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  • Asia Cup 2025, Super 4, SL vs BAN: Bangladesh eye revenge against Sri Lanka in Naagin rivalry

    Asia Cup 2025, Super 4, SL vs BAN: Bangladesh eye revenge against Sri Lanka in Naagin rivalry

    Bangladesh will be seeking revenge when they take on their ‘Naagin’ rivals Sri Lanka in the opening Super Four clash of the Asia Cup 2025 on Saturday, September 20, after losing to them earlier in the Group B stage. That defeat not only dented their net run rate but also exposed vulnerabilities in both batting and bowling under pressure. For Bangladesh, the Super Four offers a chance to reset after a narrow escape from elimination.

    Sri Lanka, meanwhile, enter the Super Four unbeaten and brimming with confidence. Wins over Bangladesh, Hong Kong, and Afghanistan helped them to top Group B. However, their campaign has not been without flaws – batting collapses in the middle overs have been a recurring concern, nearly costing them against weaker sides. Bangladesh will look to capitalise on those lapses.

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    Sri Lanka carry Bangladesh into Super 4s

    Bangladesh’s progression hinged not only on their own results but also on Sri Lanka’s performance in the final Group B game. Sri Lanka’s six-wicket win over Afghanistan eliminated the Afghans and secured Bangladesh’s passage as the second team from the group. Kusal Mendis’ unbeaten 74 off 52 balls was the standout effort, anchoring the chase.

    Bangladesh’s path to qualification was far from smooth. They started with a win over Hong Kong, lost to Sri Lanka, and then scraped past Afghanistan by eight runs. But had Afghanistan defeated Sri Lanka on Thursday, Bangladesh would have been eliminated on net run rate.

    Bangladesh look to build momentum

    Bangladesh went in with four specialist bowlers against Afghanistan, and that decision nearly backfired after Saif Hassan and Shamim Hossain conceded 55 runs in just four overs. To address the issue, they may consider bringing back Mahedi Hasan in place of Nurul Hasan Sohan to strengthen the bowling attack for the crucial clash.

    The Tigers could also rethink their opening combination. Parvez Hossain Emon might return as Tanzid Hasan Tamim’s partner after Saif Hassan struggled at the top against Afghanistan.

    Bangladesh haven’t reached an Asia Cup final since 2018, when India edged them out off the very last ball. A winning start in the Super Four would significantly boost their chances of ending that drought in the ongoing tournament.

    Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh: Pitch Report

    The Dubai surface has offered a fair contest between bat and ball, but conditions are expected to improve for batting as the game progresses. Chasing could therefore be the preferred option for teams, with spinners likely to play a decisive role in the middle overs.

    Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh: Match Details

    Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will play at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. The match will start at 8 pm IST.

    Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh: Livestreaming

    The tournament will be livestreamed on the SonyLiv app. The matches will also be broadcast on Sony Sports Network.

    Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh: Probable Playing XIs

    There was doubt surrounding the availability of Dunith Wellalage after he went back home following the death of his father. But the bowling all-rounder made his way back to rejoin the team and will be available for selection for the Bangladesh match.

    Bangladesh Probable Playing XI

    Parvez Hossain Emon, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Litton Das (c & wk), Saif Hassan, Shamim Hossain, Jaker Ali, Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman.

    Sri Lanka Probable Playing XI

    Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis, Kamil Mishara, Kusal Perera, Charith Asalanka, Kamindu Mendis, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Matheesha Pathirana/Dunith Wellalage, Dushmantha Chameera, Nuwan Thushara.

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  • The Inside View: Look who’s back at Laver Cup – lavercup.com

    1. The Inside View: Look who’s back at Laver Cup  lavercup.com
    2. Now With Andre Agassi and Yannick Noah, the Laver Cup Returns  The New York Times
    3. Alcaraz headlines Team Europe in Laver Cup title defense  The Express Tribune
    4. Laver Cup 2025: Tennis Australia Take Over Chase Center; AR Set To Shine for 1080p HDR Effort  Sports Video Group
    5. Laver Cup Providing Growing Business Opportunities In Tennis  Forbes

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  • Olé: Fonseca Puts Team World on the Board – lavercup.com

