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Aaron Nola pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning, Bryce Harper’s homer gave Philadelphia an early lead, and the Phillies held off the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 on Saturday night to sweep their National League wild-card series.Nola struck out six and walked one on 101 pitches before leaving with two outs in the seventh. Jose Alvarado then retired Yadier Molina on a popup, stranding a runner on first. Seranthony Dominguez struck out MVP candidates Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado to wiggle out of a two-on, one-out jam in the eighth.The Cardinals made one finally charge off Zach Eflin in the…

Western Australia’s $1.86 billion METRONET Airport Line has been officially opened by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Mark McGowan. “This is a historic day,” Mr McGowan said. “This will be a piece of infrastructure that will last for centuries to come, and will meet the needs of the people of Perth and Western Australia for a very long period into the future.” Source: Sky News

Things are looking much brighter across the south and east of the UKFlood warnings have been issued with heavy rain and strong winds forecast for parts of the UK. As autumn sets in, the Met Office has issued a flood warning in the north of England and some forecasts predict snow in the week ahead. Speaking in the Met Office 10 Day Trend, Alex Deakin said: “What we look to be left with through next week is a similar pattern to what we’ve got now, with low pressure systems mostly to the north and areas of high pressure to the…

Fintechs in the UK have accused credit card issuers including NatWest and Barclays of “costing consumers millions” by not giving full access to their own data.“Britain’s 14.5mn interest-paying cardholders [are] losing millions, if not billions, of pounds a year, at a time when their finances are already crippled by the cost of living crisis,” said Gavin Shuker, chief executive of credit card management start-up Cardeo, in a letter to City minister Andrew Griffith sent last week.The letter reflects frustration among some fintechs who argue that if consumers were able to share their full financial data with them, they could better…

Leading electric bike maker VanMoof is betting that the cost of living crisis will push more consumers to buy its products instead of cars, sounding a rare positive note as soaring inflation weighs on businesses globally.Co-chief executive Ties Carlier said that the Dutch manufacturer was targeting more city commuters as high fuel costs and the continuing squeeze on consumers’ wallets force many to look for cheaper alternatives to cars and public transport.Although VanMoof has had to pass some inflationary costs on to customers, the rising cost of living “is very good” for the company, Carlier told the Financial Times. “An ebike…

Britain’s aerospace and defence sector has been a rare bright spot, defying the shrinking trend of the country’s manufacturing base for more than 30 years, with a core group of heavyweights such as BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce surrounded by a cluster of key suppliers.But in the past three years, several of these suppliers — Cobham, Meggitt and Ultra Electronics — have fallen to bids from overseas suitors. Ultra and Meggitt delisted from the London market in the past two months. In September, another stalwart — privately owned Pearson Engineering, based in Newcastle — was sold to an Israeli company.The contracting…

From little wild orchids to the sound of warblers, nothing much gets past Jake Fiennes as he surveys a strip of wild flowers that borders a field of spring barley on the 25,000-acre Holkham estate in the east of England, where he is conservation manager.Creating such buffer zones, known as “hay meadows”, around a field reduces its acreage, but boosts its biodiversity and improves the quality of the underlying soil. A smaller field might mean less crop, but with fewer input costs and a small uptick in yields, it also means more profits, he says. The system of land management practised…

US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said the move by Opec+ to cut oil production was “unhelpful and unwise” for the global economy, particularly emerging markets already struggling with high energy prices. The Biden administration has been loudly critical of the decision by the oil cartel backed by Saudi Arabia and Russia this week, which took the step in defiance of US pressure to keep global oil prices down. “I think Opec’s decision is unhelpful and unwise — it’s uncertain what impact it will end up having, but certainly, it’s something that, to me, did not seem appropriate, under the circumstances…

MANILA, Philippines: Philippine police killed three inmates, including a top Abu Sayyaf militant, after they stabbed a jail officer and briefly held a detained former opposition senator Sunday (Oct 9) in a failed attempt to escape from the police headquarters in the capital region, police said. National police chief General Rodolfo Azurin Jr said former Senator Leila de Lima was unhurt and taken to a hospital for a checkup following the brazen escape and hostage-taking attempt in a maximum-security jail at the main police camp in Metropolitan Manila. One of the three inmates stabbed a police officer who was delivering…

CNN  —  Amid a spike in migrant encounters at the southern border, the City of El Paso, Texas, launched a migrant dashboard Saturday to follow activity at its welcome center. The city has served more than 14,900 migrants since early September and bused thousands to cities further north. More than 8,000 migrants have been transported from El Paso to New York and about 2,300 to Chicago since August 23, when the busing program began, according to the dashboard. The migrants are offered the city-funded journeys after being processed and released by the Border Patrol. The “Migrant Situational Awareness Dashboard” also…