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614 storiesSouth 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 16th minute of the second half. It is South Korea's fourth consecutive Asian…
Varlamov set to play first NHL game in almost two years against Rangers
Russian goaltender Semyon Varlamov of the New York Islanders will play an NHL regular-season game against the New York Rangers, TASS, RBC and RIA Novosti reported. TASS said he will start from the first minutes; RBC and RIA Novosti describe…
Nobel physics prize goes to IceCube neutrino researcher Francis Halzen
Sweden's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on 6 October that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery…
Kurihara takes home run and RBI titles as Pacific League season ends
The Pacific League regular season ended on Oct. 6, finalizing the season's individual titles, with SoftBank's Kurihara Yasuya winning the home run title with 40 and the RBI title with 118. Four SoftBank players, from the league's three-time…
KT Wiz clinch 2026 KBO regular-season title with 9-0 win over Lotte
KT Wiz clinched the 2026 KBO regular-season title on Oct. 5, beating the Lotte Giants 9-0 at Suwon KT Wiz Park behind Logan Allen's eight scoreless innings and two home runs by Jang Jun-won. At 86-49-5 (.637), KT leads second-place Samsung …
Dodgers beat Braves 5-3 in MLB playoff opener; Murakami homers in White Sox win
The Dodgers beat the Braves 5-3 at home in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, with Ohtani Shohei going 4-for-1 and singling in his first postseason at-bat, Japanese outlets reported. In the American League, Murakami Munetaka’s t…
Nobel medicine prize goes to three researchers for optogenetics
The Karolinska Institute announced on October 5 that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University of Berlin and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzbur…
Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube neutrino work
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. Halzen, born in Bel…
Hwang In-beom denies retirement talk as South Korea beat Uzbekistan 2-0
Hwang In-beom denied reports that he, Kim Min-jae and Hwang Hee-chan were considering retiring from the national team, after South Korea beat Uzbekistan 2-0 in Yongin on 6 October. The Korea Football Association also called the retirement t…
Lotte beats Rakuten 3-2; Yamaguchi homers twice, Yokoyama ties save lead
Lotte beat Rakuten 3-2 at ZOZO Marine Stadium on Oct 4, their second straight win, with Yamaguchi hitting home runs in two consecutive at-bats. Yokoyama recorded his 35th save, tying for the league lead, and starter Kojima pitched seven inn…
St. Louis forward Toropchenko out at least six weeks with injury
St. Louis forward Toropchenko will miss at least six weeks because of an injury, according to the state outlets RIA Novosti and TASS and the business outlet RBC. TASS said the injury was sustained in the team's first NHL match of the season…
Rays beat Yankees 5-2 in Game 2, take 2-0 ALDS lead
The Tampa Bay Rays defeated the New York Yankees 5-2 on Monday night in St. Petersburg, Florida, to take a 2-0 lead in their American League Division Series. Richie Palacios hit a two-run single in a four-run fifth inning, and the Yankees c…
AP releases Week 5 college football Top 25; Texas Tech back in projected CFP bracket
The Associated Press released its Week 5 Top 25 college football poll on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026. Based on the new rankings, ABC News projected that Texas Tech would return to the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket after a one-week absen…
Yamamoto pitches 7 innings, 1 run as Dodgers beat Braves 3-1 to lead NLDS 2-1
Yamamoto Yoshinobu pitched seven innings of one-run ball with 10 strikeouts as the Dodgers beat the Braves 3-1 in Atlanta in Game 3 of the National League Division Series. The win gives Los Angeles a 2-1 series lead and leaves it one win fr…
Nuri rocket erected on launch pad ahead of fifth flight on Oct 7
South Korea's Nuri rocket moved from its assembly building to the second launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung on the morning of Oct 6 and was erected and fixed in place at 10:35, according to the Korea AeroSpace Administration and…
Chinese team builds first 3D cell atlas of rice life cycle, published in Cell
A Chinese multi-institution team said it has constructed the world’s first three-dimensional spatiotemporal cell atlas covering rice from seed germination to flowering and fruiting, with the paper published online in Cell on the evening of …
Messi set for final Argentina appearance in Buenos Aires friendly against Benin
Lionel Messi is preparing to make his final appearance for Argentina in a friendly against Benin at the Monumental in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. The National reported all 85,018 tickets sold out within two hours, and outlets say the squad wil…
Nuri rocket lifts off on fifth flight carrying record 15 satellites
South Korea's Nuri rocket launched at 12:25 p.m. on Oct. 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, after the launch management committee confirmed the time that morning. The rocket carries 15 satellites — five NEOANSAT microsatellite cluster…
Nuri rocket lifts off with 15 satellites in fifth launch
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. The five main ultra-small cluster satellites were placed in their target orbit, m…
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded to Three Optogenetics Pioneers
Sweden's Karolinska Institutet said on Oct 5 local time that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University Berlin and Georg Nagel of the University of Wü…