Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy is keeping a permanent version of the uniform patch players wore in honor of late play-by-play announcer Bob Uecker during the 2025 MLB season. Murphy told reporters Friday he had gotten the patch tattooed on his arm (h/t Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). The tattoo was done by...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a rare public appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday and used the opportunity to predict that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades,” the Financial Times reports. Speaking with John Elkann, a scion of Italy’s Agnelli dynasty, Bezos, who also...
Hysan Development sold three units at its Bamboo Grove luxury complex in Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels for a total of HK$133 million (US$17 million), two of which were bought by the company’s chairwoman Irene Lee Yun-lien’s son, Nicolas Hugh Ingram, while the third was acquired by the wife of non-executive director Lee Chien. The transactions, disclosed...
Kurdish fighter Saman Mohammadi was also hanged for killing a Muslim leader, the Mizan News Agency reports. Iran has executed six fighters accused of waging armed attacks in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, according to state media, as the country continues its accelerated executions of people it says have ties to Israel following the 12-day...
I think the fear that a lot of us have about generative A.I. is that we’re not going to be playing it. It’s going to be playing us. Often because we prefer it to play us, right. When a kid — you can use A.I. to help you write a better essay, but a lot...
Japan’s ruling conservative party has elected Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, positioning the 64-year-old to be Japan’s first female prime minister. Takaichi is among the more conservative candidates leaning to the party’s right. She faces many challenges including uniting a struggling ruling party after a turbulent few years which saw it rocked by scandals...
Eric KarabellOct 3, 2025, 06:57 AM ET Close Eric Karabell is a senior writer for fantasy baseball, football and basketball at ESPN. Eric is a charter member of FSWA Hall of Fame and author of “The Best Philadelphia Sports Arguments”. Each week in the NFL is its own story — full of surprises, both positive...
Published October 3, 2025 Selfridges has unveiled plans for a major upgrade to its Beauty Hall at its Birmingham Bullring store. At 30,000 sq ft, it becomes its largest beauty space outside of London. The expansion increases dedicated retail beauty floor space by 20%, adding 37 new counters. This brings the store’s total beauty portfolio...
Matt BowenOct 3, 2025, 06:56 AM ET Close Matt Bowen is a fantasy football and NFL writer for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2015, writes regularly for ESPN+ and spent multiple years on “NFL Matchup.” After graduating from the University of Iowa, Matt played safety in the NFL for St. Louis, Green Bay, Washington and...
Early sales of mooncakes – a food traditionally distributed among families, workplaces and other social groups to celebrate China’s Mid-Autumn Festival – have softened compared to previous years, another sign the country’s domestic demand has yet to fully reenergise. Packages of mooncakes, typically round baked goods with a variety of dense fillings, are popular gifts...