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Max Verstappen will get back behind the wheel of the Mercedes GT3 this coming weekend for the first time since the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring. This time, the Dutch driver will team up with Ben Berticoat and Chris Lulham for the season-ending round of the GT World Challenge at Portimao. Regular drivers Jules Gounon and Dani Juncadella are unavailable due to WEC commitments.

‘It’s a big moment,” says Karl Bushby, who has had plenty of big moments in his life. He is recording himself on his phone for social media. “We’re in Dover, and I’m about to have my first fish and chips and mushy peas in 28 years. Mushy peas, my God, I forgot they even existed!” He points his phone at the plate in front of him. “It better be good.” And he tucks in. “Mmmm. See, this is a big chunk of fish and a decent bit of batter, and that’s something you don’t see in other parts of the world. I mean, come on! That. Is. Fish. And. Chips! You see, Britain is special.”It has been two days since Bushby swam the Channel to return to England. Tomorrow, he’ll start the walk home to Hull for the first time since he left in 1998. He hopes to get back on 1 November, the same date he set off all those years ago. Although Bushby is a man of military precision, timing is not one of his greatest traits. When the former paratrooper left the army, aged 29, to walk the world, he planned to be home 12 years later. What accounted for the extra years? “The real world. You can’t account for financial crises, pandemics, visa bans, wars and the bureaucracy you have to deal with.

William Contreras hit a tying homer in the fifth and singled home the go-ahead run an inning later as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-4 on Monday in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series. Four relievers combined to retire the last 15 Dodgers batters in order as the Brewers took a 2-0 lead over the two-time defending World Series champions in this best-of-seven series, which heads to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Wednesday. The Brewers are chasing their second pennant and first in the NL. They made their lone World Series appearance in 1982, when they were in the American League. Los Angeles are trying to become the first NL team to win three straight World Series. The Dodgers last rallied from a 2-0 deficit to win a series in 2020, when they beat the Atlanta Braves in a seven-game NLCS before going on to win the World Series. The Dodgers will need more punch from their lineup to have a chance at getting back to the Fall Classic. They mustered just three hits on Monday and went 0 for 4 with runners in scoring position to drop to 2 for 26 in those situations this postseason.

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The opening day of the 2026 Galaxy U23 World Championships wrapped up on Monday night at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Team USA had three repechage hopefuls entering the semifinal session, but Brett Back, Adrian Artsisheuskiy and Ryder Rogotzke missed the repechage round. Back lost in the quarterfinals to Ibrahim Ozdemir of Türkiye, who was pinned by four-time age-group World medalist Yussuf Ashrapov of Kazakhstan. Artsisheuskiy was eliminated from medal contention at 82 kg after 2025 Senior World Team member Alexander Johansson of Sweden lost a narrow 3-2 decision to Martik Petrosyan of Armenia. Rogotzke missed the repechage round after three-time age-group World medalist Darius Kiefer of Germany lost a 5-1 contest to 2024 Olympian Abubakar Khaslakhanau of Belarus. Complete semifinal results and gold medal match pairings for Greco-Roman group one (60-67-72-82-97 kg) are listed below. Team USA returns to action on Tuesday with Kenneth Crosby (55 kg), Landon Drury (63 kg), Joel Adams (77 kg), Michael Altomer (87 kg), and Aden Aatto (130 kg). Competition on Tuesday begins at 10:30 a.m.

BANGKOK (AP) — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slightly upgraded its outlook for the world economy for this year, while warning of growing risks from rising debt, including the financial frenzy around artificial intelligence. The IMF says it expects the global economy to grow at a 3.1% pace this year. That's up from its July forecast for 3.0% growth and well below the 3.5% expansion in 2025. Growth in 2027 should rebound to 3.4%, it said in its latest Economic Outlook. The report, released as world economic and financial leaders gathered in Bangkok for the fall meetings of the IMF and World Bank, predicts that growth in the United States will remain steady at 2.3% in 2026 and 2027. Collectively, advanced economies will grow 2.1% this year, up from 2.0% in 2025, and then slow to 1.9% growth next year, it said. The forecasts are based on a nearly 41% increase in oil prices this year, at an average of $96 a barrel. Global inflation is foreseen at 4.7% in 2026, falling to 4.1% next year. They also are based on the assumption that shipments of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz will resume by March, and that the boom in AI demand will moderate.

