The 25-year-old left Blackburn for Spain before the start of last season but went on to spend the second half of the campaign on loan at Sheffield United, where he scored six goals in 14 top-flight appearances but was unable to prevent the Yorkshire club being relegated from the Premier League. Brereton Diaz, however, will remain in English football's top division by joining newly-promoted Southampton. The south coast club did not disclose a transfer fee but British media reports said the Saints had spent an initial £7 million ($9 million, 8.
But the DJ priest is a sensation in Portugal, greeted like a rock star wherever he goes. "I feel I'm a better priest thanks to electronic music," said the 50-year-old, whose popularity exploded after he played a set to nearly 1.5 million young people and Pope Francis last year at the closing mass of World Youth Day in Lisbon. Once a Catholic chaplain to Portuguese troops in Afghanistan, he realised there that his passion for music could help him get the church's message across. So he went to DJ school. Читать дальше...
Landslides swept through tea estates and villages in southern India's Kerala on Tuesday, killing at least 93 people, local media reported, after heavy rain collapsed hillsides and triggered torrents of mud, water and tumbling boulders.
As temperatures rocketed in the French capital, officials activated a heat protocol, allowing a 10-minute break between the second and third sets. In the first match on Court Philippe-Chatrier, Vekic shocked Gauff 7-6 (9/7), 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals but the match was overshadowed by a lengthy row between the US Open champion and the chair umpire. Gauff, the flag-bearer for the United States at the Olympic opening ceremony alongside LeBron James, made a fast start but squandered three set... Читать дальше...
Express quick Archer, 29, is currently playing white-ball cricket only but England hope to have the 2019 50-over World Cup winner, whose career has been blighted by injuries, back playing Test cricket next year. He will continue to play for south coast side Sussex until the end of the 2025 season, in an arrangement that ties in with his current England and Wales Cricket Board central contract. The 30-year-old fast-medium Robinson, who lost his England place earlier this season and made unwanted... Читать дальше...
Dujardin and Hester have been the mainstays of the enormous Olympic success British dressage has enjoyed since 2012 when they won team gold in London, silver in Rio and bronze in Tokyo. However, two-time individual gold medallist Dujardin -- who in her glory years gave the low key sport the publicity it yearned for -- withdrew last week when a video surfaced of her repeatedly whipping a horse on the legs. Dujardin got her first job in dressage as a groom at Hester's picturesque stables in Gloucestershire in 2007. Читать дальше...
France said Tuesday that autonomy within Morocco was the "only" basis for a solution to the decades-old Western Sahara dispute, drawing an angry reaction from the pro-independence Polisario Front.
Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all-time, will aim to win her fifth Olympic gold when she appears for the United States in the women's team final later on Tuesday.
Mohammed Baredaa, head of the Libyan interior ministry organisation tasked with halting irregular migration, said two repatriations flights took place transporting 204 Nigerians and 165 Malians. Nine babies, 18 minors, and 108 women were among the Nigerian irregular migrants, said Baredaa. He said that the flights were carried out "in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)". The UN agency provides free return flights to migrants and help reintegrating them into their... Читать дальше...
France 24's Clovis Casali reports from Club France, at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris, where French supporters have been gathering to cheer on the country's Olympic athletes and celebrate medal wins, often with the medalists themselves.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez declined to testify on Tuesday as a witness in a judicial investigation into alleged corruption and influence peddling against his wife that led him to consider resigning in April, lawyers present at the hearing said. The proceedings are part of a preliminary investigation into whether Begona Gomez used her position as the premier's wife to secure sponsors for a university master's degree course that she ran.
Still just 17, she has all the attributes to be the next big thing, and not just in the pool. Her prodigious talent has long been the talk of the swimming world with the only question whether she could translate it to the biggest stage of all -- a pressure-cooker stadium with 15,000 screaming fans at the Paris Olympics. McIntosh answered that emphatically in the 400m medley on Monday, powering to the wall in 4mins 27.71secs, putting more than six seconds between her and her nearest rival. It followed... Читать дальше...
