Men's T20 World Cup squads including England, India & Australia

India's Virat Kohli (left), England's Jos Buttler (centre) and Australia's Pat Cummins (right) will all be key figures for their sides

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Paper napkin ‘contract’ which sealed Lionel Messi’s move to FC Barcelona sells for almost $1 million at auction

The paper napkin containing the understanding which saw Lionel Messi join FC Barcelona has sold for $966,400 (£762,400), sales management firm Bonhams said on Friday. The napkin, which was endorsed to secure the gifts of then 13-year-old Messi in 2000, eventually brought a far higher sum than its unique beginning cost of $380,000 (£300,000). The obligation to an agreement was written in blue ballpoint pen via Carles Rexach, the then wearing head of Barça, on the 6.5 x 6.5 inch napkin. "In Barcelona, on December 14, 2000, within the sight of Mssrs. Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, specialized secretary of FC Barcelona, thus concurs under his obligation and against a few disagreeing sentiments to sign the player Lionel Messi, given that we keep to the sums concurred," Rexach wrote in Spanish. The napkin is additionally endorsed by Horacio Gaggioli, the Argentine specialist who initially carried Messi to the consideration of Barcelona, and Josep Minguella, the excha...

How a NASA scientist and a record-breaking mountaineer conquered an unknown mountain to raise money for girls’ education

Investigating the pinnacles of the world's most elevated mountains or the insider facts of room's most profound mazes has become practically natural for Poorna Malavath and Kavya Manyapu. It has taken Manyapu to NASA where her exploration has included planning space suits, and Malavath to the highest point of Mount Everest when in 2014, she turned into the most youthful ever lady to culmination the world's most elevated mountain at only 13 years of age. Presently, these two ladies have directed their investigating soul into getting over a portion of the world's most troublesome mountains as a feature of their mission, Venture Shakthi, which fund-raises to support young ladies' schooling. Toward the finish of August, they climbed a 6,012m virgin top in Ladakh, India - one beforehand unmapped and immaculate by human undertakings - expecting to utilize the imagery of pioneering a path both in a real sense and figuratively. Never got over, the mountain introduced...

GB's Caudery wins Continental Tour pole vault title

England's Molly Caudery brought home the post vault championship at the World Games Mainland Visit occasion in the Czech Republic with a world-driving imprint this year. Caudery, 24, cleared 4.84m, the most noteworthy ladies' open air vault on the planet such a long ways in 2024, at the Ostrava Brilliant Spike. The world indoor hero had two ineffective efforts to establish another public record of 4.92m. The 2016 Olympic hero Katerina Stefanidi completed 20cm down on Caudery in runner up. Sweden's Armand Duplantis won the men's occasion, clearing 6.00m The Olympic and title holder then, at that point, barely bombed trying to break the open air world record for the 10th time, with the bar at 6.25m. England's Lina Nielsen completed second behind the Netherlands' Cathelijn Peeters in the ladies' 400m obstacles. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake completed third in the men's 200m, which was won by Canada's Andre de Grasse, who additionally guaranteed the...

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