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TORONTO, ON – JULY 02: Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk (30) is seen before an MLB game between the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays on July 2, 2025, at Rogers Centre in Toronto, ON. (Photo by Mathew Tsang/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesThe Toronto Blue Jays entered the season hoping Alejandro Kirk would carry his momentum from last season and provide a powerful presence in the middle of the batting order. Instead, his absence early in the year forced the club to lean on its catching depth, including veteran backstop Tyler Heineman, who…

The gizmo feed As magical as Pocket’s game-creation process feels, the limited way Pocket lets you share those games with the world feels the opposite. The only way to let other people experience your Pocket creation is by sharing it as a Post, pairing your little interactive gizmo with a small caption and a cover photo. You can share a link to that post anywhere you’d usually share links online, and those following the link can even play an HTML5 “preview” version of your gizmo in their browser without having to download the Pocket app. This can even work on…

Kemi Badenoch is to reshuffle her shadow cabinet on Monday, and is expected to install Tom Tugendhat as shadow foreign secretary to replace Priti Patel.Tugendhat, a former security minister, was a leadership candidate who had previously declined to join the shadow cabinet. Badenoch is also expected to replace James Cleverly, the shadow communities secretary, who has resigned from the shadow cabinet to run for London mayor.Patel announced on Sunday night she would be leaving as shadow foreign secretary but said she would take on an “international role” with the party to build ties with other rightwing parties across the world.The…

A negative leap second could mean computer systems no longer run like clockwork. Credit: Florian Gaertner/Photothek/GettyThe leap second could be scrapped as soon as October. The periodic adjustment to the world’s clocks, which has been done every few years since 1972, was already set to end by 2035. But authorities are considering an immediate end to avoid the real possibility that the next leap second will be negative — meaning that clocks must skip, rather than gain, a second. This has never happened before, and comes with unprecedented risk, say researchers.To avoid future chaos, the world’s timekeepers are for the…

Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappe both struck as Real Madrid’s perfect start to La Liga under Jose Mourinho continued in a 4-0 cruise against Malaga on Sunday. Los Blancos scored three times in just over 10 minutes in the first half to open up a comfortable lead over the Andalusian visitors to the Santiago Bernabeu. Sandwiched between Bellingham and Mbappe’s strikes was an own goal by Malaga goalkeeper Alfonso Herrero, while Arda Guler tapped in a fourth late on. After two victories in their opening two games and with superstar trio Mbappe, Bellingham and Vinicius Junior starting the season well,…

The British Museum privately hosted the Donald Trump-supporting tech billionaire Peter Thiel in the exhibition space of the Bayeux tapestry earlier this month, the Guardian understands.The museum’s director of development, Charlotte Appleyard, hosted the PayPal founder at a VIP viewing of the tapestry, which is yet to open to the public, on 18 August.George Osborne and France’s Culture Minister Catherine Pégard (C) look at the Bayeux Tapestry during a visit to its unveiling at the British Museum in central London in July, 2026. Photograph: Toby Shepheard/AFPIn response to queries from the Guardian, a source at the museum confirmed that the…

Africa’s drive to transform from a net food importer into a global agricultural powerhouse takes center stage this September as Agriculture Summit Africa (ASA) returns for its ninth edition. Operating under the theme “Building the Next Superpower: Africa’s Food Power Play,” the continent’s premier agricultural event will hold in Abuja on 15 and 16 September 2026. Convened by Sterling Bank, the summit was unveiled at a high-profile press conference in Lagos, where the bank’s leadership united with public sector representatives, development partners and agribusiness pioneers to set the agenda for the continent’s food future. The summit arrives against a paradox…

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “serpent”, accusing him of tricking Washington into going to war with the Islamic republic. “In Hebrew, Netanyahu openly crows that he suckered the U.S. Administration into a war on Iran on behalf of Israel. Netanyahu explicitly laughs about how he ‘influenced’ America through 1,000 hours of airtime on U.S. networks,” Araghchi said in a post on X. “In English, he praises POTUS’ leadership. Serpent,” he added. War broke out between Iran and the United States on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes killing the Islamic republic’s supreme…

Published On 31 Aug 202631 Aug 2026American wildcard Sofia Kenin beat 46-year-old compatriot Venus Williams 6-2, 7-6(6) in a ⁠⁠US Open first-round match ⁠⁠that began past midnight in New York, the latest start in women’s tournament history.The match at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday got under way after Novak Djokovic’s loss to Mariano Navone in five sets, with a sizable contingent of fans staying on well past midnight for one more look at Williams, who was playing as a wildcard in her 96th career Grand ⁠⁠Slam main draw appearance.“It was extremely late,” Williams told reporters. “I’ve never played a match…

After two successive weeks of loss, Nigerian stocks found resilience last week amid stronger buy pressure, helping market capitalisation appreciate by 0.8 per cent. The oil & gas index propelled the fairly good performance, thanks to substantial gains by Seplat Energy, contrary to the penultimate week when it fared worst among the five sector indices. In a way, it is a reassurance that investors’ interest in energy stocks is building up in view of the vibrant outlook on the sector that spikes in the price of crude holds for producers as the US-Israel war against Iran continues. The upbeat market…