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  • NBC Sports Chicago

    Eflin allows 1 run in 7 innings as Rays beat White Sox 5-1 for 5th consecutive win

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Zach Eflin allowed one run and six hits in seven innings as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1 on Tuesday night for their fifth consecutive win. Eflin (2-4) lost the shutout when Paul DeJong homered with two outs in the seventh. The right-hander worked out of a bases-loaded, two-out jam in...

  • Reuters

    INSIGHT-In rapidly ageing China, millions can't afford to retire

    After three decades selling homemade buns on the streets of the Chinese city of Xian, 67-year-old Hu Dexi would have liked to slow down. Instead, Hu and his older wife have moved to the edge of Beijing, where they wake at 4 a.m. every day to cook their packed lunch, then commute for more than an hour to a downtown shopping mall, where they each earn 4,000 yuan ($552) monthly, working 13-hour shifts as cleaners. The alternative for them and many of the 100 million rural migrants reaching retirement age in China over the next 10 years is to return to their village and live off a small farm and monthly pensions of 123 yuan ($17).

  • Politico

    Prime minister escalates his rhetoric against Muslims as India votes again

    Narendra Modi has ramped up polarizing statements in the multi-phase election.