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English Touring Opera’s autumn season has a mythological theme – which, in practice, means operas about women getting left behind. Touring alongside Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice is this compact double bill, pairing Dido and Aeneas with Elena Langer’s Ariadne, a 20-minute scene for soprano setting words by Glyn Maxwell, which was premiered by Almeida Opera in 2002. Langer’s mini-opera is essentially a monologue, sung persuasively here by Jessica Cale, her powerful soprano diamond-bright. Anna Morrissey’s production, though, has six people on stage: abandonment feels like something active as well as passive. It begins with Theseus leaving, disentangling himself from both the sleeping Ariadne and the red thread that links them, spooling from a heap on the floor – it’s as if he got back from the labyrinth the night before. When Ariadne wakes he’s still there, pacing in the shadows or turning her bed on its rotating platform. Catwalk Coraline … Lydia Shariff and Isabelle Atkinson with members of the ensemble in Dido and Aeneas. Photograph: Richard Hubert SmithLanger writes, captivatingly, for four instruments: oboe, violin, viola and cello, playing without a conductor.

Can a dying star reveal the location of a black hole that has otherwise gone unnoticed? Turns out, it can. Astronomers have now traced a stellar destruction event to a massive black hole about 3,500 light-years from the center of its host galaxy. This discovery offers a rare look at a so-called wandering black hole and raises a further question: how did it end up so far from home?

Meta, General Motors, major airlines and more companies will report earnings this week. Here's what analysts forecast and what's happened in the past.

Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station have completed what they called the “Autumn harvest” of their in-space rice cultivation experiment. According to reports, the astronauts successfully collected, sowed, and stored a new batch of rice on the space station. Reported on October 18, this marks a major milestone in the project’s hopes to reproduce rice over successive generations entirely in space.

Could acquiring an elite goaltender like Connor Hellebuyck put the Mammoth into the championship conversation? Michael Amato looks at that and more in this week's Sunday Overreactions.

A Conroe group launched a petition Saturday to let voters decide whether the city keeps its Flock automated license plate reading cameras.

PROVO, Utah -- The Big 12 says one second should have been placed back on the clock at the end of Saturday night's Notre Dame-BYU game, which would have given the Fighting Irish one final play to win. Big 12 officials ruled the game had ended after Notre Dame quarterback CJ Carr threw incomplete to Jaden Greathouse in the end zone, giving No. 8 BYU a 28-24 victory. But replays showed the ball hit the ground with one second remaining, which would have given No. 2 Notre Dame another play on second down. "Following the Big 12's review of the final play of Saturday's Notre Dame-BYU game, it was determined that time remained on the clock when the ball hit the ground and the play was incorrectly cleared by the replay officiating crew," the Big 12 said in a statement. "The Conference will conduct a complete review of its end-of-game officiating process in advance of next week's games. "Since Notre Dame is an FBS independent, its games are officiated by the leagues of its opponent. Fighting Irish coach Marcus Freeman appeared to take issue with a non-pass interference call against BYU cornerback Evan Johnson but was not asked about a clock issue, describing the final play as "chaos.

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12H AGO3 Min ReadEugenio Lopez-Chacarra nearly drains 51-yard shot, sets up birdie on No. 12 at Genesis Scottish OpenPlayers in This ArticleFavorite players to keep them at the top of your leaderboard and get the latest updates. or Sign Up to save favorites across devices. Written by Associated PressNEW DELHI (AP) — Eugenio Chacarra won the DP World India Championship by two strokes on Sunday to maintain a late-season surge that has lifted the Spanish golfer atop the Race to Dubai standings on the DP World Tour. After a third-place finish at the FedEx Open de France and then a second place at last week's Open de España presented by Madrid, Chacarra got his third win of the season by completing a 9-under 63 early Sunday and then shooting 70 to finish at 21-under par for the week at Delhi Golf Club. Chacarra jumped ahead of Patrick Reed into first place in the season-long Race to Dubai that will culminate next month and crown the DP World Tour's top player of the year. Chacarra is in better form than both the American and Rory McIlroy, the other realistic contender for the title.

Canada's defense minister said Saturday that people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire. It was not immediately clear how many people were killed or injured, but a doctor at a hospital in the city of Edmonton, 120 miles northwest, told Canada's national broadcaster that patients were being brought to hospitals across the city as health care facilities around the base became "completely overwhelmed" by the number of people needing care. "This number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton," Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency department physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, told CBC News. "It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It's a disaster. It's a one in every 15 to 25-year disaster. ""I'm saddened to share that there have been both fatalities and injuries as a result of an incident on the base," Defense Minister David McGuinty said. Emergency crews and military personnel gather at the Wainwright Health Centre as injured military members are treated after a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, outside of Wainwright, Alberta, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.

