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CLEVELAND (AP) — Brent Urban just wanted a chance to play. Will Hill wanted redemption.

On one dramatic, unforgettable play, the two Ravens achieved their goals.

Urban blocked Travis Coons’ field-goal attempt as time expired and Hill returned it 64 yards for a touchdown, sending Baltimore to an improbable 33-27 win Monday night over the luckless Cleveland Browns, who dropped their sixth straight game and may have lost starting quarterback Josh McCown for the remainder of the season.

Coons’ potential game-winner from 51 yards was deflected by Urban, who was making his NFL debut after missing his rookie season with a knee injury and then tearing a biceps in training camp.

“It’s surreal,” said a beaming Urban, a fourth-round pick in 2014. “After being out so long, it’s crazy. I’m almost speechless. It’s just a wonderful feeling.”

Hill had been beaten by Browns wide receiver Travis Benjamin for a game-tying touchdown in the fourth quarter and was willing to do anything he could to make up for his mistake.

“I was praying,” Hill said. “I said, ‘If we get a block and it bounced my way, I’m going to take it to the end zone.’ Luckily, it did.”

And something finally went the right way for the Ravens (4-7), who have been decimated by injuries all season and seem to take every game down the last ticks on the clock.

“One of the greatest football games you’re probably ever going to see in terms of excitement,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said.

Not for the Browns (2-9), who rallied to tie it behind backup quarterback Austin Davis in the closing minutes only to suffer an excruciating loss.

“It’s tough to swallow,” said Davis, who came off the bench to replace McCown in the fourth quarter.

Ravens quarterback Matt Schaub, making his first start since 2013, threw two touchdown passes but also a costly interception in the final minute to Browns cornerback Tramon Williams, a turnover that appeared to doom the Ravens.

But as Cleveland attempted to get closer for Coons, who made his first 18 attempts this season, Davis wasted valuable time because of a communication issue with the sideline. Davis slid during a scramble just feet from the sideline, forcing the Browns to call a timeout.

Coons’ kick was low, allowing Urban to get a hand on it. As Hill sprinted down the sideline, Browns fans, some of whom came to the game with brown paper bags over their heads, felt more disgust.

“It’s a tough one to wrap your brain around,” Browns coach Mike Pettine said. “It’s frustrating we didn’t finish it.”

For a primetime game with little TV appeal, this one had a little bit of everything:

MCCOWN GOES DOWN: No one will ever challenge McCown’s toughness, but the 36-year-old quarterback finally succumbed to the pain after taking a hard hit in the fourth quarter.

McCown tried to continue playing, but had to leave the field after throwing an incompletion. He was immediately taken to the locker room and left FirstEnergy Stadium with his right arm in a sling.

Pettine said the team will know more Tuesday, but it appears McCown’s season is over.

If McCown can’t play, the Browns could stick with Davis or go back to Johnny Manziel, who was stripped of his starting job after a video surfaced of him partying during the bye week.

LESSON LEARNED: Ravens rookie wide receiver Kaelin Clay returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter and squeezed the ball tightly as he crossed the goal line.

When he was at Utah, Clay infamously dropped the ball just short of the end zone on what would have been a long TD only to have an Oregon defender pick it up and return it 99 yards for a score.

ANOTHER CONCUSSION: Browns cornerback Justin Gilbert sustained a concussion while returning a kickoff in the third quarter of his first start this season.

Cleveland has been inundated with head injuries. On Monday, the Browns were without Pro Bowl cornerback Joe Haden as well as wide receivers Taylor Gabriel and Andrew Hawkins because of concussions.

SPECIAL SPECIAL TEAMS: The Ravens got two TDs on special teams and have now blocked a punt or field goal in five consecutive games. It’s enough to make coach John Harbaugh, a former special teams coach, smile.

“All the guys on the field goal-block team that set the wall down the sidelines. That was just a thing of beauty,” he said. “We scored two touchdowns on special teams and that’s an incredible thing.”

MONDAY BLUES: Cleveland’s Monday Night Football appearance in seven years couldn’t have ended any worse with fans dejectedly heading to the exits and a few tearing off their jerseys in disgust after a heart-wrenching loss.

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Good morning! Here’s the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.

1. Samsung is replacing the head of its phone business. It’s a sign that change is coming to the South Korean company’s ailing handset business.

2. $3 billion (£2 billion) startup Atlassian’s IPO could be the most successful of the year. It has no outside investors, and has set its IPO price range at between $16.50 (£11) and $18.50 (£12.25).

3. Microsoft launched its “next billion dollar business” yesterday. PowerApps let users build native apps that run on both mobile and web.

