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At Psy’s summer shows, audiences sing and dance while getting sprayed with water.Getty Images Psy’s famously water-drenched concerts are set to return, with each show needing 300 tons of water. The pop star has been criticized for his shows’ water requirements amid South Korea’s drought. According to reports, South Korea is facing a shortage of water for agricultural and industrial use. K-pop superstar Psy has been criticized for requiring 300 tons of water at each of his upcoming summer… Source link

Australia’s Ashleigh Barty hits a return against Danielle Collins in the Australian Open women’s final. (Photo by AARON FRANCIS/AFP via Getty Images) Ashleigh Barty is the first Australian Open women’s champion in 44 years who is actually from Australia. In front of an enthusiastic home crowd, the world No. 1 beat fierce upstart Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) on Saturday to become the first Australian woman since Chris O’Neil in 1978 to win the country’s most celebrated tennis title.  Barty,… Source link

The streak is over.  The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Las Vegas Raiders 26-19 in Saturday’s AFC wild-card matchup, earning their first postseason victory since 1991 and ending an eight-game playoff losing streak that dated back more than three decades. The game came down to the final moments, partially thanks to a questionable roughing-the-passer call against the Bengals on the Raiders’ Derek Carr and keeping alive a game replete with shaky whistles. But Carr took advantage, converting… Source link

By Mei Mei Chu and Naveen Thukral PERAK, Malaysia/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – In a sprawling oil palm plantation in the Malaysian state of Perak, watermelon seedlings are sprouting from freshly ploughed earth between palm saplings while rented cows graze in overgrown areas of the estate. A coronavirus pandemic-induced labour crunch has forced managers of the 2,000-hectare estate in Slim River to find creative ways to upkeep their fields, even as prices of the world’s most consumed edible oil are… Source link

The Golden State Warriors are still capable of taking down some of the NBA’s heavy hitters, primarily thanks to Stephen Curry‘s MVP campaign, but they have also had a tendency to turn into a raging dumpster fire at times this year. Tuesday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks was one of those times. In a game with major NBA seeding implications, the Warriors fell 133-103 to Dallas, and the game was somehow uglier than the final score indicated. Golden State’s nadir: a 28-0 run that turned a… Source link