USA Gymnastics is seeking to centralize its nationwide coaching applications earlier than the 2028 Olympics.

President Li Li Leung mentioned Wednesday over a dozen cities have responded to the group’s request for an “expression of curiosity” in taking on the project, which would serve as the training and wellness headquarters for the organization’s various disciplines.

The national camps for the programs are currently scattered across the country. The women’s artistic gymnastics national team trains in Texas. The men train in Colorado. The rhythmic gymnastics team meets in New York and the trampoline and tumbling programs split their camps between Utah and New Jersey.

“The vision of this facility is that it is going to be the heart hub of gymnastics in America,” Leung said.

Two persons were killed and six others injured when the slab of a 20-year-old residential building collapsed in Nerul area of Navi Mumbai, fire brigade officials said on Thursday.

The third floor ceiling slab of the four-storey Tulsi Bhavan building located at Shirsole in Nerul collapsed at around 8.50 pm on Wednesday, they said.

The slab came crashing down on the second and first floors, killing a labourer and another person, divisional fire officer Purushottam Jadhav said.

The building has four wings and the slab collapsed in its ‘B’ wing, he said.

Some civil work was underway on the third floor when the slab collapsed, said another fire official.

North Korea said its second attempt to launch a spy satellite failed Thursday and it will make a third attempt in October, the country’s state media reported.

The North’s state news agency said Thursday’s launch ended in a failure because of an error that happened during a three-stage flight of the rocket.

It cited the country’s aerospace agency as saying that North Korea will conduct a third attempt in October after finding what caused a failure.

Advancing flames devoured forests and homes as wildfires that have killed 20 people raged across swathes of Greece Wednesday, with blazes also burning in neighbouring Turkey and in Spain’s Canary Islands.

Greece’s largest forest fire was burning out of control for the fifth day near the city of Alexandroupolis in the northeast. Another major blaze on the outskirts of Athens torched homes, reducing some to piles of smoking rubble, and encroached into the national park on Mount Parnitha, one of the last green areas near the Greek capital.

From Friday to Tuesday, 355 wildfires broke out, Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias said. On Wednesday, firefighters were tackling 99 blazes, fire department spokesman Ioannis Artopios said in an evening briefing, including 55 that had broken out in the previous 24 hours.

Authorities made 140 wildfire-related arrests, including 117 for negligence and 23 for deliberate arson, Artopios said, adding that nearly all were for heat-inducing or agricultural outdoor work.

Rudy Giuliani is expected to turn himself in at a jail in Atlanta on Wednesday on charges related to efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

The former New York mayor was indicted last week along with Trump and 17 others. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said they participated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to subvert the will of the voters after the Republican president lost to Democrat Joe Biden in November 2020.

Giuliani faces charges related to his work as a lawyer for Trump after the general election. At a meeting Wednesday with Willis’ team, Giuliani’s bond was set at USD 150,000, an attorney for Giuliani told The Associated Press. That’s higher than any of the defendants so far, except for Trump whose bond has been set at USD 200,000.

Parul Chaudhary on Wednesday became only the second Indian female athlete to qualify for the final round of a track event in the World Athletics Championships as she finished fifth in her 300m steeplechase heat race here.

The 28-year-old Chaudhary clocked a personal best time of 9 minutes 24.29 seconds to finish fifth in heat number two and make it to the final round to be held on Sunday.

The top five finishers in all the three heats qualified for the final round.

Chaudhary’s earlier personal best was 9:29.51 which she had clocked in an event in USA in May this year.

Before Chaudhary, Lalita Babar, also a 3000m steeplechaser, was the lone Indian woman to have qualified for the final round of a track event in the World Championships.

The four-day assembly of the G20 Culture Working Group commenced right here on Wednesday with the arrival of delegates, previous to its formal inauguration on August 24.

In a press release, the Press Information Bureau mentioned 170 delegates of G20 and visitor nations will attend the occasion that may conclude on Saturday with the assembly of tradition ministers.

Union Ministry of Culture Joint Secretary Lily Pandeya advised reporters right here that the assembly will likely be a possibility to catalyse collective actions for accelerating progress on the 4 precedence areas articulated by the Indian presidency.