Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan: The Soyuz capsule falls to Earth carrying International Space Station astronauts Tim Kopra, Yuri Malenchenko and Britain’s Tim Peake. Peake said that “it feels wonderful” to be back after six months in space. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/AP.
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A plethora of chess superstars — including Alexander Igorevich Grischuk, Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler, Boris Abramovich Gelfand, Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomniachtchi, Rustam M. Kasimdzhanov, and 13th Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) — participated in the Eurasian Blitz Chess Cup of the President of Kazakhstan (in fact one of the strongest blitz tournament ever with $100,000 dollars’ prizefund) which was held from 17–19 June in Almaty, Kazakhstan. For the games take a look here, while superb pictures of the event appeared in the David Llada’s Twitter account.
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Almaty, Kazakhstan: A squirrel runs on a snowy fence in a park. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters.
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