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While the majority of Liverpool fans in Australia will jump at the chance to watch Gerrard and Carragher - two members of the Reds’ 2005 Champions League-winning side - run around again, there are some questioning whether including past players will dilute the quality of the contest. Gerrard to play for Liverpool again Liverpool claimed the “unique concept” is due to their 125th anniversary, as the friendly at ANZ Stadium will be the closest match to the club’s birthday on June 3....

A jury found father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, guilty on multiple counts of murder in the fatal shooting of Arbery on February 23, 2020. Their lawyers have pledged to appeal the verdict, but the men will also face federal hate crime charges in 10 weeks. By Wednesday evening, roughly 16 progressive Democrats issued tweets expressing approval of the verdict, sympathy for Arbery’s family, and determination to continue working for racial justice nationwide....

Ake has played in every Premier League game for Bournemouth this season and his impressive performances have seen him become established in the Dutch squad. He featured alongside Van Dijk in the 3-0 friendly win over Portugal last month and the Netherlands captain views Ake as a potential long-term partner at centre-back. “As captain of Holland, I hope for him to grow as a player and as a human being,” Van Dijk, whose Liverpool side beat Bournemouth 3-0 last weekend, told the Daily Echo....

When Is the ‘America’s Got Talent 2021’ Final? The America’s Got Talent 2021 final will take place across two nights next week on NBC. Part 1 will take place on Tuesday, September 14, kicking off at 8 p.m. on NBC with the grand finale airing on Wednesday, September 15. In the first final, all of the acts will perform the final routines for the judges, studio audience, and viewers at home....

Contestants wowed judges Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Gabrielle Union, Julianne Hough and guest judge Queen Latifah during the first two-hour round of finals on Tuesday. Although AGT co-creator and producer Cowell is typically tough-as-nails on performers, he was full of praise on Tuesday, calling the show the “best final we’ve ever had.” “Every one of them, literally, tonight has the ability to win this show, and it’s all going to come down to the next two hours live,” Cowell said at the beginning of the show....

Heidi Klum is still out sick, but Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara and Howie Mandel will be back in their seats at the judge’s panel. Terry Crews will be on hand to host the show. The show is expected to be a lively one as there are still a few interesting acts set to make their grand appearance on the world’s biggest stage. And there’s still one remaining golden buzzer out there, so one lucky contestant may be skipping past the next round of the competition and headed straight to the live shows....

For the second installment, 11 acts took to the AGT stage to impress the judges, audience, and viewers at home with their talents. Fans were treated to a variety of performances from Golden Buzzer winners Maddie Baez and Chapel Hart to jaw-dropping magic acts from Yu Hojin. But which acts made it to the final and who was sent home from the competition? Newsweek has everything you need to know....

Professional skater Alex Murphy, from popular British show Dancing on Ice, sent the internet into a meltdown after showing how she makes Britain’s favourite hot beverage. Murphy gained over 10 million views in just five days after filming her tea-making routine on TikTok. The woman claimed to be making the tea for her boyfriend—who was less-than-impressed with the result. She began by filling the mug with cold water and a tea bag, adding milk and sugar....

Rep. Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter to National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien on Monday expressing his concern at the administration’s “reported plans” to withdraw from the treaty. Engel did not specify which reports he was referring to, but warned that “withdrawal would only benefit Russia and be harmful to our allies’ and partners’ national security interests.” The treaty allows the treaty’s 34 party states—including the U....

Phase five of the MCU kickstarts with the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and the film’s first trailer was released on Monday, October 24. ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Trailer Teases Kang the Conqueror Plan In the teaser trailer, Scott Lang a.k.a Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) is enjoying life as an Avenger when his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) shows him, Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), a new invention that can send signals to the Quantum Realm....

Apex Legends crossplay is here Alongside the Aftermarket event on October 6, Apex Legends will begin its official crossplay beta on Xbox One, PS4 and Origin. Players will be able to party up with voice chat, and the feature is enabled by default. To keep matches fair, crossplay will limit those on console from playing with those on PC unless otherwise specified. If a PC player joins a party with console users, those console players will join the PC matchmaking pool....

To get a better look at each of the skins, check out the video above, courtesy of Wild Side on YouTube. Apex Legends Season 4 Battle Pass Skins and Rewards Tiers one-five Zero Point R-99 SkinHealth Drain Lifeline SkinTeam Lift Pathfinder SkinBlue Steel Crypto Skin Tiers six-11 Sapphire Protection Kraber Skin [11] Tiers 12-19 Quantum Realm Hemlock Skin [15]Lime Plate EVA-9 Auto Skin [19] Tiers 20-25 Pewter Tangerine RE-45 Skin [23]Perfect Soldier Wraith Skin [25]...

What does Apex Legends update 1.62 do? Even though official patch notes for Apex Legends update 1.62 weren’t released by the game’s developers at Respawn in any capacity, tweets cue players into at least two changes arriving inside the small download. Inspect button returns on console: Shortly after update 1. 62 went live, Respawn Design Director Jason McCord took to Twitter to announce that console players can now turn off the Survival Slot feature to get the weapon inspection button back when playing with a controller....

Goals from Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Daniel Sturridge humbled visiting Arsenal in Premier League action at Anfield. Gunners 13/5 to be the top London club Club-record signing Alexandre Lacazette, centre-back Shkodran Mustafi and Sead Kolasinac were named among the substitutes as Arsenal crashed to back-to-back defeats and Keown compared the situation to that of London rivals West Ham, where Slaven Bilic is under pressure following three consecutive losses to start the season....

Madrid start slowly in month of tough tests City led twice in north London through Leroy Sane - who gave his team the lead after just five minutes - and Sergio Aguero, with Theo Walcott and Shkodran Mustafi netting in the first and second half respectively to get the hosts back on level terms. Chances were in short supply after the German’s 53rd-minute header, though, the result leaving City 11 points back from league leaders Chelsea, while Arsenal are seven points outside the Champions League qualification places....

The 21-year-old was brought into the Blancos team to face Valencia on Sunday evening, with Ronaldo still serving his suspension for pushing the referee in the Clasico at Camp Nou earlier this month. Real 3/4 to win La Liga Asensio opened the scoring after 10 minutes, curling the ball past Neto, before beating the Valencia goalkeeper again in the 83rd minute from a free-kick to rescue a point for Zinedine Zidane’s team....

The Assassin’s Creed Valhalla reveal happened at the end of the Ubisoft stream that began at 8 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. It culminated in Australian graphic artist Kode Abdo, better known by his online persona BossLogic, completing a piece of artwork that showed off the setting and the main character of the new title. “I have played all of the previous [Assassin’s Creed] games, but my personal favorite is Origins; as an artist, I love mythology and Egypt is up there as one of my all-time favorites,” BossLogic said in an interview with Ubisoft, when asked about the franchise’s influence on them....

To be fair, mumbling along to the lyrics may partly come from the fact that parts of the song aren’t in English. The words to “Auld Lang Syne,” attributed to Scottish poet Robert Burns, tell a tale of old friends reminiscing about fun times they had in years past. Translated from Scottish, the song’s title is “Old Long Since.” Most people know the first two lines of the song, “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?...