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Jofra Archer last played for England in March England are hopeful Jofra Archer can play in the T20 World Cup in June, according to managing director Rob Key. Fast bowler Archer, 28, has not played any professional cricket since May after a recurrence of a long-standing elbow injury. He did train with the England white-ball team on their tour of the Caribbean in December. "Our plan is the T20 World Cup, building him up slowly," Key told the Tailenders podcast. "I saw him bowl in the Caribbean and it was like he'd never been away." Archer has been been plagued by back and elbow injuries for three years. He has not played at the highest level since last year's Indian Premier League, with a return of the stress fracture in his right elbow causing him to miss a second successive home summer. However, as England were playing West Indies in Archer's native Barbados at the end of last year, he did play for his former school side without the knowledge of the England hierarchy. Key did suggest that Archer could join the England Test side on their ongoing training camp Abu Dhabi before the Test tour of India, but it is understood the Sussex man is not in attendance. England will defend the T20 World Cup they won in 2021 at this year's tournament in West Indies and the USA, opening their campaign against Scotland on 3 June. "I don't want to get back to this thing where he plays and then goes down again," said Key. "He wanted to play in the IPL, but we said not this time. Hopefully the years he has missed he can add to the end of his career. He is such a talent." Key also called for dedicated windows to be made in the global calendar for Test cricket in order to protect the oldest and longest form of the game. South Africa have opted to send a makeshift Test squad to New Zealand because the two-match series in February clashes with their domestic T20 competition. "Test cricket needs to have windows," said Key. "There was a two-month window for the Ashes last summer - that could be one. There could be one at Christmas. "There are all of these franchise competitions, like the IPL, and there is a global white-ball competition every year. Test cricket needs a window where you can't play anything else. "The rest of us - England, Australia, India and the International Cricket Council in particular, need to look after the other countries. "We have to stop being snobby about Test cricket. We have this view that you can't play Test cricket unless you have played 150 red-ball games, or play in a certain way. No, just pick the most talented players." Link

The young explorer was rushed to the hospital and was listed in stable condition. Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas. A shark bit a 10-year-old Maryland boy who was on vacation in the Bahamas on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The attack unfolded at about 4 p.m. EST on Paradise Island as the boy was "participating in an expedition in a Shark Tank at a local resort," according to a statement by the Royal Bahamas Police Force. He was taken to the hospital and listed in stable condition. Police Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings told NBC News on Tuesday that she couldn't explain what protections were in place at the "Shark Tank" expedition. "I'm a police officer on the island and I have never been over to the aquarium that they're referring to. As far how it's set up, you'll have to speak to personnel at the resort," said Skippings, who declined to name the resort where the attack happened. The Atlantis Paradise Island appears to offer a snorkeling program in which patrons can get "alongside sleek sharks, spotted rays, and brilliantly colored tropical fish in this underwater setting." A message to that resort was not immediately returned on Tuesday afternoon. Link

‘Spirit Racing RS’ and ‘Spirit Racing 3' concepts tease new line of hotter Mazdas. Consider us intrigued... Mazda Spirit Racing - an all-new sporting sub-brand of the Japanese marque - has been teased via a pair of hardcore, track-focused variants of its MX-5 and Mazda 3 models at the Tokyo Auto Salon. Oh hello. Such a thing hasn't existed since the days of the Mazdaspeed performance arm, which peaked in 1991 with victory at Le Mans with the (blisteringly loud) 787B. Christened the ‘Spirit Racing RS’ and ‘Spirit Racing 3’, details are few and far between - even a potential release is yet to be confirmed. But if they do make production, Mazda says they'll demonstrate its learnings from the Japanese Super Taikyu endurance series, which it has been competing in since 2021. Tasty. Kicking off with the world’s best-selling roadster, the MX-5 has been given a Nardo Grey-like coat, while a Gunmetal Grey pinstripe stretches from the mid-point of the bonnet to the end of the boot. Mazda Spirit Racing vinyls are tucked in just past the front wheel arches, while bigger Brembo brakes sit behind the six-spoke Ray’s alloys and Bridgestone Potenza rubber. So far, so good. It’s also difficult to ignore the dramatic splitter kit attached to the front and rear bumpers, as well as the side skirts, which are further complemented by a single-tunnel exhaust and sparingly-used bright red accent strips. The generally moody look really works for us. Interior modifications also bring the Spirit Racing RS more in tune with your cousin’s excessively modified first-generation MX-5, headlined by Recaro bucket seats, racing parachutes, and an Alcántara-clad steering... thingy. The Spirit Racing 3 looks to adopt all of these changes, and given its similarly low ride height, we expect a much more stiffly sprung suspension to set it apart from the other car. The only real difference (aside from an extra two doors, obviously) is a big rear wing and a set of connector wires attached to the front splitter. It should steal plenty of attention at your next KFC car park meet. These two models could represent a welcome return to sporting products for a brand which, over the last few years at least, has focussed more on SUVs and crossovers like the MX-30. Perhaps Mazda Spirit Racing could even have a hand in bringing the gorgeous twin-rotor Iconic SP to life. We can dream… Link

