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Liverpool have stepped up their pursuit of Florian Wirtz by lodging an improved £113 million ($153m) bid for the Bayer Leverkusen playmaker, sources have told ESPN.Bundesliga side Leverkusen value Wirtz at £126m, but Liverpool’s latest move has seen the Premier League champions make a slight increase on their initial £109m offer, with the bid consisting of £100m plus an additional £13m in add-ons.Liverpool are in pole position to sign Wirtz after the Germany international made it clear that he favoured a move to Anfield ahead of Manchester City and Bayern Munich.The 23-year-old, regarded as one of the rising talents in…

FA Community ShieldBy virtue of winning the title in 2024-25, Liverpool earned a spot in the annual curtain-raiser for the footballing season.They will meet Emirates FA Cup winners Crystal Palace. A date for that occasion is yet to be announced.Champions LeagueThe draw for the league phase will take place on Thursday August 28. There, Liverpool – who are confirmed to be in pot one – will discover their eight opponents (four at home, four away) in the section.The dates for those matches are as follows: Matchday 1: September 16/17/18Matchday 2 September 30/October 1Matchday 3: October 21/22Matchday 4: November 4/5Matchday 5:…

Paris, France AP  —  Four people were killed in an “extremely violent” blaze seemingly caused by a battery-powered electric scooter that tore through a 10-story housing block in Reims, the capital of France’s Champagne region, authorities said Saturday. A 13-year-old jumped to his death from the 4th floor apartment where the fire started in the early hours of Friday and a burned body found inside is believed to be that of his older brother, aged 15, said Reims prosecutor François Schneider. An 87-year-old woman and her 59-year-old son who lived on the 8th floor suffocated to death in the smoke,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned up the sound and found himself unable to look away. “The whole screen exploded,” he said. Beutel, a computer engineer specializing in mountain monitoring, had just witnessed a glacier collapse. On May 28, an avalanche of millions of tons of ice and rock barreled down the slope, burying Blatten, a centuries-old village nestled in the valley below. Local authorities had already evacuated…

CNN  —  The body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who was abducted alive during the October 7 attacks was recovered from southern Gaza in a military operation on Friday, according to a statement from the Israeli military and the Shin Bet security service. The announcement comes just days after Israel recovered the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages from Gaza. Pinta, 35, was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel where he had been working in agriculture, according to an Israeli military official, who said it is estimated that he was killed during the first months of captivity. Pinta…

The seabed is legally designated as the “common heritage of mankind,” but in practice, it has become a hotly contested frontier.This is exemplified by the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a vast expanse of international seabed located between Hawaii and Mexico rich in polymetallic nodules that contain critical minerals such as nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese. These resources are more than mere commodities; they are vital components of national strategies for energy independence, technological leadership and strategic deterrence.Unlike land-based domains, where national borders delineate access, the seabed remains governed by a patchwork of international conventions and non-binding regulatory frameworks. This legal ambiguity,…

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. CNN  —  In travel news this week, the most elite penthouse stays in London’s legendary Mayfair, phenomenal natural landscapes from Turkey to Utah, plus the brothers who want to help find you a one-euro home in Sicily. The Penthouse at Mandarin Oriental Mayfair Struggling to find a four-bed suite in London’s most upscale and centrally located neighborhood, but with panoramic 180-degree vistas over half the district? The five-star Mandarin Oriental Mayfair hotel,…

Various whiskey bottles on shelves in a bar.Hiob | Istock | Getty ImagesGlobal spirit makers are staring down a sobering cocktail of challenges as tariffs and brand boycotts threaten to exacerbate wider shifts in drinking habits.French cognac maker Rémy Cointreau on Wednesday became the latest spirits maker, following Diageo and Pernod Ricard, to withdraw its sales targets on increased economic and trade uncertainty.”Given the continued lack of macroeconomic visibility, the geopolitical uncertainties surrounding U.S.-China tariff policies, and the absence to date of a recovery in the U.S. market … the conditions required to maintain [Remy Cointreau’s] 2029-2030 targets are no longer…

CNN  —  A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in November 1888, but the whereabouts of the wreck have remained a mystery – until now. The incredible discovery was made after deep sea diver Dom Robinson found a piece of crockery amid the watery remains. Back on land, Robinson, 53, saw the broken plate bore the stamp “Cunard Steamship Company,” which helped identify the stricken vessel through information available online. It turned out he…

Facebook Tweet Email Link As measles cases in the United States continue to mount, neighboring countries Canada and Mexico are also experiencing significant outbreaks – all of which have been linked to at least one death. On Thursday, the chief medical officer of health of the Canadian province Ontario announced that an infant who was born prematurely with a measles infection had died. “The infant contracted the virus before birth from their mother, who had not received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine,” Dr. Kieran Moore said in a statement. “While measles may have been a contributing factor in…