Naomi Osaka said she had been overwhelmed by the pressure of defending her Australian Open title and admitted she does not have a "champion mentality" after losing to 15-year-old Coco Gauff on Friday.
The 22-year-old Japanese made the startling admission after a surprise 6-3, 6-4 third-round defeat to the unseeded American, a loss she said she took "very personally".
The third seed said that she "loved" Gauff, but added: "You don't want to lose to a 15-year-old." There was intense interest in the build-up to their second ever match, which was touted as a glimpse into the future of women's tennis.
Two-time Grand Slam champion Osaka crushed a tearful Gauff in the US Open third round, but the teenager -- the youngest player in the Melbourne draw -- got emphatic revenge.
"I don't really have the champion mentality yet, which is someone that can deal with not playing 100 percent (but still win)," said Osaka.
"And I have always wanted to be like that, but I guess I still have a long way to .

Deposed Osaka says she does not have 'champion mentality'

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Cynthia Erivo, Elton John, Idina Menzel, Chrissy Metz and Randy Newman are set to perform their Oscar-nominated songs at the 2020 Academy Awards.
John will perform the song "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from his biographical drama movie "Rocketman".
Newman, who is also nominated for the best original score for "Marriage Story", will perform the track "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" from animated feature "Toy Story 4".
Erivo will sing "Stand Up" from her Harriet Tubman biopic "Harriet". The actor is also nominated in the best actress category at the Oscars.
Menzel will be joined by singer-songwriter Aurora to perform "Frozen II" track "Into The Unknown", while Metz will sing "I'm Standing With You" from "Breakthrough".
The award ceremony will also see an appearance by popular American musician Questlove.
Irish composer Eimear Noone would become the first-ever female conductor during an Oscars guest-segment.
"We're excited to have an incredible group of nominees and performers who ..

Elton John, Randy Newman, Cynthia Erivo to perform at 2020 Oscars

"Fleabag" and "Killing Eve" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has launched her own production banner Wells Street Films.
According to Deadline, Jenny Robins, story producer on "Fleabag" season two, and Charlotte McBrearty, production manager of last year's "Fleabag" stage show, have also joined the company.
"This has been a lifelong dream and to say 'I'm excited' is an understatement. Thank you, Amazon, for making this possible, and thank you to Jenny and Char for coming on board. I can't wait to start making new work. In the words no one wanted me to put in my press release: Let's f*** shit up," Waller-Bridge said in a statement.
The production house will create and produce her new TV shows under her three-year overall deal with Amazon Studios and Amazon Prime, which she locked in September last year.
The company is registered in the UK, with Waller-Bridge listed as its only director.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge sets up production banner Wells Street Films

The immensely talented Shreyas Iyer enhanced his reputation of a finisher with a scintillating 29-ball-58 as India crushed New Zealand by six wickets in a high-scoring first T20 International here on Friday.
Iyer built on KL Rahul's (56 off 27 balls) blazing start and Virat Kohli's useful 45 off 32 balls as India made short work of a 204-run target, knocking it off with an over to spare.
Credit should be given to Indian bowlers for restricting New Zealand towards the end considering the dimensions of the Eden Park.
Earlier, Colin Munro and Kane Williamson had smashed quick-fire half-centuries as New Zealand scored 203-5.
In pursuit of 204, India lost Rohit Sharma (7) early in the second over as he played one too many shots in a bid to go after spinner Mitchell Santner (1-50).
Rahul and Kohli then took charge of the innings with an 80-run partnership coming off only 47 balls. The duo launched a good array of strokes with seven fours and four sixes between them as New Zealand struggled .

1st T20I: Iyer fireworks, Rahul onslaught give India six-wicket win over New Zealand

Astronomers have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and elementally depleted stars, a finding that sheds more light on the formation of critical compounds needed to sustain life in the universe.
The study, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, analysed the chemical makeup of the ancient star J0815+4729, and provides an important clue on how oxygen and other important elements formed in the first generations of stars in the universe.
The researchers, including those from the University of Cambridge in the UK, said the star resides over 5,000 light years away toward the constellation Lynx, meaning even light takes more than five millennia to reach the Earth from the stellar source.
"This result is very exciting. It tells us about some of the earliest times in the universe by using stars in our cosmic back yard," said John O'Meara, study co-author and Chief Scientist at W.M. Keck Observatory in the US.
"I look forward to seeing more ...