The bipartisan agreement between the House and the Senate tackles priorities for both parties. WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers in Congress announced a bipartisan deal Tuesday to expand the child tax credit and provide a series of tax breaks for businesses. The $78 billion tax agreement between House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., caps months of negotiating and pursuing common ground in the divided Congress. It still needs to be written into legislation and secure the votes to pass the Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate, which is not guaranteed. But the top tax writers are hopeful it can pass quickly, before Americans file their taxes this year. “American families will benefit from this bipartisan agreement that provides greater tax relief, strengthens Main Street businesses, boosts our competitiveness with China, and creates jobs,” Smith said in a statement. The deal, details of which were reported earlier by NBC News, would enhance refundable child tax credits in an attempt to provide relief to families that are struggling financially and those with multiple children. It would also lift the tax credit's $1,600 refundable cap and adjust it for inflation. “Fifteen million kids from low-income families will be better off as a result of this plan, and given today’s miserable political climate, it’s a big deal to have this opportunity to pass pro-family policy that helps so many kids get ahead,” Wyden said in a statement. The new child tax credit policy would benefit about 16 million kids in low-income families, according to an analysis by the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “The expansion would meaningfully reduce child poverty,” CBPP wrote. “In the first year, the expansion would lift as many as 400,000 children above the poverty line. 3 million more children would be made less poor as their incomes rise closer to the poverty line.” Democrats had demanded a larger child tax credit after an earlier version they passed for less than one year expired, causing child poverty to fall and then rise again after it lapsed. The new agreement would provide smaller benefits than the monthly payments under the American Rescue Plan. White House spokesman Michael Kikukawa said Biden “remains committed to fighting for the full expanded Child Tax Credit” that he fought for as part of the 2021 law. “We appreciate Chairman Wyden and Chairman Smith’s work toward increasing the Child Tax Credit for millions of families and supporting hundreds of thousands of additional affordable homes, and look forward to reviewing the full details of their agreement,” Kikukawa said in a statement. Republicans were motivated to revive some expired portions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts for businesses. The deal includes expensing for research and experimental costs, restoration of an earlier interest deduction, an expansion of small-business expensing and an extension of bonus depreciation, according to a section-by-section summary released by the two tax-writing committees. “The agreement announced today by Chairman Smith and Chairman Wyden is a thoughtful starting point for the House to begin the process," Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a statement. "I will continue working with my Senate colleagues to build broad, bipartisan support for a tax package that provides appropriate relief for working families and businesses.” Wyden has said he hopes to pass the deal by the beginning of tax filing season, which is Jan. 29. That's not assured as Congress is juggling other priorities, most notably averting a government shutdown at the end of this week and completing its funding process by March. It's not clear whether the tax deal would come up as a standalone bill or attached to a government funding measure. If it passes, it would be a rare success story of active legislating on a politically sensitive issue by a divided Congress that has so far been historically unproductive. “My goal remains to get this passed in time for families and businesses to benefit in this upcoming tax filing season, and I’m going to pull out all the stops to get that done,” Wyden said Tuesday. Link

