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Paris — Paris has been a socialist city for 25 years, but this year’s elections are the most uncertain in decades. Opinion polls so far show Socialist Party candidate Emmanuel Grégoire ahead of conservative challenger Rashida Dati in the race to succeed Anne Hidalgo, the mayor who has led the French capital for three terms. But behind the apparent stability of Parisian politics, last Sunday’s first round of voting reflected a significant electoral shift in local elections widely seen as the springboard and bellwether for France’s political parties a year before the presidential election. For the first time in history,…
“Sunday is one of the biggest games Tottenham have played. The future of the club is at stake.”Paul Merson knows all too well how important the game against Nottingham Forest is to Tottenham’s chances of remaining in the Premier League. Igor Tudor and his team know that too. Both teams are hovering above the relegation zone with a one-point difference, and the club, which should be the pillars of the top league, is in danger of falling to the second division. Sunday, March 22, 2:00 p.m. 2:15pm kickoff Why are games so important?”If they get relegated, I don’t know if…
Products are constantly displayed on the shelves of a supermarket in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Photo taken on October 29, 2024). Dado Ruvik | ReutersRising inflation and ever-changing tariff policies have driven up store prices over the past few years, putting pressure on consumers’ budgets.An often overlooked example: menstrual products.The average price of menstrual products, including sanitary pads and tampons, has increased nearly 40% since 2020, from about $5.37 to $7.43 per item, according to February data from Chicago-based market research firm Sarkana.According to Circana, dollar sales of menstrual products rose nearly 30% over the same period.But at the same…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI Inc., speaks at BlackRock’s 2026 Infrastructure Summit in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. Daniel Heuer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSpeaking at BlackRock’s U.S. Infrastructure Summit earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that his company faces a harsh reality in data centers.”At this scale, it’s like so many things can go wrong,” Altman said during a fireside chat at a conference in Washington, D.C. Altman cited the example of severe weather that temporarily “disrupted things” at the data center campus in Abilene, Texas. This facility will serve as OpenAI’s flagship site;…
Amelie Malmfält opened the message at work. When she saw Kris Brock’s name, her face broke out into a huge smile. She couldn’t believe it. It was a simple note — he’d bumped into her parents at the airport, he said. He was wondering how she was doing. It’d been a while… Still smiling, Amelie immediately started composing a reply in her head. “My colleague across from me said, ‘Did you get some good news or something?’” recalls Amelie. “I was like, ‘Oh, yes … kind of.’” The colleague looked intrigued, so Amelie continued. “This boy, who I knew when…
Josep Guardiola has experimented with a variety of tactical adjustments this season in a bid to unleash Manchester City’s creative side. Sometimes it’s necessary, but mostly by design. Not everything went well, but it gave us something to talk about.They have deployed two attacking midfielders in Matheus Nunez and Nico O’Reilly at full-back, the wingers have been de facto central midfielders, they have had as many No. 10s on the pitch as possible, and most recently, Erling Haaland has been joined by either Antoine Semenho or Omar Marmouche in a two-top situation. Much of this has been in response to…
Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, at (mostly*) its own expense. Industry experts are watching Amazon’s Trainium chip, created at that facility, for its implications for lower-cost AI inference and, potentially, a dent in Nvidia’s near monopoly. Curious, I agreed to go. My tour guides for the day were the lab’s director, Kristopher King (pictured below right) and director of engineering Mark Carroll (below left), as well as the team’s PR person who…
Manager Eddie Howe believes playing Sunderland at home is a “good game” for his side after the game against Barcelona. But for him and his team, this is a game they can’t afford to lose.Despite a 7-2 defeat to Spain that ended their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League, a second successive defeat against their rivals in the Tyne Wear derby will send alarm bells ringing loudly at St James’ Park. Sunderland will outperform their neighbours. Howe will leave behind the undesirable record of being the first Magpies manager to lose his first two derbies. But beyond the pain…
As President Donald Trump looks at ordering US Navy ships to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, for naval analysts and historians, there’s a distinct feeling of “been there, done that.” Almost 40 years ago, US Navy warships were facing the same enemy they’d be facing now, the navy and the sea forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The so-called Tanker War of the late 1980s saw some of the same weapons and problems a US escort force would face today, and provides lessons on how, in war, things can go wrong quickly in unexpected ways…
Slott wants answers, not excuses, and he has neither. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Watch for free: Brighton vs Liverpool match highlights Arne Slott says his job is to provide answers, not excuses, to Liverpool’s current predicament, with just one point from their last three games. The problem is he doesn’t have anything. The Reds looked to be slowly but surely getting back into gear with four wins from five games, but dismal performances against Wolves, Tottenham and now Brighton have sent them back to the brink. Manager Jamie Carragher said last week that patience was…