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Five MLB teams still have a mathematic chance of winning the 2026 World Series.

The first two stops of the World Cup circuit have been good to Russia’s Egor Kornev, who established his second world record during Saturday action in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. One week after he tied the world record in the 100-meter freestyle, Kornev blasted a time of 21.28 in the 50 butterfly. That performance cut .04 off the previous world record, the 21.32 set by Switzerland’s Noe Ponti in 2024. At the opening leg of the World Cup tour in Baku, Azerbaijan, Kornev clocked 44.84 in the 100 freestyle to equal the 2021 record of Australian Kyle Chalmers. This time around, the Russian didn’t have to share a record, and he moved to No. 1 all-time with a massive personal best. Kornev entered Saturday night with a top time of 21.64, which was good for the Russian record. But in the final in Tashkent, he dropped a huge .36 to knock Ponti off the event’s pedestal.

German rider takes second after pair went on the attack together

There was a world before 7 October, 2023, and now there is a world after. For Gaza, for Israel, for the wider Middle East, and for everyone else too. Not all hinge points in history are obvious at the time. Three years on from the day it began, and precisely one year since a supposed ceasefire was agreed, this one is now impossible to ignore. The before-and-after pictures tell part of the story. An update to Google Maps, released last week, underscores just what three years of relentless Israeli military onslaught has done to Gaza. Satellite images show how entire towns have been reduced to rubble. Mosques and hospitals, visible three years ago, have now disappeared. Meanwhile the once-empty shoreline is now crammed with tents. This is what it looks like when an attempt has been made to destroy a people. For Israel, too, there has been a before and after. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had cultivated a sense of security, even of impregnability. The ease with which Hamas carried out its terrorist attack, killing 1,200 Israelis, including hundreds of young people at a music festival, destroyed that belief for ever.

Raymond Weil has unveiled the Freelancer World-Traveller, a 260-piece limited edition marking 50 years of the Geneva brand and what would have been its founder’s 100th birthday on the 10th of October. The World-Traveller combines GMT and worldtimer functions to offer three simultaneous time displays: local time, a second time zone and, through the 24 cities arranged around the bezel, the time zones of the world. And if that wasn’t enough to hammer home the travel link, they’ve also stamped a map on the dial as well, its silver-coloured continents (Raymond Weil officially calls them champagne and perhaps they are a hint warmer than the steel bezel, but really they are just silver) contrasting against the midnight blue dial (ocean). Raymond Weil has paired GMT and worldtimer functions in the Freelancer line before – the standard Freelancer GMT Worldtimer has been around since 2022, but this is the first dial built around the founder. Raymond Weil’s personal signature sits where the brand name usually goes, and the relief map isn’t there just to dress up a worldtimer.

Founded in 1976 by Mr Raymond Weil at the height of the quartz crisis with a mission to produce quality watches at affordable prices, the brand remains family-owned and is now in the hands of the third generation. With CEO Elie Bernheim at the helm, Raymond Weil is enjoying a revival thanks to the successful neo-vintage Millesime collection. In tribute to the date, 10 October, and year his grandfather would have celebrated his 100th birthday, and in honour of the brand’s 50th anniversary, Raymond Weil is releasing a 260-piece edition of the Freelancer World-Traveller. Designed to evoke the spirit of travel and provide useful information for travellers, the Freelancer World-Traveller has three distinct levels: local time, displayed by the central hour, minute and second hands; a second time zone, indicated by a central GMT pointer hand with a red outline pointing to a static two-tone 24-hour scale surrounding the main dial; and the time around the world, shown on the rotating ring with 24 reference cities.

A limited edition of 260 pieces for the Geneva-based, family-owned brand brings a sophisticated travel watch with a GMT and a rotating city bezel. It seems as though Raymond Weil has been everywhere this year as the Geneva-based, family-owned independent brand celebrates its 50th anniversary. The company entered the integrated-bracelet sport watch realm in June with its A. R. T. collection, launching a lovely chronograph—The Fifty—featuring a vintage, new old stock Valjoux movement from the year the brand was born, 1976. But RW is marking another milestone this year. Today, on October 10th (also World Watch Day, btw), Raymond Weil himself would have turned 100 if he were still with us. A frequent and enthusiastic traveler, the brand is paying tribute to its founder with a limited-edition model, the Freelancer World-Traveller.

Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin. For about a decade, the mainstream understanding has been that psychedelics cause chaos in the brain. Brain networks—the stable patterns of communication that handle vision, attention, or our sense of self, and more—loosen and start talking to each other all at once. EEG traces get noisier and more complex. “Think of the networks of the brain as highways,” says Devon Stoliker, a neuroscientist at Monash University. “Under psychedelics, these highways break down into many different directions.”

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In our round-up of travel stories this week: why one US family moved from Virginia to Naples, how to stop a runaway plane, plus the verdict’s in on the world’s best bars, restaurants and hotels.

Once again this week, U. S. President Donald Trump demonstrated his hatred for Canada. His antics and statements are not merely a negotiating strategy, not merely a tactic to scare us into giving the United States a better trade deal. Trump seems genuinely to detest Canada for some reason. Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers released a new 30-second ad this week stating that "Canada is not our enemy. " Rogers promised that if he is elected in November that ending Trump's tariffs on this country will be "job No. 1. "The tariffs, Rogers acknowledged, had cost thousands of Michiganders their jobs as Canadian auto parts had been made too expensive for Detroit automakers to keep importing them. However, no U. S.-based alternatives have been found and new American factories cannot be built fast enough to take up the slack. That has left assembly lines south of the border to reduce shifts and lay off workers. However, when Trump (who had endorsed Rogers) was asked about the candidate's ad, his bile for Canada spewed to the surface, again. "We don't want (Canada) to make cars for us … It's a long story, but they've been ripping us off.