'Large amounts of oxygen detected in ancient star's atmosphere'

The World Economic Forum on Friday announced the appointment of IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva and African Rainbow Minerals Chairman Patrice Motsepe to its board of trustees.
The WEF said both have a track record of thought leadership and long-term success in their field, which will contribute to strengthening the Forum's platform for public-private cooperation.
"The World Economic Forum, as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, is delighted to welcome Kristalina Georgieva and Patrice Motsepe to its Board of Trustees. We look forward to working together to deliver positive, transformative solutions to our most critical global, regional and industry challenges, said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the WEF.
Georgieva has been IMF Managing Director since October 2019. Previously, she served as CEO at the World Bank, and as Interim President of the World Bank Group. She also served as European Commission Vice-President for Budget and Human ...

WEF appoints IMF chief to board of trustees

Former US vice president and environmentalist Al Gore on Friday said the price paid for a plastic bag or bottle does not reflect the true cost of what one is purchasing and citizens must put pressure on their governments to act.
At a session here during the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2020 Annual Meeting, Gore also said putting a price on carbon would cut down on plastics but it would need regulatory measures and new laws in each jurisdiction.
"What citizens and voters do in political systems is even more important," he said.
The world produces a huge amount of single-use plastic each year, along with a host of other single-use packaging items -- such as cups and containers -- most of which is neither collected nor recycled.
Given the magnitude of this global crisis, the WEF has been discussing throughout this week how can policy-makers and business leaders tackle the challenge of investing in both waste management and waste prevention.
Gore said, "The economic system is broken and the 

Cost of plastic bottles doesn't reflect price being paid: Gore

Playing her first event of the year, India's Aditi Ashok endured a disastrous opening round at the Gainbridge LPGA golf tournament, carding back-to-back bogeys before play was called off due to darkness here.
Teeing off at the tour's first full-field event of the season, the Bengaluru golfer was two-over through 15 holes, and was coming off bogeys on 14th and 15th holes, when darkness forced a stoppage in play on a day which saw high winds and heavy rain delaying play for nearly 40 minutes late in the afternoon.
At least 12 players unable to finish the round.
Aditi, who was 88th on the Tour last season, bogeyed third and fifth, but picked birdies on sixth and 11th.
The 26-year-old Jessica Korda shot a six-under 66 to take the first-round lead in the first official event in Boca Raton in more than 30 years.
Korda birdied her final two holes, finishing with a 25-foot putt on the par-4 ninth at Boca Rio Golf Club. The Florida player had eight birdies, including all four par-5 holes and ..

Bad start for Aditi in Gainbridge LPGA golf

Former Australian Open runner-up Marin Cilic rolled back the years Friday to outlast ninth seed Roberto Bautista Agut over five sets and book a spot in the round of 16.
The 31-year-old unseeded Croatian had a forgettable season last year, sliding down the rankings from seven to 39, his lowest year-ending position since 2007.
But he has started the season on fire and claimed a big scalp in beating the Spaniard, a Wimbledon semi-finalist last year, 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-0, 5-7, 6-3 on Melbourne Arena.
"It was four hours of incredible tennis and unreal emotions," said Cilic, who won 11 games in a row at one point in what was his second five-set match on the trot.
"There was an incredible patch of surreal tennis where every ball was going in. But I knew Roberto would fight back.
"He pushed me all the way in the fourth set, but I had a great mindset in the fifth." Cilic, whose career high was beating Roger Federer to win the US Open in 2014, is eyeing a deep run at the Australian Open.
He made 

Cilic rolls back years to beat Bautista Agut at Aussie Open

Unseeded 15-year-old Coco Gauff beat reigning champion Naomi Osaka in straight sets in a major upset at the Australian Open on Friday.
The American prodigy, making her Melbourne debut this year, beat the third seed 6-3, 6-4 in the third round to avenge her heavy defeat at last year's US Open.
The youngest player in the draw will play 14th seed Sofia Kenin of the United States or China's Zhang Shuai.
"Oh my gosh. Two years ago I lost the first round in the juniors and now I'm here -- this is crazy," said Gauff.
"I was just telling myself one point at a time and just keep fighting because you never know what happens on this court."
This was the second instalment of a budding rivalry that could light up tennis for the next decade or more, having met at the US Open, where Osaka won easily.
The teenager Gauff, who spent time training with Serena Williams in the off-season, had said she would be less nervous and more aggressive this time round.  And so it proved as they rattled through the .