4. Uber is launching a service in London that lets you share rides with strangers for a fee. UberPOOL, announced this week, goes live on December 4.

5. A British payments company has admitted that 7.8 million customers were hacked 5 years ago. Paysafe, formerly known as Optimal Payments, says nearly 8 million people’s data was compromised between 2009-2010.

6. People’s racist Facebook comments are appearing on billboards near their homes. A new campaign in Brazil is trying to tackle racism by highlighting it in real world adverts.

7. Hackers are cyber-attacking three Greek banks and demanding ransoms in bitcoin. The group, calling themselves Armada Collective, blockaded websites — but don’t appear to have accessed any internal data.

8. Israel is reportedly in talks with Google to block “inflammatory” Palestinian videos. Videos on the platform are allegedly being used to incite violence and terrorism.

9. The hacker who targeted children’s toy company VTech was able to obtain photos and chatlogs from kids. As well as data on 5 million adults and 200,000 children, the hacker stole 190GB of photos of children, Motherboard reports.

10. The FBI can demand web history and phone location data without a warrant. ZDNet reports that court filings show the Bureau can use national security letters to compel companies and individuals to hand over data.

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New Delhi (AFP) – India’s red-hot spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will look to pile on the agony for South Africa in the final Test in New Delhi starting Thursday on a pitch expected to cause more problems for the tourists.

The 29-year-old has risen to number two in the world rankings following his heroics in last week’s third Test in Nagpur when he recorded match figures of 12 for 98, giving India an unassailable 2-0 series lead.

Ashwin has taken 55 wickets since the start of the year, more than anyone else in Test cricket, and has been near unplayable on the rank turners that have bamboozled South Africa’s stellar batting line-up.

“He is a world class spinner, probably the best in the world right now,” India captain Virat Kohli said in the aftermath of Ashwin’s performance in Nagpur.

“He’s stepped up in a big way for us, even in (the last series against) Sri Lanka. He is one of the main reasons why we’ve been able to win back-to-back series.”

Both India’s victories in Nagpur and Mohali have been wrapped up inside three days, and South Africa were also bowled out cheaply in their only innings in the rain-affected second Test in Bangalore which was drawn.

The Proteas’ most reliable batsmen, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers, have managed one half century between them in the series while no one has made a century.

The likes of Dean Elgar, Stiaan van Zyl and Faf du Plessis, who are all on their first tour of India, have fared little better. 

Amla has admitted that it has been a struggle for the batsmen in conditions he says have been some of the most challenging he has ever faced.

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“I think the wickets have played their part in making it very difficult for all the batters,” said the South African skipper.

While they remain the world’s number one Test team, the tourists have had to endure the disappointment of losing their first series abroad in nine years.

While they will be desperate to avoid a 3-0 scoreline, the Ferozeshah Kotla pitch is expected to pose similar challenges for the Proteas who have struggled to produce a top-class spinner of their own.

“I would hope the one in Delhi is absolutely the same. I have no qualms about it,” the Indian team director Ravi Shastri told the Cricinfo website, saying it was up to batsmen to adjust their technique. 

“Which rule tells me that a ball can’t turn on day one? Where does it tell me in the rule book it can only swing and seam?”

South Africa’s cause has not been helped by the absence of their pace spearhead Dale Steyn, the only bowler above Ashwin in the world rankings.

Steyn, nursing a groin strain, has bowled just 11 overs in the series and it looks unlikely the visitors will risk him in a dead rubber.

The performance of Steyn’s usual strike partner Morne Morkel has been one of the few bright spots for the visitors and he was the pick of the South African bowlers in Nagpur.

While India’s line-up is expected to be unchanged, South Africa could be tempted to hand back-up seamers Kyle Abbott and Marchant de Lange a chance to impress ahead of the upcoming home series against England and give Kagiso Rabadagive a rest.

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Jakarta (AFP) – A fault with the rudder control system was a major factor in the December AirAsia plane crash into the Java Sea that left 162 people dead, Indonesian investigators said Tuesday.

Repeated problems with the system led to the pilots disengaging the autopilot in stormy weather in a bid to fix the situation, and then losing control of the Airbus A320-200, Indonesia’s official National Transportation Safety Committee said. 

In their final report into the crash, investigators said the soldering on the Rudder Travel Limiter system — which helps control the rudder’s movement — was cracked, leading it to send repeated warning systems to the pilots. 

When they received the fourth warning, the pilots pulled circuit-breakers on part of the aircraft’s control system in a bid to reset the system. This turned off the autopilot, and the plane then started to roll, the report said. 

