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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
The 3️⃣ standout players in Spain's final test before the EUROs
The 3️⃣ standout players in Spain's final test before the EUROs Spain defeated Japan in the last friendly match ahead of the Women's Euro and we bring you the three stars of the night. Claudia Pina brought justice The first half was all red, but the Japanese goal was a cold shower. However, La Roja never stopped looking for it. And in one of the many plays, it was Claudia Pina who achieved the effectiveness they were lacking. More than timely. Tanaka opened the scoring with a great goal Without a doubt, Japan surprised everyone at Butarque. La Roja started better, but the Japanese were the ones who opened the scoring. And nothing more and nothing less with a great goal from Tanaka, who stopped it in the area, turned around and completed the sacred shout. Differential. Vicky Lopez signed the final comeback As the minutes ran and the victory seemed to become more difficult, a mistake by Japan served the comeback to Vicky Lopez. Great news for her ahead of the Women's Euro. For forwards, there's no better fuel than a goal. We'll see if Tomé continues to give her more opportunities. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.
Times
16 hours ago
- Business
- Times
Sky sells German division to RTL Group for initial €150m
The German division of Sky will be sold to a leading local operator as European groups consolidate to compete with the American streaming giants. RTL Group, the largest German broadcaster, is to purchase the Sky unit with an upfront cash payment of €150 million and a possible additional consideration of up to €377 million. Sky's German business holds sports rights including Bundesliga and Premier League football, as well as the rights to show Formula 1 races. RTL, which is owned by the German media group Bertelsmann, will make the additional payments for Sky depending on the performance of its share price post-acquisition. Comcast, the parent company of Sky, can call for the payment of the additional consideration within five years of the deal closing if RTL's share price is higher than €41, capped at a payment of €70 per share or €377 million.
CNA
17 hours ago
- Business
- CNA
FC Barcelona sells bonds, restructures stadium-revamp debt
MADRID :FC Barcelona said on Friday it was selling 424 million euros ($498 million) in bonds as part of a deal to restructure the debt it contracted for its Camp Nou stadium renovation that allows it to postpone the first repayment to 2033 from 2028. The Spanish football club had secured 1.45 billion euros ($1.70 billion) in financing in 2023 from 20 investors including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to overhaul its ageing stadium. The men's first team is scheduled to play a friendly at Camp Nou on August 10 in a partial reopening. The club said in a statement that Goldman Sachs, acting as financial adviser, had facilitated the restructuring of the 424-million-euro debt tranche, allowing the full debt to be repaid from 2033 to 2050. Under the original 2023 deal, the club had been due to pay back investors in progressive tranches - after five, seven, nine, 20, and 24 years. "The club is fulfilling the necessary steps to ensure a gradual and staggered repayment," FC Barcelona said. The average cost of the refinanced amount stands at 5.19 per cent. Barcelona expects the modernised stadium to boost annual revenues by more than 200 million euros through sponsorship deals, naming rights, ticket sales, catering, VIP services, and events. ($1 = 0.8521 euros)
The Guardian
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The Tempest review – drama in the heavens adds real magic to tumultuous tale
Outdoor theatre is by nature vulnerable to the weather, but there is a sense of a grand coincidence when an almighty storm whips up around this Poznań street performance of Shakespeare's play, threatening to upstage its tumultuous drama. Teatr Biuro Podróży's production at the Stara Rzeźnia, a former abattoir turned into a cultural space, was delayed by half an hour. But the elements provided a sublimely atmospheric accompaniment to the drama. Thunder within the soundtrack became indistinguishable from the real thing. As lightning cracked across the shipwrecked boat carrying Antonio, who fetches up on this enchanted isle, it seemed like part of the lighting design. The company, which has long staged outdoor works across the world, spun its own magic, the actors sodden but heroically undeterred. Directed and co-written (with Marta Strzałko) by company founder Paweł Szkotak, this production is inspired by Shakespeare's text rather than being a straight-up enactment. After the opening storm, the set is cracked apart and swivelled around to form promontories on the island, as well as the grounded remains of the boat. Stumps of trees scattered in the foreground are visual symbols of eco damage. Łukasz Matuszyk's magnificent score reflects an island full of aural enchantments – 'sound