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India coach Gautam Gambhir advised 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to be patient, as he awaits his opportunity in the national side. Sooryavanshi, who debuted in July, has not featured since the T20 series loss to England, despite strong IPL performances. He will join the squad for the upcoming Asian Games.

A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.

“This is the first cardinal to be prosecuted in a Vatican criminal court”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Rome, Italy, Seema Gupta.” Cardinal Angelo Becciu is the most senior Vatican official to face such charges; “the 75-year-old cardinal was a former advisor to Pope Francis, so he was somebody who would meet with the pope and he was seen as a papal contender”. 

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