Mikel Arteta has urged Arsenal to shut out expectations of another famous Real Madrid comeback and “talk on the pitch” in Wednesday’s Champions League quarterfinal showdown. Arsenal travel to the Bernabéu aiming to defend a 3-0 first leg lead and reach their first semifinal in the competition since 2009. Fifteen-time winners Real Madrid have a […]
This month in the White House’s Rose Garden, as he held up a placard showing the global wave of tariffs he wanted to impose, President Trump paused to fondly recall a fallen friend. “The prime minister of Japan, Shinzo, was — Shinzo Abe — he was a fantastic man,” Mr. Trump said during the tariff […]
Apr 15, 2025, 06:06 PM ET BIRMINGHAM, England — Paris Saint-Germain held on to secure a spot in the Champions League semifinals after Aston Villa’s dramatic second-half fightback Tuesday almost took this epic quarterfinal into extra time. PSG, leading 3-1 from the first leg, moved 5-1 ahead on aggregate with goals from Achraf Hakimi and […]
President Trump’s tariffs have been good for China’s economic growth. At least they were over the first three months of the year, as the country’s factories raced to ship exports ahead of the trade restrictions. China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported on Wednesday that the country’s gross domestic product grew 1.2 percent from the last […]
DORTMUND, Germany — There was almost a reluctance from Barcelona’s players to go and celebrate with their supporters on Tuesday after reaching a first UEFA Champions League semifinal since 2019. The satisfaction of moving into the final four was contrasted with what had been a humbling 3-1 defeat against Borussia Dortmund, with the competition’s new […]
BBC Listen to this article The US has “dropped the ball” on chip manufacturing over the years, allowing China and other Asian hubs to steam ahead. So said Gina Raimondo, who at the time was the US Commerce Secretary, in an interview with me back in 2021. Four years on, chips remain a battleground in […]
The popularity of disposable e-cigarettes or vapes has fallen ahead of a UK-wide ban on their sale on 1 June, a study has found. Researchers believe vape users are switching to refillable and rechargeable vapes in anticipation of the ban. The percentage of people aged 16-24 who mainly use disposable vapes has dropped by nearly […]
This week, the actress Brooke Shields posted an image of an action-figure version of herself that came with a needlepoint kit and a pet terrier. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, imagined her own figurine accompanied by a gavel and a Bible. These hyper-realistic dolls are nowhere to be found in toy stores, at […]
Two Sundays ago, Paige Bueckers and Sue Bird gathered inside Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla., as different points in their lives were celebrated. Bueckers led a courtside coronation. The Huskies blew out South Carolina to win UConn’s first national championship in nine years. With the souvenir net draped around her neck after her final college […]
A retrial of the yearslong defamation case brought by Sarah Palin against The New York Times got underway before a Manhattan jury on Tuesday. Ms. Palin, the former Alaska governor and onetime Republican vice-presidential nominee, sued The Times in 2017 over an editorial that erroneously linked her campaign’s language to a mass shooting, which she […]