of last year. While we’re already on the doorstep of the All-Star Break, this was not the latest fans have had to wait for a ball to go spelunking into the Cove. Stephen Vogt’s off Philly’s Drew Smyly ended the drought in 2019 on August 9th. Brandon Belt hit one on September 25th, 2014, and he hit one again 20 months later, off Boston’s David Price, in June of 2016 — no other ball got wet off a Giants bat in the meantime. 2015 remains the only dry season in the 27 year history of the park at 3rd and King.
The best part of Eldridge’s Splash Hit: it helped the Giants win. The solo homer evened the score and kicked off a string of seven unanswered runs for the San Francisco offense, culminating in a 4-run outburst in the 8th that secured an 8-2 victory over the Rockies.