“Subsequent flight crew action resulted in inability to control the aircraft,” said the report. 

The plane went into a “prolonged stall condition that was beyond the capability of the crew to recover”, it said.

It added the flight data recorders did not indicate the weather had affected the aircraft. 

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska will play in a bowl with a 5-7 record if invited to one, but coach Mike Riley and his assistants won’t receive bowl bonuses.

Senior associate athletic director David Witty confirmed Monday night that athletic director Shawn Eichorst met with Riley and decided not to pay bowl bonuses outlined in the coaches’ contracts. The Omaha World-Herald first reported the decision.

Riley’s contract calls for him to be paid a $150,000 bonus if in a bowl outside the College Football Playoff. Including assistants, Nebraska would have paid $435,000 in bonuses.

Nebraska is first in line among 5-7 teams to fill bowl slots once all teams 6-6 and better have been selected. Witty said contract wording might be tweaked in the future to cover going to a bowl with a losing record.

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Clif Dickens, a graphic designer from Nashville, started the Honest Slogans website, which re-imagines corporate logos to “honestly” portray their goods and services, off the back of a running joke with his friends about how waitresses always asked if Pepsi was okay every time he asked for a Coca-Cola.

His redesigned Pepsi logo kicked off the Honest Slogans blog in 2011. Dickens stresses they are for “entertainment purposes only” and told us in 2013 that while some may come across as “harsh,” he hopes even employees of the brands he satirizes will see the blog as “tongue-in-cheek.”

We’ve picked out some of the funniest latest additions to the Honest Slogans blog.

Aaron Taube contributed to an earlier version of this post.

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HBO Go: “Hoping your ex-roommate’s ex-girlfriend’s stepbrother won’t change the password”

Taco Bell: “Also open when you’re sober.”

Amazon: “Priming us to never leave the house.”

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Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Charted almost failed the Bank of England’s 2015 stress tests.

Despite missing targets, the two banks had just enough emergency capital after being run through a hypothetical economic collapse by the UK’s banking regulator.

The Prudential Regulation Authority, a unit of the Bank of England, said the banks won’t have to ask investors for more money because they have plans to raise more capital are already underway.

Ewen Stevenson, chief financial officer of RBS, said: “We are pleased with the progress we have made relative to the 2014 stress test, but recognise we still have much to do to restore RBS to be a strong and resilient bank for our customers.

Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered, said: “The test was conducted on our balance sheet as at the end of 2014.  Since then we have made further significant progress in strengthening our capital position. We are operating at capital levels above current minimum regulatory requirements and have a number of additional levers at our disposal to further manage capital.”

The other banks that took part – Barclays, HSBC, Santander, Lloyds and Nationwide – all passed the stability test, which examined how secure the banks are in the event of a Chinese economic collapse and global recession.

This is the Bank of England’s second stress test. It’s a tool used by regulators to see where problems could arise in the banking system and which banks are the most vulnerable. Banks that fail can be forced to cut bonuses and dividends while they build up capital cushions that will absorb more losses.

This year, the central bank tested banks on whether they could withstand Chinese economic growth falling to 1.7% from 7%, a collapse in Euro area growth to -2.6% and a massive deflationary spiral that sees prices fall the most in the UK in 80 years.

While all banks came out of the hypothetical collapse with their capital buffers above 4.5% of their assets – which was the minimum pass level – RBS and Standard Chartered had the weakest results with 6.1% and 5.4% respectively.

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Imagine starting a new job and just before you walk through the door you’ve lost hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Well, that is exactly what happens to former hedge fund executive James ‘Jes’ Staley when he becomes Barclays’ new CEO today.

Staley bought a large chunk of shares following confirmation of his appointment in October as a permanent replacement of Antony Jenkins. This is the usual port of call for any executive — buying shares in the company you lead tells investors you’re invested making the company better and are dedicated to growing dividend.

However, Staley paid 233p for each of the 2.8 million shares on November 4. However, as of yesterday, the stock closed at 223p. That means he has already lost £300,000 ($452,896) of his own money.

But it’s not too bad for Staley in the long run.

He still receives an annual salary of £1.2 million and an extra £1.15 million delivered in shares subject to a holding period with restrictions lifting over five years as well as a cash allowance in lieu of pension of 33% of his salary – known as role-based pay.

Staley also received cash to help relocate him from the US to the UK.

His bonus includes a discretionary incentive award up to a maximum value of 80% of fixed pay and an award under the Barclays Long Term Incentive Programme up to a maximum value at grant of 120% of fixed pay.

