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Mets include Marte, Alvarez on postseason roster

12:32 PM ET NEW YORK — When the Mets kick off their playoff run against the San Diego Padres on Friday night, Starling Marte...

World

Ukraine war: Under the threat of a nuclear strike and a long looming winter, indomitable Ukrainian spirit holds

There are a quite shocking number of Russian corpses left in the wake of the Ukrainian blitz on their eastern front. Kyiv’s troops are...

World

Three people killed in explosion at service station in Ireland

Three people have been killed in an explosion at a service station in Co Donegal, Ireland. The explosion happened just after 3pm at the...

Sports

NASCAR teams decry ‘broken’ economic model

2:47 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The most powerful teams in NASCAR warned Friday that the venerable stock car racing series has...

World

What happened during the Cuban missile crisis – and why is it being compared to Russia’s war in Ukraine?

US President Joe Biden has been overheard saying that Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine carries the greatest risk of nuclear weapons being used since...

Technology

Tesla stock had its worst week since March 2020 during a ‘very intense 7 days’ for Elon Musk

Elon Musk Mike Blake | Reuters Tesla shares dropped nearly 16% during what CEO Elon Musk called a “very intense 7 days indeed” to...

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Eurovision: Next year’s song contest to be held in Liverpool, BBC announces

Liverpool will host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the BBC has announced. It beat off Glasgow to win the chance to host the show,...

How Nazanin is using her freedom to fight for those still being oppressed by the Iranian regime

I first met Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shortly after she was released from prison in Iran and reunited with her husband Richard and daughter Gabriella. We...

Entire police department at centre of Texas school shooting suspended

The school district at the centre of the mass shooting at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, has suspended its entire police force. Following...

Environment

Ron Insana: It’s time to use an ‘all of the above’ energy policy to break up the OPEC+ cartel

An Austrian soldier guards the entrance to the OPEC headquarters on October 4, 2022 on the eve of the 45th Meeting of the Joint...

Technology

Why this investor doesn’t back companies that use carbon offsets

Zachary Bogue, co-managing partner for DCVC, speaks during the Future of Innovation: Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday,...

Business

Kwarteng rules out wholesale reforms to bank ‘firewall’ regime

Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor, has ruled out tearing up the regime put in place to segregate high street lenders’ investment banking arms that was...

Business

BoE rate-setter’s vow on inflation fails to help stricken pound for long

The pound’s value ebbed and flowed on Friday – supported by a Bank of England deputy governor’s vow to persist in the fight against...

Politics

Tory minister Conor Burns sacked with ‘immediate effect’ after complaint of serious misconduct

Liz Truss has sacked trade minister Conor Burns from her government “with immediate effect” following an allegation of serious misconduct. The Tory MP for...

Technology

AMD shares fall more than 13% on weak outlook, dragging other chipmakers down

Lisa Su, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), holds a 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processor while speaking during a keynote...

World

Putting nuclear weapons to use risks escalation, impossible to control and potentially catastrophic | Diana Magnay

The US president is hardly unique in saying the risk of a nuclear “Armageddon” is higher now than it has been since the Cuban...

World

Nobel Peace Prize: Human rights champions in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine honoured

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ales Bialiatski, a human rights activist in prison in Belarus, the Russian campaign group Memorial and...

World

Thailand mourns after nursery school children killed in shooting rampage

Distraught families in Thailand have been mourning the deaths of 36 people – including dozens of nursery school children – murdered by a sacked...

World

Thailand survivor’s mum says she fainted when she saw nursery horror as son stabbed in the head and shot twice

At Udon Thani hospital, we witness an unbearable procession of grief. We’re standing by a narrow road as a convoy of vehicles arrive. Inside,...

Technology

Here’s what Musk’s potential takeover of Twitter could mean for Trump

Elon Musk’s renewed efforts to buy Twitter could pave the way for President Donald Trump‘s return to the platform that permanently banned him a...