The Cleveland Guardians beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-3 on Monday in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series.

The game was played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, where the Rays opened with a 2-0 lead.

Cleveland had just come back from a two-game deficit to win its previous playoff series against the Chicago White Sox.

The Guardians scored seven of the final eight runs, including home runs by Patrick Bailey and Chase DeLauter.

Former Liberal politician Bruce Baird was farewelled at a funeral at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney on October 12.

He died aged 84 after collapsing at an airport lounge in Singapore, according to one account; another says he died on October 2.

Baird served in the NSW and federal parliaments, including as the member for Cook from 1998 to 2007.

He was known for helping secure the Sydney Olympic Games and for speaking up for asylum seekers within the Liberal Party.

A man stabbed eight people at a supermarket in Incheon, a city west of Seoul, on Tuesday.

Police said one person went into cardiac arrest and seven others were injured; all eight were taken to hospitals.

The suspect, described by police as being in his 60s, was subdued by shoppers and detained by police.

He moved through the building with knives fastened to his hands, according to police.

Türkiye’s trade sales volume increased 0.6% in August compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute.

Retail sales rose much faster, up 10.1% year on year and 1.4% from July.

Overall trade sales were also 0.2% higher than in July.

In contrast, sales involving motor vehicles and motorcycles, including repair, fell 11.2% year on year, while wholesale sales declined 1.9%.

Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K at a smart home-focused event on Oct.

13.

The streaming box looks much like its predecessor, last updated in 2022, but has an A19 chip and Wi-Fi 7 support.

Built-in microphones let users talk to Siri hands-free, without speaking into the remote or a HomePod.

Marvin Harrison Jr. has officially joined the Houston Texans after passing his physical on Monday.

The 24-year-old wide receiver was traded from the Arizona Cardinals, who selected him fourth overall in the 2024 draft.

Houston sent Arizona a 2027 second-round pick and a seventh-round pick, and received Harrison and a 2027 sixth-round pick.

Harrison reunites with quarterback C.J. Stroud, his former teammate at Ohio State.

RimWorld is moving from Unity to Waylith, an engine built by its developer, Ludeon Studios.

The change is part of update 1.7, which the studio says keeps the game looking and playing the same.

Ludeon says performance improved by two to four times in its tests, including faster loading and gameplay.

Existing saves and most community mods still work with the new version, and saves can also be used again in version 1.6.

Researchers say muscle and liver cells can retain signs of past exercise even after someone stops training.

In studies using mice, animals that exercised, took a break and trained again grew larger muscles than mice with no training history.

Their muscle cells also matched energy production to demand more effectively, and this ability remained during inactivity.

The researchers say liver cells also store exercise memories and release enzymes that help supply fuel to working muscles.