Mario Frick (born 7 September 1974) is a Swiss-born Liechtensteiner retired professional footballer who is currently a manager for FC Luzern. He has earned 125 caps and scored a national record 16 goals for his country from his international debut in 1993 until his retirement in 2015. Mainly a striker, Frick was also deployed as a centre-back on occasion.

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The world's population is set to hit eight billion by November 15 this year, a United Nations report has revealed.

The study for World Population Day revealed that the pace of mortality slowing means the world's population will reach eight billion in just over four months time, 8.5 billion by 2030 and 10.4 billion by 2100.

Population growth was growing at its slowest pace since 1950, having fallen below 1 per cent in 2020, UN estimates showed.

India will surpass China as the world's most populous country in 2023, with each counting more than 1.4 billion residents this year - but the UN has warned that high fertility would challenge economic growth.

India's population was 1.21 billion in 2011, according to the domestic census, which is conducted once a decade. The government had postponed the 2021 census due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The UK has a current population of 68.5 million in 2022, with an average annual rate of population change of 0.4 per cent compared to India's 0.9.

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Northern Ireland boss Kenny Shiels has said his team are not yet good enough to compete against the top nations.

They suffered a 2-0 defeat to Austria in the second game of Euro 2022 - their first-ever major tournament.

Having lost their opening Group A match 4-1 to Norway, any hope of qualifying for the knockout stages were ended, with hosts England next to follow.

"When you look at where we were when we came in, we have reached this level too soon," said Shiels.

When asked if NI can compete with the top nations, he added: "Not yet. I don't think we've got a good future yet because we're going to be losing some of the more experienced players.

"We have to keep improving the under-19s and the under-17s until they reach a level where they are ready to play.

"Some of our players who are with us on this [full-time] programme are not ready to play against these types of opponents. But the experience they are getting from it is part of the development. It is important that we know that."

Fashion firm Boohoo has become the latest retailer to charge shoppers who return items.

Customers must now pay £1.99 to return products, with the cost deducted from their refund. The move, first reported by Retail Week, came into effect on 4 July.

Boohoo blamed the move on the rising cost of shipping.

High Street firms such as Uniqlo, Next and Zara already charge for online returns.

Online shopping boomed in the pandemic, but customers are more likely to return items bought online than in store, raising costs for retailers.

Analysts said other retailers were likely to follow suit in charging for returns.

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Lego pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely'

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A century after the Football League was formed, English football reached its lowest ebb in the 1980s. Clubs had been banned from European competitions while supporters had to endure dilapidated and outdated facilities as public interest in the nation’s professional game continued to drain away.

Maria Friedman (born 19 March 1960) is an English actress and director of stage and screen, best known for her work in musical theatre. She is an Eight-time Olivier Award nominee, winning three. Her first win was for her 1994 one-woman show, By Special Arrangement. She has also twice won Best Actress in a Musical for the original London productions of Passion and Ragtime. She is more recently known for her role as Elaine Peacock in EastEnders. She also made an appearance as the narrator in the 1999 straight to video version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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The Cave Creek disaster occurred on 28 April 1995 when a scenic viewing platform in Paparoa National Park, New Zealand, collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 14 people. The victims, 13 of whom were Tai Poutini Polytechnic students, fell 40 metres onto rocks below.

Eight candidates are left in the race to lead the Conservative Party - and become the next prime minister - after former health secretary Sajid Javid pulled out of the contest.

To stay in the race, leadership hopefuls had to get support of at least 20 Tory MPs by Tuesday evening.

Minutes before the deadline, Mr Javid withdrew, saying he "looked forward to seeing the debate unfold".

Junior minister Rehman Chishti also pulled out of the contest.

The remaining candidates are Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat and Nadhim Zahawi.

Trade Minister Ms Mordaunt is expected to launch her campaign on Wednesday morning.

The Tugendhat family was a family of Czech-Jewish textile and oil industrialists. World War II scattered them through Europe and America, and descendants have become influential politicians and academics.

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The euro has fallen below the dollar for the first time in nearly 20 years as the war in Ukraine pushes the single currency down.

A single euro bought $0.998 on the foreign exchange market at 12:45 GMT, down by 0.4% in the day's trading.

Fears that Russia may restrict Europe's supplies of energy have increased the chances of recession in the euro area.

The European Central Bank has lagged other central banks in raising rates, further weakening the euro.

Currencies tend to rise when the relevant central bank increases interest rates, as international investors eye a larger return for holding assets priced in that currency.

The dollar has also been strong in recent months, buoyed by the US central bank raising interest rates, and investors seeking the safe haven of dollar assets in times of global turmoil.

Kazakhstani clubs have played in UEFA competitions since the 2002–03 season. FC Astana-64 (by that time Astana), in the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League, were the first club to advance in a European tournament. Tobol reached the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup by winning three rounds of the Intertoto Cup in 2007. Shakhter Karagandy were the first team to reach group stage of any competition in 2013, qualifying to UEFA Europa League after being defeated in UEFA Champions League play-off round. Astana became the first ever Kazakhstani team to reach UEFA Champions League group stage in 2015, passing three rounds of qualification and play-offs. Astana also became the first ever Kazakhstani team to qualify for knockout stage of any European competition in 2017, by finishing runner-up in 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage (reached the Round of 32). In 2021 Kairat became the first ever Kazakhstani club to compete in the group stage of inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League.

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Tory leadership: Where do candidates stand on indyref2?

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Harland & Wolff Welders Football Club is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club playing in the NIFL Championship.

The club was formed by the welders of the nearby Harland & Wolff shipyard.

Well-known ships built by Harland & Wolff include: the Olympic-class trio – RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic; the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast; Royal Mail Line's Andes; Shaw Savill's Southern Cross; Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle; and P&O's Canberra. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986.