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“Moron,” “colonized Cameroonian,” “full of inferiority complexes, nouveau riche, arrogant, and ugly” — these remarks from Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla have triggered a wave of international outrage. The target of her attacks was French football star Kylian Mbappe. Now, all of France is rallying behind the national team captain. A fiercely contested, emotional match Amarilla’s comments followed Saturday’s emotionally charged World Cup round-of-16 match between France and Paraguay in Philadelphia, which France won 1-0. Mbappe was subjected to repeated rough tackles during the match and stirred up further controversy after the final whistle with provocative gestures directed at the Paraguayan players.…

A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as “Gus” sold for $50.1 million (roughly €44 million) at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday, setting a new record for a dinosaur fossil at auction. The sale followed a tense 10-minute bidding battle involving seven bidders and ended with an anonymous purchaser. Before Tuesday’s sale, the record for the most expensive dinosaur fossil was held by Apex, a Stegosaurus skeleton that sold for $44.6 million at Sotheby’s in 2024.The skeleton is approximately 61% complete by bone count, with 183 fossil bone elements and 30 gastralia, or belly ribs, according to Sotheby’sImage: Lev Radin/Sipa USA/picture alliance…

Almost a week after the United States became the final co-host to exit World Cup 2026, the fallout from the suspension of striker Folarin Balogun’s red card ban continues. Organizers FIFAtook the near-unprecedented decision to suspend the forward’s ban after an intervention from US President Donald Trump and despite FIFA having statutes forbidding political interference. “FIFA’s judicial bodies are independent,” said FIFA President Gianni Infantino when defending the process. “They operate autonomously … Their independence is essential to the credibility and integrity of football, and this must always be respected.” This particular decision was taken by FIFA’s 18-strong disciplinary committee, or at least this was the impression…

Actor Sam Neill has died, his family said in a statement on Monday. He was 78. The statement said he had died in the eastern Australian city of Sydney. The New Zealand actor rose to international prominence for his performance as Dr. Alan Grant in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. “The loss ‌was sudden and ‌unexpected ​but blessed by the fact that Sam remained ​cancer free,” a statement posted ⁠on ​Neill’s Instagram ​page said, referring to his diagnosis with blood cancer announced in 2023. Neill’s high-profile career Neill’s acting career was launched in the 1970s, with his role in Gillian Armstrong’s 1979…

Italian top seed Jannik Sinner retained his Wimbledon men’s singles title on Sunday, after rallying from a set down to beat Germany’s second seed Alexander Zverev. The victory represents a fifth Grand Slam title for 24-year-old Sinner. What happened on court? Zverev took the opening set in a tense tiebreak and pushed hard early, but Sinner responded with a dominant second-set tiebreak to level. He then seized control in the third and fourth sets with superior baseline play and serving to close out the match in just under four hours.Sinner (right) is the second player ever to complete a career…

Singer Bonnie Tyler has died unexpectedly at the age of 75 on July 8 in a hospital in Portugal “as a result of the illness that she was being treated for,” a statement on her website says. At the beginning of May, she had been placed into an induced coma to aid her recovery after emergency intestinal surgery. After she emerged from coma more than a month later, she remained in intensive care. She was best known for the 80s megahit “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” but also singles including “It’s a Heartache” and “Holding Out for a Hero” from the soundtrack…

Volkswagen has built one of the largest workforces in the global auto industry. At nearly 630,000 people — 680,000 if you count joint ventures in China — VW employs around 60% more workers than Toyota, 140% more than Stellantis and nearly 240% more than Ford. That headcount was once a sign of Germany’s industrial might and VW’s huge profits. Now, it’s become a massive burden, one that’s forcing the company to make painful job cuts to survive against agile Chinese competitors. After already trimming thousands of positions last year as profits came under pressure, Volkswagen is now preparing to slash up to 100,000 jobs worldwide, including…

For people taking antidepressants, summer heat can feel even more exhausting than it does for everyone else. When temperatures soar to 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) and above — as we have already witnessed this year in the Northern Hemisphere — this can affect how such drugs work, placing extra stress on our bodies. “Some antidepressants … can affect how the body regulates temperature [and] sweating,” said the president of the British Royal College of General Practitioners, Victoria Tzortziou Brown. Symptoms can include “dizziness, nausea, headaches, tiredness or dehydration,” Brown said. These are symptoms that I, too, experience when the thermometer approaches the 30 C…

Philipp Lahm has said German football’s biggest problem is a lack of an identity. Toni Kroos believes Germany don’t have world-class talent. Mats Hummels has spoken of issues in the system. There are plenty of opinions and arguments to choose from when it comes to why Germany endured a third straight World Cup disappointment. Frank Wormuth, a former player, German Football Association (DFB) coach-educator, first-division coach in the Netherlands, and currently a mental coach, believes the context of the team matters. German football identity: Frank WormuthTo play this audio please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 audio “It’s not…

The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in London for the first time in nearly a millennium, completing a secretive and complicated journey back to British soil. The metal case holding the 11th-century medieval masterpiece was unloaded from a truck at the British Museum on Friday. “It’s a unique moment,” museum director Nicholas Cullinan said after the tapestry arrived from France in the darkness of the early morning hours. Museum staff and diplomats broke into applause after the case holding the tapestry was extracted from the truck in LondonImage: Kwiyeon Ha/AP Photo/picture alliance “It’s the first time in 1,000 years that such an…