Boeing has asked Ryanair to send extra engineers to oversee quality checks of its planes "on the ground" following the Alaska Airlines incident. Ryanair's boss told the BBC that quality was improving but the incident had shown there was "more to be done". It comes after an unused door fell off a Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by US-based Alaska Airlines. Ryanair does not use Boeing's 737 Max 9 aircraft but operates the Max 8 variant and has Max 10s on order. The airline is one of Boeing's biggest customers for the 737 Max family, with more than 100 in service and due to have some 400 more by 2034. Ryanair's chief executive Michael O'Leary said that he expects delivery delays to affect its capacity. Asked in an interview with the BBC if he had complete confidence in Boeing's quality control processes after the incident which saw an unused door fall off, the Ryanair boss said "no". But he added that his airline did now have "more confidence" in plane maker Boeing. Mr O'Leary also said that a delivery of 12 planes towards the end of last year had been "in terms of defects the best deliveries we've had in three years". He acknowledged what happened with the Alaska Airlines flight had been serious but said the industry always learned from incidents. Ryanair will deploy more engineers to oversee quality control at US factories in Seattle and Wichita building aircraft and fuselages for the airline. Mr O'Leary said that Boeing made good planes, but compared the relationship to a marriage: "I can be in love with you and still occasionally criticise some of your personal habits. I think that's the same with Boeing." He suggested that the management team at Boeing "needs to be improved" following the incident, although he gave his support for Boeing's current chief executive David Calhoun, stating that he is "doing a stellar job in very tough circumstances". Mr O'Leary added: "We don't need more senior management changes in Boeing." On Monday, Boeing announced that an outside party would also be brought in to assess its production practices. It will also check the work of the firm that supplies and installs the parts involved in the accident. Last week, the US regulator extended the grounding of 737 Max's with similar fuselage panels, while United and Alaska Airlines have said they were extending the cancellations of any flights involving the 737 Max 9 through until Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also said it would conduct an audit of the plane's production line, adding it believed there were "significant problems" with the 737 Max 9 jet as well as "other manufacturing problems". Announcing the latest measures, Stan Deal, who heads up Boeing's commercial division, said the company was "not where we need to be". Scrutiny of Boeing has been renewed after the blowout on the Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon to California, which forced an emergency landing but resulted in no serious injuries. The US aerospace giant has been struggling to restore confidence after crashes in 2018 and 2019 involving a different plane in the 737 Max group killed 346 people. Poor design of a piece of its flight control system was found to play a role in those crashes, and authorities grounded its po[CENSORED]r 737 Max planes globally for more than 18 months. Poor oversight by the FAA was also cited. On Tuesday, Boeing also announced that it had appointed Kirkland H. Donald, a former Navy admiral, as the independent advisor responsible for overseeing a review of its quality control systems for its commercial aircraft. He and a range of experts will provide Boeing bosses, including Mr Calhoun, with a series of recommendations. Link

