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Three-time champions Germany reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 on Sunday as Group B winners after a hard-fought 2-1 win over Denmark. Lukas Podolski, winning his 100th cap, gave the Germans the lead in the 19th minute with a ferocious drive from 15 yards after Thomas Mueller crossed from the right. Mario Gomez miscued his effort but Podolski was on hand to lash home. But Michael Krohn-Dehli – scorer of the Danes’ goal in the 1-0 opening win over Holland – equalised five minutes later with a powerful header after Nicklas Bendtner nodded on a corner....

The 36-year-old is set to be out of contract with the MLS side after an 18-month stay, with the club’s penalty shootout defeat to Colorado Rapids in the Western Conference semifinals on Nov. 6 likely to be his last appearance for the club. Gerrard posted a picture on Instagram on Sunday evening, posing in front of the LA city lights. “Special place, incredible view, I will miss you LA,” he wrote, followed by the hashtag lalaland....

Known for selling out venues, Davis is ready to show the world he is ready for a future Ryan Garcia clash. On the card with him will be a former champion in Demetrius Andrade, and the future of the welterweight division in Jaron Ennis. “This is really important for me. It’s huge to open up the opportunity for other fighters to showcase their skills on the big stage,” Davis said at a pre-fight press conference....

JBL is one of the top audio brands in the world. The company was founded in the first half of the last century by an audio engineer James Bullough Lansing. Since its inception, the company has been designing and developing all kinds of audio technology from early loudspeakers to modern portable technology. These days the company acts as a subsidiary of Samsung, which acquired the audio brand in 2016. JBL has now product lines for consumer headphones, earbuds, and gaming headsets with microphones....

For a limited time, get an i7 Acer Swift 5 with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for just £799.97. That’s a saving of £300 on the usual RRP, and a price that’s almost unheard of for a device with these specs. Get this Acer Swift 5 deal from Box now. The Acer Swift 5 has been a regular in our best laptop chart over the years, and this 2019 model is no different....

The sale drops prices across all OnePlus handsets except the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro, which is great news for anyone who wanted to pick up the OnePlus 8T or OnePlus Nord ahead of Christmas. The 8T and Nord have up to £45 and £32 off, respectively, depending on the configuration you buy, while discounts on the budget OnePlus Nord N10 and N100 make their already tiny price even smaller....

There is usually the option to sample the service for 30 days, but for this limited time period you have the chance to triple your trial time. Despite having been announced well in advance of Black Friday, the promotion will still be valid well beyond the big day. Be sure to carefully time your sign up if you’re waiting for a new release! Sure, you have to enter payment details, but if you cancel anytime before the 3-month period is up, you won’t pay a penny....

Genshin Impact version 2.3 will bring two brand new playable characters, Arataki Itto and Gorou. Both of these characters have already been officially revealed on the Genshin Impact Twitter account. However, even though version 2.3 has not arrived yet, new leaks are already emerging about the next update. RELATED: Genshin Impact Leaks Four-Star Rating for Yunjin Ubatcha1 is one of the most credible Genshin Impact leakers out there, and many players were speculating that a brand new Genshin Impact region called Chasm, which is already present on the current in-game map of Teyvat....

Completing this event will grant players a Seelie pet, which will follow players once they befriend it. Day 3 Iron Coin locations and how to collect them in Genshin Impact As a part of the Lost Riches event, players have been tasked with finding iron coins in Genshin Impact. Players can collect a maximum of 120 iron coins per day. Players can spend these iron coins at the event store in exchange for interesting items....

Genshin Impact is a vast open world RPG with a unique home building feature, the Serenitea Pot. After progressing through a sizable portion of the Liyue story arc, the world quest titled “A Teapot to Call Home” may be received by Madame Ping. By completing the quest line, players earn the Serenitea Pot and enter an entirely different realm. The tea pot provides a huge plot of land for the player to build a home, grow crops, talk to companions, and rest after exploring the expansive world of Teyvat....

