Julio Teherán, a two-time Major League Baseball All-Star, announced his retirement from baseball on Monday, at the age of 35. The decision came two days after he was scratched from a scheduled start for Team Colombia in the 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC) due to a shoulder injury.
Teherán had helped Team Colombia secure a 3-1 victory over Team Panama in the WBC before announcing his retirement.
Teherán had a thirteen-year MLB career, during which he primarily played for the Atlanta Braves, but also played for the Los Angeles Angels, Detroi
This past Friday, Justice Paul Smith of the Supreme Court of Queensland ruled that the City of Moreton Bay Council, immediately north of Brisbane, Australia, acted unlawfully when it removed several homeless people camping in public parks last year. The court concluded the Council breached the law by providing insufficient time for the homeless people to find alternative accommodation and by disposing of their personal belongings without consent.
In the judgement, Justice Smith said the Council made "errors of law" finding that the Council's s
Major League Baseball pitcher Max Scherzer signed a full contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, with the team confirming the agreement on February 26, 2026.
The agreement, according to USA Today's Bob Nightengale, will be a salary of US$3 million with incentives up to US$10 million.
Scherzer had five wins and five losses and an earned run average of 5.19 for seventeen starts and 85 innings played last year for the Blue Jays. Scherzer is an eight-time All-star pitcher.
His eight-year-old daughter Brooke wrote a letter on December 15 to the Blu
On Sunday, February 1, at 6 PM, in New York City, poets gathered for a poetry reading at Ray's Pizza and Bagels, at an event hosted by Other Rooms Press. The event also featured an open mic.
The event was hosted in the dining room in the back of the restaurant. Before the start of the event, the area was full, half of diners and half of people involved with the event. Ed Go and Michael Whalen introduced the event.
The featured poets, in order, were Miriam Stanley, Matt Reeck, Sarah Sarai, billy cancel, Thomas Fucaloro, and Igor Satanovsky. Ed
In early January, international media reported that Quinten Delaere, an 18-year-old, had been officially recognized by Guinness World Records after exposing cheating on the Roblox platform. Delaere, known online as 'kannotlogin', used data analysis to demonstrate that the top times on the global leaderboard were achieved using illegal scripts.
Delaere was competing in a speed-running event for the game Ultimate Easy Obby. The event was an official collaboration between Roblox and Guinness World Records. Players had to complete a digital obsta
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has been renamed after a vote by the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees. The signage of the center was changed on December 20, 2025, and now reads "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts."
This renaming was also under scrutiny by experts and officials like U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty. Several, have called it "illegal," citing The Kennedy Center Act of 1964: "SEC. 11. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, designated by this Act, shall be t
On Monday, Blaise Metreweli, the new head of the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), delivered her first public address in London. She warned that the UK is "operating in a space between peace and war" amid rising tensions with Russia.
Metreweli stated that the "front line is everywhere" regarding threats to the nation. According to Reuters, she characterized the threat from Russia as "aggressive." She accused Moscow of utilizing tactics ranging from "State-sponsored arson and sabotage" to "Drones buzzing airports and bases" in
Around 4:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (2230 UTC) on Friday, a shooting happened inside a Benihana restaurant in Maple Grove, Minnesota. One person was injured, according to police.
As of late Friday, no arrests had been made, but an investigation was ongoing.
Both the victim and shooter left the vicinity before police arrived. Later on, Friday, the victim reportedly sought treatment at a local hospital. The restaurant was evacuated and closed following the shooting.
Early reports indicated the two men involved in the altercation knew one
The last week of October was National Magic Week in the U.S. Wikinews recently caught up with Bruce Chadwick, of Fort Worth, Texas. Bruce is a professional magician and illusion builder, as well as a magic dealer. A prolific performer for several decades, Bruce has produced several written works on magic.
Interview
When did you first become interested in magic?
BC: A couple of weeks before my 8th birthday, my dad ordered some simple magic tricks from the Johnson Smith Company. When the tricks arrived, my dad demonstrated the Ball and Vase t
On Saturday, Italy's Dolomites experienced an avalanche. Total dead included five German climbers. The avalanche happened around 4:00 p.m. CET (1500 UTC) on Saturday afternoon. The avalanche happened on Cima Vertana or (Vertainspitze) in the Ortler Alps. Cima Vertana has a 3,545-meter peak, in South Tyrol near the Swiss border. A father and daughter from a second group of climbers were taken down into a gully and died.
Rescuers said the hikers were climbing very late in the day. Two survivors were air lifted to a hospital in Bolzano. Reports s
The 35th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade took place from 1–4 p.m. New York time (17:00–20:00 UTC) on Sunday, October 19. People wanting to march with their dogs in the parade were required to sign up in advance and check in at the event.
At 3 p.m. New York time (19:00 UTC), a car started to drive between Avenues B and A on 10th Street, going East through the crowds. The car, which had taxi and limousine commision plates, honked while driving down the street, trying to make its way through a crowded street full of pedestrians, dogs,
Police have launched a taskforce to search for August "Gus" Lamont in his family's station in the mid-north of South Australia, according to South Austrailian Police Commissioner Grant Stevens. The taskforce, announced October 14 and entitled Taskforce Horizon, will consist of specialists who would resume investigations into the situation.
Lamont is a four-year-old boy who disappeared on September 27, and has been described by police as white with curly blonde hair, and was wearing a grey hat, a blue Minions shirt, light grey pants, and boots
