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Paris Saint-Germain winger Désiré Doué beat Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal to win the Champions League Young Player of the Season award after scoring twice in his side’s 5-0 final win over Inter Milan on Saturday.Both teenagers — slated as perhaps the two best young players in world football — made the team of the season.Doue, 19, wrapped up his extremely impressive campaign by creating the opening goal in the final for Achraf Hakimi before scoring twice himself.PSG had seven players named in the competition’s team of the season while humbled finalists Inter had just one included.PSG’s Ousmane Dembélé won the tournament’s…
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history.The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Oklahoma’s second-largest city, would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. He made the announcement at the Greenwood Cultural Center, located in…
Inter Milan were met with a cold silence in Milan on Sunday as a solitary fan showed up to greet them at Malpensa Airport after they landed following their crushing Champions League final defeat, Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport reported.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedThe final of Europe’s elite club competition on Saturday was one to forget for Inter as they were outclassed by a devastating Paris Saint-Germain side, who cruised to a crushing 5-0 victory at the Allianz Arena in Munich.”I’m the only idiot here, but they still deserve applause,” the lonely Inter supporter named Marco said, according to Gazzetta.Inter fans…
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett gives a TV interview outside of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2025. Leah Millis | ReutersNational Economic Council director Kevin Hassett suggested on Sunday that President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping could have a conversation about trade as soon as this week.Hassett said, however, that a specific date for a conversation between the two leaders has not been set.”President Trump, we expect, is going to have a wonderful conversation about the trade negotiations this week with President Xi, that’s our expectation,” Hassett said on ABC News’ “This Week.”He followed…
CNN — Warsaw’s liberal mayor and his insurgent populist challenger are locked in a dead heat as they fight for the presidency of Poland, exit polls projected after Sunday’s head-to-head vote, leaving the country tilting between two wildly different political futures. Exit polls showed Rafał Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki essentially tied, with Trzaskowski ahead by less than one percentage point after Sunday’s run-off election. Should Trzaskowski prevail, he would end the Law and Justice (PiS) party’s 10-year occupancy of the presidential palace – the last political stronghold of the populist bloc that once ruled Poland with near-total authority – and…
CNN — The lingering effects of high inflation coupled with high interest rates have made it harder in recent years for many Americans to get ahead financially. The hits just keep coming. A raft of policy moves from the Trump administration, including particularly steep tariffs that could cause prices to rise, and the whipsaw approach being taken, have stoked uncertainty and driven down sentiment to some of the lowest levels on record. That combination of higher prices, uncertainty and pessimism can be outright noxious as pullbacks in consumer and business spending can have cascading negative effects on the labor market…
Bruno Fernandes has often been relied upon as Manchester United’s saviour – so it is fitting his parting gift could end up being one last rescue act.United always knew sales would be required this summer to create enough financial flexibility to reshape the squad for Ruben Amorim. Selling Fernandes was not part of that plan, the captain’s future a widely presumed certainty until Al Hilal came to the table. Despite the Saudis’ willingness to pay £100m for a player turning 31 in September, United and Amorim want to keep Fernandes. The United boss believes the midfielder wants to stay, though…
Aitana Bonmatí has told ESPN that Spain learned to compete better physically after losing to England in the quarterfinal of Euro 2022 as the two teams prepare to battle for a place in the UEFA Women’s Nations League final four on Tuesday.Holders Spain lead England at the top of League A Group 3 by two points heading into the final decisive group game this week, which will take place at RCDE Stadium in Barcelona.The two teams have met twice since that quarterfinal three years ago, which England won, with Spain gaining revenge in the World Cup final a year later…
CNN — Since last sitting down with Ukraine to talk peace, Russia has launched four of its five largest drone attacks against the country, killed more than 340 of its civilians and continued to peddle its false narrative about the unprovoked war it has been waging for more than a decade. Now, Moscow wants to talk. Again. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the next round of talks between Russia and Ukraine would take place in Turkey on Monday. On Sunday, Kyiv confirmed that it would be sending a delegation to the meeting, as Russian state media reported that a…
Oldham twice came from behind to beat Southend 3-2 in a dramatic National League play-off final and end a three-year absence from the English Football League.In front of a record crowd of 52,115 at Wembley, substitutes James Norwood and Kian Harratt scored within the space of two minutes after Leon Chambers-Parillon had restored Southend’s lead just seconds into extra time. An early own-goal from Manny Monthe had given the Shrimpers the lead, but was cancelled out by Joe Garner’s penalty after Monthe had been brought down in the area.Oldham boss Micky Mellon unsurprisingly named the same starting XI which won…