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While fans had been expecting an announcement about Chrono Cross due to a leak by composer Yasunori Matsuda, the delivery of Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition was still a surprise. Not only is the release a complete HD remaster of Chrono Cross, it also includes an enhanced soundtrack and the ability to play Radical Dreamers: a text-based game that was only released for Satellaview and acted as the background foundation for Chrono Cross....

The 20-year-old striker spent the last season on loan at Hull City FC and was to be sent for another season on loan at the start of the Premier League season, however, having bids for Jamie Vardy and Alexandre Lacazette rejected. Wenger has now chosen to keep the young striker till he finds a suitable replacement or until he deems Akpom fit for regular first team football. Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud is set to return to training only next week and hence he will either be absent from the match against Liverpool or will be on the bench during the match....

Despite leading for most of the game and scoring the go-ahead touchdown with under two minutes remaining, the story ended the way it usually does: Patrick Mahomes to Travis Kelce. Mahomes led an all-too-predictable game-winning drive in 75 seconds, finding Kelce for a 17-yard touchdown with 31 seconds to play in an eventual 30-27 victory. It was Kelce’s third touchdown of the night as he continued to dominate the Chargers....

Kansas City took part in Super Bowl I and knocked off the Minnesota Vikings for the franchise’s only Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl 4, but we haven’t seen the Chiefs on football’s grandest stage since Len Dawson was the quarterback. They are favored to make it to Super Bowl 54 in Miami by the NFL betting odds, but the Tennessee Titans have already gone into Arrowhead Stadium and knocked off the Chiefs once this season....

Spain win O2.5 goals 9/4 The Juventus defender picked up the problem during training and has returned to Turin for treatment. “Giorgio Chiellini will not be available to head coach [Gian Piero] Ventura for the next two Azzurri matches with Spain and Israel,” Italy confirmed on Friday. “The Juventus defender sustained a right ankle injury and, following medical checks and diagnosis, left Coverciano to return to Turin for treatment.”...

At least 68 people have died in six districts located in the eastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India in the last week due to the fever, according to The Times of India. The deaths have prompted the area’s chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, to order an increase in bed capacity in hospitals, according to The Independent. Adityanath has also asked the health department in the state to conduct a detailed investigation into the illness, which has been described as a “mystery fever” by local newspapers over the past week....

Rueda takes charge of Chile after the departure of Juan Antonio Pizzi, who left after failing to lead the nation to Russia 2018. The 60-year-old’s appointment was confirmed on Monday with his deal running until the end of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and immediately renewable if Chile reach the showpiece event. “We took the necessary time to find the best coach for our team,” Chilean National Football Association (ANFP) president Arturo Salah said in a statement....

The midfielder appeared to make a derogatory gesture with his eyes while posing with a South Korean fan on Monday for a photograph that has been widely circulated by South Korean media. “In relation to the photograph that has appeared on social media, it was never my intention to offend and I offer my apologies to anyone that could have been offended,” Valdes, who plays for Mexican club Monarcas Morelia, wrote on social media....

Emboldened by a recent World Cup appearance, Peru stormed to a rare and impressive 3-0 victory over La Roja in a friendly in Florida in October. Enzo Roco’s own goal and two late strikes from Pedro Aquino made for a surprise result that ended Vidal’s run of six successive victories in the fixture. Experienced utility player Mauricio Isla and centre-backs Gary Medel and Guillermo Maripan also took to the pitch that day and are set to form three quarters of Chile’s defence under decidedly more pressure in Porto Alegre....

Shaexplore shared a clip to her TikTok account of the same name, as she hit the trails in Umpqua National Forest. Her page, which regularly shares her walking adventures, took a sinister turn as she filmed a calming river by the Brice and Cedar creek trails. “Taking a casual walk in the woods when this happened,” she captioned the video, shared on Thursday. As she captured the scenery, she says in the on-screen captions: “Just taking a video of the pretty river....