    1. Olé: Fonseca Puts Team World on the Board  lavercup.com
    2. 2025 Laver Cup: How to watch, full schedule, streaming info and more  Yahoo Sports
    3. Laver Cup 2025: Joao Fonseca, the Brazilian phenom, reflects on his first full year on tour  sportingnews.com
    4. Laver Cup Tennis  The Lufkin Daily News
    5. Flavio Cobolli vs. João Fonseca Preview: Head-to-Head and Prediction for Laver Cup 2025  Pro Football & Sports Network

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  • ‘We lost everything twice’: Afghan returnees struggle after earthquake | Earthquakes News

    ‘We lost everything twice’: Afghan returnees struggle after earthquake | Earthquakes News

    Noorgal, Kunar, Afghanistan – Four months ago, Nawab Din returned to his home village of Wadir, high in the mountains of Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, after eight years as a refugee in Pakistan.

    Today, he lives in a tent on his own farmland. His house was destroyed nearly three weeks ago by the earthquake that has shattered the lives of thousands of others in this region.

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    “We are living in tent camps now,” the 55-year-old farmer said, speaking at his cousin’s shop in the nearby village of Noorgal. “Our houses were old, and none were left standing … They were all destroyed by big boulders falling from the mountain during the earthquake.”

    Din’s struggle captures the double disaster facing a huge number of Afghans. He is among more than four million people who have returned from Iran and Pakistan since September 2023, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

    The August 31 earthquake killed about 2,200 people and destroyed more than 5,000 homes, compounding a widespread economic crisis.

    Tents housing people displaced by the magnitude 6.0 earthquake that struck Afghanistan on August 31, in Diwa Gul valley in Kunar province [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

    “We lost everything we have worked for in Pakistan, and now we lost everything here,” Din adds.

    Until four months ago, he had been living in Daska, a city in Pakistan’s Sialkot District, for eight years after fleeing his village in Afghanistan when ISIL (ISIS) fighters told him to join them or leave.

    “I refused to join ISIL and I was forced to migrate to Pakistan,” he explains.

    His exile ended abruptly this year as the Pakistani government continues its nationwide crackdown on undocumented foreign nationals.

    He describes how Pakistani police raided his house, taking him and his family to a camp to be processed for deportation. “I returned from Pakistan as we were told our time there was finished and we had to leave,” he says.

    “We had to spend two nights at Torkham border crossing until we were registered by Afghan authorities, before we could return to our village.”

    58-year-old Sadat Khan in the village of Barabat, in Afghanistan's Kunar province [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
    Sadat Khan, 58, in the village of Barabat, in Afghanistan’s Kunar province [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera] (Al Jazeera)

    This struggle is echoed across Kunar. Some 12km from Noorgal, in the village of Barabat, 58-year-old Sadat Khan sits next to the rubble of the home he had been renting until the earthquake struck.

    Khan returned from Pakistan willingly as his health was failing and he could no longer find work to support his wife and seven children. Now, the earthquake has taken what little he had left.

    “I was poor in Pakistan as well. I was the only one working and my entire family was depending on me,” he tells Al Jazeera. “We don’t know where the next meal will come from. There is no work here. And I have problems with my lungs. I have trouble breathing if I do more effort.”

    He says his request to local authorities for a tent for his family has so far gone unanswered.

    “I went to the authorities to request a tent to install here,” he says. “We haven’t received anything, so I asked someone to give me a room for a while, for my children. My uncle had mercy on me and let me stay in one room in his house, now that the winter is coming.”

    One crisis out of many

    The earthquake is only the most visible of the crises that returnees from Iran and Pakistan are facing.

    “Our land is barren, and we have no stream or river close to the village,” says Din. “Our farming and our life depend entirely on rainfall, and we haven’t seen much of it lately. Other people wonder how can we live there with such severe water shortage.”

    Dr Farida Safi, a nutritionist working at a field hospital set up by Islamic Relief in Diwa Gul valley after the quake, says malnutrition is becoming a major problem.

    “Most of the people affected by the quake that come to us have food deficiency, mostly due to the poor diet and the lack of proper nutrition they had access to in their village,” she explains. “We have to treat many malnourished children.”

    The destroyed mud brick house that 58-year-old Sadat Khan was renting in Barabat village [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
    The destroyed mudbrick house that 58-year-old Sadat Khan was renting in Barabat village [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

    Kunar’s Governor, Mawlawi Qudratullah, told Al Jazeera that the Kunar authorities have started building a new town that will include 382 residential plots, according to the plan.

