Titleholder Paris Saint-Germain hosts six-time winner Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Tuesday. Coach Luis Enrique’s PSG is at full strength while Vincent Kompany’s Bayern has already clinched a record-extending 35th Bundesliga championship and remains on course for a treble. Source link
Sabalenka seeks tennis’s ‘Sunshine Double’, while Florida’s own Gauff has reached the final for the first time. Published On 28 Mar 202628 Mar 2026 Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff are back on a big stage in the final of the Miami Open as their growing rivalry heats up. Gauff, the South Floridian who beat Sabalenka in the 2023 US Open and 2025 French Open finals, will meet the top-seeded Belarusian at Hard Rock Stadium at 3pm EDT on Saturday. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list This WTA 1000 final will mark their 13th meeting, with the series knotted at 6-6. They faced off three times in finals in 2025. Sabalenka won the last meeting in the group stage of the WTA Finals in November. “We’ve played so many matches, and it’s physical when I play her every time,” Gauff said. “She’s playing great tennis. She’s definitely world No 1 for a reason and it’s going to be a great challenge.” Gauff is making her first Miami Open final appearance. The Delray …
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Sarah Strong had 21 points and 10 rebounds as defending national champion and overall No. 1 seed UConn overwhelmed North Carolina 63-42 on Friday, sending the Huskies to the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament for the 30th time. Strong, a sophomore forward, is a North Carolina native and AP All-American alongside teammate Azzi Fudd. Strong made four consecutive field goals in a two-minute span right after Blanca Quiñonez put UConn (37-0) ahead to stay with a layup early in the second quarter. Quiñonez scored 16 points and Fudd had 10 for the Huskies, who are seeking their 13th national championship. They extended their overall winning streak to 53 games. Indya Nivar had 20 points for fourth-seeded North Carolina (28-8), which hasn’t advanced past the Sweet 16 since 2014, which was 20 years after its only national title. UConn will play sixth-seeded Notre Dame in the Fort Worth Region 1 final Sunday to fill the first slot for the Final Four in Phoenix. Hannah Hidalgo had a 31-point triple-double …
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dropped his push Tuesday for U.S. allies to join in protecting the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian threats — an about-face that came just one day after he called upon nations to “get involved” so oil tankers can safely navigate the crucial shipping lane. First on social media and later in an Oval Office meeting, Trump said the outside military support he has been working to muster is no longer necessary in the war, which the U.S. and Israel launched against Iran on Feb. 28. “We don’t need any help, actually,” Trump said in an exchange with reporters in the Oval Office as he hosted Ireland’s prime minister, Micheál Martin. “President Trump has great relationships with foreign leaders around the world. At the same time, he has long called attention to the disproportional dynamics that have been enabled by weak Presidents for decades — including the United States’ extensive financial support of NATO and unfair trading practices that hurt our farmers and workers,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in …
BEIJING: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart on a call Monday (Mar 2) that Beijing supports Tehran defending itself against US-Israeli strikes, as war spread across the Middle East. Hundreds have died in Iran since Saturday when the United States and Israel began striking dozens of targets in the country. Tehran responded by launching waves of missiles and drones at Israel, Gulf states and a British base in Cyprus. Wang told Abbas Araghchi that Beijing “cherishes the traditional friendship between China and Iran, supports Iran in defending its sovereignty, security, territorial integrity, and national dignity, and supports Iran in protecting its legitimate rights and interests”, state broadcaster CCTV reported. China had “urged the US and Israel to immediately cease military operations, avoid further escalation of tensions and prevent the conflict from spreading to the entire Middle East region”, Wang said according to CCTV. In a separate phone call with Oman’s foreign minister, also on Monday, Wang accused the United States and Israel of “violating the purposes and principles of the UN charter” …