The Apple Daily newspaper, a defender of Hong Kong’s freedom and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, said the arrests left it “speechless” but promised to continue reporting. “Today’s Hong Kong feels unfamiliar and leaves us speechless. It feels as though we are powerless to stop the regime from exercising its power as it pleases,” the paper said in a letter. “Nevertheless, the staff of Apple Daily is standing firm....

The 41-year-old resident of Zhenjiang, in the coastal Jiangsu province, developed a fever and other undisclosed symptoms on April 23 and was admitted to a local health facility on April 28, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said in a press release on its website. Last Friday, subsequent sequencing done by the Beijing-based Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention identified the pathogen as the H10N3 strain of avian influenza, said the NHC....

Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post says the jet, which shares some design elements with the now retired supersonic commercial airliner Concorde, will measure 148 feet in length—significantly larger than a Boeing 737. Designs published in the bimonthly Chinese journal Physics of Gases last week show sleek delta wings with notable winglets. Two engines mounted atop the fuselage will help propel the aircraft to speeds of Mach 6—or six times the speed of sound—the newspaper reported on Wednesday....

Col. Shi Yi, a spokesperson for the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, said Chinese forces shadowed American vessel USS Benfold as it sailed through the Taiwan Strait between China and Taiwan on Tuesday. The strait is about 80 miles wide at its narrowest point. “The U.S.’s frequent provocations and grandstanding fully demonstrate that it is a disruptor of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and a maker of security risks in the Taiwan Strait,” Shi said....

There are three key pieces to this puzzle—the first being China’s disproportionate impact on the global economy. While a $2.6 trillion Chinese economy amounts to only about 5 percent of overall world output, it makes up a much larger share of the growth in the global economy. In 2006, for example, China’s surging economy accounted for about one third the total increase in world GDP. Moreover, during the past four years, China has been responsible for about 50 percent of the cumulative growth in economically sensitive commodities such as oil and a variety of base metals, like aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, steel, tin and zinc....

Downtown Zhengzhou—the capital of Henan province, which has a population of 10 million people—is among the areas worst affected by the downpour, which has not stopped since Saturday and is forecast to last through Thursday. Overnight, hundreds of Zhengzhou residents found themselves trapped in subway carriages while standing in chest-high floodwater. The local government said 12 people had died and five more were injured in the underground train cars, during the most severe rainfall in its history....

The paper is cash-rich, but $2.3 million of its funds have been frozen under the National Security Law, which China imposed on the territory last June 30. As a result, Apple Daily is not able to meet financial obligations as they come due. Beijing has been steadily moving to end all public criticism in Hong Kong. The paper’s closure should be viewed as the end of freedom in the territory, now part of the People’s Republic of China....

Launching at about 9:22 a.m. local time on Thursday, the Shenzhou-12 ship and Long March-2F Y12 rocket carrying Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming to the Tianhe—or Heavenly Harmony—space station orbiting Earth. The three astronauts will be the first to live on the station since it was launched this April. Though the astronauts are the first Chinese astronauts to enter space in five years, another eight missions are planned....

“There’s a direct correlation,” Louisiana pastor Tony Spell told Newsweek. “The only difference is the confrontations are more physical in China, where with us it’s been lawsuits, time, intimidation and false imprisonment.” Others say authorities in the U.S. were also guilty of “unprecedented censorship”, “trampling rights” and “bullying” during the pandemic. Pastor Spell was arrested for the first time on March 13, 2020, when COVID was tearing through the United States, for refusing to close his Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge....

China’s breakneck economic development has resulted in the world’s fastest-growing toxic-algae problem. On the coasts, monster blooms of algae—the “red tides”—have already made many areas a misery of muck, devastating fisheries and tourism. However, toxic blooms on China’s freshwater lakes and reservoirs are even more worrisome, since they can have an impact on critical tap-water supplies. This summer the worst-ever such blooms were a media focus in China, as one lake and reservoir after another fell victim to poisonous goop....