    This initiative in Khas Kunar district is part of the national programmes directed by the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, with an objective of providing permanent housing for Afghan returnees. However, it is unclear how long it will take to build these new homes or if farmland will also be given to returnees.

    “It will be for those people who don’t have any land or house in this province,” Qudratullah said. “And this project has already started, separate from the crisis response to the earthquake.”

    But for those living in or next to the ruins of their old homes, such promises feel distant. Back in Noorgal, Nawab Din is consumed by the immediate fear of aftershocks from the earthquake and the uncertainty of what comes next.

    “I don’t know if the government will relocate us down in the plains or if they will help us rebuild,” he says, his voice heavy with exhaustion. “But I fear we might be forced to continue to live in a camp, even as aftershocks continue to hit, sometimes so powerful that the tents shake.”

    Villages damaged by the eartquake in Nurgal valley, Afghanistan's Kunar province [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
    Villages damaged by the earthquake in Nurgal valley, Afghanistan’s Kunar province [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

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  • Garland takes early decathlon lead in Tokyo | News | Tokyo 25

    Garland takes early decathlon lead in Tokyo | News | Tokyo 25

    US champion Kyle Garland leads the decathlon after the first three disciplines. A 10.51 run in the 100m, 7.92m leap in the long jump and 17.02m throw in the shot put has given him a 162-point lead over the rest of the field.

    World indoor champion Sander Skotheim has also got off to a good start and he currently sits in fifth place overall, just 39 points shy of the pace he set when scoring his world-leading 8909.

    Olympic silver medallist Leo Neugebauer and 2024 world indoor champion Simon Ehammer are currently in second and third respectively, just ahead of Puerto Rico’s Ayden Owens-Delerme.

    Damian Warner, who won Olympic gold in this stadium in 2021, was a late withdrawal from the competition after sustaining an achilles injury in warm-up.

    More to follow…

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  • Premium economy lifts airline profit more than passengers

    Premium economy lifts airline profit more than passengers

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    Premium economy divides passengers like no other airline seat class. Fans prize every extra inch. Detractors suspect airlines make the seats at the back worse to push them to pay up. Either way, the cabins are proving a profit sweet spot, and airlines around the world are refreshing and expanding their offerings. Financially, at least, it’s probably a better deal for providers than passengers.  

    Airlines have been encouraged to look again at the space between lie-flat business and upright discomfort at the back by the post-pandemic splurge on premium travel. Leisure travellers, in particular, appear to be prepared to pay for perks such as more legroom or priority boarding. Delta, for example, said in July that its premium revenues were growing 5 per cent year on year — faster than economy.

    American Airlines this summer introduced a redesigned premium economy and has plans to increase its premium space — business class and upright — by 50 per cent by 2030, while British Airways is upping its premium economy seating by a fifth by 2027. Korean Air is introducing premium economy for the first time, which is something that Emirates only did three years ago. 

    It is not just full-service carriers either: Southwest Airlines, the US flag-bearer for one-offering-fits-all, low-cost flying, began selling pricier seats with extra legroom this year. A couple of weeks ago, boss Bob Jordan even mused about premium lounges.

    This should be a boon for those who like their creature comforts but consider themselves somewhere short of loaded. Business class costs more than four times economy, based on a scan of transatlantic flights between Europe and the US east coast being offered by seven carriers on a single day next month. Yet premium economy’s detractors would seem to have a point about the cost: seats there averaged almost three times the price of basic economy.  

    Exactly how profitable premium economy is for airlines and their shareholders is difficult to say as each carefully guards its calculations, which will vary by aircraft model, staff costs, cargo load, seat weight, route — the list goes on. Still, some back-of-a-business-class-menu sums while squinting at seat maps for the same transatlantic carriers suggest that assuming full cabins, airlines rake in about 50 per cent more from premium economy for the same floor space as they do from the cheap seats behind.

    That extra income should show up in airlines’ profitability per mile flown at some point. In the meantime, premium economy passengers continue to shrug off the glares of those shuffling to the very back — they’re used to it. Value is in the eye of the credit card holder, after all.

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  • Moon phase today explained: What the moon will look like on September 20, 2025

    Moon phase today explained: What the moon will look like on September 20, 2025

    Wondering why there’s hardly any moon visible in the sky tonight? That’s because of where we are in the lunar cycle, a series of eight unique phases of the moon’s visibility. The whole cycle takes about 29.5 days, according to NASA, and these different phases happen as the Sun lights up different parts of the moon whilst it orbits Earth. 

