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Wayne Lineker has spoken out about a “disturbing” incident in Ibiza which left him with “stitches and a swollen lip” after he tried “to protect a girl from being harassed”.The 62-year-old, who is the younger brother of former England footballer Gary Lineker, shared an update on Instagram after a video circulated earlier this week, apparently showing him in an altercation outside a bar on the Spanish island in the early hours of Wednesday. He was reported to have been knocked out for several minutes after being punched in the jaw by another man following a confrontation.Wayne shared a photo showing…

FIFPRO begun legal proceedings against world football’s governing body FIFA on Thursday, as they seek to protect players’ rights to guaranteed and protected breaks. The expansion of the men’s Club World Cup is a specific tournament of concern, with the competition due to involve 32 teams and take place over the course of a month between June and July in 2025. English players’ union, The Professional Footballers’ Association and their French counterparts UNFP are co-claimants. FIFA are yet to respond to the lawsuit. Club World Cup concerns ignored In May, both FIFPRO and the World Leagues Association (WLA) had threatened action if the…

Greek authorities closed down the Acropolis in Athens on Thursday afternoon for a second day running as Athens experiences unusually high temperatures for this time of year. The Culture Ministry said tourists were unable to visit the Parthenon and other ancient masterpieces atop the UNESCO-listed site from noon until 5 p.m. local time (0900 to 1400 GMT). Temperatures of more than 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) were anticipated on Thursday in much of central and southern Greece, including greater Athens, the Cyclades and Crete. Other Greek archaeological sites in Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades and the Peloponnese were also closed as a precautionary measure.A tourist is helped by first aid…

Pakistan wants to achieve economic growth of 3.6%, the country’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Wednesday while presenting his first budget to lawmakers. Aurangzeb emphasized the need to expand Pakistan’s tax base as a strategy to prevent overburdening existing taxpayers. The goal of his budget is to ensure equitable distribution of tax responsibilities while meeting revenue targets.  Aurangzeb also said inflation had dropped to 12% per year. Pakistan has been grappling with soaring inflation amid its worst economic crisis in decades. At one point in 2023, inflation went above 40%, sparking angry protests as Pakistanis struggled to afford essential…

Transnational cooperation between civil society organizations, media outlets, and the world’s largest technology companies is needed to effectively combat disinformation, according to a new analysis by non-profit think tank the Bertelsmann Foundation. “We need to be just as professional and coordinated as those who seek to do harm with their campaigns,” said Cathleen Berger, a senior expert on future technologies and sustainability at the foundation and one of the report’s co-authors. The analysis is based on discussions with more than 100 experts, academics, activists, and policymakers from more than 50 countries, she added. Globally, researchers report an increase in the…

Actor Henry Winkler has praised Irish firefighters after a blaze at his hotel led to him being unexpectedly evacuated from his room.A selfie shared by the 78-year-old Happy Days star on X, which showed him smiling alongside three firemen from Dublin Fire Brigade, quickly went viral. Winkler wrote alongside the photo: “Dublin’s finest does a great job when our hotel is evacuated on our first morning!”He’s best known for playing cool motorcycle rider Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on the hit American sitcom, which was set in the 1950s, but filmed in the 1970s and 1980s. Image: Henry Winkler as ‘The Fonz’…

Four-time Champions League winner, four-time German champion — that’s almost as good as it gets. But former national team player Josephine Henning has left the pitch in favor of art. As artist in residence at Dortmund’s German Football Museum, she is now designing participatory art and creative workshops for the European Championship. The museum is bringing art and football together in a kind of friendly match: Titled “In Motion  — Art & Football,” the immersive show features paintings of 20th-century European art, as well as little-known or rarely seen images focusing on football. The immersive spatial experience includes 41 projectors, 45…

Borussia Dortmund head coach Edin Terzic has resigned. The 41-year-old had an up-and-down season as he led the Black and Yellows to the Champions League final but only managed a fifth-place finish in the Bundesliga. Announcing that his decision came after lengthy meetings with senior management, Terzic said in a statement: “I feel that the club’s new era should begin with a new man on the touchline.” Champions League run could not paper over cracks May’s 2-0 defeat by Real Madrid in the Champions League final at Wembley capped an otherwise poor season for Terzic and Dortmund. Despite the deep…

France’s major broadcasters were lining up behind an unmarked door on Wednesday to talk to Laure Lavalette, the French National Assembly deputy and spokesperson for the far-right National Rally (RN), outside her party’s headquarters near Paris’s political district. “France is on its knees,” she told the TF1 television network without missing a beat. Lavalette, who has represented Var, a conservative southeast French province, since 2022, was at ease and in demand. Her eurosceptic, anti-immigration party scored such a high result in the EU elections last week that pro-business, centrist President Emmanuel Macron immediately called snap legislative elections starting at the end of June.Eric Ciotti…

Funding Ukraine’s fightback against Russia’s invasion has gone from a must-do to a political hot potato in nearly two and a half years. The world has already committed €297 billion ($321 billion) in aid to Ukraine. But the country clearly needs more. In April, a $61 billion (€56 billion) aid package to Kyiv was finally approved by the United States Congress after months of infighting over whether the money could be better spent on domestic issues. Similar themes played up during last weekend’s EU election, which saw the bloc shift towards the hard right. The US and European Union have also struggled to agree on what…