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Lionel Messi (front row) helped Inter Miami beat Nashville SC to win the Leagues Cup in the United States Argentina forward Lionel Messi has won men's player of the year at the Fifa Best Awards, with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola claiming the men's coach prize in London. Inter Miami's Messi edged out City striker Erling Haaland with Paris St-Germain attacker Kylian Mbappe third. City's Ederson collected the goalkeeper award of Real Madrid's Thibaut Courtois and Al Hilal's Yassine Bounou. City won the Treble of Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in 2022-23. Messi wins by tightest margin Messi, 36, began 2023 at Paris St-Germain, before moving to Major League Soccer (MLS) club Inter Miami in June. He picked up the best men's player award for the third time since this format of the awards began in 2016, after doing so in 2019 and 2022. He scored nine goals for PSG as they won the French Ligue 1 title and 10 goals in seven games as Inter Miami won the inaugural Leagues Cup in the United States. Haaland grabbed a record 36 Premier League goals last season. In all competitions in 2022-23, he scored a club-record 52 goals - with 28 of them coming after the World Cup, plus another two goals this season before 20 August. France's Mbappe, like Messi, won the Ligue 1 title with PSG - and clinched a fifth consecutive Golden Boot. The 25-year-old netted 18 goals for his French club during the window of 19 December 2022 to 20 August 2023 - the period the awards were based on. A mix of votes from national team players and captains, journalists and fans on Fifa's website - with each counting for 25% - were used to decide the winners. Messi and Haaland finished on the same amount of points, with Messi getting the award as he had more first-place nominations from national team captains. Manchester City beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the 2023 Champions League final The Fifa Best Awards generally cover a calendar year and are different to the Ballon d'Or awards, which reflect performances across a season. However, this year, the men's awards - and Puskas Award - are judged from 19 December, 2022 to 20 August 2023, because the Qatar World Cup was included in last year's ceremony. The ceremony took place at the Hammersmith Apollo in London with a host of the best players past and present in attendance. Six Manchester City players in team of the year Men's coach of the year was the first award of the night, with Guardiola winning it ahead of Luciano Spalletti and Simone Inzaghi. Spalletti guided Napoli to their first Serie A title in 33 years with a record-equalling five games to spare. Inzaghi was nominated after winning the Coppa Italia with Inter Milan and taking them to the Champions League final, where they lost 1-0 to Manchester City. There were six Manchester City players named in the men's team of the year - defenders John Stones, Kyle Walker and Ruben Dias, midfielders Bernardo Silva and Kevin de Bruyne and striker Haaland. Real Madrid and England midfielder Jude Bellingham was also selected and was the only English player named in the side that does not play for City. Men's team of the year: Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid), John Stones, Kyle Walker, Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva (all Manchester City), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Kevin de Bruyne and Erling Haaland (both Manchester City), Kylian Mbappe (Paris St-Germain), Lionel Messi (Inter Miami) and Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid). Dias paid tribute to Guardiola and said: "He is intense. In the end he makes you play football in a way that no-one else is able to and somehow through that intensity he does get the best out of everyone. "You can have different personalities as coach but the one you want is the one that gets the best out of you." Guardiola added: "Thank you so much to our players for what they have done for eight years together. Thank you so much for this incredible journey." Brighton's Enciso misses out on Puskas Award Brighton midfielder Julio Enciso was one of three nominations for the Puskas Award, handed out to the player that had scored the best goal. The Puskas award - named after Hungarian legend Ferenc Puskas - was decided by pundits. Enciso scored a spectacular long-range strike in the Seagulls' 1-1 draw at home against Manchester City on 23 May, but missed out on the award, which went to Brazilian Guilherme Madruga, who plays for second-tier Brazil side Botafogo after a spectacular 25-yard overhead kick. 'Haaland has been robbed there' - what you said Hannah: How? I'd take Haaland over Messi right now any day. GK: Not a City fan by any means but Haaland has been robbed there. How can you give an award to someone scoring goals in the MLS over someone scoring goals against the best players in the world to win the treble? Andy: The awards had gone so well and have now lost all credibility. The continued obsession with Messi has now become embarrassing. Haaland's season will probably never be beaten. On the other hand... Ryan: Like he does on the pitch, Messi has come out of nowhere. The best sportsman of all time. Karl, South Africa: Lionel Messi is Thanos. He is inevitable. Link

Dubbed the ‘ePower Mustang’ and capable of over 200 miles on a full charge, the kit is a partnership between Mann e-Power cars and Alan Mann Racing Manncorp, an electronic specialist firm from Hatboro, Pennsylvania, has teamed up with legendary motorsport outfit Alan Mann Racing (AMR) to create a new EV conversion for the first-generation Mustang, dubbed the ‘ePower Mustang’. Under its new subsidiary company, Mann e-Power Cars, it will debut the kit at the 2024 Philadelphia Auto Show using a 1965 Ford Mustang, which will display the all-electric drivetrain and revamped chassis. Ultimately, that means we could be looking at the world’s first classic Mustang which actually… drives well. The performance figures are certainly exciting: 300bhp and 662lb ft of torque lead to a 5.1s launch to 60, though the top speed is capped at 100mph. It’s worth noting that this is still much higher than most Mustangs from this period can manage, despite the brochure saying otherwise. Mann also quotes a range of over 200 miles from its 72kWh battery, with a 20-80 per cent recharge taking around 40 minutes. Interesting. Powertrain aside, what other changes have been made? Well, the standard front struts and rear leaf springs have been replaced by an independent double wishbone suspension, while the woeful brakes are ditched in favour of an all-new ventilated set that’s augmented with regenerative braking technology. This means the car no longer ignores you when you try to stop it. Probably. The ePower Mustang will also boast a Torsen limited-slip differential, while the weight has been kept as close as possible to the original figure of just over 1,100kg. Goodness, it really is shaping up to look like this classic Mustang will be alright to drive, y’know? This is especially true when you consider AMR - which rose to stardom during the ‘60s by creating really slow racing cars for really slow drivers like Sir Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and Mario Andretti - should have a huge say on how the thing handles. Moving on, the exterior has seen next-to-no changes to allow the evergreen appeal of the classic Mustang shape to thrive, but the interior has been given a few quality-of-life enhancements. Those include more supportive race seats, Bluetooth, climate control and an infotainment screen to indulge in a That ‘70s Show binge. Henry Mann, director of AMR, said: “We have been watching the incredible growth of so-called restomods with interest. We’ve seen cherished cars that owners want to improve, and we’ve seen those that owners want to future-proof, and thanks to our new partnership with Mann ePower Cars, we’re able to meet all those needs. “The model on the stand played a large part in the history of our company and is close to our hearts. It was the first racing Mustang to achieve international success for Ford, and, back in 1964, it was all prepared in-house by my father’s operation.” The thousand-hour conversion can be applied to both the coupe and fastback body styles of any 1960s Mustang, with Mann even sourcing the donor car if you’re having trouble finding one yourself - Ford only made around three million examples of the entire first gen, after all. Sadly, no price estimates have been provided yet. Our best guess? An offer of around £150,000 and a packet of Tesco’s Finest jam doughnuts should seal the deal. Link

