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Finland are hoping to impress at Euro 2025 with the help of two Tottenham midfielders. HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA/LEHTIKUVA/AFP via Getty ImagesIt was on a freezing December night in the capital of Helsinki when Olga Ahtinen and Eveliina Summanen helped Finland reach one of football’s promised lands.Both Tottenham Hotspur midfielders starred as Finland secured a 2-0 victory over Scotland in the second leg of the playoffs (the first leg finished 0-0) to book their place at this summer’s Euro 2025 tournament. Temperatures on the night dipped as low as -5 degrees Celsius (21 Fahrenheit), with piles of snow lining the perimeter of the…

May 14, 2025, 03:34 AM ETOn the latest episode of The Football Reporters podcast, Mark Ogden, Rob Dawson and James Olley discuss Arsenal’s struggles and how Mikel Arteta’s side can become a title-winning team.After twice finishing second to Manchester City in the Premier League, Arsenal have fallen short in their pursuit of the title for a third straight season, this time to Liverpool.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedThe north London side were also eliminated from the Champions League in the semifinals this campaing, losing 3-1 on aggregate to Paris Saint-Germain.After the second leg, Arteta said the best team lost despite their failure to…

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, and where to stay. Tassili n’Ajjer National Park, Algeria CNN  —  “Labès?” (‘OK?”) asks Baba Atanof as a tourist struggles to get her leg over a large rock on a steep ascent in the Algerian Sahara Desert. Fighting jelly legs and vertigo, she can barely answer. This desert makes up 83% of Africa’s largest country. It’s the focus of a government master plan for tourism development by 2030 that aims to make Algeria a major tourist…

New York CNN  —  The Trump family’s crypto empire is expanding rapidly, and it’s making earlier ethics debates over his hotel and casino business interests look downright quaint. There are only so many rooms a foreign diplomat can book to curry favor with the president, and that might total into thousands of dollars, at most. And even President Donald Trump might have a limit on how many luxury Qatari jets he’d accept as gifts. But in the opaque world of cryptocurrencies, where transactions are often anonymous and unbound by national borders, there is virtually no cap on the amount of…

CNN  —  Armed assailants tried to kidnap the daughter and grandson of a French cryptocurrency boss in Paris, police said, in a brazen daytime attack that was caught on camera. Tuesday morning’s attack in Paris’s 11th district is the latest in a string of violent incidents targeting figures in France’s burgeoning crypto industry. Four masked men attacked the daughter, her partner and their child in the French capital, police sources told French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP). Video footage shows three masked men jump out of a white van. The woman and her partner fight the attackers and loud screams…

CNN  —  No one knows the dangers of playing in the NFL more than former quarterback Alex Smith. In 2018, while playing for the Washington Commanders, the veteran signal-caller suffered a gruesome leg injury which would turn his entire life upside down. The severity of the injury was such that he underwent multiple surgeries to treat a spiral and compound fracture to his right tibia and fibula. But then came the real battle. Smith subsequently contracted sepsis – a life-threatening response by the body to infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death – and nearly had…

The keffiyeh and watermelons are antisemitic symbols.  That’s according to training that the New York Police Department received in January from outfits closely associated with the pro-Israel community. The US magazine Jewish Currents, which obtained details about the training, questioned the focus of the presentation.  “They are actively conflating any care for Palestinian humanity or rights – and in some cases, Palestinian existence itself – with antisemitism,” Dove Kent, the US senior director for Diaspora Alliance, a group that battles antisemitism and its weaponisation, told Jewish Currents. “None of this does anything to increase Jewish safety.”  Barely a week goes…

May 14, 2025, 01:52 AM ETAngel City defender Savy King was recovering from heart surgery following her collapse on the field during a National Women’s Soccer League match on Friday night.King was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following the medical event in the second half of Angel City’s match against the Utah Royals. Doctors who evaluated King discovered a heart abnormality, and she underwent surgery Tuesday.”She is now resting and recovering surrounded by her family, and her prognosis is excellent,” the team said in a statement.King’s family released a joint statement thanking the team’s medical staff, King’s…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian local government has decided against repairing an often-vandalized monument to renowned British explorer James Cook because it would be destroyed again. But the mayor on Wednesday rejected accusations that the vandals have won.Statues and monuments to the 18th century naval officer are common in Australia and are often defaced by opponents of Britain’s settlement of the country without a treaty with its Indigenous people. In 1770, then Lt. Cook charted the Australian east coast where Sydney would become the first British colony on the continent.The granite and bronze monument to the master navigator and…

The Sony Group Corp. logo displayed on a screen at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (Ceatec) in Chiba, Japan, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSony Group shares rose over 2% on Wednesday in volatile trading after the Japanese conglomerate announced a share buyback of up to 250 billion yen ($1.7 billion) and operating income beat estimates.   Operating income for the last three months of the financial year came in at 203.6 billion yen, beating mean analyst estimates from LSEG of 192.2 billion yen, though it was down 11% from the same period last year. In the…