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MOVING ON: Harrods plans to remove the famous statue of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed from the bottom of the Egyptian escalators and hand it back to Mohamed Al-Fayed.
“We are very proud to have played our role in celebrating the lives of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed at Harrods and to have welcomed people from around the world to visit the memorial for the past 20 years,” said Michael Ward, Harrods managing director.
“With the announcement of the new official memorial statue to Diana, Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace, we feel that the time is right to return this memorial to Mr. Al Fayed and for the public to be invited to pay their respects at the palace.”
The bronze figure shows the couple, who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, holding hands underneath a bird with its wings outstretched. On the base of the statue is written “Innocent Victims.” It will be returned to Al-Fayed, who commissioned it following their deaths and when he still owned the store.
In 2010, Al-Fayed sold the British retailer to the Qatari royal family.

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OH JOSH: Josh Hartnett did not only enjoy filming “Oh Lucy!,” he also liked talking about it at the Dsquared2 show. “It’s about these older Japanese women on a road trip from Tokyo to the Southwest. It’s about what’s underneath the surface and how different it is from what is perceived. It’s very funny, too,” said Hartnett, who flew into Milan from London, where he has been living for the past few years.
Also at the show, fellow thespian Patrick Gibson talked about his most recent films. He said “The Darkest Minds” is “a young adult sci-fi film but it’s also a love story.” Upcoming is also “Tolkien,” a biopic on the writer of “The Lord of the Rings,” in which Gibson plays R.Q. Gilson, the son of the headmaster at King Edward’s School, which the author attended.

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YEKATERINBURG — Telegraphing the ironclad appeal of collaborations in the burgeoning luxury streetwear world, Gosha Rubchinskiy partnered with Levi’s and Dr. Martens for his fall 2018 show, staged tonight at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre here.
The Russian designer, doing his third fashion show in his home country, also included an encore of his buzzy Burberry tie-up from last season, unveiling a new 13-item offer that includes scarves, shoes and checkered flannel bucket hats.
And he continued his alliance with Adidas for sneakers, a key affiliation as this industrial city gears up as one of the hosts of the 2018 Fifa World Cup and as Rubchinskiy, a popular figure in Europe’s young fashion scene, seeks to continue fanning his cool factor.
“The brand has never collaborated with a Russian designer to my knowledge. However, what Gosha is doing is inspiring and exciting to us,” said Darren McKoy, global category director, footwear and accessories, at Dr. Martens. “Creatively, we feel the very essence of the youthfulness of both brands have great synergy.”
“Youth culture is the engine that moves fashion,” he added.

Gosha Rubchinskiy X Dr Martens 
Pavel Kirbyatev

Styles from the 78-year-old English boot maker included interpretations of its Adrian Tassel Loafer, which dates from 1980, and

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LOS ANGELES — Thomas Welsh stood near midcourt and waved his long arms to the crowd. The senior from Redondo Beach gave UCLA’s largest home crowd of the year plenty to cheer about Saturday night at Pauley Pavilion. The rest of his team didn’t.

Welsh scored 20 points with eight rebounds against Colorado, but the Bruins slipped from the top of the Pac-12 standings after a 68-59 loss.

It was Colorado’s first ever win at Pauley Pavilion and snapped a seven-game road losing streak for the Buffaloes while UCLA lost its second home game of the year. The other one came against Cincinnati in front of the team’s only other home crowd that surpassed 10,000.

Coupled with Arizona’s win over Oregon on Saturday, the Bruins (13-5, 4-2 Pac-12) fell a half-game behind the Wildcats for the conference lead.

Colorado (11-7, 3-3 Pac-12) stymied the top scoring offense in Pac-12 play, holding the Bruins to a season-low scoring total and just 5-of-25 shooting from beyond the arc.

“That was as poor as we’ve played all year,” head coach Steve Alford said. “Outside of Tom we just didn’t have much as far as good concentrated effort. Obviously, you’re not going to win at this level when you don’t have enough guys collectively to do that, but I take responsibility for that.

“That’s our job as coaches, to make sure they’re ready to play and I don’t think we were — not only were we not ready to play, just to have no energy, no effort, that’s hard to watch.”

The Bruins fell behind by as many as 17 points during the first half. Welsh scored 10 straight points in the second half to cut the Colorado lead to four with 5:20 to go. After hitting his second of back-to-back 3-pointers, the senior center paused to egg on the crowd before going to the bench for a timeout.

Despite the crowd’s roars, the Bruins gave up five straight points after the timeout and never got to within one possession.

“We had spurts like that, where we were getting stops and cutting their lead down a little bit,” Welsh said, “but we didn’t sustain our momentum.”

At times, the Bruins were superb on defense. They forced three shot-clock violations. They held the Buffaloes scoreless for a nearly five-minute stretch in the second half, but only got to within seven points during the defensive stand.

