How Madrid’s all-powerful president hoisted the Galacticos from the ashes to elite clubs in Europe
Winning this year’s Champions League will be worth around €80 million in UEFA prize money to Madrid, including €20 million for winning the final (beaten finalists get €15.5 million). Lifting the trophy six times in the past 11 seasons has brought almost €500 million in prize money, and hugely valuable visibility on the biggest stages for sponsors.
Real Madrid win 15th Champions League to signal start of new era of dominance in Europe
Off the pitch, Madrid topped Deloitte’s Football Money League 2024 with the highest revenues across the game over 2022-23. Another more recent study by data analytics company Football Benchmark puts their ‘enterprise value’ above all other clubs – and predicts they will soon have the most valuable squad in football.
Netanyahu rubbishes calls for permanent peace as mediators urge Israel and Hamas to finalise Biden’s Gaza peace plan
The US, Egypt and Qatar have been seeking for months to mediate an end to the war, but a deal has proven elusive. The proposal, Biden said, also “creates a better ‘day after’ in Gaza without Hamas in power”. He did not elaborate on how that might be achieved. The Iranian-backed Islamist group has given no indication it might step aside or disarm voluntarily.
Black leaders call out Trump’s criminal justice contradictions as he rails against guilty verdict
Some Black Americans found irony in Trump railing against the injustice of his own conviction, in a courthouse where five Black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted in a case Trump supported so vociferously. The Central Park Five case was Trump’s first foray into tough-on-crime politics that preluded his full-throated populist political persona. To many, Trump employed dog whistles as well as overtly racist rhetoric in both chapters of his public life.
Opinion poll places Biden slightly ahead of Trump, who on Thursday was convicted of 34 crimes
Joe Biden’s lead was within the survey’s roughly 2 percentage point margin of error for registered voters, many of whom remain on the fence with about five months left before the November 5 election. A prior Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted May 7-14 showed Trump and Biden tied with 40 per cent support each.
Curtains come down on ANC’s dominance of South African politics as vote tallying ends
Vote tallying from Wednesday’s poll was entering the final stages on Saturday morning, with results in from over 98 per cent of polling stations giving the ANC 40.29 per cent. The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), had 21.63 per cent and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new party led by former president Jacob Zuma, managed to grab 14.71 per cent.
South Africa’s ruling ANC is on the brink of losing its majority in a landmark election result
South Africans vote for parties in national elections to decide how many seats each party gets in Parliament. Lawmakers then elect the president, and if the ANC is short of the 50 per cent mark, it will not have a majority of lawmakers and will need help from others to re-elect Ramaphosa for a second and final term.
Replacing God: Bill Gates invests millions in vaccine to immunise world against ‘climate change’
Immunologist and biochemist Jessica Rose says, “The ‘climate’ is something that can be used against all people, no matter what, because we all breathe air and drink water. This is why it is a perfect ‘item of control’ being used to engineer panic. A new ‘deadly virus/vaccine’ campaign would be less effective in this way, following the colossal failure of the ‘Covid-19 measures.’
Why when junk-food manufacturers place adverts near schools or routes used by students, performance at school drops
It says further that manufacturers use carefully orchestrated flavours, textures and aromas to make them as appealing as possible – a stark contrast to whole foods whose taste and consistency are made by nature and designed to satiate hunger and address your nutritional cravings.
What you eat affects what you remember: Fast-food addiction vacuums memory, turns adult into junk
In the US, an estimated five million teens aged 12 to 17 – or 20 per cent of the overall age group – have experienced at least one episode of depression, with symptoms of a loss of interest in daily activities and struggling with sleep, energy and appetite.