Coco Gauff, 15, stuns title-holder Osaka at Australian Open

"The Modern Family" actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and husband Justin Mikita are set to welcome their first child together.
Ferguson broke the news during an appearance on James Corden's "The Late Late Show".
"It's when you finally become an adult, I feel. Like, I need to start getting serious about things," Ferguson said of being in his 40s.
"Actually, this is something I haven't even mentioned to anyone," he continued. "If we could just keep it between the three of us and you all. I'm actually expecting a baby in July with my husband. I'm very excited. I'm 44 now. I'm, like, let's get this show going. I mean, it's already, tick tock," he added.
Ferguson and Mikita got engaged in 2012 after two years of dating and tied the knot in July 2013.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Justin Mikita expecting first child together

If India can resolve its land boundary issue with Bangladesh then why not with Nepal, Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said on Friday, referring to the lingering territorial differences between the two neighbours.
India in November released fresh maps of the newly-created union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. In the maps, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is part of Jammu and Kashmir, while Gilgit-Baltistan is in Ladakh.
Nepal claimed that Limpiyadhura, Lipulek and Kalapani areas were shown under India's territory even though they lie within the Nepalese territory.
India has said the new map accurately depicts its sovereign territory and it has in no manner revised its boundary with Nepal.
"If India can resolve land boundary issue with Bangaldesh, why not Nepal?" Foreign Minister Gyawali asked during an interaction with a group of visiting Indian journalists at a briefing on 'Sagarmatha Sambaad' at the Nepalese Foreign Ministry here.
No "unresolved baggage" should be ...

Nepal says if India can resolve boundary issue with Bangladesh, why not Kathmandu

In the largest genetic study of its kind, researchers have identified 102 genes associated with the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) -- a condition that impairs a person's ability to communicate and interact.
According to the researchers, including those from the Mount Sinai Health System in the US, the current study shows significant progress in understanding the genes in humans associated with ASD which play a part in the symptoms of intellectual disability and developmental delay.
In the study, published in the journal Cell, the scientists analysed more than 35,000 participant samples, including nearly 12,000 with ASD, making it the largest autism sequencing research to date.
They identified 102 genes associated with ASD risk, of which 49 were also linked to other developmental delays.
"This is a landmark study, both for its size and for the large international collaborative effort it required. With these identified genes we can begin to understand what brain changes underlie 

'102 genes linked to autism identified'

Director Bong Joon Ho has plans to create a six-hour-long film for his proposed HBO limited series on "Parasite", where he will expand on ideas that he could not include in the film.
"Parasite", a class satire set in Seoul, revolves around four members of the poor Kim family who scam their way into the employ of a much wealthier family, the Parks.
Bong, in an interview with The Wrap, revealed theories that may become a part of the storyline.
"So I had all these key ideas accumulated from when I started writing the script. I just couldn't include all those ideas in the two-hour running time of the film, so they're all stored in my iPad and my goal with this limited series is to create a six-hour-long film," he said.
It seems that the original housekeeper of the Park family will have a key role.
"For example when the original housekeeper Mun Gwang (Lee Jung Eun) comes back in the late-night, something happened to her face. Even her husband asked about it but she never answered. I know ..

Bong Joon Ho's 'Parasite' series to be six-hour-long

Israeli police said Friday they are investigating after a "room was ignited" in a mosque on the outskirts of Jerusalem and Hebrew graffiti was found on an outside wall.
The graffiti was hard to make out but appears to have been left by ultranationalist Israelis. One part read, Demolishing (for) Jews? Demolishing enemies!" an apparent reference to the dismantling of settler outposts in the West Bank.
The mosque is in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa, in annexed east Jerusalem. Israel captured east Jerusalem along with the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. The Palestinians want both areas as part of their future state.
Hard-line Israeli nationalists have been implicated in past attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Vandals set fire to mosque in east Jerusalem

The strong bilateral ties between India and Singapore will do more for the region and the world in the new decade, Indian envoy Jawed Ashraf has said, highlighting the importance of the two countries globally.
High Commissioner Ashraf said the last decade saw the transformation of Singapore-India partnership and this decade we will both rise to our shared aspirations which are very high and to the expectations that others have from us."
"At a time of a multiple transitions and disruptions, the imperatives for a stronger strategic partnership between India and Singapore has never been stronger...when we do more with each other (Singapore-India), we will do more for the region and the world. That is the defining objective of the strategic partnership between India and Singapore," he said.
The envoy was addressing around 1,500 government, community and business leaders from both the countries at the 71 Republic Day Reception on Wednesday, held earlier due to the Lunar New Year holidays ..

