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Happy Halloween weekend! We kick off this edition of Scoreboard with an extremely niche but spooky fun fact: not one but two senior figure skating pairs teams are performing programmes this season to remixes of “In The End” by Linkin Park (feel old yet?), per results of Skate America last week.In the realm of the business of sport, however, we’ve had quite a few shockers. For one, a nearly decade-long tie-up between Adidas and Ye, the rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West, came to an ignominious end on Tuesday amid the artist’s recent hateful tirades. We dive into…

A new study finds that eating 56 grams of almonds daily — the equivalent of approximately 46 almonds — can improve gut health by promoting levels of butyrate.The research involved three groups replacing their regular snacks with whole almonds, ground almonds, or an energy-equivalent control muffin.The authors conclude that incorporating almonds into the diet could be a way of increasing fiber intake without triggering gut symptoms.We are still learning about the human microbiome, the 10–100 trillion microorganisms living in our bodies, primarily in the human gut. Piece by piece, researchers are putting together how this vast and tiny universe operates,…

HOUSTON — Understand who the Astros were this postseason through three innings of Game 1 of the 118th World Series: They were a team that had not lost since Oct. 3, in the regular season. They had played seven games this postseason, and had won all seven. They were a machine excelling in every facet and, in the moment, it was possible to see the opening three innings Friday night as their tour de force. The starting pitching had been excellent, Justin Verlander at his Cy Young apex. Nine up. Nine down. Just 36 pitches. He was, in a word,…

Major cryptocurrencies were trading in green early on October 29 as the global crypto market cap jumped over $1 trillion from $979.72 billion on the previous day. The overall volume in DeFi was $4.00 billion, accounting for 4% of the total 24-hour volume in the crypto market.The entire volume of stablecoins was $81 billion, accounting for 91% of the overall 24-hour volume of the crypto market. Best Coins to Buy Today, October 29 Given the recent upswing in the cryptocurrency market, there are a few coins that are making headlines and should be included in your portfolio.Let us take a look!IMPTBy the…

A 19-year-old Florida man snagged the top prize in the state’s 2022 Florida Python Challenge after capturing and removing dozens of the reptiles.Matthew Concepcion was awarded the ultimate prize of $10,000 after he caught 28 Burmese pythons during the annual contest, according to a Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation news release this week.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the challenge has, once again, “yielded impressive results” after 231 invasive pythons were removed during the 10-day competition.”Removing these snakes is one of the many efforts we are employing to restore and maintain the Everglades ecosystem,” DeSantis said.STOWAWAY SNAKE SNEAKS ONBOARD UNITED AIRLINE…

Parklands High School Speke, Merseyside, has been labelled the most expensive school in history with Liverpool Council and taxpayers shelling out £4m for the closed building This is the eerie school that is still costing taxpayers an eye-watering £12,000 every single day – even though it closed in 2014. Parklands High School in Speke, Merseyside, sets the cash-strapped city council back £4m a year, the Liverpool Echo report. Doors were slammed shut eight years ago but a legally binding contract means officials are tied into paying nearly £100m for the abandoned building. Home to everything from science labs to an…

CNN  —  It was one of the strangest episodes in military history, an event so unusual that it was first treated as a myth. At 8:30 pm on Christmas Eve of 1914 in the dank and muddy battlefields of northern Europe during World War I, a British soldier dispatched a report to headquarters: German soldiers have illuminated their trenches and are singing carols while wishing British soldiers a merry Christmas. British officers ordered their men to be silent, but it was too late. A British soldier responded with his own chorus of “The First Noel.” A German soldier called out…

A terrified motorist has captured the moment a man armed with a machete allegedly attempted to carjack their vehicle. The incident was filmed at Deception Bay in Queensland on Monday and shows a man brandishing a large machete approach a car as it was stopped in traffic. The man grins at the camera and repeatedly taps the car’s window as he demands for the driver to let him in. After a few unsuccessful attempts to unlock the car the man then walks down the street through more traffic with the large knife still in his hand. Love news? Stream 25+ news channels in 1…

The Bitcoin price is trading bearish near $20,600 during the Asian session, having bounced off the $20,000 support level. Similarly, Ethereum has gained over 4% to $1,585 and is heading north toward the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement level.Early on October 29, major cryptocurrencies were trading in the green, as the global crypto market cap surpassed $1 trillion, up from $979.72 billion the day before.DeFi’s total volume was $4.00 billion, accounting for 4% of the crypto market’s total 24-hour volume.Top Altcoin Gainers and LosersMina (MINA), Dogecoin (DOGE), and Shiba Inu (SHIB) were the top performers in the last 24 hours. MINA’s price has increased by more than…

BEIJING: Shanghai Disneyland will operate at reduced capacity from Saturday (Oct 29) to comply with COVID-19 measures, the resort said in a statement, in another sign of tightening curbs across China as it seeks to contain the spread of coronavirus infections. The amusement park will operate with a reduced workforce on a temporary basis, which will have an impact on the operation of certain attractions, restaurants and shops, it said on its official Wechat account. Shanghai Disneyland Hotel, Disneytown and Wishing Star Park will operate normally, it said. China on Saturday reported a fifth straight day of more than 1,000…