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Second-year manager Will Venable has the upstart Chicago White Sox atop the AL Central, but he made a bad rookie mistake during an important game against the second-place Cleveland Guardians on Friday night (CLE 8, CWS 2). Venable had to remove starter Noah Schultz with one out in the first inning because he accidentally made a second mound visit when he went out to argue that the runner missed third base on an RBI single. Venable crossed the foul line, which counts as a mound visit. Pitching coach Zach Bove visited Schultz earlier in the inning, so, by rule, Venable…

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” showed no signs of slowing down as it entered its second weekend in cinemas. “Brand New Day” added $43 million at the North American box office on Friday from 4,487 theaters. By Sunday, the Marvel-Sony tentpole should swing to $143 million, which represents about a 60% decline from its record-breaking $360 million debut. Those earnings would push “Brand New Day’s” domestic haul to $653 million through weekend two. On Wednesday, “Brand New Day” overtook “Toy Story 5” as the highest-grossing movie of 2026. While it took “Toy Story 5” since June to collect its $1.067 billion,…

Postpartum recovery is often overshadowed by labour and childbirth, yet the period immediately after delivery is critical to the health and survival of both mother and baby. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the first six weeks after childbirth are a critical period for the survival and wellbeing of both mothers and newborns, as well as for supporting the baby’s healthy development and the mother’s physical and mental recovery. The WHO also recommends that women and newborns receive information, reassurance and support from health workers throughout the postnatal period. Speaking with PT Health Watch, a retired midwife, Mary Augustine,…

Former US president Joe Biden ’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to speak out on public issues, his son Hunter said in an interview.In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC broadcast late on Friday, Hunter Biden grew emotional as he discussed his father’s condition, describing it as very sad to watch.“The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further,” he said. “It’s very painful and it’s very debilitating in many respects.”Biden, 83, was the oldest man to serve as US president and his age was…

Inside a 28-story testing tower erected in the middle of the suburban town of Bristol, Connecticut, Otis engineers run elevator parts through dust chambers, humidity cells and saltwater fog machines.”[Elevators] are supposed to work in the extreme conditions of the world. Whether it’s the desert or the Arctic,” said Haran Vela, senior vice president of engineering for Otis. “We try to simulate all of those conditions in this facility so that we know that our designs will work in the real environment.”Otis is the largest elevator company in the world, operating in 200-plus countries. In 2025, the company generated more…

Fifa has been forced to U-turn on plans to sell off a slice of the World Cup after fierce opposition, with threats of future boycotts and calls for the governing body’s president, Gianni Infantino, to quit.But why were a group of tech investors interested in the World Cup in the first place, and are similar proposals in the future inevitable? In a world in which AI could upend human recreation and pastimes, executives at Thrive Eternal, a spin-off of venture capital firm Thrive Capital, saw an opportunity to lead a group of investors to place cash in the biggest sporting…

Former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the Wales Office and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) used misleading figures about how much the country would spend on defence, a watchdog has said.In March Sir Keir told MPs that ministers were increasing defence spending by £270bn. The two other departments later repeated similar claims in June.But the UK Statistics Authority say that is wrong, as the figure is the proposed overall amount the government plans to spend between 2025 and 2029. The Wales Office deleted a post on X that had contained the claim.A UK government spokesperson said: “We have previously acknowledged…

Typhoon Dolphin has cut power to at least 44,000 buildings and injured at least five people after hitting Japan’s Okinawa island on Saturday.Flights to and from Okinawa’s main airport – Naha International Airport – were cancelled as it closed on Friday as the storm arrived.The storm had maximum wind speeds of 162km/h (101mph) on Saturday and has been categorised as a “very strong” typhoon by the Japan Meteorological Agency, which warned of high waves, storm surges and lightning strikes.Dolphin is expected to make landfall on China’s eastern coast late on Sunday or early on Monday. Authorities there have shut ports…

Former West Ham United co-chairman David Sullivan has attended their Carabao Cup match against Portsmouth despite being advised he should stay away from home games at London Stadium.Sullivan resigned from his position as co-chair of West Ham in June after seven women accused him of sexually exploitative and predatory behaviour, allegations he categorically denies.West Ham are in the opening round of the EFL Cup for the first time in 15 years following last season’s relegation from the Premier League.The match against Portsmouth is the first the club have played since the allegations against Sullivan were reported.A joint investigation by BBC…

Monica Bellucci’s sneer is a thing of wonder, so why have so few directors used it properly? When allowed full rein to her sense of irony, as given her by Giovanni Tortorici in “Ketticè,” Bellucci has few equals in her ability to project self-aware drama queen with just the right dose of camp icon. Hers is a supporting role, as the quasi-caricatured bourgeois mother of a far more authentically drawn teenager, but the young writer-director deliberately sets genuine adolescent nihilism off against the stereotyped adult world, rejuvenating a time-tested formula with the story of an aimless rich kid that feels…