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The European Union issued a record $1.3 billion fine to Meta on Monday after finding Facebook's parent company broke the bloc's sweeping set of privacy laws by transferring user data from Europe to the United States - one of the most impactful penalties to come from the E.U. rules and one that could have broad implications on American businesses.

The 2023 World Baseball Classic came to a close last week with Team Japan earning a thrilling 3-2 win over the United States in the championship game.This year's edition of the international tournament was the most successful yet, with multiple attendance, viewership, merchandise and social media records being set.

The World Baseball Classic is now in its fifth installment of the international tournament, and 2023 has been the most successful yet, setting global engagement and attendance marks never before seen for the event.The 2023 World Baseball Classic drew 1,010,999 fans for the first round of pool play, which is the most in its history, surpassing the 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2017 numbers.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.One year in the next five will almost certainly be the hottest on record and there's a two-in-three chance a single year will cross the crucial 1.5 global warming threshold, an alarming new report by the World Meteorological Organization predicts.

How's that for a return to the lineup?After missing the final five games of the Dallas Stars' first-round series against the Minnesota Wild while in concussion protocol, Joe Pavelski re-entered NHL playoff action in historic fashion in Game 1 of the second-round matchup with the Seattle Kraken..The former San Jose Sharks captain scored all four of Dallas' goals in their 5-4 overtime loss to the Kraken.

The sweeping bill amounts to a "trickle down fantasy" to hand profits to fossil fuel companies, she said.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on January 26, 2023.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images House Republicans are preparing to pass a sweeping energy bill that Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), have condemned as nothing more than a Big Oil wish list that would pilfer the public's pockets to pad corporate profits.

David Gahan of Depeche Mode.Anton Corbijn/Courtesy of the artist "Everything feels different.Everything that we've been doing."That's how Depeche Mode singer and songwriter Dave Gahan sums up life for his band since the death of founding keyboardist Andy "Fletch" Fletcher in 2022.

AC Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic became the oldest goalscorer in Serie A history but it was not enough to prevent them suffering a 3-1 loss at Udinese on Saturday in a blow to the defending champions' hopes of securing a top-four finish.Milan missed the chance to jump to second and remained fourth with 48 points, a point clear of fifth-placed AS Roma, who play Lazio on Sunday.

Here's what to expect in London later this summer.The 2023 Giants Live Strongman Classic (GLSC) is scheduled for Jul. 8, 2023, in London, England.With a loaded lineup featuring reigning champion Oleksii Novikov and new World's Strongest Man (WSM) victor Mitchell Hooper already on tap, this strength battle across the pond promises to be a doozy.

Mae Muller has admitted her second-from-bottom Eurovision finish was not the result we hoped for as the grand final in Liverpool became the most watched in history.The live broadcast saw an average of 9.9 million UK viewers and a peak of 11 million tune in to watch London-born singer Muller finish 25th with I Wrote A Song, according to overnight ratings.

Argentina's Lionel Messi has broken the record for most appearances at the World Cup, playing in his 26th game in the competition in Sunday's final against France.Messi was named in the starting lineup for the showpiece match at the Lusail Stadium in Doha, Qatar, and surpasses the previous record of 25 held by Germany's Lothar Matthaus.

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has been doing the Russian media rounds since returning to his home country for the offseason.Ovi stopped by the studio of Russian soccer-based YouTube channel, It's Football, Bro! for an over hour long conversation about a wide variety of topics this past Thursday.

The Boston Bruins postseason may have ended abruptly, but that shouldn't take away from the historic 2022-23 season the club had and at the helm of it all - head coach Jim Montgomery.On Friday, the NHL named Montgomery one of the three finalists for the 2022-23 Jack Adams Award given to the coach who contributed most to his team's success.

The Boston Bruins made NHL history on Saturday with their 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings by reaching 50 wins in only 64 games.The previous record was held by their opponent, as the Red Wings reached the 50-win benchmark in 66 games in the 1995-96 season.The win also clinched the B's ticket to the playoffs with 18 games still left to play in the regular season.

Thunderstorms could hit parts of the UK for a second day after flash flooding saw a major incident declared in Somerset.Swaths of the UK have been told to brace themselves for further downpours on Wednesday evening, with the Met Office issuing a warning for all of the east of Britain, from Kent to Aberdeenshire, including the Midlands.

All-time temperature records were broken in Vietnam and Laos last week.On 6 May, Hoi Xuan in Vietnam reached a scorching 44.1C, breaking the previous record for the country of 43.4C, set in 2019.On the same day, Laos recorded its highest-ever temperature, , which reached 43.5C in Luang Prabang.These records were set just a few weeks after temperatures in Thailand rose above 45C for the first time.

To call what's happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement.Since March, average sea surface temperatures have been climbing to record highs, as shown in the dark line in the graph below.Since this record-keeping began in the early 1980s-the other squiggly lines are previous years-the global average for the world's ocean surfaces has oscillated seasonally between 19.7° and 21° Celsius (67.5° and 69.8° Fahrenheit).

Southern Californians awoke Thursday to some record-setting low temperatures as a winter cold snap lingered in the region."We certainly had an abnormally cold morning to start the day," said Brian Adams, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego.From northern Los Angeles County through San Diego, cities hit history-making low temperatures Thursday, weather experts said, though some of the records still need to be triple-checked before they are official.