“We just couldn’t score,” Alford said.

UCLA missed its first seven shots from distance, not knocking down a 3-pointer until the 2:46 mark of the first half, and missed 10 free throws. Forward Alex Olesinski and guard Chris Smith combined for a 0 for 5 night from the stripe.

Guard Kris Wilkes had 10 points and nine rebounds, while guard Aaron Holiday also had 10 points, but tallied only four assists to six turnovers. The Bruins had 10 turnovers to 13 assists.

Alford said the team was coming off its best game of the year, a 19-point win over Utah on Thursday in which the offense and defense clicked effortlessly. The young Bruins were peaking at the top of the Pac-12 standings.

Now it’s about understanding success and sustaining it.

“One thing I did tell them was you gotta understand why we played so well against Utah,” Alford said. “We had great energy, we had great effort, we had good togetherness, we fought. I didn’t think we had any of that tonight and when you don’t do that in league play, you’re going to get beat.”

By Matt Stevens

The New York Times

The federal government said on Saturday that it would resume accepting renewal requests for a program that shields from deportation young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children.

In a statement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said that “until further notice,” the Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA, “will be operated on the terms in place before it was rescinded” in September, when President Donald Trump moved to end it.

The decision came after a federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction on Tuesday ordering the Trump administration to resume the DACA program.

The agency said on Saturday that people who were previously granted deferred action under the program could request a renewal if it had expired on or after Sept. 5, 2016.

People who had previously received DACA but whose deferred action had expired before Sept. 5, 2016, cannot renew but can instead file a new request, the agency said. It noted that the same instructions would apply to anyone whose deferred action had been terminated.

But officials also said they were not accepting requests from individuals who had never been granted deferred action under DACA.

Saying the decision to kill it was improper, Judge William

Alsup of U.S. District Court in San Francisco wrote that the administration must “maintain the DACA program on a nationwide basis” as the legal challenge to the president’s decision goes forward.

President Barack Obama created the DACA program in 2012 to give young immigrants the ability to work legally in the United States. In attempting to end it in September, Trump argued that Obama’s actions were unconstitutional and an overreach of executive power.

Since then, a fierce debate has taken hold in Washington as Democrats and Republicans spar about how to provide relief for about 800,000 immigrants who could face deportation if the program ends. Trump met with lawmakers in an hourlong televised meeting Tuesday to begin negotiations.

Critics of the president’s decision to end the policy sued the administration, saying that shutting down the program was arbitrary and done without following the proper legal procedures.

In his ruling, the judge laid out a road map for the government that officials appeared to follow. He said that previous beneficiaries of DACA, known as Dreamers, must be allowed to renew their status in the program, although the government would not be required to accept new applications from immigrants who had not previously submitted one.

LOS ANGELES – The message was laid out in simple terms from a team that is peering through the window at those who currently reside in the playoff positions within the Western Conference.

Hours in front of another tense, fight-filled Freeway Faceoff against the Kings, the Ducks’ Kevin Bieksa offered his to-the-point summation. “That’s a team that we need to catch,” the longtime defenseman said. “This is the best way to do it, by taking two points from them.”

Ah, if it were only that easy. Nothing is in this series that’s often decided by one goal and the Kings weren’t going to fade away at Staples Center on Saturday night, even when they stared at a three-goal deficit.

Nick Shore and Anze Kopitar gave them a look at a dramatic comeback in the third period but Corey Perry’s long-distance goal into an empty net secured a 4-2 win for the Ducks as the rivals kicked off another important stretch in their respective schedules following a bye week.

Ondrej Kase scored twice as part of his first career three-point game and Ryan Kesler also had a goal as the Ducks (20-15-9) took advantage of Kings goalie Jonathan Quick not showing the usual form that got him an All-Star nod. Quick made 18 saves and was outdone by John Gibson, his Ducks counterpart who had 23 stops.

The Ducks needed to stay within a large pack that’s vying for spots within the Pacific Division and the conference’s two wild-card berths. Eight teams are within four points of each other, with Anaheim pulling up to that margin behind the Pacific’s second-place Kings (24-14-5).

Before the game, Ducks coach Randy Carlyle laid it out. His group is all healthy for once. No longer does it have excuses for not making a move up the standings.

“We need points,” Carlyle said. “It’s as simple as that. Every game is very, very important. Against division foes and Western Conference foes, they’re doubly more important. Four-point games.

“We’re going to have to play a more consistent brand as we go forward. Hopefully we can do enough to give ourselves a chance.”

Kase’s second goal of the night gave the Ducks the cushion they would ultimately need in keeping a lead throughout. Nick Ritchie made the scoring play occur at 2:10 of the third as the big winger took the puck away from Quick, who went to play it behind his net.