A Reddit user was able to play Genshin Impact with the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4’s cover screen, which is roughly two inches wide. The user placed a U.S. nickel coin above the screen to provide a sense of scale while attempting to play Genshin Impact on the small screen. Genshin Impact scales down the user interface to fit the small cover screen, but the screen brightness appears to wash out many of the game’s colors during gameplay....

With the latest major update for Genshin Impact, players now have access to the isolationist city-state Inazuma, a cluster of islands presided over by the Electro Archon, Baal. Inazuma adds a number of different electro-themed mechanics to Genshin, such as Thunder Spheres that allow for fast movement across large distances, and environmental hazards in the form of a giant thunderous Sakura tree, as well as Balethunder, and Electro Water. It also includes new Domains, its own reputation system, and of course, a bunch of new characters....

However, with the new meta shift in Genshin Impact, players have to rely on just a handful of Pyro characters to maximize their damage numbers. The game allows players to have four different characters in their team composition with only one active unit at a time. RELATED: Genshin Impact Fan Creates Incredibly Lifelike Mondstadt Video Reddit user kingdrewbie has posted an interesting thread on the official Genshin Impact subreddit claiming that the game needs to introduce more Pyro users with a strong off-field presence....

Genshin Impact player and Reddit user Igarashi9 was fortunate enough to summon Nahida from “The Moongrass’ Enlightenment” event wish, which is a new summoning event introduced in version 3.2. After obtaining the character and placing Nahida in the active party, Igarashi9 began to roam around Sumeru with her and visit various NPCs in the region. The player noticed that named NPCs would address Nahida with unique voice lines. Upon further investigation, it was determined that the unique voice lines are tied to a skill only accessible to a Dendro Archon....

The UFC is reportedly looking to add the welterweight fight to their December 19th card, as Brett Okamoto first reported. Coincidentally enough, the same card will be headlined by the returning Leon Edwards, who meets UFC sensation Khamzat Chimaev on the night in a huge clash at 170 pounds. Here is the report from Brett Okamoto on ESPN: Stephen Thompson and Geoff Neal’s respective UFC runs It has been over a year since Stephen Thompson last stepped into the Octagon....

The Bush administration now administers two Green Zones, one in Baghdad and one in the White House. The question raised by both is the same: can the people inside deal with the people outside? In and around the Oval Office, I am told, there is little mention of–let alone game-planning for–the very real possibility that Democratic insurgents will win the House, and perhaps the Senate, on Nov. 7. Press secretary Tony Snow scoffed at the whole notion....

Earl Gray and Tom Plunkett, the attorneys for former officers Thomas Lane and J. Kueng, respectively, said that their clients had only been on the job for four days when George Floyd was killed, according to a report by Associated Press. Police records indicate that they joined the Minneapolis police department in February 2019 and became full officers in December. Minneapolis police officers have to serve a year on probation and spend time training with senior officers before being fully qualified....

The Kings gave the veteran coach a win his return to the NBA on Friday night, 109-101 over the Celtics. MORE: Exciting All-Star Game photos | Report: Kobe to retire after next season | Kings sign Stockton’s son Based on what two of the Kings’ top players said after the game, they’re buying in for now. From DeMarcus Cousins, who’s being watched closely for signs of tension between he and Karl (via the Sacramento Bee):...

Georgetown decided to be proactive in filling the empty seats by devising a fairly creative LivingSocial deal for fans to “be a student for a day.” For the Hoyas’ Dec. 20 game against Charlotte and their Jan. 3 game against Creighton, the school has earmarked 150 of the 800 student section tickets for the Living Social promotion. Fifteen dollars will get Georgetown fans a “We Are Georgetown” shirt, a seat in the student section, a lanyard, a campus map and what the school calls an “honorary student of basketball degree” delivered by Jack the Bulldog....

Edwin McCullers, 66, and his wife Linda McCullers, 58, died at Memorial Hospital, Bainbridge, Georgia, on Saturday, August 28. The married couple were the owners of several local businesses in the city of Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia. This included Flint River Outfitters, which sells outdoor equipment, and hunting and fishing gear, and Linda’s hair salon. On Facebook, Bainbridge local and friend of the McCullers, Jay Wells wrote: “Edwin and his dear wife Linda McCullers were two of the hardest working people I ever knew....