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Fun fact: Pumpkin carving does not start from the top. It’s all about the bottom. Here’s how to really carve a pumpkin. Once the bottom is open, get your handheld mixer in there. Then, use an ice cream scoop. That is way more efficient. Next, map your design out with washable markers, not permanent. It's way easier to clean. Another tip: Power tools and cookie cutters are great! They can really elevate your design. (gadgemayur/Pixabay)Content continues belowAnd with some creativity, cut-out shapes can be used in your masterpiece. Fine lines and designs? Your cuticle cutter will do the trick. Slow down the drying and rotting process by sealing in moisture. Use petroleum jelly or vegetable oil on all of the cut edges and the inside. Glam up this year's pumpkin with a few trendy gems. The wind on Halloween night can often blow out candles. So, instead, use fairy lights. This year, I am spraying my pumpkin with lavender in the hopes of keeping some critters away.

A NEW molecular diagnostic method could significantly reduce the time required to detect faecal contamination in drinking water, according to research demonstrating that intestinal enterococci can be identified within just 3–4 hours. The real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay demonstrated a sensitivity of 94.6%, compared with 89.2% for conventional culture methods, which typically require 24–48 hours. The findings suggest that rapid molecular testing could support earlier identification of potential contamination events and improve public health protection.

Scientists at Mount Sinai have identified three important brain connections associated with long-term improvement in patients receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) for severe depression that has not responded to conventional treatments. The discovery could help researchers make this experimental therapy more precise and effective. Published October 1 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the research examined the largest group of patients assembled across multiple independent cohorts to date who had received subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation (SCC DBS) for treatment-resistant depression.

Scientists at Mount Sinai have identified three important brain connections associated with long-term improvement in patients receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) for severe depression that has not responded to conventional treatments. The discovery could help researchers make this experimental therapy more precise and effective. Published October 1 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the research examined the largest group of patients assembled across multiple independent cohorts to date who had received subcallosal cingulate deep brain stimulation (SCC DBS) for treatment-resistant depression.

East Hartford police are investigating after a man's body was found in the Connecticut River Saturday.

A 26-year-old man without known chronic illness presented with acute myalgias, fatigue, and tea-colored urine and tested positive for influenza A. Urinalysis showed 3+ blood with one red blood cell per high-power field on microscopy, supporting pigmenturia. Creatine kinase peaked at 292,109 U/L, while serum creatinine remained 0.7-0.9 mg/dL throughout hospitalization. He was treated with intravenous isotonic saline, oseltamivir, and serial biochemical monitoring. Symptoms improved, and creatine kinase decreased to 49,878 U/L by discharge without renal replacement therapy. Subsequent myositis antibody testing was negative; however, a family history of similar episodes raised concern for an underlying inherited susceptibility. This case demonstrates that profound influenza-associated muscle injury can occur without documented acute kidney injury and that renal risk should be assessed using serial kidney function, electrolytes, volume status, and urine output rather than creatine kinase magnitude alone.

Japan is to launch a spacecraft on the world’s first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars. Scientists hope the mission, which is expected to take five years, will provide clues to how Phobos and its smaller sibling Deimos formed, and hopefully even shed light on the origins of life in the solar system. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) is aiming to launch the spacecraft on Tuesday on a new Japanese mainstay H3 rocket. Yasuhiro Kawakatsu, the project manager for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, said samples from Phobos would provide useful data for scientists to consider using a Martian moon as a base for a future manned mission to the planet. The US, China and others are hoping to send astronauts to Mars. “Despite their potential importance, Martian moons have never been fully investigated,” Kawakatsu said. “They are known as the most important unclimbed mountains in the solar system.”Japan is leading an international mission, which includes equipment and communications support from Nasa and other national space agencies.

A will alone doesn’t mean your heirs can easily or quickly access your estate. If you want to leave funds for a funeral, here’s what to do instead.

Geoff Clark is fading the Steelers following their Week 5 success, backing Tampa Bay +2.5 while targeting Emeka Egbuka, Bucky Irving, and Pat Freiermuth in his Sunday prop and combo picks. Photo By - Reuters Connect. Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving celebrates.

Mississauga election signs have become another flashpoint in an already heated mayoral race, with the city removing illegally placed signs while candidates are reporting vandalism and disputes over sign placement. The city says crews are proactively patrolling and removing signs that violate Mississauga’s sign bylaw.