Ritchie found his linemate, who had an empty to net to shoot at. The Ducks had a 3-0 lead early in the third and that was enough to withstand the Kings’ valiant attempt at a comeback. The Kings had won both prior meetings by a goal, the first in overtime and the other in a shootout.

“Obviously in that situation, it turns out that it’s monumental,” Carlyle said.

Shore and Kopitar delivered at the 8:32 and 13:46 marks of the third to give the Kings a look at it. The Ducks, led by some strong defensive work from their shutdown pair of Hampus Lindholm and Josh Manson, tightened back up and got the insurance from Perry as he scored from the faceoff circle in the Anaheim zone.

It was too late in the estimation of Kings coach John Stevens, who didn’t think everyone was on board and voiced his dissatisfaction afterward.

“I thought we had a lot of guys that showed up ready for the physical challenge,” Stevens said. “We had some guys that didn’t and it cost us, so that’s a good lesson for us. We cannot win in a game like that unless we have everybody, and we needed more tonight.”

Before the puck drop, the Kings and Ducks sat on their benches and tapped their sticks for Bob Miller as the legendary Kings broadcaster was honored in a ceremony where a banner with his name raised to the Staples Center rafters. It came after a statue of Miller was unveiled in the plaza outside.

The pleasantries were officially dispersed with when Ducks winger Jared Boll, playing in his first game with them since Nov. 7, fought Kings defenseman Kurtis MacDermid right after a faceoff. The two were just the warm-up act on a full fight card.

On the ensuing faceoff, Kings forward Andy Andreoff looked for payback against Bieksa. It was Bieksa that landed an MMA-style “Superman” punch that dropped Andreoff when the teams last met on Nov. 25. There was no knockout this time as Andreoff more than held his own.

As the penalty boxes began to fill up, Ritchie and Kings forward Kyle Clifford took on each other in a third fight. Just four seconds were peeled from the clock. But this has become the norm between the teams.

“We know that coming in here, it’s not like they dress a bunch of shrinking violets over there either,” Carlyle said. “They still have a formidable team that plays tough and plays hard along the wall. We’ve got some guys that like to play that way. We’ve got to be prepared to match that intensity.

“Tonight, we just felt that it was necessary to have that element in our lineup and we play forward with it.”

Added Stevens: “To be honest, this series has been like that all year. I think it’s been a really spirited situation every time we’ve played these guys.”

Three fights also made up their previous matchup. More hockey eventually commenced but the enmity is real.

“It’s grown,” Bieksa said. “It’s grown over the years. It’s not just because of one season. That’s why you don’t see the same animosity with Vegas yet because they’re a new team. There’s not that familiarity. There aren’t those battles and the history. There’s obviously a lot of history here.”

The Ducks made the most of their few chances as Quick was not sharp at the outset. After they killed off an Andrew Cogliano interference penalty, Kase took the puck wide on the right side of the ice and slid a low shot along the ice that got through Quick, who didn’t have his left post completely sealed.

An otherwise very stoppable shot became Kase’s 10th goal of the season as the young Czech winger joined Rickard Rakell and Jakob Silfverberg as double figure goal scorers on the Ducks. The tightly-played contest stayed that way until late in the first.

With Kings defenseman Drew Doughty sitting for interference against Rakell, Kesler kept the puck alive in the offensive zone and then used Derek Forbort as a partial screen for a hard snap shot. Quick didn’t pick it up and the center had his second goal in seven games since recovering from hip surgery.

LOS ANGELES — Evan Leonard scored 20 points with 8-for-14 shooting to lead UC Irvine to a 71-54 win over Cal State Northridge on Saturday night.

Max Hazzard added 14 points, Eyassu Worku had 10 and Jonathan Galloway chipped in eight points while grabbing nine rebounds for Irvine (7-13, 2-2 Big West). The Anteaters dominated the glass 42-23 and never trailed.

Leonard, who has scored at least 20 points in three straight games, dropped in a layup early in the second half to spark a 10-2 run that made it 57-40 with under 10 minutes to play and Irvine led by double figures the rest of the way.

Tavrion Dawson and Micheal Warren scored 14 points apiece for Northridge (3-14, 0-3), which went 15 for 15 from the free throw line but shot just 34 percent from the field. The loss was the third straight for the Matadors.

FOUNTAIN VALLEY – Four Orange County wrestlers reached the championship match at the prestigious Five Counties tournament Saturday at Fountain Valley High.

Three walked away with a coveted golden belt.

The county’s first-place finishers were Trey Munoz of Trabuco Hills at 152 pounds, Capistrano Valley’s Gerardo Hernandez (182) and Santa Ana’s Joey Daniel (220).

Wrestling powerhouse Selma finished first with 283 points and was by far the dominant team in the two-day, 68-team tournament, with seven of the team’s wrestlers finishing among the top eight.

Rancho Bernardo took second (184.5) and Northview of Covina finished third (160.5).
Servite finished in fourth place with 129.5 points, tops among county teams.

