The former world number one has not won a competition in 2013, but showed signs that his form was returning by finishing joint-second in the Korean Open earlier this month. McIlroy then beat Tiger Woods in a lucrative exhibition match at the Mission Hills course in Hainan, China this week. And the Northern Irishman is more content with his game as he heads into a tournament where he must finish inside the top 30 to secure his place in the Race to Dubai....

Tomas Gomez, 18, hit a ball at 88 mph at Topgolf in Charlotte, Texas, during a storm, and managed to strike a lightning bolt. The incredible footage was posted to TikTok garnering 1.1 million views. However, for those wondering if the ball survived the hit, another video has since been shared of what the ball looks like now. Posted on the official Topgolf TikTok account, a man can be seen picking up the ball and exclaiming: “That’s a black golf ball!...

The central Americans - competing at the event for the first time - had already been eliminated before Thursday’s 2-1 defeat to Tunisia, due to heavy losses at the hands of Belgium and England in their opening two games. They had looked set on claiming a maiden World Cup victory when Jose Luis Rodriguez’s long-range strike was deflected in by Yassine Meriah for an unfortunate own goal after 33 minutes....

An injury-plagued first season at Fiorentina cost Gomez a place in the Germany squad for the triumphant World Cup 2014 campaign. However, an impressive year with Besiktas has seen the striker force his way back into Joachim Low’s plans. Gomez was named in a 27-man provisional squad this week and insists he will do everything he can to help the team follow up World Cup glory with a European Championship title....

The TikTok recounting the situation, captioned, “People just don’t think #gas #easywithadobeexpress #gasstation #lol #gooddeed #smh #wow #payattention,” has been viewed 4.8 million times and liked 441,100 times since it was shared on April 6. According to Statista, the average price of a gallon of regular gas in April amounted was $4.12. Diesel cost $5.07 a gallon. Gas prices were expected to increase along with the price of crude oil rising after Russia invaded Ukraine....

Why now? Why not a year ago, when Sony announced a $8.2 billion write-off of its Hollywood assets, a devastating admission that its 1989 “invasion” of Tinseltown had turned into full retreat? Even then, Schulhof couldn’t seem to break his spending habits. After forking out half a billion dollars in 1990 to hire Guber and Jon Peters, two flamboyant producers who had never run a studio, he spent hundreds of millions more on golden parachutes to send them packing....

It’s a different world now. Last week the young fighters of lifelong revolutionary Laurent Kabila strolled into Shaba’s capital, Lubumbashi, all but unopposed. Most of Mobutu’s troops simply put on white headbands and switched sides. “We are freeing Zaire,” one told a British reporter. “We want change.” And, finally, so does the West. “Mobutuism is about to become a creature of history,” observed White House spokesman Michael McCurry last week....

Vertical Reality is the signature attraction of Sega GameWorks, a 80,000-square-foot high-tech playland and industrial nightclub that opens in Seattle on March 15. It’s the first of more than 100 sites that GameWorks hopes to open by 2002–Las Vegas and Los Angeles get sites later this year– each costing about $15 million. That’s a lot of SmartCards, but there’s more than funny money behind GameWorks: Dream-Works, Universal Studios and Japan’s Sega Enterprises are the three partners....

To turn your selfie into a Van Gogh masterpiece, head to the Google Arts and Culture app, which is free on the respective app stores on both Apple and Android devices. The Art Filter feature should be on the homepage, but alternatively, select the camera icon and then select Art Filter. App users will be able to choose an artwork filter and then take a selfie. You could choose Self-Portrait with Monkey by Frida Kahlo, in which Kahlo is wearing a traditional bone necklace....

The letter Ñ was created in the 12th century by Spanish scribes who came up with a way to save time and parchment when hand-copying Latin manuscripts. They decided to shorten words with double letters, combining the two letters into one with a tiny “n” on top to signify the change—this tiny n symbol is now known as a “virgulilla” or tilde. For example, the Latin word for “year” is “annus” which eventually became “año” in Spanish....

