Commercial and residential buildings at dusk in the Minato district of Tokyo, Japan.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJapan’s economic expansion in the fourth quarter beat analysts’ expectations for quarter-on-quarter and annualized growth, preliminary government data showed Monday.GDP grew 0.7% quarter on quarter, more than the 0.3% rise expected by economists polled by Reuters. It had expanded by a revised 0.4% in the previous quarter.On an annualized basis, GDP grew 2.8%, exceeding the Reuters estimate of 1%.Japan’s economy grew 1.2% year on year in the fourth quarter, compared with the 0.6% rise in the third quarter.The Nikkei 225 fell 0.29% after…
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MONTREAL — Nine seconds of pure bedlam.And the idea was born from a three-person group chat earlier in the day.Matthew Tkachuk, Brady Tkachuk and J.T. Miller had an idea. Let’s go rock’em sock’em right off the start of the game, they texted each other. Let’s send them a message.“Yeah, there was a little discussion during the day,” began Brady Tkachuk, hesitating when I asked the two brothers postgame if they planned it.“You can tell them,” older brother Matthew then told Brady.GO DEEPERCanada vs. USA 4 Nations game begins with 3 fights in first 9 seconds“Yeah, there was a group chat…
Doctoregg | Moment | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets were set to open lower Monday, with focus on Japan’s fourth-quarter economic growth data, while investors also awaited a slew of central bank decisions from the region this week.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.73%.Japan’s Nikkei 225 futures pointed to a higher open for the market, with the futures contract in Chicago at 39,180, compared to the index’s previous close of 39,149.43.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index futures were at 22,521, lower than the HSI’s last close of 22,620.33.Japan and Thailand are slated to release their fourth-quarter GDP data later in the day.The Reserve Bank of…
SAN FRANCISCO — The NBA Slam Dunk Contest contest needs to be saved. It needs the game’s stars to participate.How many times have you heard or read that?Saturday night showed it’s not about the stars. It’s about having players who care about the contest.Mac McClung is not a star. He’s played in five NBA games, and most of his work has been in the G League. But the 6-foot-2 guard is passionate about the dunk contest, and that showed once again after he won his third straight competition Saturday. McClung is the first to win three straight and joins Nate Robinson…
BAMAKO, Mali — At least 43 people, mostly women, were killed after an informal gold mine collapsed in western Mali on Saturday, the head of an industry union said.The accident took place near the town of Kéniéba in Mali’s gold-rich Kayes region, Taoule Camara, the secretary general of the national union of gold counters and refineries, told Reuters. The women had climbed down into open-pit areas left by industrial miners to look for scraps of gold when the earth collapsed around them, he said.A mines ministry representative confirmed the accident had taken place between the towns of Kenieba and Dabia…
Tennis, a sport with such a clear hierarchy of haves and have-nots that it resembles a medieval feudal system, is once again under scrutiny for its approach to fear and favor.Saturday, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced that it had reached a case resolution agreement with men’s world No. 1 and three-time Grand Slam champion Jannik Sinner. Sinner will serve a three-month ban for two positive doping tests, a resolution which, its most vocal critics claim, is the latest and most egregious example of a two-tier system working in the interests of the sport’s favorites.Instead of the Court of Arbitration…
Cut out of Ukraine talks, E.U. leaders regroupEuropeans leaders are set to convene an emergency meeting in Paris today to discuss the war in Ukraine and European security, French officials said yesterday. The aim is to coordinate a response to the Trump administration’s opening of talks with Russia about ending the war with Ukraine, without an apparent role for Europe — or Kyiv — in the process.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine reiterated in interviews over the weekend that his country would “never” accept a peace deal struck by the U.S. and Russia if Kyiv did not have a seat at…
A supporter of U.S President-elect Donald Trump takes pictures of the U.S. Capitol after it was announced that Trump’s inauguration is being moved indoors due to dangerously cold temperatures expected on Monday, in Washington, U.S., January 17, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaCarlos Barria | ReutersThe Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, according to documents obtained Sunday that would mark the first appeal to the justices since President Donald Trump took office.The emergency appeal is the start of what probably will be a steady stream from lawyers for…
The morning after Alex Bregman made his free-agent decision, Fred Petersen sent a text to his former boss with the Boston Red Sox, Amiel Sawdaye.“We got BERGMAN,” Petersen wrote.With that, a running joke between those who were with the Red Sox when the team drafted Bregman in 2012 came full circle.Sawdaye, now an assistant general manager with the Arizona Diamondbacks, was the Sox’s amateur scouting director when the Sox chose Bregman out of Albuquerque (N.M.) Academy in the 29th round. Petersen, who at the time was a crosschecker and remains with the club as an area scout, was announcing the…
On Thursday morning, an Afghan refugee deliberately plowed a car into a crowd in Munich, motivated by what the police called an “Islamist orientation.” A 2-year-old girl and her mother were killed, and nearly 40 others were injured.A day later — in a country where migration has been a major election issue — that attack was no longer the biggest news story in town.German news media, and much of the country’s political leadership, immersed themselves to a larger degree in a blizzard of foreign-policy pronouncements from the Trump administration as Western leaders gathered at the Munich Security Conference.The annual gathering,…
