For the first time in history, FIFA will add an additional gift to the winners of the World Cup final on Sunday between Spain and Argentina. In addition to the iconic trophy and gold medals, the delivery of a custom-made ring has been announced, introducing an American sports tradition to the football tournament.
The National Police arrested on the morning of this Thursday a woman, of Spanish nationality, as the alleged person responsible for the death of a Moroccan immigrant, who was staying in her home, in an irregular situation, according to police sources. So far, it has not been clarified whether the deceased was one of the people who entered in the avalanche on July 30 and 31.
Donald Trump sought to exit the war with Iran with a pact before the midterm elections, but his unruly ally, Israel, threatens to blow the agreement apart. Benjamin Netanyahu announced early Sunday a new wave of bombings in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, one of the red lines that the United States had set in the ceasefire signed between the Lebanese and Israeli governments last April 17.
In an exciting final, Russia had taken the gold in the free team routine by beating Spain by only 2.5 points. Both countries had once again raised this historic artistic swimming showdown to another level, and the color of the final medal was decided by details. After a seemingly normal podium, Spanish outrage exploded on social media to expose a trap by the Russian team.
Around 7:50 PM, as expected, it started raining over Parc del Fòrum, where the Primavera Sound festival is being held. The rain was very heavy, mixed with wind, during the performance of groups like the American band Geese. The wind caused water to reach inside the stage; the Americans were literally soaked. And just five minutes before Geese finished their concert, it was suspended, as were all the others at the festival. An announcement was made over the PA system to everyone about the suspension of performances until further notice.
Bill Galbraith and George Ciampa could never have imagined that the scene of that hell they experienced in June 1944 would be designated, 82 years later, as a World Heritage site. UNESCO had not even been founded yet.
The Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich, who fell in the second round of Roland Garros, confirmed after the match the abrupt breakup with the one who had been his coach since last January, the Argentine Mariano Puerta, finalist in 2005 of the clay Grand Slam, the first one Rafa Nadal won.
In the Roussillon plain, 50 kilometers north of the Franco-Spanish border, the Rivesaltes camp stands on dry and windy land. Converted into a Memorial in 2015 and recently renovated, the barracks of the former internment camp that operated here between 1941 and 1964 are still visible. Spanish refugees who fled Franco’s troops in 1939 were the first to be confined in Rivesaltes, a supposed “reception center” that was very similar to a concentration camp, surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by the French army. Conditions were precarious, but in the improvised camps on the beaches of Argelès, it was even worse. Although the policy of interning “undesirable foreigners” began in the 1930s, it was the authoritarian and pro-Nazi Vichy regime that truly boosted it from 1940 onwards.
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority released this Friday four green turtles and one loggerhead turtle after completing their recovery treatment at the National Sea Turtle Rescue Center, located in the Alexander River Nature Reserve, near the Mediterranean coast of Beit Yanai in Israel.
One of the shafts of the Montcada i Reixac undergrounding works has unexpectedly collapsed while operators were working this midday. No personal injuries have been registered, but the open sinkhole is so large that it has swallowed a large crane.