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La atracción más famosa de Australia cumple 50 años

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

(CNN) — Decir que la Ópera de Sídney es un icono muy conocido de Australia es como decir que el Amazonas es un arroyo.Al edificio, que cumplirá 50 años el 20 de octubre, la firma financiera mundial Deloitte le ha otorgado un valor cultural de US$ 11.400 millones.Claro, los excelentes bienes raíces frente al mar de Sídney valen mucho, pero el valor real, según Deloitte, es la forma en que simboliza a Australia en todo el mundo, convirtiéndose en uno de esos edificios, como la Torre Eiffel y el Empire State Building, que pueden ser reconocido sólo por su silueta.Inaugurada el 20 de octubre de 1973 por la difunta reina Isabel II, la Ópera recibe ahora a más de un millón de visitantes cada año.El arquitecto danés Jorn Utzon ganó el concurso para diseñar la Ópera en 1957. Posteriormente ganaría el Premio Pritzker, considerado el Nobel de la arquitectura.Una rica historiaHay mucho más en la Ópera que, bueno, ópera.“Creo que existe una gran idea errónea de que somos artes clási...

DeMar DeRozan praises Becky Hammon for leading Las Vegas Aces to a 2nd straight WNBA title: ‘It’s not surprising for me at all’

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

DeMar DeRozan had high praise for coach Becky Hammon after winning her second straight WNBA championship with the Las Vegas Aces.The pair worked together for three years when Hammon was an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs under Gregg Popovich. DeRozan reached out to Hammon to congratulate her after the Aces defeated the New York Liberty on Wednesday, clinching a 3-1 series victory despite the loss of star point guard Chelsea Gray.The Aces were the first team to win consecutive WNBA titles since the Los Angeles Sparks won in 2001 and 2002.“She’s an amazing person,” DeRozan said Thursday after the Bulls‘ 114-105 preseason loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves at the United Center. “Hell of a competitor, knows the game in and out. My time when I was in San Antonio with her being an assistant coach was amazing.”Hammon served as an assistant coach in San Antonio for eight seasons, where she quickly grew to prominence as one of the best candidate...

Rebel ambush in Indonesia’s restive Papua region kills a construction worker and injures 3 others

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province killed a construction worker and seriously injured three others in an attack at a construction site, police said Friday.Nineteen other workers were unharmed “but experienced trauma” from the attack, which occurred on Thursday, according to a statement from Papua police spokesperson Ignatius Benny Ady Prabowo.The 23-member construction crew was resting in their tents in Eromaga village in Puncak district when nine members of a rebel group attacked them with sharp weapons including arrows.Security officers rushed to the scene after hearing about the attack, but the rebels escaped before they arrived.Police and military officers were securing the area to prevent further attacks. They transferred the body and the wounded workers to a hospital in another district.Security forces were working to track down the attackers, Prabowo said.Papua, a former Dutch colony in the western part of New Guinea, is ethnically a...

The leaders of Ukraine and Russia assess their resources as their war heads into winter

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he spoke by phone with U.S. President Joe Biden about Washington’s future support for Kyiv, and Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a military base near the Ukrainian border, as the warring countries laid plans for the winter and next year’s combat operations.Almost 20 months of war have sapped both sides’ military resources. The fighting is likely to settle into positional and attritional warfare during the approaching wintry weather, analysts say, with little change along the more than 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line.Zelenskyy said late Thursday he spoke to Biden about “a significant support package” for Ukraine. Western help has been crucial for Ukraine’s war effort.Putin visited late Thursday the headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District, less than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Ukraine’s southeastern border, where he was briefed on the war by the chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, th...

A Palestinian engineer who returned to Gaza City after fleeing south is killed in an airstrike

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — When Omar Khodari and his family heeded the Israeli military’s warning last week advising them to head from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, they thought they were fleeing to a safer place.They figured they would wait out the airstrikes in the southern town of Khan Younis and go back home when calm returned to Gaza City, Khodari’s relatives said.But the explosions followed them like a slow-moving thunderstorm. Khodari watched as dozens of Palestinians like him who followed Israel’s warning and abandoned their homes in search of safety were killed by Israeli airstrikes raining down on residential buildings and United Nations shelters outside the evacuation zone. On Wednesday, Khodari, his wife, four teenage daughters and two sons decided they’d had enough. Khodari, a 47-year-old civil engineer who spent the last 15 years in Dubai, couldn’t stand that he was suffering under bombardment at his friend’s crowded Khan Younis apartment ...

