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Cubs swipe 8 bases, rack up 21 hits vs. Pirates

ESPN News Services Aug 26, 2024, 10:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PITTSBURGH — The Chicago Cubs stole eight bases — their most in...

Environment

PetroChina posts record earnings for first half of the year

Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images PetroChina Co. posted record operating profits for the first half of the year on the back of...

Sports

Dawgs’ Robinson II likely out; no word on Etienne

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 26, 2024, 02:35 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of...

Sports

Kiffin hires brother to be an analyst at Ole Miss

Associated Press Aug 26, 2024, 08:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OXFORD, Miss. — Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin has hired his brother, Chris, as...

Sports

Beefed-up Big Ten announces football tiebreakers

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterAug 26, 2024, 12:54 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended...

World

As Sudan’s war rages on, trucks crammed with aid have been sitting in the sun for weeks

In a dusty square at the centre of the small Chadian town of Tiné, four aid trucks are crammed with medicine and food. Supplies...

Technology

This Nvidia partner says it can cut data center energy use by 50% as AI boom strains power grid

The HyperCube utilizes advanced immersion cooling technology. Sustainable Metal Cloud The artificial intelligence boom is ramping up demand for more powerful processors as well...

US election: Donald Trump suggests he may back out of TV debate against Kamala Harris

Donald Trump has suggested he might back out of a scheduled debate with rival presidential hopeful Kamala Harris – as he says the network...

Five more stabbings and 230 arrests on closing day of Notting Hill Carnival

Five more people were stabbed and 230 were arrested on the closing day of Notting Hill Carnival. The Metropolitan Police said officers “used their...

Technology

Amazon aggregators Branded and Heyday plan to merge as once-booming industry continues to shrink

An Amazon contract worker pulls a cart of packages for delivery in New York, US, on Monday, April 22, 2024. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg...

Business

Everton suitor Textor to file plan for $2.3bn Eagle Football float

The leading contender to buy Everton Football Club is preparing to launch within days a plan to take his sports and technology holding company...

Everton suitor Textor to file plan for .3bn Eagle Football float

Technology

Apple to replace CFO Luca Maestri on Jan. 1

Luca Maestri speaks to newly graduated students during the visit of the President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, to Apple and Cisco Academy. Marco...

World

Sven-Goran Eriksson dies aged 76: England’s ‘Golden Generation’ stars lead tributes to ‘true gentlemen’

England’s “Golden Generation” of football stars have led the tributes to their former manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has died aged 76. Eriksson had pancreatic...

World

At least 30 people killed and homes of 50,000 destroyed after dam collapse in Sudan

At least 30 people have been killed after a dam collapsed in Sudan, with the homes of 50,000 residents destroyed, the UN has said....

Joseph DeLucia Jr: New York man shoots family – then himself – over fears of being cut out of mother’s will

A man who believed he was being cut out of his mother’s will and did not want to move out of her home, has...

Anticipation of Oasis reunion is huge – and it’s a long way from the band’s modest debut

It all began in front of 20 people at a club called The Boardwalk. Tickets were £3 each. It was a modest debut for...

Technology

Apple announces iPhone event for Sept. 9

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, 2024. David A. Grogan...

World

Eriksson’s England era became a celebrity circus – but he wanted to enjoy life and was never bitter

Sven-Göran Eriksson doubted so much whether England could ever have a foreign manager that he considered an initial approach a joke. Intrigued eventually by...

World

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un grins at ‘successful testing of suicide drones’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been pictured grinning enthusiastically as he witnessed the explosion of so-called “suicide drones”, state media reports. Clad...

World

German chancellor Olaf Scholz vows to increase deportations of rejected asylum seekers after Solingen knife attack

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to step up deportations of rejected asylum seekers after it emerged the suspect in Friday’s knife attack was...