Strong India, Singapore ties will do more for region: Indian envoy

Actor-comedienne-writer Tina Fey has announced that she is developing a movie adaptation of the "Mean Girls" Broadway musical for Paramount Pictures.
The musical is also based on the 2004 film of the same name.
"I'm very excited to bring 'Mean Girls' back to the big screen. It's been incredibly gratifying to see how much the movie and the musical have meant to audiences.
"I've spent sixteen years with these characters now. They are my Marvel Universe and I love them dearly," Fey, who wrote the film and stage production, said in a statement to Variety.
The movie will feature music from Fey's husband Jeff Richmond with lyrics by Nell Benjamin.
"We're thrilled to be bringing this iconic property back to the big screen in musical form with our incredible filmmaking team," Paramount president of production Elizabeth Raposo said.
The original film and the stage show follow Cady after she transfers to a new school and finds herself hanging out with the popular girls.
The 2004 teen comedy ...

Tina Fey working on film adaptation of 'Mean Girls' musical

China on Friday added four more cities to a transport ban around the epicentre of a deadly virus, restricting the movement of some 41 million people in 13 cities as authorities scramble to control the disease.
Officials in Xianning, Xiaogan, Enshi and Zhijiang cities -- all located in central Hubei province where the virus first emerged -- said public transport services including buses and train stations would be closed.
The cities are the latest in Hubei to impose travel restrictions over the previous 24 hours in a bid to curb the spread of the new coronavirus which has infected more than 800 people.
The virus first emerged from the city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, where a seafood and live animal market has been identified as the centre of the outbreak.
It has killed 26 people so far, and has caused alarm because of its similarity to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).  SARS killed nearly 650 people across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-2003.
Zhijiang, a city 

China expands transport ban to 13 cities, 41 mln affected

British actor Daniel Craig has confirmed that "No Time To Die" will be his last film as James Bond.
The actor made the revelation during an appearance on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert".
Asked by host if he was done with Bond, Craig replied "Yes. It's done."
The 51-year-old star made his first appearance as Bond in 2006''s "Casino Royale", and went on to reprise his role in "Quantum of Solace (2008), "Skyfall" (2012), and "Spectre" (2015).
Craig also shared the reason for bringing "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge on board to work on the "No Time to Die" script.
"I knew she was great from 'Fleabag'. But I watched 'Killing Eve', and I saw what she did with that, and I just thought it was just spectacular," he said.
"No Time To Die", directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, is scheduled to be released on April 8.
The movie also features Lea Seydoux reprising her "Spectre" role of psychologist Dr. Madeleine Swann; Jeffrey Wright as CIA operative Felix Letter; Rory Kinnear, who portrays .

Daniel Craig confirms James Bond exit

Indian captain Virat Kohli on Friday remained static at the top of the ICC Test player ranking for batsmen with his deputy Ajinkya Rahane moving up a place to eighth.
Kohli has 928 points, 17 more than second-placed Australian run-machine Steve Smith.
At sixth place with 791 points, Cheteshwar Pujara was one of three Indians in the top-10. Rahane has 759 points.
With 794 points, pacer Jasprit Bumrah was the top-ranked Indian bowler at sixth place, while Ravichandran Ashwin was placed eighth with Mohammed Shami completing the top-10.
Ravindra Jadeja was occupying the third place in the all-rounder's list with 438 points.
Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews is back among the top 20 batsmen after helping his side to a 10-wicket win in Harare to take a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series against Zimbabwe.
In the latest rankings, which also includes the Port Elizabeth Test, which England won by an innings and 53 runs to go 2-1 ahead in the four-Test series, Mathews has advanced eight places to reach ...

Kohli maintains top spot, Rahane moves up to eighth in ICC Test rankings

Nepal, which is holding on to the Chairmanship of the SAARC grouping since 2014, is "ready and eager to" handover the position to Pakistan, Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said on Friday, hoping that New Delhi and Islamabad can sort out their differences through negotiations, keeping in mind the challenges facing the region.
The minister also assured India that Nepal will not allow its soil to be used against any of its neighbours and the Himalayan country will not participate in any great games.
"Nepal is ready and eager to handover" the SAARC Chairmanship to Pakistan, Gyawali told a group of visiting Indian journalists at a briefing on 'Sagarmatha Sambaad' at the Nepalese Foreign Ministry here.
He said that India and Pakistan can sort out their differences through negotiations, keeping in mind the challenges facing the region.
In the last three years, India has been distancing itself from the SAARC, citing security challenge facing the region from terror networks based in ...

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