The tournament offers a vivid reminder that soccer is not a niche sport trying to crack the American mainstream. It is the world’s dominant game, and the United States is still catching up to its scale.
Serbia’s populist president Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he will resign within weeks and announced early presidential and parliamentary elections.
An Alaska judge has ruled that Dan J. Sullivan can join Republican U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan on the state’s August 18 primary ballot, overturning a state election official’s earlier decision to remove the challenger as an ineligible candidate.
Ryanair will “reluctantly” allow parents to sit with their children for free from Thursday, a change it said would be revenue-neutral and comes two weeks after Britain’s competition watchdog launched a probe into its policy.
Military spending rose 30% in the first quarter, despite Moscow’s intention to rein it in this year. And the slump in the civilian sector, worsened by Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian infrastructure, confirms that Vladimir Putin’s war is making his country poorer.
Every Friday, Reuters Open Interest (ROI) distills the financial week into five key charts, spotlighting the major trends, surprises and overlooked moves that defined the past five days.
A strong earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, sending out tremors that could be felt from the capital Kabul across the border into neighbouring Pakistan.
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected a U.S.-brokered security agreement between Lebanon and Israel on Saturday a day after it was signed, describing it as a surrender to Israel.