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12:51 PM ETJonathan GivonyESPN The manager for potential No. 1 NBA draft pick LaMelo Ball told ESPN that they have purchased his Australian NBL team, although in a statement later, the Illawarra Hawks said no sale has been completed."We own the team," Jermaine Jackson told ESPN. "It's a done deal."No…

12:51 PM ETJonathan GivonyESPN The manager for potential No. 1 NBA draft pick LaMelo Ball told ESPN that they have purchased his Australian NBL team, although in a statement later, the Illawarra Hawks said no sale has been completed."We own the team," Jermaine Jackson told ESPN. "It's a done deal."No…

Susan Montoya Bryan/AP ImagesSandbars in the Rio Grande River, north of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2018This is the current edition in a running series of dispatches by New York Review writers that is documenting the coronavirus outbreak with updates from around the world that began March 17–22 and continued March 23–29.…

From Dr. Roy Spencer’s Blog April 1st, 2020 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Last month I noted how the global average lower stratospheric temperature had warmed considerably in recent months, especially in February, and tentatively attributed it to smoke from the Australian bushfires entering the lower stratosphere. You can…

3/30/2020 by Lars Brandle The Weeknd bags a chart double in Australia, with After Hours (Universal) opening at the summit of the national albums survey and “Blinding Lights” reclaiming the singles title. “Blinding Lights” enters week No. 10 at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart, making the Canadian R&B…

Updated March 30, 2020 06:58:42 A group of 40 medical practitioners from a bushfire-affected community warned NSW Health of the potential risks of arriving cruise ships, just days before four separate vessels were allowed to dock in Sydney. Key points:Coronavirus cruise ship Voyager of the Seas was originally told to…

A showgoer at Milan Fashion Week in February.Photo: Edward Berthelot/Getty ImagesFace masks have become an increasingly common sight on the streets of cities like New York and London in recent weeks. Though wearing them has long been the norm in Asian capitals like Tokyo and Hanoi, the mounting threat from…

Design: The Edison Agency Location: Australia Project Type: Produced Client: Brown Family Wine Group Product Launch Location: Global Packaging Contents: Wine Packaging Substrate / Materials: Glass bottleIt’s truly amazing what can be accomplished when the community bands together. We designed and illustrated the new label for a Brown Borthers Limited…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Within the space of weeks, Australia has been transformed into a command economy. Businesses are being told whether they can or cannot open and how they must operate, consumers are subject to formal and informal rationing, workers are directed to stay home, or, in the case…

NATURE BRIEFING 24 March 2020 A fossil the size of a grain of rice appears to be the earliest known bilaterian, the group of animals (including humans) with two-sided symmetry, two openings and a through-gut. Plus: the diagnostic tests for coronavirus available now and in the works, and two approaches…