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Leung lives in South Korea, where candidates are making new efforts to jump on the cyber bandwagon and woo the country’s youngest voters. Their vehicle: a network called Cyworld, South Korea’s equivalent to American online social sensations like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster. Launched in 1999, the site recently catapulted to the No. 1 spot among Asian networking sites, hosting an estimated 20 million users daily and drawing in an estimated $146 million in revenue....

The Wonder Cement #Saath7 Cricket Mahotsav got off to a brilliant start yesterday across 248 tehsils in Rajasthan. Teams turned out in great numbers and put in inspiring performances to ensure their team went through to the 2nd day matches, which will be held on Sunday. The tournament’s start was very interesting, with matches in all the 248 tehsils starting off at 8 am, with the toss of each match taking place at the exact same time....

Ionescu struggled to handle the Seattle Storm’s aggressive approach in an 87-71 debut loss, shooting 4-of-17 from the floor with four turnovers. She missed all eight of her 3-point attempts. Still, the No. 1 overall pick from Oregon stuffed the box score as she so often did in college and demonstrated her inclination to be her team’s top offensive option. She finished the contest with 12 points, six boards and four assists....

Giving a horrific new meaning to the term “oil war,” Saddam Hussein last week ordered a massive attack against the Persian Gulf itself. The Iraqis opened the pumps at Sea Island Terminal, a supertanker loading dock almost 10 miles off the Kuwaiti coast that can discharge at least 100,000 barrels of crude a day. They also pulled the plugs on five Kuwaiti tankers, loaded with 3 million gallons of petroleum, berthed at al-Ahmadi....

Sahaj Grover’s name is synonymous with Indian junior chess. He has won numerous accolades including a second place in the National Challengers Chess Championship recently. He scored a brilliant 9.5 points out of a possible 13 rounds and has qualified for the National ‘A.’ Sahaj is doing wonders in the field of chess and with just a bit of support he can go all the way to the elite Grandmaster level....

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Doctors for the Belgian Olympic medical team suspect polluted water in Rio’s Guanabara Bay is responsible for a serious illness that sapped the strength of Evi Van Acker, Laser Radial 2012 bronze medallist, her coach told Reuters. Van Acker, who sits 10th overall after six of 10 preliminary races, was stricken with a severe gastro-intestinal illness during training in July and despite a course of antibiotics her strength and stamina remain compromised, said Wim Van Bladel, her coach in a phone interview in Rio....

The Indian challenge at the $200,000 Badminton Asia Championships came to an end following the women’s singles quarterfinal losses of Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu here on Sunday.World No.1 Saina lost to Chinese Taipei’s Tzu Ying Tai in three tough games while eighth seed Sindhu went down to reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui of China in like manner at the Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium. Fifth seed Tzu defeated World No....

Maybe. In a game billed as Tom Brady vs. Drew Brees vs. Father Time, it was a much younger Saints quarterback who notched New Orleans’ first touchdown pass of Sunday’s NFC divisional round playoff game: Jameis Winston tossed a 56-yarder to Tre’Quan Smith for a go-ahead score midway through the second quarter. And if the play looks familiar, it was essentially the same design from last week’s Saints vs. Bears wild-card matchup, when Chicago’s Javon Wims let a Mitchell Trubisky dime fall right through his hands....

As seen below, it seems Gamefly has posted two listings for unannounced PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Saints Row: The Third - Remastered on its site, which remained for some time before being officially removed. The listings are fairly unrevealing in terms of details, but what is there seems to make sense for a remaster of the third entry in the Saints Row franchise. RELATED: Saints Row 4 Switch Port Gets Release Date...

This level of ridiculousness fits right into the Saints Row brand, but there could be a problem. The new game will see players go up against the old player character, the Boss from Saints Row 3. The problem is that the Boss was customizable to the extreme, and though the leaks suggest that the Boss will cover their face and disguise their voice to allow for the different canonical appearance choices, this could leave Saints Row 5 with a huge boss problem....