Servite’s Josh Medina finished second and was among four Friars who took home medals.

“We had a great day yesterday and brought back 11 (on Saturday),” Servite coach Alan Clinton said. “Fourth place at Five Counties is pretty darn good. We’re not going to be satisfied, but it puts the bar level to where we know we’ve got to get to.”

Munoz’s championship match against Selma’s Jace Luchau was the most exciting match of the finals.

The match went to overtime with the score at 1-1 and that is how it stayed through the first one-minute overtime period. Both wrestlers scored a point on escapes in the two 30-second periods that followed.

In the fourth overtime, Munoz rode Luchau for the entire 30 seconds, making him the winner.

The Saints’ Daniel, who is ranked No. 2 in the state, won 6-5 over Erich Osteen of Chaminade of Simi Valley in the 220-pound final.

Daniel took a 6-3 lead into the third period but got called for stalling and then gave up an escape to make it a one-point match.

Over the final 30 seconds, Daniel thwarted several take down attempts and hung on to win.

“When he scrambled towards the end I rolled my ankle, so I had to tough it out,” said Daniel, who placed seventh in last season’s Five Counties at 195 pounds.

Daniel rebounded from last week’s second-place finish in the Doc Buchanan, where he lost in the final against Buchanan’s Trevor Irvin. The loss was his first of the season.

“I want that state title and this is going to help me,” he said.

Hernandez defeated Robert Maiden of Stockton 10-3 to win the 182-pound championship.

Medina’s championship bout against Antonio Saldate of Las Vegas High was arguably the wildest match of the finals.

Medina led 7-5 after a frenzied first period in which both wrestlers came close to pinning their opponent.

Saldate, a two-time Nevada state champion and three-time state finalist, put Medina on his back in the second and pinned the sophomore with 50 seconds left in the period.

“They were going at it,” Clinton said. “It was like two cats’ tails tied together and they’re going at it and we got caught.”

Fountain Valley, the tournament hosts, had two third-place medalists and finished tied for 12th with Clovis West.

The Barons’ Dylan Zotea defeated Benjamin Martinez of Chula Vista of Eastlake 8-3 in the 126-pound consolation final and Max Wilner defeated Lemoore’s Joe Romero Lemoore 7-3 to finish third at 145 pounds.

FIVE COUNTIES RESULTS
At Fountain Valley High
Team results: 1. Selma 283, 2. Rancho Bernardo 184.5, 3. Northview 160.5, 4. Servite 129.5, 5. Bonney Lake, Wash. 121.
Individual results
106 – 1. Figueroa ll (Sel), 2. Lillie (BL), 3.Castillo (Central), 4.Pinto (NV), 5.Alvarez (VV)
113 – 1. Lujan, (Sel), 2. Yanez (NV), 3. Joint (Lem), 4. Ruiz (Cam), 5. Mata (SA)
120 – 1. Kaylor (BL), 2. Flores (NV), 3. Viveros (Kings), 4. Cenkush (ORT), 5. Capetillo (WEST)
126 – 1. Saldate (LV), 2. Medina (Ser), 3. Zotea (FV), 4. Martinez (Eastlake), 5. Magana (Ser)
132 – 1. Areyano (Sel) 2.Chavez (Cen), 3. Cortez (NV), 4. Le (RB), 5. Stone (Foot)
138 – 1. Arbas (RB), 2. Cruz (Ort), 3. Antuna (Cent LV), 4. Lakmann (Foot), 5. Jongeneel (Roos)
145 – 1. Mendoza (Sel), 2. Badgett (RB), 3. Wilner (FV), 4. Romero (Lem), 5. McCoy (Mar)
152 – 1. Munoz (TH), 2. Luchau (Sel), 3. Smith (BUHS), 4. Madrigal (Serv), 5. Smith (MD)
160 – 1. Goldfeder (The Buc), 2. Diaz (Sel), 3. Hill (TH), 4. Magallanes (LQ), 5. Coffey (BL)
170 – 1. Rodriguez (Sel), 2. Viramontes (Hes), 3. Cantoriano (CW), 4. Jovero (RB), 5.Bozovich (Tok)
182 – 1. Hernandez (CV), Maiden (Stock), 3. Murphy (RB), 4. Roper (Cent LV), 5. Gilcrist (ORT)
195 – 1. Reyes (CW), 2. Sicairos (Hes), 3. Carpenter (Palo Verde), 4. Barela (NV), 5. Voong (Ar)
220 –1. Daniel (SA), 2. Osteen (Cham), 3. Jimenez (LVHS), 4. Martinez (BUHS), 5. Washington (Cen)
285 – 1. Garcia (Hes), 2. Valdez (Arr ),3. Gonzalez (Lake), 4. Moran (Sel), 5. Perez (Son)

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