and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not' – switching the tone between storybook delight and electronic rumbles, dread groans and pumping house beats. The Tempest is part of the outdoor offering at Malta festival, a multidisciplinary programme in its 35th year, and the show is travelling to the UK as part of an international tour. The festival this year is celebrating tradition and reinvention. This company give a microcosmic homage to this paradoxical mission in its early faithfulness and late disruption of Shakespeare's text. It is mostly told through mime, music, physical theatre and inventive visual spectacle. Prospera is a female magician, Caliban her indentured slave in a suit with sinister bandages around his face. He is forced by Prospera to extract natural resources from the isle, hacking away at tree stumps with his tools (the eco message of the show has been carried through in production values, with much of the set crafted from reclaimed materials, including salvaged doors from Poznań tenement houses). Ariel is an imposing fairy on stilts. All hover between the delightful and dreadful. The seven-strong cast (Bartosz Borowski, Łukasz Kowalski, Paweł Stachowczyk, Marta Strzałko, Karolina Wensierska, Tomasz Wrzalik, Maciej Zakrzewski) bring stunning physicality to their parts. The drunken scenes involving Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban play out with surprising freshness and wit, involving beer and a wheelbarrow. The romance between Miranda and Ferdinand is water-bound in its motifs – the latter emerges out of the storm in bikini bottoms like a parody of a James Bond love interest – and there is lovely use of a pair of flippers. Endearing chemistry is created through the dances they do around and with each other. The show stays faithful until the closing scenes, when there is a coup orchestrated that is far bigger than Caliban's planned rebellion. The sound of a helicopter is heard as a giant plume of smoke envelops the audience, from which emerge military figures bearing machine guns. It is as if we, the audience, enter into the dream world as the smoke drifts over us and the tone switches once again. There is no tidy redemption for the sorcerer-coloniser. Her magical creatures flee or are caught and caged, like zoo animals. Some loose ends are left dangling: Ariel seems simply to disappear; the young couple at the heart of the play, cocooned in their romantic bubble, seem impervious to the assault on Prospera's isle. Maybe the message here is that only love will survive. The rain has cleared by the end of the night and despite the razed ground of this new ending, you are left with a delightful sense of invention, play – and, yes, magic. Malta festival runs until 28 June. The Tempest is presented by Watermans, at Bell Square, London, 19-20 September as part of the UK/Poland Season 2025. Arifa Akbar's trip was provided by the Polish Cultural Institute and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, partners in the UK/Poland Season 2025 organised by the British Council.
The Independent
20 hours ago
- Business
- The Independent
German minimum wage set to rise by about 14% over the next 18 months
Germany's minimum wage is set to rise by about 14% over the next 18 months under an agreement that appears to defuse a potentially divisive issue for the new government. A commission in which employers and labor unions are represented recommended on Friday that the minimum wage rise from its current 12.82 euros ($15) per hour to 13.90 euros at the beginning of 2026 and 14.60 euros a year later. The head of the panel, Christiane Schönefeld, said it faced 'a particular challenge this year in view of the stagnating economy and the uncertain forecasts.' She said it conducted 'very difficult talks, which were complicated further by the expectations expressed in public.' Germany, which has Europe 's biggest economy, has had a national minimum wage since 2015. It was introduced at the insistence of the center-left Social Democrats, who were then — as they are now now — the junior partners in a conservative-led government. It started off at 8.50 euros per hour, but the independent commission reviews its level regularly. There has been one political intervention, however: under then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, the government in 2022 ordered an increase to 12 euros an hour, fulfilling a campaign pledge by Scholz. In their campaign for this year's election, the Social Democrats called for an increase to 15 euros. New Chancellor Friedrich Merz 's conservative bloc strongly opposed another government-ordered raise. Labor Minister Bärbel Bas, a leading Social Democrat, said she would implement the commission's proposal. She said she 'can live well with it.' 'Of course we wanted more for people in this country,' she told reporters. But she praised the panel for reaching consensus on an increase, 'because it looked for a long time as though we wouldn't get an agreement at all, and then of course we would have had to talk in the coalition about how to deal with this.'