The Saints have already locked up home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs heading into their final regular-season game. Saints head coach Sean Payton told reporters Friday that Bridgewater will start in week 17ahead of star Drew Brees, who will be rested before the postseason. “We’re going to be smart and yet our message all week is this is a chance for us to get a 14th win which has never been done before, but I’m not going to go through the whole line-up....

After fellow Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) skaters Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova finished in first and second place, respectively, Valieva was seen sobbing and later walked silently past reporters with a mask over her face. Valieva, 15, who was at the center of a doping controversy and widely favored to win the individual event, took fourth place behind her teammates and Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto. Trusova also broke down in tears and initially refused to even step onto the podium for the ceremony, while Shcherbakova told reporters she was happy with her performance but also felt “this emptiness inside....

Sergey Mardan urged officials to do away with winter celebrations as Ukrainian forces continued their push into Russian-held territory. Kyiv’s forces have made significant gains in recent weeks, including taking back the strategically important city of Lyman alongside numerous town and villages in eastern Ukraine. Earlier this week, the bridge that links the Crimean peninsula to Russia was largely destroyed in an explosion. While Kyiv has not claimed responsibility, the explosion is a strategic blow for Vladimir Putin which will affect Russian operations in the region....

The 25th Separate Sichesal Airborne Brigade said its paratroopers had destroyed the Sukhoi-25 fighter using Igla MANPADS, referring to the short range man-portable air-defense system. “Another enemy Su-25 is finished,” the brigade, which is an airborne formation of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, posted on its Facebook page on Saturday which was reported by Ukrainian media. “We don’t stop, glory to Ukraine,” the post said, prompting messages from Facebook users praising the strike, such as “honor and glory to our defenders,” and “glory to our heroes, our boys!...

Muguruza was beaten by Serena Williams in her maiden grand slam final in 2015, but the Spaniard banished those painful memories by overcoming the best female player of all-time’s older sister 7-5 6-0 on Centre Court two years later. Five-time Wimbledon singles champion Williams, defeated by Serena in the Australian Open final in January, spurned two set points in the opener and was unable to recover, failing to become the oldest woman to win a major in the Open Era at the age of 37....

Inside the country, however, things feel markedly different. For years, a creeping authoritarianism has been setting in. President Paul Kagame argues that his increasingly strong-armed policies—which include the death penalty for anyone who tries to incite Rwandans to genocide—are necessary to keep the bitterly divided country together. There’s something to this; in the early 1990s Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana used the media to fan anti-Tutsi hatred, which eventually erupted in mass killings....

The most he has ever thrown in a big-league season was 2008, when he had a 8.03 ERA in 49.1 IP with a 1-6 record. His career major league record stands at 2-11 with a 7.15 ERA in 113.1 IP. He also spent seven seasons in Triple-A and had a stint in the Independent League. Players typically don’t make a lot of dough playing in MiLB or indy leagues. Quite often for players like him, heading to Asia becomes a viable, realistic option because the teams offer higher pay and guarantee playing time for their foreign players....

The veteran quarterback started the game on the bench, before being introduced in place of Tua Tagovailoa with nine minutes to go in the fourth quarter and repaid head coach Brian Flores’ trust with one of the plays of the season to give the Dolphins a 26-25 win. With the Raiders leading 25-23 and 19 seconds left in the game and the ball at Miami’s 25-yard line, Fiztpatrick took the snap before heaving a Hail Mary down the left sideline, hitting Mack Hollins for a 34-yard completion....

Wentworth, 57, was filling in for host Kelly Ripa when she made the NSFW joke causing the audience to gasp in shock. But those gasps turned to swoons causing Seacrest, 47, to stop what he was saying and roll his eyes. The pair opened Wednesday’s show with the usual banter before the conversation turned to Wentworth’s recent fishing trip. Seacrest revealed he did not know much about sea life, when he admitted he thought he’d spotted a sting ray in New York Bay....