    What is today’s moon phase?

    As of Saturday, Sept. 20, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is only 2% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA’s Daily Moon Observation.

    Visibility is too low, so there’s nothing to see on the moon’s surface tonight.

    When is the next full moon?

    The next full moon will be on Oct. 6. The last full moon was on Sept. 7.

    What are moon phases?

    According to NASA, moon phases are caused by the 29.5-day cycle of the moon’s orbit, which changes the angles between the Sun, Moon, and Earth. Moon phases are how the moon looks from Earth as it goes around us. We always see the same side of the moon, but how much of it is lit up by the Sun changes depending on where it is in its orbit. This is how we get full moons, half moons, and moons that appear completely invisible. There are eight main moon phases, and they follow a repeating cycle:

    New Moon – The moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it’s invisible to the eye).

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    Waxing Crescent – A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).

    First Quarter – Half of the moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-moon.

    Waxing Gibbous – More than half is lit up, but it’s not quite full yet.

    Full Moon – The whole face of the moon is illuminated and fully visible.

    Waning Gibbous – The moon starts losing light on the right side.

    Last Quarter (or Third Quarter) – Another half-moon, but now the left side is lit.

    Waning Crescent – A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.

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  • Gerhard Richter – Announcements – e-flux

    Gerhard Richter – Announcements – e-flux

    From October 17, 2025 to March 2, 2026, the Fondation Louis Vuitton will present a major retrospective of Gerhard Richter, widely regarded as one of the most important and internationally celebrated artists of his generation.

    Born in 1932, Richter was featured in the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s inaugural presentation in 2014 with works from the Collection. Now, the Fondation will dedicate all its galleries to the artist with a retrospective, unmatched in scale and chronological scope. Covering 1962 to 2024, the exhibition of 275 works—oil paintings, glass and steel sculptures, pencil and ink drawings, watercolors, and overpainted photographs—offers, for the first time, a comprehensive view of Richter’s creation over six decades.

    Richter has always been drawn to both subject matter and the language of painting, continually pushing boundaries and avoiding categorization. His training at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts led him to engage with traditional genres—still life, portraiture, landscape, and history painting. His desire to reinterpret these genres through a contemporary lens is at the heart of this exhibition.

    Regardless of subject, Richter never paints directly from nature or from the scene before him: every image is filtered through an intermediary medium—photograph or a drawing—from which he constructs a new, autonomous work.

    The exhibition gathers many of Richter’s most significant works up to his 2017 decision to stop painting, while continuing to draw. Presented chronologically, each section spans a decade and traces the evolution of a singular vision—shaped by rupture and continuity—from early photo-based paintings to final abstractions.

     

    Gallery 1: 1962–1970—Painting from Photographs: Photography as a Source of Imagery
    From the outset, Richter’s choice of subject was complex—mundane images sourced from newspapers or family photographs tied to his own past—(Uncle Rudi and Aunt Marianne) and to shadows of German history, as in Bombers. By mid-1960s, Richter was challenging the conventions of illusionistic painting with sculptures such as Four Panels of Glass and his first Color Charts. In his Cityscapes, he experimented with a pseudo-expressionist impasto technique, and in Landscapes and Seascapes, he revisited traditional genres, reinterpreting them through the intermediary of photography and challenging their painterly conventions.

    Gallery 2: 1971–1975—Investigating Representation
    The 48 Portraits, painted for the 1972 Venice Biennale, mark a new chapter in which Richter interrogates the nature of painting through his blur technique (Vermalung); the copying and dissolution of a Titian Annunciation; the random distribution of color in the large Color Charts; and the rejection of representation and expression in the Grey Paintings.

    Gallery 4: 1976–1986—Exploring Abstraction
    Richter developed his distinctive approach to abstraction: enlarging watercolors, examining the painted surface, and making the brushstroke itself the subject (Strich). He also painted the first portraits of his daughter Betty and continued exploring traditional subjects such as landscape and still life.

    Gallery 5: 1987–1995—Sombre Reflections
    Motivated by skepticism toward artistic and social change, Richter created October 18, 1977 — exceptionally on loan from MoMA—his only body of work explicitly referencing recent German history. This period also produced striking abstract works and the family-centered series Sabine with Child.