Guests wait in line in sub-zero temperatures to attend a rally with former President Donald Trump at Simpson College on Sunday in Indianola, Iowa. Views of former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement — or MAGA — reveal a lot about likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers’ candidate preferences ahead of Monday’s GOP caucuses. Overall, the new NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll finds a combined 40% of likely caucusgoers identifying themselves as either “Ultra MAGA” (18%) or “Regular MAGA” (22%) when asked how they view the phrase. Another 38% say they’re neutral to the MAGA movement, and 17% are anti-MAGA. And when breaking down these results by candidate support, the poll captures the different lanes ahead of Monday’s Republican presidential contest. Among the likely caucusgoers who say Trump is their first choice, a combined 60% describe themselves as either Ultra MAGA (31%) or Regular MAGA (29%). By contrast, only a combined 11% of Haley’s supporters identify as Ultra (5%) or Regular MAGA (6%), while 37% say they’re neutral and 50% consider themselves anti-MAGA. And DeSantis’ supporters are in the middle: 24% are either Ultra or Regular MAGA; 57% are neutral; and 17% are anti-MAGA. The NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of Iowa was conducted Jan. 7-12 of 705 likely Republican caucusgoers, and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.7 percentage points. Link

Lava flows have slowed in south-west Iceland following a volcanic eruption that has destroyed several homes. A volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula erupted on Sunday, spilling molten rock into the town of Grindavik. The local po[CENSORED]tion was evacuated. Defences built after an eruption in December were breached in places, setting houses on fire. But by Monday the flow had almost stopped. There is no danger to the rest of Iceland, officials say. Dr Matthew Roberts of the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) told the BBC that the situation near Grindavik had "very much eased" on Monday. He added that micro-earthquakes - which are not commonly felt by people - were still happening, but their number and intensity were decreasing. However, many Grindavik residents have been left shaken by the eruption. "Seeing your home burn down on live television is something you cannot easily handle," Unndor Sigurthsson told the MBL news website. She said her family had left almost all their belongings when they were evacuated, leaving them only with clothes and essential items. A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts in Reykjanes Peninsula There has been no disruption to domestic or international flights. The IMO's aviation colour code for the Reykjanes peninsula was orange on Monday morning, indicating an ongoing eruption with "no or minor ash emission". Addressing the nation on Sunday evening, President Gudni Johannesson urged people to "stand together and have compassion for those who cannot be in their homes". Volcanologist Evgenia Ilyinskaya told BBC Breakfast that the peninsula could be entering a period of frequent eruptions, known as the New Reykjanes Fires. Prof Ilyinskaya said eruptions could take place "every few months or once a year for several decades or several centuries". The Reykjanes Fires were a series of instances of intense volcanic activity on the peninsula in the 12th Century. Strong tremors preceded the December eruption in the Svartsengi volcanic system. In the weeks since, walls were built around the volcano to direct molten rock away from Grindavik, home to some 4,000 people. Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir said the eruption was a "black day for all of Iceland", but added that "the sun will rise again". Lava spreads across the Reykjanes peninsula Sunday's eruption is the fifth to have taken place along the Reykjanes peninsula since 2021. Iceland sits over what's known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the boundary between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates - two of the largest on the planet. Iceland has 33 active volcano systems. Link

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