There is something fishy going on in the competitive fishing world. The would-be winners of nearly $29,000 in an Ohio fishing tournament were disqualified Friday after it was discovered their fish were stuffed with lead weights and fish fillets. Jason Fisher, director of the Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament, told CNN he was immediately suspicious when one team’s fish weighed nearly twice what he expected them to weigh in the Cleveland tournament....

And the only thing that stood out more than Jonathan Huberdeau revealing he’s selling his Smurf-blue Lamborghini was the hair on display in the team’s second row. As a fairly clean-cut Nazem Kadri eyed his wings, the bearded veteran might have wondered if he was in an ’80s metal band, given Cody Eakin’s ginger flow to his left and Sonny’s bird’s nest. Milano on the right. “I don’t know,” Milan smiled, when told he had the best cap in camp....

John Kirby, the National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications, said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of an immediate partial mobilization was “expected” and “a sign that he is struggling.” “I think there was a lot in there that was typical — a lot that we’ve heard before,” Kirby said during an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” referring to Putin’s baseless claims of neo-Nazis in Ukraine and that the Russians ....

The plan to scrap the corporate tax hike ignores the hard lessons of recent history – when investment has stagnated despite extremely low rates – and is not even favored by business leaders, says the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Instead, it requires a strategy that goes beyond taxation to boost investment and productivity by tackling chronic problems in housing, energy, transport, skills and childcare. “Corporate tax cuts are just the continuation of a failed race to the bottom that has not paid off for the UK economy,” said George Dibb, head of the Center for Economic Justice at IPPR....

Ministerium Gewessler: Nach Freigabe des Diesels aus den Erdölvorräten verfügt Österreich über staatliche Treibstoffreserven für 65 Tage. ©APA/GEORG HOCHMUTH (Symbolbild) Das Ministerium für Klimaschutz wird in Kürze Tonnen von Diesel aus den nationalen Ölvorräten freigeben. Demnach soll Österreich über mehr als 60 Tage staatliche Treibstoffreserven verfügen. Das Klimaschutzministerium unter Leonore Gewessler (Grüne) will demnächst weitere 60.000 Tonnen Diesel aus den staatlichen Ölvorräten freigeben. Ein entsprechender Vorschlag sei nach Beratungen mit der OMV und der gesamten heimischen Mineralölwirtschaft dem Hauptausschuss des Nationalrates vorgelegt worden, sagte Ministeriumssprecher Samson Sandrieser-Leon am Montagnachmittag der APA....

The clothing, homewares and food retailer is also offering free food to workers in its warehouses, in addition to what is already provided to store staff, and both groups will have access to free hygiene products. Employees will also be able to attend financial planning workshops and receive advice on meal planning, as well as continue to receive a 20% discount on M&S purchases. The company said that as part of its first autumn pay review, the hourly pay of more than 40,000 staff will rise by 2% to at least £10....

Van Chung Pham was ordered deported from Canada six years before police found the bodies of Noelle O’Soup and another unidentified woman in his Downtown Eastside home in May. The CBC has learned that Noelle and the other victim were not the first women to die in Pham’s presence. Immigration authorities have declared him a danger to the public because another woman died of an overdose at his former residence in Vancouver and because he sold fentanyl to vulnerable drug users....

At least two people have been killed by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Michoacán state in Mexico. The 7.6-magnitude quake struck on the exact same day as two previous quakes that caused massive damage and killed hundreds or thousands of people in 1985 and 2017. One of the victims died on Monday after being crushed by the facade of a department store in the Pacific port of Manzanillo, while another was found dead in a shopping mall....

Adam Jeffery | CNBC The volume of mortgage applications rose last week for the first time in six weeks, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, despite the rise in interest rates. Sharp fluctuations in interest rates and uncertainty about the overall direction of the housing market are likely to play a role. The average contract rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) rose to 6....

Ein Studiengang gilt als prüfungsaktiv, wenn im Studienjahr Prüfungen im Umfang von 16 ECTS-Credits abgelegt wurden. Wer diese unterschreitet, also nicht über die erforderlichen ECTS-Punkte verfügt, setzt das Studium inaktiv fort. Für das Studienjahr 2019/2020 teilte das Wissenschaftsministerium mit, dass 62 Prozent aller staatlichen Hochschulen Prüfungen abhielten. An den Universitäten schwankte der Anteil zwischen 54 Prozent (Universität Wien) und 96 Prozent (Mozarteum). Die Studienpläne sind so gestaltet, dass mit 60 absolvierten ECTS pro Studienjahr das Studium in einer Mindeststudienzeit absolviert werden kann....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Earlier this year, markets were complacent as Russia massed troops on the border with Ukraine. Now, they are once again largely denying Vladimir Putin’s message that he could be ready to use nuclear weapons. Global stocks took an early hit to risk on Wednesday after Putin mobilized more troops to Ukraine and threatened to use Russia’s entire arsenal against what he called Western “nuclear blackmail” for war there....