Weather Cities across New England broke their record high temperatures Thursday.Boston and many other New England cities broke their high temperature records Thursday, some of which were set over 100 years ago.According to the National Weather Service (NWS), by 10 a.m., Boston had broken the record high temperature for Feb. 16 of 60 degrees.

San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst N/San Francisco Chronicle via Gett Temperatures plummeted in the Bay Area on Wednesday, and according to local meteorologists, it hasn't been this cold since the Victorian era.Wednesday morning, the temperature in downtown San Francisco was just 39 degrees, tying previous record-low March 1 temperatures in 1875 and 1966, the Bay Area National Weather Service office told SFGATE.

Erling Haaland created Premier League history as Manchester City made a defining statement in Wednesday's 4-1 win over title rivals Arsenal.A Kevin De Bruyne masterclass saw Pep Guardiola's side overpower Mikel Arteta's Gunners, closing the gap between the two sides to two points with City boasting a couple of games in hand.

A derby match is a fixture that any football fan looks for in their team's calendar - a chance to revel in the atmosphere and potentially win bragging rights.But as 22,161 fans piled into Goodison Park it didn't matter whether the shirt they were wearing was red or blue, it was simply an occasion to celebrate the start of Women's Football Weekend.

Tottenham Hotspur have smashed the transfer record between two Women's Super League (WSL) clubs over the acquisition of Beth England from Chelsea.England, 28, has joined Tottenham for a reported fee of £250,000 -- surpassing the previous record of £200,000 paid by Chelsea to secure the signing of Lauren James from Manchester United in 2021.

New York City's springlike winter is on track to set a record: the least snowy season on the books.It's likely, though by no means guaranteed, that the city will fall short of the lowest total snowfall accumulation since record-keeping began shortly after the Civil War.The National Weather Service station at Central Park has so far measured just 2.3 inches of snowfall.

The oil giant needs to implement "an energy transition strategy that aligns with the Paris Agreement," the lawsuit said.Shell logo seen in Vilshofen on the Danube.Igor Golovniov / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A group of activist investors sued Shell's board of directors on Wednesday for failing to "deliver the reduction in emissions that is needed to keep global climate goals within reach."

NEW YORK -- The Mets have an elite car sponsor to go along with their record luxury tax payroll.New York announced Tuesday it will open a membership-only speakeasy behind Citi Field's right field fence this season called The Cadillac Club at Payson's, in honor of founding owner Joan Whitney Payson.Memberships in the first-row cost $24,999 per seat, team spokeswoman Katie Agostin said.

Red Sox The average MLB salary saw its highest percentage increase since 2000.NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball's average salary rose 14.8% to a record $4.22 million last year after the end of the lockout, boosted by big deals for Max Scherzer, Francisco Lindor, Marcus Semien and Corey Seager.The rate of increase was the highest since a 17.7% increase in 2000 to $1.61 million, according to final calculations by the players' association.

Bruins Linus Ullmark set a new Bruins regular-season record with 54 saves on Monday night.The Boston Bruins had no business leaving the ice at Scotiabank Saddledome with a win on Tuesday night.Frankly, they'd consider themselves fortunate with just a single point gained in the standings.That's not hyperbole, nor is it a statement centered around one disastrous D-zone miscue or lapse in O-zone execution.

As much as people might think it could never happen to them, anyone can become a victim of fraud.All it takes is a fraudster targeting the right person, at the right time, with the right scam."You're talking about people whose full-time, nine-to-five, 40-hour a week job is to defraud other people," said Vanessa Iafolla, a fraud victim consultant and financial crime professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.

The ongoing bird flu outbreak in the US is now the longest and deadliest on record.More than 57 million birds have been killed by the virus or culled since a year ago, and the deadly disruption has helped propel skyrocketing egg prices and a spike in egg smuggling.Since highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) was first detected in US birds in January 2022, the price of a carton of a dozen eggs has shot up from an average of about $1.79 in December 2021 to $4.25 in December 2022, a 137 percent increase, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Local Officers detected 28 guns at security checkpoints in Logan Airport in 2022.The previous record was 20 guns in 2018.The Transportation Security Administration has detected more firearms at Logan Airport in 2022 than any previous year, the agency said.The announcement comes after TSA officers prevented two Massachusetts residents from carrying guns on to airplanes last week.

Record spike in COVID infections for the second day in a week forces mass testing in Nanjing amid sweeping restrictions.China has ordered mass testing in the eastern city of Nanjing in Jiangsu province, the latest measure as the country for a second day in a row reported a record number of COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began.

Published On 16 Dec 202216 Dec 2022 The clock is ticking down on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, with a mouth-watering finale on Sunday between Argentina and defending champions France.This year's event has been the best ever, said Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, football's global governing body, speaking of its unique, cohesive power and transformative legacy.

Host nation: Qatar Dates: 20 November-18 December Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app.Day-by-day TV listings  - Full coverage details  

A helter-skelter group stage featuring more shock results than ever before has now finished with a picture emerging of how this World Cup is unfolding.