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May 22, 2025, 06:29 AM ETArsenal manager Mikel Arteta congratulated north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur for winning the Europa League on Wednesday, but insisted that whether a team have won a trophy should not determine if a season has been successful.Arteta’s side, who are second in the Premier League behind champions Liverpool, will finish without any silverware this term, but Spurs, who have had a dismal domestic campaign and sit 17th, have ended the season on a high with a European trophy.”They are [Europa League] champions and when you get to that you have to do a lot of things…

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Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a major win for President Donald Trump early on Thursday morning, uniting a deeply divided House GOP to pass a bill that many of them were still pushing fiercely to change. Passage of the sweeping tax and spending cuts package marked a stunning victory for both Johnson and Trump after the bill appeared doomed just days earlier. “Sometimes it’s good to be underestimated, isn’t it?” a sleep-deprived Johnson said on the House floor early Thursday, after multiple all-night negotiating sessions with all corners of his conference. More on the bill: Trump himself played a major role…

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It’s 2040, and Palestine has been divided into a number of small states. Two IT department employees in the Gaza municipality manage to hack the International Olympic Committee (IOC) system and submit a prank application to host the 2048 Olympics.  To their utter surprise, they win and Gaza becomes the host of the world games. That’s the premise of Ahmed Masoud’s satirical futuristic drama, Application 39, which imagines a world beyond the current catastrophe and genocide. One in which the Olympics brings peace and hope to Palestine 100 years after the Nakba. Performing at the PalArt festival later this month…

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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes has no intention of leaving this summer but admits the club could end up cashing in on him following the damaging Europa League final loss to Tottenham.The 30-year-old midfielder has been a rare shining light in a dreadful season at Old Trafford, but even his star was dimmed in Wednesday’s 1-0 defeat by fellow Premier League strugglers Spurs in Bilbao. Fernandes has recently been linked with a move to Saudi Arabian side Al Hilal, leading head coach Ruben Amorim to stress United should try to keep “one of the top players in the world”.But the…

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Bruno Fernandes and Alejandro Garnacho have cast doubt on their Manchester United futures following the Europa League defeat to Tottenham Hotspur with both leaving the door open for potential moves this summer.Head coach Ruben Amorim has been firm in his stance that he wants to keep Fernandes, who signed a new long term contract in August.But after missing out on £100 million ($133m) of possible Champions League revenue with defeat to Spurs in Bilbao, the Portugal midfielder said he will leave if the club decide they want to “cash in” on one of their biggest assets.Fernandes, 30, has been linked…

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Ruud van Nistelrooy is expected to leave Leicester City after Sunday’s final game of the season against Bournemouth – but Foxes bosses are yet to decide who they want to replace him as head coach.As Sky Sports News reported a month ago, former Southampton boss Russell Martin and Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl are priority candidates for Leicester, but the hierarchy are determined not to progress their search out of respect for Van Nistelrooy, while he is still in post. Talks over an exit deal for the Dutch coach are expected to begin early next week. Please use Chrome browser…

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Manchester United’s season, already their worst ever in the Premier League, hit a new low in Bilbao as they lost to Spurs in the Europa League final.Victory would not have turned United’s season into a positive, but it would have provided a glimmer of light and reason for optimism. Instead, after losing for the fourth time this season to the team 17th in the Premier League, United’s road back to the elite looks longer than ever. Once again, more questions are being asked of Manchester United and their head coach than answers are being provided. Monterosa This content is provided…

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Slot told Liverpoolfc.com: “[The staff are] crucial, crucial for every successful club. “Because I’m sitting here now, probably some certain players are going to sit in front of this camera as well, and those [the staff] are the ones that are behind our success that you hardly ever see. But this training ground is a great facility.“We have a great programme. But you can have the best facility in the world and a great programme as well, but if you don’t have the right personalities, not only as professionals but also as human beings, then it’s very difficult to get…

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Reuters  —  Italy’s Constitutional Court said on Thursday that same-sex female couples who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad can both be legally recognized as parents in Italy, even if one is not the biological mother. The ruling is likely to be welcomed by Italian LGBT groups who have repeatedly clashed with the conservative government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a self-declared enemy of what she and her allies call the “LGBT lobby.” The court found that denying legal recognition to the non-biological mother violates the constitutional principles of equality and personal identity and violates the child’s rights to care,…

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Washington CNN  —  Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a major win for President Donald Trump early on Thursday morning, uniting a deeply divided House GOP to pass a bill that many of them were still pushing fiercely to change. House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package, marking a stunning victory for both Johnson and Trump after the bill appeared doomed just days earlier. “Sometimes it’s good to be underestimated, isn’t it?” a sleep-deprived Johnson said on the House floor early Thursday, after multiple all-night negotiating sessions with all corners of his conference. Trump himself played a…

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