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703 storiesMetallurg beats Admiral in first KHL game after coach Razin's suspension
Metallurg Magnitogorsk beat Admiral Vladivostok at home in a KHL regular-season match, the club's first game after head coach Andrei Razin was suspended. Interfax and RBC reported the score as 3:0, while TASS's summary said the match ended …
Lionel Messi plays final match for Argentina as nation bids farewell
Lionel Messi played his final match for Argentina on Tuesday, with the team facing Benin, according to The Guardian’s live coverage. Reuters reported that teammates and fans bid an emotional farewell ahead of the finale, and Argentine media…
Nobel medicine prize awarded to three scientists for optogenetics
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries concerning light-sensitive ion channels and optogenetics, the Nobel Committee announced in Stockholm. The three sh…
Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson retires after 14 seasons, citing mental health
Philadelphia Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson announced his retirement from the NFL on Tuesday after 14 seasons, all with Philadelphia. The 36-year-old, a six-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl winner, said he wanted to play on…
Eagles' Saquon Barkley ruled out vs. Rams with hamstring injury; Week 5 status uncertain
Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley left Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Rams in the first quarter with a right hamstring injury and was ruled out for the rest of the game, the Associated Press reported, after Fox News sai…
Ravens' Lamar Jackson leaves win over Titans with ankle injury
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson left Sunday's 24-18 win over the Tennessee Titans with an ankle injury and did not return, with backup Tyler Huntley finishing the game. Jackson had completed 15 of 20 passes for 222 yards and two …
Supreme Court hears Boulder climate suit as justices question both sides
The Supreme Court heard nearly two hours of arguments Monday on whether the city and county of Boulder, Colorado, can sue Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy in state court to recover costs tied to climate change. Conservative justices questioned…
Gauff says racist abuse followed disputed point at China Open
Coco Gauff said she received an “insane” amount of racist comments and direct messages after a disputed point in her China Open third-round win over Sun Xinran in Beijing. Gauff stopped a rally when electronic advertising boards flickered; …
Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Soai Kenzo
Sweden's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Oct 7 that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Henri Kagan of France and Soai Kenzo of Japan for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric org…
Nuri rocket completes fifth launch, placing satellites in orbit
South Korea’s Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. local time on Oct 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying 15 satellites, the most in its history, and placed the five main ultra-small cluster satellites in their target orbit. Ne…
Tropical Storm Isaias forms off Mexico, forecast to hit US Gulf Coast as hurricane
Tropical Storm Isaias formed early Wednesday in warm waters off eastern Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, and the National Hurricane Center said it is expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season befor…
Abe siblings both win gold on day two of judo world championships in Baku
Abe Uta won the women's 52kg title and her brother Abe Hifumi won the men's 66kg title on the second day of the judo world championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, Japanese outlets reported. It was Uta's sixth world title and second in a row, and…
South Korea beats Japan 1-0 for fourth straight Asian Games football gold
South Korea's under-23 team beat Japan 1-0 in the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games men's football final at Toyota Stadium on 3 October, with Um Ji-sung scoring in the second half. It is South Korea's fourth consecutive title in the event, whic…
Bermuda mother and son identified in air ambulance crash off Nantucket
Bermuda police identified Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, and her son Sergio Wayne Lottimore, 41, both Bermudian nationals, as the two passengers on a Gulfstream G100 air ambulance that went missing off Nantucket, Massachusetts, around 1 a.m. Sat…
76ers center Ariel Hukporti out for season with torn Achilles tendon
Philadelphia 76ers center Ariel Hukporti suffered a season-ending torn right Achilles tendon in Monday night's preseason game against the New York Knicks, the team said. The 24-year-old, who signed a one-year deal with Philadelphia in July,…
Patriots beat previously unbeaten Bills 29-26 as Maye throws three TD passes
The New England Patriots beat the Buffalo Bills 29-26 in Orchard Park, N.Y., on Sunday, handing the previously unbeaten Bills their first loss. Quarterback Drake Maye threw three touchdown passes, including Efton Chism's one-handed catch wi…
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Wednesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, for work on molecules that exist as mirror images of each other. Kagan showed in the 1980s that …
South Korea forecasts a cold, windy Oct. 6 with a 15C day-night temperature gap
South Korea's weather agency forecast a chilly, clear Oct. 6 with morning lows of about 3-14°C and a day-night temperature gap of roughly 15°C in most regions. Gangwon's inland and mountain areas were expected near or below 5°C, with winds …
Nuri declared a success on fifth flight; five cluster satellites make contact
South Korea's Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. from the Naro Space Center in Goheung and the Korea Aerospace Administration declared the fifth flight a success, saying all 15 satellites were placed in orbit. Officials said 14 of the 15 …
Typhoon No. 27 moves north near Ogasawara as typhoons 28 and 29 form
Typhoon No. 27, described by the Japan Meteorological Agency as large and very strong, moved north over waters near the Ogasawara Islands and was forecast to approach the islands at very strong intensity from the evening of Oct. 5 to early …