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Lotería de Navidad: ¿cuánto gastan los españoles para intentar ganar “el Gordo”?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

(CNN En Español) — Sus premios son menos suculentos que otras loterías, pero la ilusión y el fervor que genera entre la población no tiene igual. En España, el Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad, cuyos orígenes se remontan a 1812, es uno de los eventos más arraigados en la cultura popular española, y para muchos supone el pistoletazo de salida de las fiestas navideñas.A medida que se acerca el 22 de diciembre, fecha de su celebración, las administraciones de lotería empiezan a recibir más y más clientes que desean hacerse con uno o varios décimos (la unidad de participación más pequeña que uno puede adquirir de forma oficial). Pero no todos los locales tienen el mismo imán.En Doña Manolita, una de las administraciones más famosas de toda España que se sitúa en pleno centro de Madrid, las filas de espera pueden ser kilométricas. Hay quien incluso llega antes de que abra para asegurarse un turno en la fila, como Celia, una joven que dejó su isla natal de Ibiza para estudiar en Ma...

Joey Daccord matches franchise record with 42 saves, Kraken hold off Kings 2-1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joey Daccord matched his own Seattle franchise record with 42 saves — 20 in the first period — and survived a furious final three minutes to help the Kraken hold off the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Wednesday night.Daccord has started the Kraken’s last seven games and is 3-1-3 with a 1.86 goals-against average and a .936 save percentage,“He’s making timely saves. He’s making all the saves that he should and he’s making some big saves too,” coach Dave Hakstol said. “It’s those kind of things that give your bench a lift and continue to lead to confidence.” The Kings pulled goalie Cam Talbot with 2:52 remaining, but could not get the tying goal. That included a power play with 2:47 remaining after Seattle’s Will Borgen was called for high-sticking Kevin Fiala.Daccord also made 42 saves against Carolina on Oct. 26. He’s the second NHL goalie this season to make at least 20 saves in the first period without allowing a goal. Ottawa’s Joonas Kor...

Daccord ties own Kraken franchise record with 42 saves in 2-1 win over Kings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joey Daccord matched his own Seattle franchise record with 42 saves — 20 in the first period — and survived a furious final three minutes to help the Kraken hold off the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Wednesday night.The Kings pulled goalie Cam Talbot with 2:52 remaining, but could not get the tying goal. That included a power play with 2:47 remaining after Seattle’s Will Borgen was called for high-sticking Kevin Fiala.Daccord also made 42 saves against Carolina on Oct. 26. He’s the second NHL goalie this season to make at least 20 saves in the first period without allowing a goal. Ottawa’s Joonas Korpisalo stopped all 23 shots he faced in the opening 20 minutes on Oct. 28 against Pittsburgh.Brandon Tanev and Jordan Eberle scored for Seattle.Los Angeles’ Blake Lizotte had his 100th career point with his third period-goal. Talbot stopped 28 shots.CAPITALS 3, ISLANDERS 2, OTWASHINGTON (AP) — Dylan Strome scored on an overtime power play and Washington beat New York for it...

AP PHOTOS: Young Kenyan ballet dancers stage early Christmas performance for their community

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — As the sun sets on the narrow streets of Africa’s largest informal settlement, children hurry to change from daily clothes into pointe shoes and other ballet gear.Fifteen-year-old Brenda Branice is among the dancers and can’t hide her joy. It’s time for the Christmas performance in Kibera, one of the busiest neighborhoods of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.Instead of a stage, there is dust-covered plastic sheeting in an open field. The holidays have come early for residents as more than 100 local ballet students perform. They have been practicing every day after school.“I am happy to be a ballerina,” Branice said. “I am also happy to entertain my friends.”Eyeshadow sparkles. A girl’s braided hair swings. Some dancers go barefoot.The mother of another ballerina, Monica Aoko, smiles as she watches the performance. Hundreds of residents, young and old, have come to the annual holiday event.“This dance has given me a Christmas mood. Now I know Chri...