Prior to joining Barclays, Staley was a hedge fund manager at the US-based BlueMountain Capital. Two years before that he was the CEO of JPMorgan’s investment banking and asset-management unit. He oversaw the bank’s “expansion into alternative investments” and earned huge sums even during the credit crisis, when his bank had to use some of the US government’s temporary bailout funds.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on the aftermath of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer and an online threat that prompted the University of Chicago to cancel classes for a day (all times local):

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The University of Chicago is set to reopen a day after a 21-year-old man was charged with making an online threat that 16 white men on campus would be killed.

The posting suggested the killings would be in retaliation for the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer.

The campus is set to reopen Tuesday.

Security experts say the university may have felt it had no choice to shut down for a day.

The city has been on tenterhooks amid protests that followed last week’s release of video showing the officer shooting the teen 16 times. Michael Fagel teaches emergency management at several universities, including in Illinois. He says that may have helped force the university’s hand.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The University of Chicago may have felt it had no choice but to take the extreme step of closing for an entire day after an online threat against whites on campus that authorities say was motived by the police shooting of a black teenager, security experts said.

The city was on tenterhooks after last week’s release of video of Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Protests that followed, as well as heightened awareness about campus shootings elsewhere and the recent attacks in Paris, may have forced the university’s hand, said one expert. It canceled classes and activities Monday but was expected to reopen Tuesday.

“I think the university erred on the side of caution after putting the whole picture together,” said Michael Fagel, who teaches national security and emergency management at several schools, including the Illinois Institute of Technology. “They had to think: If we don’t react appropriately and something happens, there’ll be an outcry.”

Jabari R. Dean, 21, of Chicago, was arrested Monday on a federal charge of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. According to a criminal complaint, Dean, who is black, posted the threat online Saturday, days after prosecutors charged Van Dyke with first-degree murder and after the city released video of the shooting.

Dean, an electrical engineering student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, wrote that he would “execute approximately … 16 white male students and or staff, which is the same number of time (sic) McDonald was killed” and “will die killing any number of white policemen that I can in the process,” the complaint says.

The University of Chicago cited “recent tragic events” at other campuses nationwide in explaining its decision to close. On Oct. 1 at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, a gunman opened fire and killed nine people. Other shootings have happened in Arizona and Tennessee.

The FBI was tipped about the Chicago threat Sunday, according to a criminal complaint. After the FBI traced it to Dean, he admitted to agents that he had posted it online and said he took it down shortly afterward, the complaint says. Despite the threat mentioning three guns, a prosecutor said Dean did not appear to pose a threat.

Graduate student Marlene Saint Martin, of Mexico, said she heard about the threat through a flurry of phone messages Sunday night, then saw an email from campus officials announcing classes were canceled.

“I felt that at least the university was taking all the precautions to keep us … safe,” she said.

The university’s move affected more than 30,000 people, though the University of Chicago Medical Center was open to patients.

The online threat allegedly read: “This is not a joke. I am to do my part and rid the world of white devils.” Phillip Rutherford, Dean’s uncle, told reporters that his nephew was never serious about an attack and had done something “silly” and “stupid” because he’d had too much time on his hands.

“He’s run out of things to do,” Rutherford said.

A bond hearing for Dean was set for Tuesday, and prosecutors would likely agree to let him be released to his mother.

It’s common for high schools to close in response to threats, but rarer for universities because of the logistical complexities of shutting such large institutions, said Georgia-based campus security expert Michael Dorn. He didn’t know the specifics of the University of Chicago case but said being too quick to shut down a university can play into the hands of those making threats.

“Overreaction is a real danger,” he said. “That is the goal of terrorism and other violent events. … There’s the goal to obtain notoriety and gain attention.”

Protests that followed last week’s release of the video of McDonald’s killing have been largely peaceful, despite concerns from city officials and community leaders that it might spark the kind of turmoil that occurred in cities such as Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, after young black men were slain by police or died in police custody.

The audio-free video shows McDonald walking down the middle of a four-lane street. He appears to veer away from two officers as they emerge from a vehicle, drawing their guns. Van Dyke opens fire from close range and continues firing after McDonald crumples to the ground.

Police have said McDonald was carrying a knife, and an autopsy revealed that he had PCP, a hallucinogenic drug, in his system. Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez has said the 3-inch blade recovered from the scene had been folded into the handle.

Defense attorney Dan Herbert says his client feared for his life, acted lawfully and that the video does not tell the whole story.

Van Dyke was released from jail Monday after paying the $150,000 required of his $1.5 million bail.

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