The meetings are being held ahead of the expected announcement of Poilievre’s “shadow cabinet” in mid-October, multiple sources tell Global News, which comes around a week-long break in Commons action. Read more: Trudeau, Poilievre square off in first QP after Conservative leadership race read more Trudeau, Poilievre face off in first QP after Conservative leadership race While the Poilievre era began on a relatively calm note — Thursday’s spat between the new Conservative leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau notwithstanding — sources familiar with the transition suggest significant, if slow, behind-the-scenes moves within the party that Poilievre’s team believes they are needed to prepare the Conservatives for the next general election....

Conservative MP Kevin Waugh stands up during question period in the House of Commons Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Ottawa. Conservative members of parliament say the Liberals are playing politics with the COVID-19 border restrictions, and the debate over lifting those restrictions may have something to do with the new Conservative leader. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld The government was motivated to review COVID-19 restrictions at Canada’s borders because of the growing popularity of new Conservative leader Pierre Pouliev, MPs from his caucus said Wednesday....

The ceremony took place as the monarch’s funeral was held in London. Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom, Canada and several other Commonwealth nations, died after a 70-year reign aged 96 on September 8. “For longer than many of us have lived, Queen Elizabeth II has reigned over us,” said Helen Stewart, president of Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion in a speech she delivered at the Cenotaph on Monday....

Researchers have discovered a virus in Russian bats that can cause complications for the human population, according to a report in Time magazine. The Khosta-2 virus, which belongs to the same subclass of coronaviruses as SARS-CoV-2, is already capable of infecting human cells and evading the immune defenses provided by the COVID-19 vaccination, the publication further said. He added that the discovery may raise new concerns for public health professionals....

I was barely a month into the job when I suggested that Roger Federer should never win another Grand Slam title. The then 17-time Grand Slam champion had just turned 32, losing to Sergiy Stakhovsky in the second round of Wimbledon (ending a streak of 36 consecutive major quarter-finals) and then to Tommy Robredo in the last 16 of the US Open . Leave it, perhaps, to the impetuosity of inexperience, but also to ignorance of a major back problem, which Federer later explained....

Sept 21 (Reuters) – Russia has freed 215 Ukrainians it captured after a protracted battle for the port of Mariupol earlier this year, including top military leaders, a senior official in Kyiv said on Wednesday. The freed prisoners include the commander and deputy commander of the Azov battalion that conducted much of the fighting, said Andriy Yermak, head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office. The move is unexpected as the Russian-backed separatists last month said they would put Azov staff, described by Moscow as Nazis, on trial....

Steve Clarke’s side opened the scoring through John McGinn (70) – who captained the injured Andy Robertson – before Lyndon Dykes scored twice from corners (80, 87) to help Scotland make amends for the Ukraine defeat in the semi-finals of the World Cup in June. -playoff final. “I was disappointed not to play but I came on and changed the game,” QPR striker Dykes told Premier Sports after the game....

Stand: 24.09.2022 23:38 Uhr Mykhailo Podoliak ist Berater des ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj. Im Interview mit tagesschau.de schildert er, was neben einem möglichen Anschluss hinter den Schein-Volksabstimmungen stecken könnte. Gleichzeitig wiederholte er die Anfrage nach Leopard-2-Panzern aus Deutschland. tagesschau.de: Herr Podoljak, was halten Sie von den Scheinreferenden, die seit Freitag in den von Russland besetzten Gebieten Donezk, Luhansk, Saporischschja und Cherson abgehalten werden? Mykhailo Podoliak: Wir sehen kein Referendum. Was wir hier sehen, ist ein von einer Besatzungsarmee besetztes Gebiet, in dem aktive Kampfhandlungen fortgesetzt werden....

Almost all of the 15-member UNSC foreign ministers present at Thursday’s meeting expressed growing dismay at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with even Moscow’s closest allies taking an increasingly dim view. Many have called out Vladimir Putin for his recent nuclear threats, with the tone of that criticism depending on their government’s stance on the war. Finally, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the Ukrainian president a “b*****d” and criticized the “collective West” for seeing him as “their evil....