Traore scores 24 points, Pierre-Louis has double-double and UC Santa Barbara beat Howard 94-81

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Yohan Traore scored 24 points, Josh Pierre-Louis had a double-double and UC Santa Barbara beat Howard 94-81 on Wednesday night. Traore added six rebounds for the Gauchos (7-3). Pierre-Louis scored 21 points and added 11 rebounds and eight assists. Cole Anderson shot 7 for 12, including 5 for 10 from beyond the arc to finish with 19 points.Marcus Dockery led the way for the Bison (4-9) with 24 points. Isiah Warfield added 20 points for Howard. In addition, Seth Towns had 13 points.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

Selmayr ain’t welcome back in Brussels, EU officials say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

BRUSSELS — The potential return of the “Monster of the Berlaymont” is freaking out Brussels.The halls of Brussels’ institutions are abuzz with gossip (and some fear) that Martin Selmayr, once the European Commission’s top civil servant, known for his abrasive leadership style, is set to return to the mothership as his assignment in Austria hits the term limit. If an official of his seniority were to return to Brussels, it would have to be to a big job. POLITICO spoke to a dozen EU officials in Brussels, all of whom said his return to Brussels was unwelcome, unlikely and, in the words of one Commission official, even “unthinkable” under the current boss of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who runs a tight ship. Still, the officials were granted anonymity to speak freely about Selmayr, who is still seen as a powerful figure, but has been packed off at a safe distance to head the European Commission’s office in Vienna. In a sign that even he ...

Football’s UEFA and FIFA lose EU court bid to halt breakaway Super League

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

Football’s governing bodies UEFA and FIFA broke EU competition rules by attempting to block the breakaway Super League, the European Union’s top court ruled.“The FIFA and UEFA rules on prior approval of interclub football competitions, such as the Super League, are contrary to EU law,” the Court of Justice said in a statement, adding that they breached EU competition law and the freedom to provide services.The two football organizations were “abusing a dominant position” when they cracked down on the competing league as their rules weren’t “transparent, objective, non-discriminatory and proportionate,” the court said.Judges are giving their advice on EU law to a Madrid court which will rule on the final details of the Super League legal challenge backed by Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.A dozen of Europe’s leading football clubs set up the Super League in April 2021 but the project collapsed after several clubs pulled out follo...

Harvard president’s corrections do not address her clearest instances of plagiarism, including as a student in the 1990s

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

(CNN) — Harvard President Claudine Gay recently requested corrections for two of her academic papers, but she did not address even clearer examples of plagiarism from earlier in her academic history at the school, according to a CNN analysis of her writings.In response to accusations of plagiarism, the embattled Harvard president recently submitted corrections to two papers she wrote as a professional academic in 2001 and 2017. But a CNN examination of Gay’s published works documented that Gay committed other, clearer examples of plagiarism while she was studying for her PhD at Harvard in the 1990s.Those include an instance in her dissertation where she copied lines verbatim from another source without citation.In addressing the allegations of plagiarism, neither Harvard nor Gay have corrected or acknowledged these earlier instances from when she was a student. The instances were first reported by t...

A train in Slovenia hits maintenance workers on the tracks. 2 were killed and 4 others were injured

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A passenger train on Wednesday struck a group of maintenance workers on the tracks, killing two of them and injuring four others, police said.The collision happened near the southwestern town of Postojna at around 9 a.m., the official STA news agency said.The report says the injured workers were seriously hurt. No other details were immediately available.The Associated Press

China has started erecting temporary housing units after an earthquake destroyed 14,000 homes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:30:21 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Hundreds of temporary one-room housing units were being set up Thursday in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 135 people, according to state media reports.Twelve people remained missing in an area hit by mudslides that inundated two villages, the reports said. Search teams were using excavators to dig out a thick sea of mud that covered roads and encased and blocked entry to buildings.State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of cranes lifting white, box-like housing units and lining them up in an open field in Meipo, a village in Gansu province. Some 260 had been erected, and the total in the village was expected to reach 500 across nine sites by Friday morning.The arrival of the prefab units was a sign that many of the more than 87,000 people resettled after the Monday night earthquake may be homeless for some time. Many have been enduring temperatures well below freezing in flimsier tent-like units w...