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Jean-Philippe Mateta returned to the starting XI for Crystal Palace with his first goal since New Year’s Day as the Eagles took a step towards the Conference League semi-finals with a 3-0 win over Fiorentina in the last-eight first leg. Mateta, who had not started since January 25, converted the penalty, and Tyrik Mitchell took advantage of Fiorentina’s woeful defense to score the second goal. Ismaila Sarr added a late third goal to give Palace the lead ahead of next week’s second leg in Florence. Palace, who scored three goals for the first time since November at Selhurst Park, are…

The CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) said on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz remains open to shipping even after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire. “We need clarity now,” Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said in a social media post. “Let me be clear: the Strait of Hormuz is not open. Access is restricted, conditioned and controlled.”Iran has made it clear that ships must obtain permission to pass through the strait, al-Jaber said. “It’s not freedom of navigation. It’s coercion,” the ADNOC chief said. ADNOC is the national oil company of the United Arab…

Nottingham Forest fought to a 1-1 draw with Porto in the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals, only to emerge victorious thanks to a bizarre long-range own goal.William Gomez’s goal at the far post put Forest on the back foot early on as the home side started at a fast pace through Dragao, but their lead lasted just two minutes. There appeared to be little danger when Martim Fernandes won the ball halfway into his own half, but Porto’s defenders didn’t look at him as he attempted a backpass to goalkeeper Diogo Costa. Team news: Nottingham Forest made nine…

Artie Moffa has been a Redditor for 12 years and has written over 1,000 posts and comments on the platform. According to him, nothing is more popular than posts about spreadsheets in particular. Two years ago, Moffa posted some spreadsheet templates that she used when looking for a job. To this day, the Alexandria, Virginia, resident believes that at “all hours of the day and night,” he sees several avatars on his files representing job seekers looking for a way to manage unwieldy searches. “Thank you for sharing,” one commenter wrote. “This is very helpful in this hellish job market.”When…

A mechanical hand is on display at Robot Mall, the world’s first Embodied Intelligent Robot 4S store, on August 13, 2025 in Beijing, China. Video Visual China Group | Getty ImagesBeijing — alibaba Cloud is investing in new types of artificial intelligence designed to better replicate the real world using a different approach than chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.This shift recognizes the limitations of “large-scale language models” trained primarily on text. Instead, developers are starting to focus on “world models” built from videos and real-world physical scenarios.To capitalize on this trend, Alibaba has led a 2 billion yuan ($290 million)…

Kevin Warsh, economics fellow at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Management, speaks at the Thorne Investment Conference in New York City, USA, on May 8, 2017. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersA scheduled nomination hearing for Federal Reserve Chairman candidate Kevin Warsh has been postponed, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC on Thursday night.Warsh was scheduled to appear before the Senate Banking Committee on April 16. That won’t happen, but a public hearing is still expected to be held soon, said the person, who asked not to be named because the committee hasn’t released…

Aston Villa took charge in their Europa League quarter-final match against Bologna, with England stars Ezri Konsa and Ollie Watkins firing in Unai Emery’s side to a 3-1 first-leg win in Italy.However, Villa were given quite a scare by the Serie A side and should have been on the back foot in the first half. Bologna went on a 20-game unbeaten run at home in Europe, reaching their first ever continental quarter-finals, but their spirit initially overwhelmed the Premier League side. Consa’s own goal from Sanatiago Castro’s cross was ruled out by VAR as a very strict offside for the…

Almost every day, young women in long beige and navy trench coats line up inside Paris’ glass-ceilinged Passage du Grand Cerf shopping center before Louise Carmen opens at noon. They come here to buy and customize leather notebooks. Each book starts at 122.55 euros, or about $143.14, and can go up to 609.55 euros when you factor in customizations such as personal engravings, paper styles, and included charms. With minimal customization, a mid-sized notebook can cost close to 170 euros, or just under $200.”The queue started in 2023, a year after we started[posting]on TikTok,” said co-founder Nathalie Valmarie, who started…

US first lady Melania Trump denied having any relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in an unusual speech from the White House.In a short speech Thursday, first lady Melania Trump addressed years of speculation about her relationship with Epstein and called on Congress to hold hearings for Epstein’s survivors.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listShe insisted she was not a “victim” of Epstein, who died in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was later determined to be a suicide.The first lady also denied being friends with Epstein’s…

Rory McIlroy refuses to get carried away about his chances of successfully defending his title at the Masters, despite getting off to a great start at Augusta National and taking the lead in the clubhouse. Following a dramatic playoff victory over Justin Rose, one year after becoming the sixth male golfer in history to complete a career Grand Slam, McIlroy has increased his chances of becoming the fourth player to win back-to-back Masters titles. McIlroy combined for six birdies and one bogey for an impressive five-under 67, only the second time in his past eight visits that he has started…