Saudi Arabia defeats Argentina, Australia loses to France and China has a lot of lock-ins.
Workers in Indonesia are struggling to find survivors of Monday s earthquake because power outages and blocked roads hinder rescue efforts. The death toll has risen to at least 268, and is likely to continue to climb. Many of the dead were women and children in their homes or schools. More than 150 people are still missing. Rescue dogs sniffed for what officials said could be dozens of people still buried under mounds of rust-colored soil. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homes. More than a thousand people are injured, and hospitals are overrun. Some people are being treated in makeshift tents, and there aren't enough ambulances. Details: A full picture of damage from the magnitude 5.6 earthquake is still emerging. One entire village was engulfed by a landslide.
In one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history, Saudi Arabia defeated Argentina 2 -- 1 Argentina has Lionel Messi, perhaps the greatest player in the world, and it carefully built its team to support him. The Saudis were viewed as a sacrifice. Even Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman advised them to focus more on enjoying themselves rather than on winning. My colleague Rory Smith wrote that the loss was not just a defeat for Argentina. It was an embarrassment, an ignominy, a stigma scarred into Argentine skin in front of 88,000 people, broadcasted live on television and beamed around the world. Schools and businesses were forced to close across Beijing, where leaders had been looking to adjust the restrictions that had dragged its economy down. The city recorded its first coronaviruses deaths in months last weekend. It is part of a nationwide pattern: earlier this month, China said it would fine-tune Covid restrictions to limit the disruption caused by lockdowns, quarantines and daily mass testing. The outbreaks have tested officials resolve and raised questions about when and when the world's second-largest economy might reopen. Since October, new infections have risen almost every day. Yesterday, the number of cases announced — 27,307 — came close to China's single day record of 28,973 cases, set in April during the early days of the Shanghai lock-down. China is the only major country that is trying to eradicate Covid infections. Its population has scant immunity, most of them have never been exposed to the virus, and vaccination efforts have dropped off over the summer and autumn.
If you pay close attention, you will know that no two bodies move the same way, said Katja Heitmann, a German choreographer. She has been collecting the mannerisms of others — how they walk, stand, kiss or fidget — for her dance project, Motus Mori. Her archive now includes movements donated by more than 1,000 people, though she does not record or photograph them; dancers learn the moves in private sessions, commit them to memory and incorporate them into performances. Heitmann said that the current society is trying to capture humanity in data. We are losing something this way.