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The new Puma ball will be seen in play for the first time during the Premier League Summer Series. PUMAWith eyes already turning toward next season, the Premier League has revealed its new official match ball for the 2025-26 campaign — the first non-Nike ball in a quarter of a century.Puma become only the third brand to provide the official Premier League match ball since the league was launched in 1992-93, with Mitre serving as the initial supplier up until 2000. Nike then swooped in and provided 25 iterations of their spherical playing apparatus up until the expiration of their partnership…

Florian Wirtz only wants to join Liverpool with talks over a potential club-record deal continuing with Bayer Leverkusen.Leverkusen want a deal which values the player at £120m. Wirtz is with the Germany squad preparing for their Nations League semi-final against Portugal in Munich. Bayern Munich and Manchester City are also trying to sign the 22-year-old, who was among one of the Bundesliga’s most impressive performers last season. Datawrapper This content is provided by Datawrapper, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below…

The Netherlands far-right PVV Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders speaks to the media representatives following the European Parliament elections provisional results in The Hague on June 6, 2024. Emiel Muijderman | Afp | Getty ImagesDutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof stepped down from his role on Tuesday after disagreements over immigration proposals led to far-right leader Geert Wilders withdrawing his party from the ruling coalition.Earlier in the day, Wilders said in a CNBC-translated post on the X social media platform that his Party for Freedom (PVV) party would be departing over the alliance’s lack of support for their asylum proposal.”We had no…

Britain has threatened to take former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich to court over the frozen £2.5 billion ($3.4bn) in proceeds from his sale of the football club that he wanted to go to victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine.Britain sanctioned Abramovich in a crackdown on Russian oligarchs after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, triggering a rushed sale of the Premier League club and freezing of the proceeds.Britain wants the funds spent only in Ukraine in line with a wider European push for Moscow to foot the bill for the deaths and destruction triggered by its invasion. Abramovich is seeking…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs concluded her testimony Monday afternoon after three days on the stand at his federal criminal trial, during which she recounted multiple alleged instances of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by Combs. The employee, testifying under the pseudonym “Mia,” was the 21st witness in the case and gave one of the lengthier testimonies thus far, second only to key witness Cassie Ventura. In her final statement to the court, Mia said she did not want to testify in the trial but did so for one reason. “Because I can’t look…

London CNN  —  Kevin and Jessica Cellura had just 48 hours in December to make an enormous family decision. The couple, who both work as teachers, had to decide if they should take a job offer to teach in Morocco and leave Asheville, North Carolina, with their two youngest children. But the Celluras say their decision was made easier by the presidential election results just weeks earlier. “We will get away from the chaos … I feel like the America as we knew it growing up is slipping away pretty fast,” Jessica Cellura told CNN. The Celluras are part of…

Old Navy and Gap retail stores are seen as people walk through Times Square in New York City on April 9, 2025.Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty ImagesEconomic growth forecasts for the U.S. and globally were cut further by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development as President Donald Trump’s tariff turmoil weighs on expectations.The U.S. growth outlook was downwardly revised to just 1.6% this year and 1.5% in 2026. In March, the OECD was still expecting a 2.2% expansion in 2025.The fallout from Trump’s tariff policy, elevated economic policy uncertainty, a slowdown of net immigration and a smaller federal…

CNN  —  There’s new evidence that the Democratic Party’s reputation is in a bad place. That doesn’t mean the party is doomed, electorally speaking. There’s plenty of reason to doubt that, given lots of history and its performance in the 2025 elections thus far — but it is a complicating factor for the party’s path forward. And a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS provides insights into the party’s problems. It’s worth a breakdown. The poll, which was released Sunday, asked a battery of questions about how people view both parties. Perhaps most striking was that people were more likely…

CNN  —  The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is leaving the Netherlands’ government over its policy for asylum-seekers, its leader Geert Wilders said on Tuesday, toppling the governing coalition. “I signed up for the strictest asylum policy, not for the downfall of the Netherlands,” Wilders told reporters Tuesday morning. “And our responsibility for this cabinet therefore ends here.” Wilders’ decision to withdraw support for the most right-leaning government in Dutch history has plunged the country’s politics into chaos. It leaves the government, led by Prime Minister Dick Schoof, with just 51 out of 150 seats in parliament. Opposition leaders have…

European stocks eke out gainEuropean stocks reversed course late in the session on Tuesday to close marginally higher, with the Stoxx 600 index provisionally eking out a 0.01% gain.Major bourses were all in the green, with Germany’s DAX up 0.64%, France’s CAC 40 up 0.33% and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 up 0.13%.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconStoxx 600 index.The euro dropped 0.56% against the U.S. dollar after data showed inflation in the euro zone eased to a cooler-than-forecast 1.9% in May, below the European Central Bank’s 2% target. The figures supported expectations for a 25-basis-point rate cut by the ECB at…