Liverpool fans will point to three things that cost their club the Champions League final—superstar striker Mohamed Salah’s shoulder injury and two terrible mistakes by goalkeeper Loris Karius.
Real Madrid started their Champions League final against Liverpool with quite a luxury: superstar Welsh winger Gareth Bale, reportedly bought for around €100 million, was on the bench.
Update: Real Madrid beat Liverpool 3–1, making Cristiano Ronaldo the first man in the modern era to win five titles, and Real Madrid the first to win three consecutive trophies. Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is now the first manager ever to win three consecutive European championships.
The Republic of Ireland has overwhelmingly voted to repeal its ban on abortion yet around 1.8 million people on the island still won’t have access to the procedure: those who live in Northern Ireland.
Preparations for Donald Trump’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un are back on, following a meeting today (May 26) between Kim and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in.
It’s been a rough few months for Viktor Vekselberg. The Russian oligarch, who has long sought to keep away from the public eye, has found his name beamed across the world as part of US law enforcement’s investigations into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
In an emotional break-up letter, president Donald Trump today canceled his summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. It would be “inappropriate” to have the much-anticipated meeting, he wrote, given “the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in [North Korea’s] most recent statement.”
Despite enduring months of public criticism from president Donald Trump, deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein was in a cheery mood when speaking to a group of lawyers in New York today. He did, however, take a couple of thinly veiled swipes at the president.
World leaders have tried a wide array of tactics to get on president Donald Trump’s good side. France’s Emmanuel Macron showed him weapons and gives him lots of cuddles. Britain’s Theresa May is dangling the chance of a meeting with the Queen. Japan’s Shinzo Abe gives Trump a guilt-free round of golf whenever they catch up.
Donald Trump cast further doubt on his upcoming summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un today, telling reporters, “it may not work out.” The summit was planned to take place on June 12.
In the middle of a furious lobbying campaign last year, convicted pedophile George Nader had a big request—a photo of himself with president Donald Trump, the AP reports.
Donald Trump was unabashed about last week’s uproar over use of the word “animals” to describe undocumented immigrants, whom he says endanger Americans.
After a barrage of tweets from president Donald Trump yesterday (May 20), the Department of Justice will now probe the FBI’s use of an informant to gather information on the Trump campaign in 2016.
Donald Trump has made no bones about his disregard for Amazon and its billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, frequently decrying the company’s use of the US Postal Service for deliveries. That’s despite the tech giant being one of the few upsides in USPS’s perennial loss-making.
President Donald Trump’s inner circle has had quite a time keeping its story straight about a payment to a porn actress in 2016.
Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen is not only a payer of hush money, alleged arranger of “catch and kill” deals, and alleged acquaintance of Russian mobsters. He also has a side hustle leasing taxi medallions in New York City, and according to the Wall Street Journal, once pitched himself as a “political consultant” to the competition: Uber.
AT&T has ousted the executive who decided to pay president Trump’s personal attorney $600,000 for work as a “political consultant” and CEO Randall Stephenson called it “a big mistake”—but the telecoms giant insists the payment was legal.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson didn’t mince his words in a memo to staff: ”Our reputation has been damaged. There is no other way to say it—AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake,” he wrote, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.
Michael Cohen has been busy.
Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions could cost some of Europe’s biggest companies billions.
Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal today (May 8), putting America once again at odds with every other major global power and backtracking on the top foreign-policy achievement of Barack Obama.
As president Donald Trump threatens to leave an agreement designed to curb Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the natural concern is that Tehran will start building a bomb.
Supporters of the Iran deal have no shortage of reasons for president Donald Trump to stick with it: The deal appears to be succeeding in its aim of forcing Iran to cut its nuclear stockpile. All of the closest US allies back the deal (except Israel and Saudi Arabia). Backtracking on promises would damage the US’s chance of a deal with North Korea.
Donald Trump is not popular in the UK.
