Three-man forward lines have been a staple tactic throughout the history of football. But they have arguably never been as popular as they have over the last 15 or so years. It is a resurgence that is largely down to Barcelona’s success under Pep Guardiola between 2008 and 2012. Guardiola helped Barcelona win two Champions…
Russian bombs tore into Ukrainian cities on Tuesday afternoon and evening, killing more than 20 people and wounding dozens of others. The deadly strikes drew a furious response from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who said they showed the cynicism behind Russia’s announcement of a cease-fire timed to Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9….
A British judge on Tuesday paused a civil trial in which four women had accused the online influencer Andrew Tate of abuse, a month after the police in Britain said they were reinvestigating criminal accusations against Mr. Tate by three of the women. The trial, which had been set to begin in June in Britain’s…
The Venice Biennale, once said it wouldn’t welcome any artists with ties to Russia’s government as long as the country waged its “grievous” war in Ukraine. But on Tuesday, Russia was back in Venice at the art world’s most important event — the country’s latest attempt to normalize its standing on the world stage. It…
In a stately 18th-century Georgian home in Ireland’s capital, the Little Museum of Dublin is where history lets its hair down. “Twenty-nine minutes from now, you and I will have traveled through 200,000 years of Irish history,” Mark McKenna, a museum guide, announced to visitors on a recent tour. “The first 199,000 can be summarized…
At a closed marine park in the south of France, two orcas swim lonely circles in an aging tank, its walls caked with green algae. Their fate has become a drama in France, where the government must decide soon whether to transfer them to another marine park or release them into a sanctuary in the…
Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Lee delivered parcels in Taiwan for a living, hung out with friends or played video games after work. He knew of Ukraine only from S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a game set in the Chernobyl nuclear zone. Now, he is serving in the Ukrainian Army on the battlefield and hoping that…
Inside this old skydiving plane, a crew of Ukrainian volunteers is hunting down Russian drones. Russia is sending thousands of its one-way attack drones into Ukraine every month. Many are shot down, but the country’s air defenses can’t stop them all. On the side of the fuselage here, they’ve mounted this American-made machine gun that’s…
An American commentator for Russian television who was indicted during the Biden administration as part of an effort to combat Moscow’s propaganda filed a legal motion on Monday to dismiss the charges on First Amendment grounds. Dimitri K. Simes, who was an adviser to Donald J. Trump’s first presidential campaign, and his wife, Anastasia Simes,…
A driver plowed through a crowded pedestrian zone on Monday afternoon in central Leipzig, in eastern Germany, killing at least two people and hitting others, according to the city’s mayor. The mayor, Burkhard Jung, said that a person believed to be the driver had been arrested but that their motive had yet to be determined….
