On Friday, Japanese ace Roki Sasaki announced his intention to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgerspicking the defending World Series champions San Diego Padres And Toronto Blue Jaysamong other teams who have expressed interest in obtaining his services. Sasaki, designated amateur due to age and length of service, will receive $6.5 million signing bonusor an … Read more
In more than half a century of their existence on the market, video games have achieved true cultural ubiquity, arguably more so than the feature film industry today. How wrong, then, that movies largely continue to present games in a shallow, non-literal way, portraying them as mindless whistles of joy, rather than pointing out how … Read more
Tel Aviv — Israeli military strikes kill more than 600 people Gaza Strip in the first 10 days of 2025, bringing the death toll to more than 46,000 since the war began on October 7, 2023, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory, and a new estimate suggests that ‘it could be … Read more
New research suggests that dozens of Bronze Age Britons were killed in an unprecedented attack known to archaeologists studying that period and location. The research into human remains from Charterhouse Warren in south-west England, carried out by a team of researchers from several institutions, including the University of Oxford, was published in antiquitya journal of … Read more
Gold bars are seen at the Austrian gold and silver separation plant “Oegussa” in Vienna, Austria, March 18, 2016. — Reuters To help provide debt relief to low-income countries devastated by climate-related disasters, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should sell 4% of its gold, study suggests, as climate finance dominates first discussions of the COP29 … Read more