    Galleries 7 and 9: 1996–2009—New Perspectives in painting: Chance
    In the late 1990s, Richter entered a highly productive period, creating small figurative and abstract works, the austere Silicate series, experiments with chance culminating in 4900 Colors and the meditative Cage paintings, a tribute to John Cage.

    Galleries 9 and 10: 2009–2017—Final Paintings
    Richter abandoned painting for several years to experiment with glass works and digitally generated Strip images. He returned with Birkenau, a group of works inspired by 4 photographs taken inside a Nazi extermination camp. The final room of paintings presents his last masterful abstract canvases completed in 2017, after which Richter’s attention has focused on the drawings shown in Gallery 11.

    Fondation Louis Vuitton
    President: Bernard Arnault
    Advisor to the President, Administrator: Jean-Paul Claverie
    Artistic Director: Suzanne Pagé
    Executive Director: Sophie Durrleman
    Guest curators: Dieter Schwarz and Nicholas Serota

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  • Weekly inflation drops by 1.34 percent in Pakistan

    Weekly inflation drops by 1.34 percent in Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD (APP) – The weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), recorded a decrease of 1.34 percent for the combined consumption group during the week ended on September 18, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday.

    The SPI for the week under review in the above-mentioned group was recorded at 330.84 points against 335.35 points during the past week, according to the PBS data.

    As compared to the corresponding week of last year, the SPI for the combined consumption group in the week under review witnessed an increase of 4.17 percent.

    The weekly SPI with the base year 2015-16=100 covers 17 urban centres and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups.

    The SPI for the lowest consumption group of up to Rs17,732 decreased by 1.43 percent, going down to 322.71 points from last week’s 327.39 points.

    The SPI for consumption groups of Rs17,733–22,888; Rs22,889–29,517; Rs29,518–44,175 and above Rs44,175 also decreased by 1.59 percent, 1.34 percent, 1.31 percent and 1.23 percent respectively.

    During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 18 (35.29 percent) items increased, 14 (27.45 percent) items decreased and 19 (37.26 percent) items remained stable.

    The commodities which recorded major decrease in their average prices on a week-on-week basis included tomatoes (23.11%), chicken (12.74%), electricity charges for Q1 (6.21%), bananas (5.07%), wheat flour (2.60%), onions (1.17%), pulse masoor (0.64%), pulse gram (0.47%) and garlic (0.46%).

    The items which recorded major increase in their average prices on a week-on-week basis included diesel (1.06%), eggs (0.91%), rice basmati broken (0.84%), georgette (0.83%), rice IRRI-6/9 (0.78%), firewood (0.59%), beef (0.42%), mutton (0.31%), cooked beef (0.31%), vegetable ghee 1kg (0.25%), energy saver (0.23%) and pulse moong (0.10%).

    On year-on-years basis, the commodities which recorded decrease in their average prices on year-on-year basis included onions (38.23%), garlic (27.50%), electricity charges for Q1 (26.26%), pulse gram (21.45%), pulse mash (20.95%), tea (17.93%), potatoes (15.20%), chicken (11.06%) and pulse masoor (5.29%).

    On year-on-year basis, the commodities that witnessed an increase in prices included ladies sandal (55.62%), tomatoes (49.02%), sugar (30.17%), gas charges for Q1 (29.85%), pulse moong (15.79%), wheat flour (15.70%), firewood (12.40%), gur (12.36%), beef (12.31%), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (11.26%), vegetable ghee 1 kg (11.09%) and diesel (9.51%). 


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  • China’s Pony AI, WeRide Take Robotaxi Rivalry to Singapore

    China’s Pony AI, WeRide Take Robotaxi Rivalry to Singapore

    Chinese robotaxi operators WeRide Inc. and Pony AI Inc. are partnering with local companies to expand in Singapore, choosing one of the world’s best-mapped cities as a first stop for driverless ride-hailing in Southeast Asia.

    Singapore’s Grab Holdings Ltd. has joined WeRide in plans to offer autonomous vehicles for consumers along two approved routes in the city-state’s Punggol neighborhood, the companies said in a statement on Saturday. They will deploy a fleet of 11 vehicles and start testing as soon as this month, and expect the robotaxis to be ready for hiring by early 2026.

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