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Mass Effect 2 took home the big awards at the 2011 awards and this year, Ubisoft headlines the nominees list with multiple nominations for Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Assassin’s Creed Recollection, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, Just Dance 3 and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012. Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Relic Entertainment’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine earned nods in major categories, and Electronic Arts finds itself with multiple nominations for their sports titles, Need for Speed: The Run and BioWare’s Dragon Age II....

While 2016 African Player of the Year, Riyaad Mahrez misses out, 2015 winner Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang makes the nominee list for a fourth consecutive year. Liverpool duo Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah will also rival each other alongside soon to be Liverpool team-mate, Naby Keita. The 2016 African Women Footballer of the Year Asisat Oshoala is once more shortlisted and will welcome new competition from South Africa’s Thembi Kgatlana. The winners will be decided by votes from the members of the CAF Technical & Development Committee, CAF Media Experts Panel and Independent Media and TV Consultants....

The Puskas award, in the honor of Ferenc Puskas, was introduced in 2009 and since then it marks the best goal scored in the preceding year. There have been some absolute belters which have won the award over the years including Ronaldo’s bullet from range against Porto in 2009, Rooney’s wondrous bicycle against Man City, and most recently Olivier Giroud’s scorpion kick for Arsenal. We take a look at the 10 best goals of the year gone by, which are the nominees for the Puskas award....

This is the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)’s 65th year of tracking Santa as he makes his way across the globe on Christmas Eve. The tradition began in 1955 when a child called the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, thinking she was calling Santa Claus. The commander on duty, Air Force Colonel Harry Shoup, realized the child’s mistake and assured her that Santa would have a safe journey....

Transgender athletes’ place in sports has grown to be a controversial issue with one side arguing it’s an infringement on biological females’ ability to compete and the other criticizing restrictions as being a form of discrimination. Bills putting restrictions on transgender athletes have been proposed in at least 20 states since the start of the year, but opposition from President Joe Biden and the NCAA called the measures into question....

The order, which Cooper signed on the North Carolina A&T State University campus, sets statewide goals regarding greenhouse gas reductions that include an earlier 2030 deadline to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent. “This is an important day for our state,” Cooper said during a news conference. “I am excited to see the new green energy jobs.…I do recognize that there is a lot more to do, but I believe it’s important to help establish a framework for all of us to succeed....

The man suffered cardiac arrest and severe injuries after being underwater for more than 20 minutes. Two witnesses, who were also traveling on the I-95, stopped to help him and his passenger. Richard Hughes, a firefighter EMT from Jasper County Fire & Rescue Department, happened to be on his way home from work when he came across the accident. He also helped at the scene before the Colleton County Fire-Rescue crew arrived....

The former has been out for several weeks with a side strain while Critchley has remained in good form with bat and ball in the second team. The youngster has made an impressive start to his first-class career, averaging 66 with the bat in his handful of appearances, although his leg spin is largely his route into the side. That is many years from its peak and there should not be undue expectation put onto the shoulders of a young player of high talent at this stage....

These head and neck cancers account for just 4% of cancers overall, and nasal cancer and paranasal sinus subtypes are a tiny fraction of them. They are different from nasopharyngeal cancer affecting the throat area. Nasal cancers affect older people most, with 80% of cases seen in those aged 55 and older, and are seen more often in people assigned male at birth. This article discusses these cancers, their symptoms, and possible causes....

“The players involved have been handed down very serious sanctions and they know they must face the consequences. They’ve made a grave mistake, but they are not bad people. As a coach you feel for them as people, they are hurting and I feel for them and their families. I hope that in all this, the media and the fans don’t forget that,” Lehmann told the mediapersons. Lehmann said that everyone should remember that each one of us have made mistakes in our life....

Carl Pei’s start-up Nothing has confirmed longstanding rumours that it’s working on an Android phone, though we don’t know an awful lot more than that. The Nothing Phone (1) will launch this summer running NothingOS, but is there actually anything behind all the smoke and mirrors? Realme at least has something more concrete. The GT Neo 3 has launched in China, with international plans to follow. Curiously it comes in two versions with different battery and charging tech, but the exciting model offers ludicrously fast 150W charging – and two slick race car-inspired finishes....

New Delhi - The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the CBI on former Commonwealth Games (CWG) organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi’s plea for quashing of FIR and proceedings against him. Justice Kailash Gambhir, seeking response from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), asked it to file response in three weeks and posted the matter for March 7. Kalmadi moved the court terming the investigation against him “illegal” as he was a central government employee and no prior sanction from the government was taken to initiate inquiry under the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act....

Originally scheduled to be played in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame elected to have the game moved to Yankee Stadium as part of its Shamrock Series. MORE: Watch Notre Dame-Syracuse live and on demand with fuboTV (7-day free trial) The Irish are ranked No. 3 in the latest College Football Playoff Rankings and are one of the four remaining unbeaten teams left after dominating Florida State 42-13 on Saturday. Quarterback Ian Book missed the last game due to injury, but will reportedly start this week....

With 13,845 points, Serbian star Novak Djokovic held on for the 144th week the top spot in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles rankings issued on Monday. Swiss Roger Federer placed a distant second with 8,385 points, followed by Scotsman Andy Murray and Spaniard Rafael Nadal, reports Efe. Meanwhile, Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka jumped to the ninth place with 3,495 points, upsetting Croat Marin Cilic. The current ATP ranking and point scores are as follows:...

You can’t disagree, the kind of backing Crysis 2 has is incredible. Everyone involved in the game says it’s going to the best game to release in… forever, it seems. Though, I’m not sure if it’ll be have the best graphics ever, at least not until I play it on an incredible TV/audio setup. It’s hard to want to play this game on its own merit, I almost just want to play it to see if everyone who was hyping is right/wrong....

The status of their starting quarterback is not one of them. At least as far as the coach is concerned. “I think everybody’s behind Geno,” Ryan said Tuesday. “He’s our quarterback and our football team believes in him, so that’s it.” The vote of confidence comes as the Jets are off to a 1-2 start following a 27-19 loss on Monday night to the Chicago Bears. Smith had a rough game, with one of his two interceptions — on his first throw of the game — returned for a touchdown....

Certainly, the common consensus had been that Los Blancos had pulled off another great escape, having been second best in both legs of their 4-3 aggregate win over Bayern Munich, just a few weeks after scraping past Juventus in the quarter-finals with a controversial injury-time penalty. However, there is no denying that Real always seem to find a way to win , particularly in Europe. How Arsene Wenger would have loved to discover the secret of Madrid’s success....

Netflix announced a new show from the best-intentioned organizational expert on Tuesday and is currently asking for small-town nominations. The show, Sparking Joy with Marie Kondo, is not yet in production. Instead, there’s an open casting call for American towns that would like to be featured. An organizational makeover of the town will include places like the Mayor’s Office, classrooms, local restaurants, community gardens, fire stations and more. It seemingly aims to focus on shared community spaces that can be improved for the betterment of the entire town....