Carl Short’s 46th annual ARP Dirt Track World Championship presented by Summit Racing returns to West Virginia Motor Speedway and serves as the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series season finale. It’s the first DTWC held at WVMS since 2010, a $50,000 payday won by Earl Pearson Jr. on the old 5/8-mile layout. This weekend’s program begins with Saturday’s twin 25-lap, $5,000-to-win split-field semifeatures where the top-16 point earners will lock into Sunday’s 100-lap, $100,000-to-win main event, the most lucrative payout in track history; the rest of the field will need to qualify through one of Sunday’s consolations. Where is the 2026 Dirt Track World Championship Held? The Dirt Track World Championship is held at West Virginia Motor Speedway, a high-banked third-mile clay oval.2026 Dirt Track World Championship Weekend Schedule(All times local; subject to change)Event schedule(All times local; subject to change)Saturday10 a.m. - Pits and grandstands open4:45 p.m.

The IRONMAN World Championship run course has always brought us some late-race heroics and drama. This year, Kona was no different, with the winning move in the race not happening until after mile 20 of the run course. We almost had both winning moves in the men’s and women’s races happening at the exact same moment on course; this writer can’t remember a time when that’s ever happened in Kona. Alas, the race had other plans. But we’re not here to relive the race itself. Instead, we’re here to look at the shoes that the fastest runners in the field used this past weekend. As a reminder, this is not the top 10 finishers at the IRONMAN World Championship; no, we’re looking specifically just at the time they took to run the marathon. As has been the case for a while, we see a lot of variety amongst our top 10 men and women runners, with Adidas, ASICS, HOKA, New Balance, Nike, On, and Puma all represented. ASICS had the most athletes wearing their shoes, followed by On and HOKA, respectively. Something interesting, though: there’s no real consensus on models worn even within these brands, outside of “part of the carbon racing line.”

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Escondida in northern Chile, the world's largest copper mine [Photo: BHP]Two of the largest copper operations in the world are now paralyzed by strike action, as the class struggle erupts in the sector that is the lifeblood of the Chilean economy. At the Centinela mine, a large open-pit copper and gold mining complex controlled by the Luksic family’s Antofagasta Minerals, 709 workers from the Esperanza mine and Centinela district unions have been on strike since October 7. At the Escondida mine, the world’s largest copper mine, operated by the Anglo-Australian giant BHP, the 1,020-member Union No. 2 of Supervisors and Staff has announced a strike for Wednesday, October 14, after 94.8 percent of its members rejected the company’s final offer. These strikes are a sharp expression of a crisis that is convulsing the entire Chilean mining industry, a crisis of falling production, rising prices, mounting deaths, and a working class that is beginning to move against the corporatist union apparatus that has policed it for four decades. On Sunday, another serious accident at Codelco’s El Teniente Division claimed the lives of two workers from the contractor Aura Ingeniería S. A.

In the all-new feature film Disney’s Hexed from Walt Disney Animation Studios, an unexpected journey to world of witches sparks a connection between a mother and daughter. Voiced by Hailee Steinfeld, 16-year-old Billie Doe is impulsive, misunderstood, and unconventional. She’s never been able to fully understand why her mother, Alice (voiced by Rashida Jones), is so overprotective — or why there are so many rules.

Updated October 13, 2026 11:24AMFind out what happened to your favorite pros who DNF'd Kona 2026•Patrick Lange (DEU)•Sam Laidlow (FRA)•Magnus Ditlev (DEN)•Andrea Salvisberg (SUI)•Rudy von Berg (USA)•Tristan Olij (NED)•Nathan Guerbeur (FRA)•Daniel Bækkegård (DEN)•Trevor Foley (USA)•Jamie Riddle (RSA)•Kristian Høgenhaug (DEN)•Tamara Jewett (CAN)•Katrine Græsbøll Christensen (DEN)•India Lee (GBR)•Marjolaine Pierré (FRA)•Rebecca Anderbury (GBR)•Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR)•Daisy Davies (GBR)•Danielle Lewis (USA)•Pamella Oliveira (BRA)•Franziska Hofmann (DEU)•Danielle Fauteux (CAN)Eleven men and 11 women pulled out of the 2026 Ironman World Championships in Kona on a particularly brutal day, with athletes citing significant waves and chop in the swim, unrelenting winds on the bike, and stifling humidity on the run. With both men and women racing, it felt like a year of chaos and carnage, with twice as many athletes pulling out on course as we’ve seen in recent years.