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38 minutes ago · Williams, 43, posted the news to social media on Wednesday, saying she had a benign branchial cyst “the size of a small grapefruit” removed. She ended the note accompanying a photo of her in a hospital bed with the message “all is OK.”. Williams, who won 73 WTA Tour titles and nearly $100 million during her career, said she discovered a ...
1 day ago · Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over US$ 34 billion was raised worldwide by crowdfunding.
1 day ago · Uzbekistan, [a] officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, [b] is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein.
1 day ago · At 516,000 barrels per day, Nigeria had become the tenth-biggest oil exporter in the world. [ 75 ] Though the Nigeria Regiment had fought for the United Kingdom in both the First and Second World Wars , the army Nigeria inherited upon independence in 1960 was an internal security force designed and trained to assist the police in putting down challenges to authority rather than to fight a war ...
1 day ago · 2017. Area. 765.5 ha (1,892 acres) Istanbul[b]is the largest cityin Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey,[3]and is the most populous ...
1 day ago · Also known as the Half Ironman, this is one of a series of long-distance triathlon ( a race in which people swim, ride a bicycle, and run) races organised by the World Triathlon Corporation. Participants have to complete a 1.9 km swim, 90 km bicycle ride, and 21 km run in approximately eight hours.
1 day ago · Hezbollah (/ ˌhɛzbəˈlɑː /; [45] Arabic: حزب الله, romanized: Ḥizbu 'llāh, pronounced [ħizbu‿lːaːh], lit. 'Party of God') [b] is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group. [46][47] Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, [48] and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party ...