Vekic came through 7-6 (9/7), 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals after world number two Gauff claimed she was "getting cheated" in a lengthy argument with the chair umpire over a line call in the sixth game of the second set. Gauff, who had already surrendered a 5-2 lead in the first set, lost her composure on break point when a ball from Vekic was called out. However, Gauff then hit the return into the net as the chair umpire was correcting the original call and insisted the call had not hindered the American's shot. Читать дальше...
William Lawrence, former North Africa project director at the International Crisis Group, joins France 24 to discuss France's announcement Tuesday that it is backing autonomy within Morocco as the "only" basis for a solution to the decades-old Western Sahara dispute in a major policy reversal.
The Australian's two-year stint in charge of the limited-overs teams ended after Rob Key, the managing director of England's men's cricket, decided an under-performing outfit needed a "new direction". The 50-year-old Mott, previously in charge of the all-conquering Australian women's side, had seen his position come under intense scrutiny after two disappointing England title defences in both last year's 50-over World Cup and the more recent T20 World Cup. There were questions too over whether... Читать дальше...
Despite mounting tensions between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah following a deadly rocket strike on the Golan Heights, both sides will be keen to avoid an all-out war, with the consequences of a major conflict likely to be "catastrophic", says Simon Mabon, lecturer in international relations and Middle East studies at Lancaster University in the UK.
French DJ Barbara Butch has filed legal complaints over the death threats and other abuse she has received since featuring in a segment of the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony that some saw as a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper". The ceremony's artistic director has denied the tableau was inspired by the painting.
The latest report follows a major dispute in the sport around the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) at a domestic competition in late 2020 and early 2021 ahead of the Tokyo Games. They were also cleared with food contamination given as the explanation. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has accused the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of a cover-up in an increasingly bitter dispute. WADA has claimed that USADA's criticism is politically motivated. In the new report... Читать дальше...
The emotive law -- which animal lovers fear will lead to a mass cull despite government denials -- was passed at final reading in the early hours of Tuesday by a margin of 51 votes, in the face of opposition protests. Deputies against the law wore white gloves stained with fake blood during the debate. "We will challenge this law in the constitutional court as soon as possible. It violates the animals' right to life," said Ozgur Ozel, leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). Читать дальше...
The men's triathlon at the Paris Olympics will not go ahead as planned on Tuesday as pollution levels in the Seine remain too high, World Triathlon said in a statement, dealing a blow to organisers and leaving athletes facing more uncertainty. France 24's Selina Sykes has the latest.
Jérôme Brouillet, a photographer for AFP, captured an exceptional image on Monday during the surfing event at Teahupo'o, Tahiti in French Polynesia. Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina seems to be flying above the water seconds after exiting a wave in a run that earned him a record high score in Olympic surfing competition.
Right-wing Israeli protesters broke into two military compounds on Monday after investigators arrived to question soldiers about suspected abuse at one of them, a detention camp for Palestinians captured during the Gaza war. Jordana Miller, reporting from Jerusalem, has the latest.
France recognises a plan for autonomy for the Western Sahara region under Moroccan sovereignty as the only way of resolving a long-running dispute over the territory, President Emmanuel Macron said in a letter on Tuesday.
A number of conditions and requirements to run for office have changed under Saied, 66, who was democratically elected in 2019 but orchestrated a sweeping power grab in 2021. To qualify to appear on the ballot, candidates are required to gather "an enormous number" of signatures, said Amine Kharrat, a political analyst at independent observatory Al Bawsala. "The conditions have been hardened," Isabelle Werenfels, North Africa expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, told AFP. Читать дальше...
The wider Paris region was put on a severe storm alert Tuesday as the city hosts the Olympic Games, with heavy rain, strong thunderstorms, hail and lightning forecast from 6pm, France's weather service announced.