The Doodle features a cartoon ground plan of the famous Central Park building, along with rotating gifs depicting some of the contents of the collections held within. The museum, often called simply “The Met”, was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens—businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists of the day—who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to Americans. Some of its most famous works include Caravaggio’s ‘The Denial of Saint Peter’ and the ‘Venus Italica’ sculpture....

In an academic paper published this week, the team detailed how a deep learning tool that showed great promise under lab conditions had at times sparked frustration and unnecessary delays when rolled out into real-world clinical conditions. The project took place between November 2018 and August 2019, with fieldwork being conducted at 11 clinics in the provinces of Pathum Thani and Chiang Mai, Thailand. Its aim was to use the technology to detect diabetic retinopathy (DR), a condition that can lead to vision distortion or loss, while helping the workflow of nursing staff....

The protest, which will see full-time employees, temporary workers, vendors and contractors come together outside the Google building, comes following the company’s decision to fire an employee for allegedly leaking workers’ personal information to the media and place two other workers on leave over their alleged access of documents unrelated to their roles. “The company is claiming that it is for looking up calendars and documents, which is something we all do but we know that it is punishment for speaking up for themselves and others,” workers organizing at Google who requested that their names be withheld, said in a statement shared with Newsweek on Thursday....

Among the NFT community, “goop” is a reference to Goopdoods, a collection of 8,000 colorful NFTs that are each computer-generated from the designs of artist Andrew Friesen (dubbed “the original goopdude.”) Fans and collectors of Goopdoods NFTs have become somewhat of a movement on Twitter. On Friday, users were invited to a “60 minute ‘GOOP’ meditation” in Twitter Spaces, where the only word allowed to be uttered was “goop.”...

Speaking to KTAR News 92.3FM Mac & Gaydos, the Republican governor said he doesn’t believe Trump should be impeached. Ducey added that he is “skeptical” of the impeachment inquiry and that it is “100 percent partisan”—especially considering that the presidential election is just over a year away. “Knowing what we know right now, the answer is an easy no. Of course not,” Ducey said, speaking about whether he thinks the president should be impeached....

“It’s a work in progress,” Vice President Mike Pence told reporters during a phone briefing Wednesday. “I’m sure they will be announced in the forthcoming days.” At President Donald Trump’s urging, the bulk of the convention’s festivities were moved from North Carolina to Florida, after North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper wouldn’t agree to allow a full-scale event to take place out of fear that it could create a spike in COVID-19 cases....

Jim Lucas, a GOP member of the Indiana House of Representatives, was criticized after sharing the image on his Facebook page, which came as Democrats prepared to propose a further coronavirus aid package. The lawmaker has previously courted controversy with his actions on social media, having last year commented a picture of gallows underneath a news story about a black man who had pleaded guilty to rape. Lucas has defended his latest controversial meme, sharing a string of further updates on Facebook, one including another meme about “being falsely accused of racism....

Biden signed numerous orders on Wednesday, aimed at points such as tackling the COVID-19 crisis, climate change and racial equity. He also set about revoking multiple orders made by his predecessor Donald Trump. While this has been welcomed by Democrats, their Republican counterparts have expressed reservations over Biden’s actions. “On day one, Biden has set the tone for what is to come in his administration: legislating by executive orders, championing massive spending bills, and supporting far-left priorities that reverse years of economic growth and job creation,” Rep....

Among these are GOP Representative Paul Gosar’s siblings, who are asking for their brother to be expelled from office. “The message to my brother is that, you know, he must resign, if not be expelled, from Congress,” Jennifer Gosar told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. “The point in time to reach my brother, I think that’s been past. I know that at this point, the most that we can do as citizens, as constituents, as the public, demand that the members of Congress involved be held accountable, and that includes expulsion,” she added....