"I was jumping in excitement and it broke," American skier Breezy Johnson said after earning her first gold medal on Sunday. She warned other medalists "Don't jump in them." Johnson is one of several athletes who reported their medals detaching from their ribbon and in one case, breaking in half. At a press briefing on Tuesday, Olympic organizing committee spokesperson Luca Casassa said he was aware that there were issues with some medals. He added that a solution has been identified and encouraged athletes with faulty medals to return them for repair.
Despite being wanted by Italian authorities, he returned to the country with the intention of watching his national hockey team at the Winter Olympics, Italian media reported, citing the Carabinieri. Police said the Slovak national had an arrest warrant issued 16 years earlier for a series of thefts. They managed to track him down and swooped on him after he checked into a guest house situated in the outskirts of Milan.
"Holidays are for relaxing, not taxing," the groups wrote in a letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The businesses say people "would face an extra 100 or more for a two-week holiday" if a tax of 2 per person, per night was introduced. "It could force families to shorten trips, skip travel altogether or head overseas, spending their money elsewhere," they say.
a much-needed facility in the city. At the moment, we have a handful of domestic violence refuge beds in the city. I understand that we have six beds in Cuanlee [refuge] and maybe a handful more across the city. Otherwise, women and children are being sent to homeless services, which is completely inappropriate. This facility will meet their needs and it will provide vital services for women and children going through probably one of the hardest things any one of us could ever go through,
Henry McGowan, 31, was cleared after an Irish jury debated his fate for just over an hour, the Irish Times reported. McGowan confessed to police that he'd killed his father, 66-year-old John McGowan, on Nov. 12, 2024, at the Ballyfin Demesne. McGowan suffers from schizoaffective disorder and was going through a psychotic episode at the time, according to his lawyers and multiple psychiatrists.
From Milan to Cortina and beyond, the star of the first Olympic weekend in Italy was Italy. The electric celebrations started Saturday in Bormio, close to the Swiss border, with a silver and bronze in the men's downhill. They echoed a few hours later in Milan, where Francesca Lollobrigida set an Olympic record in women's 3000m speed skating for the host country's first gold.
'That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ongoing export costs and delays,' says Parcelhero's Head of Consumer Research, David Jinks M.I.L.T. 'It was not only to EU destinations that export costs rose. 'Costs for shipping to the USA and other international destinations also rose year-on-year. 40.5% of retailers and 36.1% of manufacturers reported their global exports cost them more in December than in the same month of 2024. Trump's tariffs, introduced last April, played a role in this overall increase.
Blue-blooded fund manager Schroders is set to be sold to American rival Nuveen in a £9.9bn deal that will end more than two centuries of independence and deliver another setback to the London Stock Exchange. Nuveen, part of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), has agreed to acquire Schroders for 612p per share - a 34 per cent premium to the firm's closing price of 456p. The transaction will create one of the world's largest asset managers, overseeing around $2.5tn (£1.8tn) in assets.
European Union regulators have already fined Google billions for violating the Digital Markets Act, and being found guilty of anticompetitive behavior in online advertising could add to that total. While the Commission has yet to announce a formal investigation, Bloomberg writes that it has started contacting Google's customers and competitors for information about its dominance across multiple online advertising markets.
The goal: to make it impossible to trace illicit funds. To that purpose, the drug trafficking group that smuggled 13 tons of cocaine through the port of Algeciras (Cadiz) the largest haul ever seized in Spain allegedly had an extensive network of money launderers in place to move the enormous sums of money it generated. According to an investigation by Spain's Audiencia Nacional, a high court with jurisdiction over major crimes, this international web of collaborators included a Russian influencer,
