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Aug 10, 2026, 02:16 PM ETShortstop Tim Anderson, a two-time All-Star and former batting champion with the Chicago White Sox, on Monday announced his retirement after 10 major league seasons, saying the game no longer brought him joy.”I want to be open as I can, but the game [brought] a lot of pain, a lot of great moments,” Anderson told reporters on a Zoom call Monday. “But just throughout playing, it definitely was a lot of dark moments. And it just got to a point where I couldn’t enjoy it. … I still love the game; it just brought too…

Jeffrey Dean Morgan knows the Hollywood struggle, having grinded for several years before finally booking his breakout roles on Grey’s Anatomy, Supernatural and Weeds. But the actor, who most recently starred in Prime Video’s new series Sterling Point, told host Josh Horowitz on a new episode of his Happy Sad Confused podcast that his former manager fired him right before he landed these shows due to his age. “I remember being in my mid-30s going, ‘This didn’t work out,’” the now 60-year-old recalled. “And my manager had just fired me right before I got the three shows. I’d been with…

Colombia’s newly inaugurated president, Abelardo De La Espriella announced the suspension of his schedule to lead emergency rescue efforts in Bogota’s earthquake-struck areas. At least 111 people have been killed in the powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake.Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Former Vice-President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, on Monday appealed to the electorate in Osun State to support the party in the 15 August governorship election. Atiku made the appeal while speaking at the ADC campaign grand rally in Osogbo, the state capital. He said the ADC represented the interests of Nigerians, recalling his long-standing political relationship with the people of the state. Atiku said he had previously campaigned in Osun for Governor Ademola Adeleke and for his presidential bid, adding that the people had supported him on both occasions. “This is the fourth…

The Naira on Monday appreciated at the official market, trading at N1,360.14 to a dollar. Data from the official website of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revealed that the Naira gained N5.54. This represented a 0.4 per cent gain when compared to Friday, when it traded at N1,365.68 per dollar. The gain is coming after four consecutive days of losses recorded the previous week. (NAN)

In healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows – who are using these tools before they have built their own clinical judgment? The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling. Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be.OpenEvidence, essentially an AI chatbot for clinicians, has given this concern its most concrete form. About…

New vape shops will require planning permission and councils will get more powers to stop betting shops, under government plans aimed at improving high streets.Prime Minister Andy Burnham said town centres had been “hollowed out” by decades of decline and “for many people, the high streets they grew up with have become unrecognisable”.BBC News has exposed organised crime on high streets across the country, revealing shops selling illegal cigarettes and vapes, selling cannabis and cocaine, enabling illegal working and suspected money-laundering.The Conservatives and Reform said the proposals would lead to “more empty” shops, without tax relief for other small businesses.Burnham…

Nigeria’s healthcare sector needs more than additional funding to expand. It needs businesses capable of attracting capital, deploying it effectively and building institutions that can grow sustainably, healthcare stakeholders have said. That challenge was at the centre of the inaugural First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Healthcare Summit in Lagos, where the bank unveiled a N20 billion Healthcare Fund to support private healthcare businesses. The fund will provide financing to hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, maternity homes and other businesses across the healthcare value chain. The summit, themed “Financing Growth: Unlocking Opportunity, Building the Future of Healthcare,” brought together…

The rapid spread of generative AI tools has exposed deep vulnerabilities in conventional methods of academic assessment. This challenge came into sharp focus for me when I found evidence of widespread unauthorized use of artificial intelligence in an examination for my course on welfare economics and social-choice theory at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, last semester.Some students were reluctant to return to the classroom after a campus shooting earlier in the academic year, so I administered the midterm test as a take-home exam for the first time in nearly two decades of teaching the course. Although it was more…

The signs have been there since last year, when the collective strength of the players, not any masterplan from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), dragged the team to a 10th WAFCON title in Rabat. With twelve months to restrategise and rebuild a squad capable of surviving an increasingly competitive women’s football landscape, the Falcons, led by coach Justin Madugu, and the NFF instead stood still. So, there was no real surprise on Sunday when a 19th-minute free-kick from Cameroon’s Myriam Nyadjou was enough to end Nigeria’s title defence at the quarter-final stage in Casablanca, the earliest continental exit for the…