MILAN, Feb 18 : Overtime drama defined the men’s Olympic ice hockey quarter-finals on Wednesday, with favourites Canada and defending champions Finland surviving to set up a semi-final clash, while the United States also needed extra time and will meet Slovakia in the last four. With NHL players returning to the Games for the first time since 2014, a much-hyped final between the U.S. and rivals Canada is still on the cards, while Finland continue their defence and the Slovakians aim to reach their first gold-medal game. Both semi-finals are scheduled for Friday at Santagiulia Arena. Canada came in as heavy favourites and their group stage performances only furthered their status as they knocked five past both the Czech Republic and Switzerland, conceding one goal, before taking France apart in a 10-2 thumping. As group winners, Canada ended up meeting the Czechs again in the quarter-finals where they found themselves 3-2 down late in the final period, but levelled the game before Mitch Marner scored the winner 82 seconds into overtime. Wednesday’s drama may have …
“All the algorithms have biases, we know that. There is no doubt,” he said. “And they are so impactful, when you speak about social media, that having no clue about how the algorithm is made, how it is tested and where it will guide you — the democratic biases of this could be huge.” Since returning to office in 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has cast Europe’s tech rules as a threat to America’s free speech tradition. While Brussels has spent the past decade designing legislation to rein in Big Tech through landmark laws like the GDPR, Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, Washington frames many of those efforts as incompatible with U.S. principles on free expression. That dispute has triggered a broader political clash, with U.S. officials and tech companies warning that Europe’s content moderation rules amount to censorship, while EU leaders insist the measures are necessary to curb illegal content and platform abuses. Macron has repeatedly called for restrictions on access to social media access for younger users, as a groundswell …
Greg Arrowsmith, Secretary General of EUREC, stresses why innovative renewable technologies are key to achieving a more sustainable and secure energy system within Europe. This year is pivotal for Europe’s climate goals and strategies. The upcoming review of the EU Governance Regulation provides a unique opportunity to bolster EU energy and climate governance, but could also – under the guise of ‘simplification’ – be the year that the energy and climate law unravels. In the public consultation open on the Governance Regulation, we detect a flirtation with the idea of removing secondary targets in related EU legislation. One target which must be maintained concerns “innovative renewable energy technologies” (IRETs). Today’s innovative technology could be tomorrow’s widespread technology, so offering specific support to IRETs creates the potential to drive down the cost of renewable energy, and, if such technologies are made in Europe, to keep European manufacturers competitive with their peers abroad. The revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), adopted in late 2023, laid down the indicative target that 5% of all new renewable energy capacity …
Jerome Powell could hardly be more different from Nicolas Maduro. Despite having just been summoned by the US Department of Justice over an obscure case involving renovation work at the headquarters of the US Federal Reserve, the cautious head of the monetary institution faces no risk of ending up in prison like Venezuela’s ousted dictator, who was abducted in Caracas on the night of January 2 by American special forces on Donald Trump’s orders. Because both have become an obstacle to two of the president’s obsessions – interest rates in Powell’s case and Venezuelan oil in Maduro’s – they illustrate the systematized abuse of power that now prevails in Washington. The primacy of force over the law imposes itself everywhere. Since returning to the White House, the interventionist president has stepped up military strikes around the world. The same leader has also deployed the National Guard to patrol major US cities governed by Democrats – starting with the federal capital – even in the absence of significant unrest. In October 2025, the president did not …
The UK has no plan to defend the nation in the event of war, including how to mobilise the National Health Service to deal with mass casualties, the head of the military has revealed. The admission by Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton – confirming a report by Sky News from almost two years ago – came despite mounting warnings about the threat of conflict with Russia and as Donald Trump makes hostile noises about seizing Greenland. Image: Members of the British army and Finnish army in an armoured vehicle during a NATO exercise in Finland. Pic: PA Answering wide-ranging questions from MPs on Monday, the chief of the defence staff also confirmed that the Ministry of Defence lacks funding to cover its equipment programme as well as additional ambitions set out in a sweeping review of defence published in June. He refused to say whether he was facing a budget shortfall and steered away from using the word “cuts”, but said that reducing or slowing military programmes were among the options being considered. Air …
