The MLB trade deadline is approaching quickly and one name towers above the rest. Washington Nationals outfielder Juan Soto is the crown jewel of the deadline, and teams should be lining up with offers of multiple top-level prospects to secure his services. Soto is easily the best player available, but he’s not the only difference-maker
Month: July 2022
Later this week, the LIV Golf tour will play its third event of the season at former President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey. Days before the shotgun start, it’s already the most contentious event on a tour that’s known nothing but controversy in its nine months of formal existence. LIV has enticed
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The latest Tory leadership debate between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss has been cancelled after the presenter fainted on air. The Sun and TalkTV debate, hosted by journalist Kate McCann, abruptly halted around halfway through after a
Reuters Russia says it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 and build its own station instead. The US and Russia, along with other partners, have successfully worked together on the ISS since 1998. But relations have soured since Russia invaded Ukraine, and Russia previously threatened to quit the project because of
AFP Boris Johnson has said he did not discuss government business at a meeting with ex-KGB officer Alexander Lebedev “as far as I am aware”. The prime minister is facing questions about why no officials were present to take notes at the 2018 meeting with the Russian oligarch. The PM – who was foreign secretary
Reuters More than 3,800 monkeypox cases have been reported in the US, the most of any country around the globe, government health data shows. The rising number of cases has reportedly prompted the Biden administration to mull declaring a national health emergency. The virus has already been classified as a global health emergency by the
Getty Images EU energy ministers have agreed for their countries to cut gas use in case Russia halts supplies. Following talks on Tuesday, EU members agreed countries should voluntarily reduce gas use by 15% from August to March. “This was not a Mission Impossible!”, tweeted the Czech Republic, which holds the rotating EU presidency. However,
STR/AFP via Getty Images Japan has executed a 39-year-old man who killed seven people in Tokyo in 2008 during a stabbing rampage. Tomohiro Kato committed one of the most shocking mass murders in the country’s recent history. He was 25 when he drove a truck into a lunch-time crowd of pedestrians at Akihabara shopping district,
Getty Images US retail giant Walmart has warned over its profits for the second time since May, as the soaring cost of food and fuel hits customer spending. The company says it now expects profits to fall by as much as 13% this year. One expert told the BBC that Walmart’s unscheduled announcement “signals a
Reuters Ukraine has accused Moscow of waging a “gas war” against Europe and cutting supplies to inflict “terror” on people. Russian energy firm Gazprom announced it is reducing gas flows into Germany to allow work on a turbine on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. But Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said this was simply “gas blackmail”
Getty Images Ministers must offer bigger cost-of-living support payments as energy bills are expected to soar further this winter, a committee of MPs has said. Financial help for the poor and vulnerable needed to be “updated” to reflect higher than predicted bills in October, the Business Committee said. Its report was also highly critical of
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss tore into each other over their rival visions for the future of the UK economy, in their first head-to-head TV debate. The two contenders to be the next PM did not hold
Pacemaker Lord Trimble, former first minister of Northern Ireland and Ulster Unionist Party leader, has died. Lord Trimble, who was 77, led the UUP between 1995 and 2005, and was instrumental in the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement – the peace deal which ended the worst of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. His efforts won him
Reuters A gunman killed two people and injured two others during an early morning shooting spree, police in the Canadian province of British Columbia have said. Emergency alerts issued shortly after 06:00 local time (13:00 GMT) warned of “multiple shooting scenes” in downtown Langley, a city about 25 miles east of Vancouver. Police confirmed a
Reuters In his first public remarks in Canada, Pope Francis has asked indigenous residential school survivors for forgiveness. “I am deeply sorry,” the Pope said on the grounds of a former residential school in Maskwacis, near Edmonton. He said his apology is a first step, and that a “serious investigation” into abuses must occur to
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars began anew Monday morning with the first official training camp practice of the post-Urban Meyer era. There’s a new head coach at the helm in Super Bowl winner Doug Pederson. The roster made significant, albeit expensive, additions during the offseason. And the Jags still have one
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