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Wuhan Open: Emma Raducanu retires in first round against Ann Li

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Play was suspended on all outdoor courts on Monday because of the heat.Raducanu posted a screenshot of her phone that showed a temperature of 34C.Defending champion Jannik Sinner retired with cramp in the third round of the Shanghai Masters this week, while 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic vomited during his win over Yannick Hanfmann.A deep run in Wuhan would have boosted Raducanu's chances of being seeded for January's Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season.The 2021 US Open champion broke in the first game before Li won six successive games - dropping only one point on serve…

Investors make up highest share of buyers in 5 years

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A sold sign is posted in front of a home for sale on Aug. 27, 2025 in San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. That is an increase from…

Transmission Network Unavailability – the Quiet Driving Force Behind Rising Curtailment Costs in Great Britain | UKERC

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By Callum MacIver and Keith Bell. The curtailment of output from wind farms due to lack of network capacity and the associated costs of balancing the system have become a key focal point in the current debate in the electricity sector about the extent to which the system is “broken”. They are also a key driver behind calls being made in some quarters for radical market reform to better align what the market dispatches with the physical realities of the system, i.e. to reduce the need for the system operator to take balancing actions. In this blog, we set out…

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the political impact of the government shutdown

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Geoff Bennett: Well, it is day six of the federal government shutdown and there are no signs of the stalemate ending.To discuss that and more, we're joined now by our Politics Monday duo. That's Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report With Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.So, as I said, it doesn't seem like anything is going to change soon. The House is out again this week. The Senate is expected to vote again today. That vote is expected to fail.So, Tam, what could break this logjam? Tamara Keith, National Public Radio: Probably the most likely thing to…

12 of the best films to watch this October

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Released on 24 October in the US and Canada, and internationally from 30 OctoberDisneySpringsteen: Deliver Me from NowhereAre we moving on from the era when pop music biopics such as Ray, Walk the Line and Elvis would squeeze decades of a star's life into two hours? Last year's A Complete Unknown concentrated on the earliest years of Bob Dylan's career, and now Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere dramatises an even shorter chapter of its subject's life story. As played by Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), Bruce Springsteen is shown making just one album, 1982's Nebraska. He is on the verge…

Lucid Motors sets record as Gravity sales pick up and tax credit expires

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Lucid Motors delivered a record 4,078 vehicles in the third quarter, likely buoyed by a combination of more Gravity SUVs hitting the road and a rush of customers taking advantage of the expiring federal EV tax credit. The Saudi-owned luxury EV startup is still way off the projections it used to go public in 2021 — a transaction that netted it $4 billion. But Lucid Motors has seen deliveries steadily climb over the last two years. The third-quarter delivery figures announced Monday mark the seventh consecutive quarter that Lucid Motors has seen sales increase. Lucid Motors was not alone in…

Darts World Grand Prix: Luke Humphries beats Nathan Aspinall in opener

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Luke Humphries turned on the style to beat Nathan Aspinall 2-0 and reach the second round of the World Grand Prix in Leicester.Premier League champion Humphries edged a close first set 3-2, despite Aspinall recovering from a slow start to win the second leg with a 'big fish' finish of two treble 20s followed by a bullseye.Aspinall struggled to start with doubles - a requirement of the double-in double-out format - as fellow Englishman Humphries took advantage and launched into the second set with a brutal 156 finish.Humphries recovered from a wobble to see out the second set 3-0 and…

Constellation Brands (STZ) Q2 2026 earnings

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Modelo beer is displayed on a shelf at a Safeway store on Oct. 6, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesModelo owner Constellation Brands beat on the top and bottom lines in its fiscal second-quarter earnings report on Monday and reiterated its lowered full-year guidance due to macroeconomic headwinds.Shares of the company rose roughly 3% in extended trading.Here's how the company performed in the second quarter, compared with what Wall Street was expecting based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: $3.63 adjusted vs. $3.38 expectedRevenue: $2.48 billion vs. $2.46 billion expectedFor the period ending Aug. 31,…

Failing Public Health Again? Analytical Review of Depression and Suicidality From Finasteride

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This paper is dedicated to the memory of a healthy person who started taking finasteride several years ago, “just” to improve his hair. Within a week, he developed severe neuropsychiatric symptoms that did not abate after stopping the drug. Treatment attempts by the best specialists did not help, and a few months later, he died by suicide. Finasteride, a 5α-reductase inhibitor of testosterone conversion, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1997 for treating androgenetic alopecia (AGA). The FDA recognized mental adverse reactions starting with depression in 2011 and then suicidality in 2022. The European Medicines…

News Wrap: Congress appears no closer to ending government shutdown

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In our news wrap Monday, lawmakers appear no closer to reopening the government as the shutdown approaches the one-week mark, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned just a day after announcing his cabinet and Israeli authorities say they've deported more than 170 activists who took part in a flotilla aiming to take aid to Gaza. Amna Nawaz: The day's other headlines begin in Washington, where lawmakers appear no closer to reopening the government as the shutdown approaches the one-week mark.In the Oval Office this afternoon, President Trump suggested that he is…