AI chatbots are supposed to improve health care. But research says some are perpetuating racism

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records, a new study led by Stanford School of Medicine researchers cautions that popular chatbots are perpetuating racist, debunked medical ideas, prompting concerns that the tools could worsen health disparities for Black patients.Powered by AI models trained on troves of text pulled from the internet, chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard responded to the researchers’ questions with a range of misconceptions and falsehoods about Black patients, sometimes including fabricated, race-based equations, according to the study published Friday in the academic journal Digital Medicine and obtained exclusively by The Associated Press. Experts worry these systems could cause real-world harms and amplify forms of medical racism that have persisted for generations as more physicians use chatbots for help with daily tasks such as emailing patients ...

Stock market today: World shares slip as higher US 10-year Treasury yield pressures Wall Street

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) — World shares retreated as the prospect of a 5% yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury for the first time since 2007 added to pressure on Wall Street, though the yield held steady below that level early Friday. Germany’s DAX fell 1% to 14,868.33 and the CAC 40 in Paris lost 1.3% to $6,833.21. Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 0.6% at 7,458.28. The futures for the S&P 500 and for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were virtually unchanged. Investors were keeping an eye on the Middle East, where Israel bombarded Gaza early Friday, hitting areas in the south where Palestinians had been told to seek safety. Oil prices surged anew with escalating conflict fueling supply concerns. The price of oil depends on how much of it is consumed and how much is available. The latter is under threat because of the Hamas-Israel war, even though the Gaza Strip is not home to major crude production.A barrel of benchmark U.S. crude rose $1.36 to $89.73 per barrel in electronic trading on the New ...

CBA blanks Albany to advance to Class AAA semifinals

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Christian Brothers Academy took down No. 5 Albany with two second-half goals to advance to the Class AAA semifinals. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! They went into halftime with a 1-0 lead. Then, the offense was ignited by goals from Martin Ulaj and Hunter Bulich, extending their lead to 3-0. The Brothers will play against top-seeded Saratoga, on Tuesday, October 24, at 7:30 p.m.

Home-field up for grabs between La Salle and Bethlehem in 1st & 10 "Game of the Week"

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- As the final week of the regular season in Class A rolls around, there's still a couple opportunities for movement within the eight-team playoff picture. And the result of our 1st & 10 "Game of the Week" will dictate home-field advantage for one team in the opening round of sectionals. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! (4-3) La Salle will make the trip to (6-1) Bethlehem Friday night. Both teams own 3-1 records in league play. The winner earns the two-seed in the Capital Division, and will host the three-seed in the Grasso Division to start playoffs. Loser hits the road to take on Burnt Hills - the 14th-ranked team in the state for Class A.The Cadets recognize the magnitude of Friday's game, and what it could mean for sectionals."We think this is the most important game of the year for us," said senior running back Matt Bott. "We love playing (at home). We get the fans here, and everything. The student ...

Over 12.5 million intra-country commuters in 2022

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:03:13 GMT

In 2022, among the 197 million employed people aged 15-64 years in the EU, more than 12.5 million people (6.4% of all employed) commuted to work from one region to another within their country of residence. This marked an increase of 4.4% compared with 2021 (12.0 million people).The highest share of regional commuting in total employment was recorded in the Belgian province of Brabant Wallon (45%), followed by another Belgian province, Vlaams-Brabant (42%), Pest in Hungary (41%), the province of Namur in Belgium (38%), and the Austrian regions of Burgenland (36%) and Niederösterreich (29%). Looking at absolute numbers, several German regions, including Brandenburg (297 000), Arnsberg (248 000) and Lüneburg (223 000), along with Pest in Hungary (272 000) and Niederösterreich (236 000) in Austria, recorded the most employed people commuting to a different region within their respective countries to work.People also commute for work to other countries. In 2022, 2.09 million employ...