Author: France 24

Tottenham beat Everton on the final day of the Premier League season and secured their place in the league. Chelsea will miss out on all European competitions.

Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company has publicly filed details about its upcoming initial public offering, highlighting both the company’s ambitious goals in space and its financial results. Among the group’s long-term goals are the construction of data centres in space and creating a large human settlement on Mars. Also in this edition: Samsung and its workers find a last-minute deal to suspend a planned 18-day strike. 

Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarization, “Fjord,” has won the Palme d’Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival ’s top honor for the second time to Mungiu, the Romanian director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.”

Jasper Mortimer, France 24 correspondent, in Ankara has more.

Gabriela Arenas, Coordinator for Regional Operations in Africa IFRC in Kenya, is our guest.

Novak Djokovic is headlining the first day of French Open on Sunday, where he will face Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on the centre court. The 39-year-old has already won the Roland Garros tournament three times, and if he wins it again, he would have a record 25 Grand Slam titles under his belt.

In the world of artificial intelligence, the focus used to be on training AI models. Now, increasingly, it’s on “inference” – the actual execution of the tasks we ask these systems to perform. David Gurlé is a French tech entrepreneur whose startup Antimatter aims to service the inference boom with energy solutions, mini data centres that fit inside a container and appropriate software – for only a fraction of the cost and time.

FRANCE 24 film critic Emma Jones reports from the red carpet at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in southern France.

Activists released from Israeli custody after being detained on a flotilla trying to bring aid to Gaza were subjected to abuse, organisers said on Friday, with several hospitalised with injuries and at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape.

It’s been a week marked by major geopolitical, legal and public health developments across several fronts. In Washington, the Trump administration has indicted 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro over alleged murder and conspiracy to kill US nationals, linked to the 1990s downing of two civilian aircraft — a move officials describe as long-delayed justice, but which critics see as part of a wider push on regime change. In Beijing, President Vladimir Putin made a rare visit to meet Xi Jinping, with carefully staged ceremony and renewed pledges of “unyielding relations”, while Ukraine reported continued deep-strike drone operations inside Russian…