Roki Sasaki’s home debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers ended in the second inning Saturday night after the touted right-hander again struggled with his control. Sasaki issued four walks while throwing 61 pitches to just 12 batters before manager Dave Roberts pulled him with two outs and two Detroit Tigers on base. Sasaki allowed two…
Lionel Messi made an immediate impact for Inter Miami against the Philadelphia Union on Saturday night, with what became the winning goal in a 2-1 victory that lifted the Herons into first place in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference. Messi returned to the lineup and scored less than two minutes after subbing into the match…
The chair of a charity set up by Prince Harry has accused him of “harassment and bullying at scale” after he and several others quit the organisation earlier this week. The Duke of Sussex was said to have initiated the campaign by the “unleashing of the Sussex machine”. Dr Sophie Chandauka, the chair of the…
Novo Nordisk on Saturday said its diabetes pill Rybelsus showed cardiovascular benefits in a late-stage trial, paving the way for it to become a new treatment option for people living with diabetes and heart disease. The pill lowered the risk of cardiovascular-related death, heart attack and stroke by 14% compared to a placebo after four…
Shohei Ohtani threw his first bullpen session in a month on Saturday, but the reigning NL MVP still has plenty of work to do before he takes the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ohtani threw more than 20 pitches in the bullpen at Dodger Stadium after throwing a long toss in the outfield. The…
A small plane flying from Iowa to Minnesota in the US crashed into a suburban home and caused it to catch on fire, officials said on Saturday. The plane had taken off around 1220 local time (1720 BST) before crashing in a residential area of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Investigators said…
Renowned artist David Hockney has said he did not offer to paint King Charles when the monarch visited his London home on Monday because he doesn’t know him well enough. This is not the first time that Hockney has shied away from painting royalty. The 87-year-old also refused a number of offers to paint the…
Researchers have discovered nearly 1.5 million pictures from specialist dating apps – many of which are explicit – being stored online without password protection, leaving them vulnerable to hackers and extortionists. Anyone with the link was able to view the private photos from five platforms developed by M.A.D Mobile: kink sites BDSM People and Chica,…
The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it supports a new ceasefire plan for Gaza that would see five more hostages released to Israel in exchange for a 50-day truce. Khalil al-Hayyam, the most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza, said the group had approved the draft deal sent by Egyptian and Qatari mediators. The office for…
Most employees at the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded thinktank now taken over by Elon Musk’s unofficial “department of government efficiency”, received email notices of their mass firing late Friday, the latest step in the Trump administration’s government downsizing. The emails, sent to personal accounts because most staff members had lost…
