Author: Alex Maschino

Netherlands opened their World Cup qualifying campaign in style with a comfortable 2-0 win in Finland tonight.Memphis Depay and Denzel Dumfries were on target for the Orange, who are favourites to qualify from Group G alongside Poland.🔟⭐️#NothingLikeOranje #FINNED https://t.co/S5Y9ZOc7Vs pic.twitter.com/ruIQrsHZtY— OnsOranje (@OnsOranje) June 7, 2025Depay opened the scoring in the sixth minute after some slack play in the Finland defence and Dumfries doubled their advantage midway through the first half, firing high into the net after being picked out by Cody Gakpo.Malta and Lithuania played out a goalless draw in the other group game tonight.Kane wins it for disappointing EnglandIt’s…

Kharkiv’s mayor described Russia’s first strike, an overnight swarm of drones, bombs and missiles, as the “most powerful attack” on the city since the start of the war in Ukraine.

An array of UK and international music industry leaders joined Music Business Worldwide and co-host Luminate at a special event at SXSW London on Thursday (June 5).The Music Leaders’ Dinner at Little House, Mayfair was an intimate gathering of around 60 executives and entrepreneurs.Influential figures from recorded music, music publishing, artist management, rights management, finance, and more attended the mixer, including many who had flown in from the US, Europe, and elsewhere.Luminate CEO Rob Jonas and MBW founder/publisher Tim Ingham jointly hosted the dinner.Guests included: Adrian Sarosi (Luminate), Alec Boateng (0207 Def Jam/EMI), Alexandra Hannaby (Big Machine), Amy Thomson (ATM Catalog Management), Ben…

Gretchen Rossi may have made fiancé Slade Smiley snap — and not in the way you’re thinking. The Real Housewives of Orange County star revealed in a trailer for the show’s 19th season that she once broke her longtime partner’s genitals during a wild night in the bedroom. “I broke his penis for real,” Gretchen said to castmate Emily Simpson in the teaser, which Bravo released on Thursday, June 5. Gretchen, 46, then bent her finger down and said, “like this” as the camera panned to a nodding Slade, 51. The trailer is the first fans have seen of Gretchen…

 Paul Skenes is off to one of the best beginnings to a career for any pitcher in baseball history, as he is 15-8 with a 2.03 ERA and 247 strikeouts through his first 35 starts.Unfortunately, the Pittsburgh Pirates would have the worst record in the National League if the Colorado Rockies weren’t playing like a tee-ball team, so it was only a matter of time before trade rumors started to pile on to the turmoil.In case the Pirates’ front office publicly shutting down the trade rumors wasn’t enough, ESPN insider Jeff Passan recently echoed those sentiments.“Just to be clear, the…

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck during a live TV broadcast in Chile’s northern city of Copiapó. Chilean politician and presidential candidate, Carolina Toha, was speaking about her campaign proposals with two journalists when the studio began shaking.The interview was cut short as all three quickly left the studio as the tremors continued, knocking down equipment on the set.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI was closing in on a $5bn debt financing package to fund new data centres and chips to power its business. Then on Thursday the world’s wealthiest man torpedoed his relationship with US President Donald Trump.Musk’s bankers at Morgan Stanley must now contend with this new complication as would-be investors try to assess the fallout from the dramatic unravelling of Musk’s ties to the president, according to people briefed on the matter. The debt could be more…

Billy Joel is sharing candid details about some tough times in his younger years in a new documentary. The new documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival in New York City on Wednesday, June 4, showed the singer opening up about one of his lowest points, reported People on Thursday, June 5. Per the outlet, Joel, 76, shared details about how he fell “in love” with Elizabeth Weber, the then-wife of Jon Small, in his early 20s. Small was Joel’s best friend and bandmate at the time, and Joel had moved in with the…

Introducing the 2025 SLAM HS Boys All-Americans. This year’s group of high school seniors have already caught the world’s attention with their versatile and elite skillsets, but soon, college hoops fans will know their names, too. With arguably the highest ceiling in his class, 6-9 forward Nate Ament can already do it all, with the drive to continuously fine-tune the framework of his three-level scoring. The locks on defense are there, too. Mind you, with a handle and quickness to break down defenders in transition and off the wing, he’ll be a problem for people for a lot of years.…

At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in stampede outside Bengaluru stadium on Wednesday.Police in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru have arrested four people after a stampede during the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) cricket team’s Indian Premier League victory celebrations killed 11 people and injured at least 47, local media reported. Three people from an event management company and one official from the RCB team were arrested on Friday, according to local media reports. Media outlet India Today said Nikhil Sosale, Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s head of marketing, was arrested at Bengaluru’s airport. The Indian Express newspaper reported…