One of the most exciting aspects of every MLB season is when young up-and-coming players have breakouts that make pretenders into contenders, or contenders into champions, or simply just give their team’s fan bases new hope. This is my annual roster of the players I think are most likely to have “breakout” seasons. My definition […]
UK taxes on big tech firms may be changed as part of a deal to avoid US President Donald Trump’s next raft of tariffs, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested. She said talks are “ongoing” about tweaks to the Digital Services Tax (DST), which affects global tech giants like Amazon and Meta. The 2% levy introduced […]
The main rival to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been formally arrested and charged with corruption. Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of the Turkish city of Istanbul, is expected to be selected as the opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) 2028 presidential candidate in a ballot on Sunday. He denies the allegations and says they are […]
Erling Haaland helped Norway make a positive start to its World Cup qualifying campaign by scoring in a 5-0 rout at Moldova on Saturday. Norway’s third and last World Cup appearance was back in 1998, two years before Haaland was born. Now, Haaland leads a team featuring Arsenal midfielder Martin Ødegaard that bears high expectations […]
A foul cell in a Moscow detention center was about the last place an American businessman named Michael Calvey expected to find himself after spending 25 years building a flourishing venture capital firm in Russia that transformed some tech startups into global brands. First, beefy agents from the F.S.B., the federal security service, ransacked his […]
New Zealand record a 115-run win in fourth T20 as all but two Pakistan batters score in double figures in chase of 221. New Zealand’s ruthless pace attack carved up the Pakistani batting line-up to deliver a crushing 115-run win in the fourth Twenty20 and clinch the five-match series 3-1. The home side posted 220-6 […]
Times are tough on Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit responsible for Elmo, Big Bird, Cookie Monster and the rest of the stars of “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems. The organization is losing its lucrative contract with HBO, which has paid $30 million to $35 million […]
Disney’s latest remake, “Snow White,” arrived in theaters on Thursday night as one of the most snakebit projects in the company’s 102-year history. Almost everything that could have went wrong did, resulting in a torrent of negative prerelease publicity. Did the tumult have an impact on the box office? It certainly didn’t help: Based on […]
Wrexham made progress in their hunt for automatic promotion from League One on Saturday as they moved into second place with a 1-0 win over 10-man Stockport County. Wrexham are bidding for a remarkable third straight promotion this season, and Jay Rodríguez’s first-half strike was enough to earn all three points and keep up the fight […]
With the addition of 2024, yet another record-hot year, the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, the World Meteorological Organization reports. “That’s never happened before,” said Chris Hewitt, the director of the W.M.O.’s climate services division. It marks the first time since record keeping began that all […]